No rest for the ears

I have several new albums on my playlist and I will try to educate you on their awesomeness.

1. Ceremonials - Florence and the Machine

I feel powerful when I listen to F+TM. I love their songs and they capture you in dense space. If you’re familiar with Dog Days, Cosmic Love, You’ve Got The Love, Between Two Lungs, there is more of the awesomness here. Florence’s voice is just so powerful and I love her style.

Songs from the album which might be familiar to you and/or really liked by me:
What the Water Gave Me, Heartlines, Shake It Out


2. Portamento - The Drums

I know how the cover screams “heresy!” but I have really liked The Drums since their first album and I always will even though this is just their second (the loyalty award goes to...). Everything is so laid-back, unbelievably have a little “cuteness” though the lyrsics are really strong yet relaxing. A perfect playlist on a Saturday morning unwinding session.

Songs I really like:
Hard To Love, you might be familiar with Money


3. Oh Land - Oh Land

I can’t remember how I came across this band. They sound really new and cool, somehow industrial. A lot of snapping and simple beats. The vocals are amazing and kind of sticky which is nice. They’re definitely different.

Songs I really like which might also be familiar:
Son of a Gun, White Nights


4. Lights- Ellie Goulding

Her voice is a stand-out, deserving jealousy. If you have heard Starry Eyed then you probably know what I’m talking about. She’s a really special singer and her voice is so different. A perfect example of the good kind of new.

Songs I really like:
Starry Eyed, Guns and Horses, Your Song (cover)
If you want another truly amazing cover, look for her take on Robyn(my love)’s Be Mine. Your mind will be f*cked you just met her.

Just bought my ticket

Finally, I was able to get my ticket for Manila. There is definitely some problem with the way we buy plane tickets. We plan early, we end up buying the tickets a few days before the flight at obscene prices. Online promos = bad timing.

And of course, I suddenly felt emotional because I am being torn between feeling good and bad about leaving.

Reasons to feel good:

School again which means I have a staple of something to do and after learning a lot from the first semester, I’m excited for my second Atenean semester. I am imagining myself being able to organize my life more and I will definitely meet more people which I lately realized is a lot of fun. Manila is not as sleepy as Iloilo and I miss having a lot of peers around. Parties.


Reasons to feel bad:

I’ll be leaving Iloilo City, a place extremely familiar and filled with people I already have magical bonds with. Unlimited food, no allowance to stretch and almost absolute liberty. Doing things, going places with parents.

I had my haircut today together with my mom after we drove around the city. Below is a little video because I suddenly felt like recording. I’m being too emotional about leaving. (The audio is gone because of some copyright crap. Its supposed to be Money by The Drums.)



I saw a few people who were already leaving tomorrow for second semester. I can’t imagine myself being in there place. It would definitely feel so bad! =((

BTW, I’m leaving for Manila at November 6. The classes start at 8. I’ll probably be running in between having to fix my stuff and having my ID validated but the semestral break “extension” will definitely be worth it (I hope).

Paranormal Activity 3, yes it can make you scream

I was in Starbucks horrifyingly sitting by myself to pass time while my parents had a date with Praybeyt Benjamin (watched it already). It was definitely a horror because Starbucks was noisy with people who were with other people. Yes, there were a few of us loners unevenly distributed in the area primarily occupied by human herds. I wasn’t entirely alone in a sense.

I received an invitation via text from a friend to watch Paranormal Activity 3. Of course, in as fast as 5 minutes, I was already with them criticizing the trailers before the the movie started. There was this one called Dreamhouse which, as my friend agreed, reminded us of Shutter Island, an idea I immediately dismissed. Shutter Island was a good movie.

Anyways, the movie was fine. There weren’t hair-raising moments, only screamers. What I mean is unlike, for the sake of an example, the brilliant “The Blairwitch Project” where you don’t actually scream but definitely feel fear devouring your organs, Paranormal Activity is really about your ability to bawl your lungs out.

In that department, we were definitely winners. We screamed at the scary scenes then laughed at the retarded follow-ups.

The movie is for cheap thrills. I’m sorry PA fans but with a poster that said “Find out what started the activity” I wasn’t expecting substance. The emotion aside from shock (is that even an emotion?) that the movie instilled in me was anger. The kind of anger I bask ignorance with. The whole time, I wanted to throw my rubber shoes at the woman character. She’s hard-headed and stupid to the point that she put everyone in danger. She even doesn’t take responsibility for it. I certainly don’t enjoy characters who, without any good reason, just won’t believe you. I swear, their eyes are only good for poking. Fuuuu...

