Vote for Mike Villiar! No wait, let me explain!

Call it last minute bandwagoning. A pathetic cry to just belong. But this guy, this Mike Villar guy, gets my vote for this year’s Philippine Blog Awards. I mean just look at him and his questionable friends above. But Mikey is not a nazi.  He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a nazi, but he is not a porn star! So there. 

So if you happen to still be in the office, have no weekend life whatsoever, or just like to purposely make mistakes to spite your parents/superiors, you too may vote for Mikey. Write a quick blog entry and submit yer vote here.

Should I Be Worried?

Was checking my stats and noticed this in the list of countries eyeing my blog.

Stoked @ MoA

Some pics I took from the Stoked winchboarding event at Mall of Asia. You may check out the rest here.

How NOT to Watch The Dark Knight

Laughing at me from the grave, this guy.

The Dark Knight. It’s the white elephant in the room that everyone has seen and talked about. My fantastical lateness to write about the film means a review would only be of use to cave dwelling terrorists and maybe astronauts (who knows. maybe they get awesome torrent speeds up there). I instead will take this time to tell you a little story on my experience when I saw the durn thing. Oh and i could cry spoilers alerts but given how successful the films i mention here have been, it’s statistically impossible for you to not have seen it yet. Anyway…

Two things have worked in my favor between summer blockbuster seasons: working the nightshift and the opening of a new mall with above average cinemas close to home. Should there be an opening for a film I am highly anticipating (read: raging hard on), I can always rely on that cinema to have an early enough screening, not too long after my shift ends. Standard procedure is to find an equally excited film geek and head there, watch it and gush, then prolly ruin it for everyone later at work. And it’s worked quite well so far.
The mall in question is situated in that side of town not quite urbanized yet as others and is probably the asian equivalent of a hick town. They have running water and motorized vehicles but not the finer, advanced innovations like, say, knowing when a movie is truly over or not. You see earlier that year, said geek and I high tailed over there to watch us some Iron Man. Now we’ve seen enough films to know of after credits epilogues and knew of the possibilities of this CG circle jerk of a film having one. Long story short, as soon as the credits ran, the lights went on to the point we couldn’t even read the screen no more. We reasonably figured that was that. The anger upon finding out otherwise was enough to will kittens to die.

Back to The Dark Knight. Everyone knows what it’s about story wise as well as production wise. Heat-of-the-moment reasoning led me to believe that an after-credits extra was inevitable. I mean Heath is dead-o yet the Joker was only arrested in the end? “What gives?!” said me, the perplexed cinema goer. I am reminded of what happened when I saw Iron Man. When I recognized and ending coming up, I spied the cinema cleaners and ushers from the corner of my eye. I knew what was coming down. Credits ran, lights went on. “Not agayn!” i though. I began to run to every usher, screaming and pleading for them in my best local tongue to turn the goddamn lights off! They looked at me like I was a woman who lost her child, but sounding like Chewbacka. They soon agreed to turn of some lights. I can even see people who were once leaving deciding to stay. Only once I got back to my seat is when it occurred to me the the question “what if there was none?”. Before I could even begin to figure elaborate escape plans, there ended the credits and guess what? Thats it! Everyone looked at me. I laughed it off and left only to when I was out of sight where I began to hit my head on the wall.

What’s the lesson to learn here? Whatever it is, should a movie be made of my special epic fail day, i’d place it right after the credits. Let’s see if you’ll wait for it. 

There Is Nothing Wrong With Me

A fellow plurker plurked this BBC article detailing the connection between musical tastes and how it reflects to you. And well, lemme just show you then:

Hyeah. It’s all true. See where you fit in. CLICK HERE.

8 Things

So its because of her. Or her fault. Depends how you see it.

Serial blogger and tambourine aficionado (not to mention my co star in the quizzical convo series 1 | 2) Chele has tasked me into doing this meme. I have a love/hate relationship with these definite list memes as we are ever evolving. But since I got nuthin better to ramble about, let the future embarrassment begin.

8 THINGS I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT
1. Music - Everyone says they are a fan of music. I like to think i’ve staked a darker territory in my love of the medium. I actively seek out new things to listen to. From my high school days of purchasing 1 cassette a week, to that brief era when piracy was actually known for its quality, and to now. I need not tell you of my rapidly growing collection, not to mention my extra curricular musical activities. Headphones are always on when my speakers are not blaring. Do not know what i’d do without it.

2. Comedy - I love to laugh. I love to make other people laugh. Hard to believe coming from someone who sports a default scowl and can prove that people in his office really are “scared of him”. Sarcasm and wit being the weapon of choice. Even if a majority of what i say would go over most people’s heads, if its funny to me, i’ll let you know.

3. Photography - A little hard to qualify my passion for the medium with lomography being the in thing and everyone and their grandmother acquiring a DSLR. I try to achieve something that stands out. I try still.

4. Design - It’s what I do for a living. Similar to my #3, the means are available to everyone, which makes me want to try just a little bit harder to impress my stamp in the things i work on just a little bit more visible and more importantly, right for the project.

5. Simplicity - Something I apply to everything I do (see the first 4 things i mentioned). I’m not someone who knows what they want but I find knowing what you don’t want just as effective. I also like to think that having myself like so helps in making what I do stand out all the more. Which is really what I’d rather be known for.

6. Reading - Although I’m not big on books and novels. I get the same fix from reading my comics and browsing though my magazines. Other people’s blogs too.

7. Being Online - I suppose this one I have to expound on given current perceptions of one perpetually staying online isn’t pretty. But new developments in social networking in this web 2.0 world finds people sharing more. Once you weed out all the bad stuff and find a nice clique online, you get turned to a lot of really neat stuff that encourages you to live life a little and be more outgoing. Sharing is caring. And then you get Rick Rolled.

8. Exploring - While longer distances are goals yet to be logistically and financially figured out, I like to wander around. Especially urbanized places. Kinda odd. I know. Spending years in a college where everything is a nice nature walk from point a to b does that to you.

8 THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Do stand-up comedy. Or just do something comedy related professionally.
2. Exhibit my art/photography.
3. Record an solo album. Play every instrument in it. Sell it off as someone else entirely. See how far the lie goes.
4. See all my fave music acts live. I mean should Face to Face, CSS, Killswitch Engage, mid 90’s Sponge, and Freedy Johnston happen to tour together, I am so there.
5. Get fired. And in a blaze of misunderstood glory ala Jerry Maguire too.
6. Feel comfortable about dancing.
7. Be able to cook. I can only go so far with microwave cuisine.
8. Settle.

8 THINGS I SAY OFTEN
1. Meh
2. Fuckin’ A!
3. The fuck?!
4. Fuck’s this?!
5. Sonovabetch! (in the form of a sigh)
6. Suuuuuurrrreeee… (skeptikal)
7. I know… (in agreement)
8. MEH!

8 THINGS I READ RECENTLY/CONSTANTLY
1. Spin Magazine
2. Time Magazine
3. Cracked.com
4. Cinematical.com
5. TheSuperficial.com
6. ElizaSkinner.com
7. SmashingMagazine.com
8. Odd, random articles in Wikipedia

8 MOVIE I HAVE SEEN 8 TIMES
1. Lost in Translation
2. Linda Linda Linda
3. Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy
4. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
5. Super Troopers
6. High Fidelity
7. So I Married An Axe Murderer
8. Amelie 

Well. So Look Who Came Crawling Back.

Hey. How are you? Long time no see. I know. It’s been too long. Its not like me to just disappear without a trace. I guess I owe you an explanation. Oh, really now? Thats great. I’m happy for you. The two of you. Completely my fault. You deserve to be happy. It’s good to se you’ve moved on. I just want delivering and like a coward, I ran away. Im sorry. You have every right to be mad. I’m mad at myself too. More than anyone else. Oh god. Please stop crying. Your making me cr…oh there I go. Let it all out. Lets just hold each other and let it all out. Ok. Ok, not hitting me won’t get us anywhere. Please. Please stop. Fine! I’ll just go! I’m going! Nice to see you. I guess.

Thats how I imagine things would happen if my collective readers were just one person and I tried to explain my months of blog neglect. Too Dawson’s Creek? I know. But yeah. I have been writing again. New stuff will go up. Watch this space.