And there were scenes (Spoiler alert: eg when the guy was reading the library books and when he was talking with his co-wedding videographer) that were, for some unusual reason, filmed. The movie was, as we all know, in “lost tapes” style. Its hard to cough up a solid story line with that kind of style, a reason why it has to be brilliant.

But definitely, if your vocal chords need some abuse, watch this movie with friends.

Lying... down.

Its really tough to blog when you are busy. I'm not lying! I had a busy day. Sort of. 

Oh, awkward. Not a good liar here. In fact, I'm finding it hard to find a reason why I had a hard time making a post here when most of what I did today was lie down at every surface I saw and avoid arriving at the fact that I was alone. Its November 1 and pop-culture has repeatedly suggested that this day I am supposed to get scared as hell because its Halloween or something. I'm turning 18 and I have no idea when Halloween, All Saint's Day, etc. actually are except that they are in the general area of the transition week opening November.

I'm alone because everyone else left for Janiuay, about a 30-minute drive from the city to visit the departed at a really old cemetery there. I already went yesterday. I wanted some me time for today. When they asked if I wanted to go with them and I said "Nyet." (yep, Russian) I was fresh from my bed, which means I was half-asleep, which meant I'm not sure.

But what was done was done. 

So I just settled for a bipolar internet connection (still the one I'm using now) which is heavenly when I'm exploring the internet but when I start a download, it will disconnect itself usually seconds away from completion of the download. This means I start all over again. I felt like a dog chasing my own tail when I realized that doing something like downloading a file through this damned internet connection wouldn't be successful no matter how many tries I do. I realized that only after the fiftieth or so. But that's fine. Its supposed to be about wasting time.

I turned on the TV which is also bipolar. There are days when all my favorite shows are on. Sitcoms and reality TV (hahahaha). But this morning and afternoon was one of those times when each channel showed the same stuff I don't enjoy. I was pissed because I scanned the channels too much, I eventually was sure that they all put on their crappiest shows because it was November 1 and I was alone. I turned to this one channel and it showed a guy eating a pizza.

Jealousy.

I tried texting my friends, asking around if the mall was open. They weren't sure. I felt lucky so I rode a jeep to the mall and it was open. I bought a big slice of cheese pizza which was sloppily reheated by the guy over the counter while talking about going home. I wanted to throw something to his face because I was hungry and I wouldn't like it if I ate cheese like it was fresh from North Pole. I had it wrapped because I wanted drinks from the supermarket.

I went into the supermarket, grabbed some drink and candy bars. Went home happy. I went inside and yehey, I felt accomplished! When I went in the mall, I wanted to go to the bookstore and buy some art supplies. Now I know why. Back at homebase, I felt like making a ribbon to pin on myself. "For successfully evading the prospect that he won't be seeing the sun today. "

I turned on the TV and all the good shows were on.

Sidenote:

I watched an episode of Giuliana and Bill. I know Giuliana's happily married to a good man but since the first episode, I had a crush on her. The age gap is definitely something but she is a really fine woman. The episode ended with the news that Giuliana had a miscarriage 8 weeks into pregnancy. I immediately fell into sadness. Then I landed on Yahoo!, a bitch that made me read about Giuliana's done surgery for breast cancer. I just want to let her know she makes a lot of people happy and that she deserves to be happy. Gosh, I feel so bad for her but I know SHE WILL BE FINE AND HAPPY.

So there. Because I want to end this day with the sense of productiveness, I wrote a wordy blogpost. Makes me think that maybe one of the reasons why I keep this blog is to have something to do. There is certainly an ugly feeling that grows within me whenever I spend a whole day eating candy bars and just lying down around the house. 

Mark your iCals!

DISCOVERY CHANNEL. 

November 6.

  9 PM. 

iGenius. 

Let us bask in the legend that is Steve Jobs.

Its hosted by the guys from Mythbusters. Do not dare look for reasons why.

Where am I?

In connection with the recent blog name change, this post will summarize a short-lived existence in a  bound area on earth which is Krua Thai, a Thai restaurant in Iloilo, where I ate lunch today as part of the reunion rites I celebrated with two friends. 

These photos have been desperately salvaged by iPhoto Enhance because I suck at setting the camera right. The lighting was poor.

The food wasn’t phenomenal. Us ending up in that place was a product of circumstance - and the odds of us coming back will also be by circumstance. The price to flavor ratio was fine. It was worth it but its situated in the small night-life district of the city. At noon, the place looks like a ghost town. Not a good feeling walking around that place because I definitely had a hard time muting the visions of zombies crawling out to the streets.

What a good day until we watched Puss in Boots (not in 3D, my visual capabilities find only the lack of comfort in 3D cinema and no significant play of added dimension). The movie was personally a flop. Maybe, a cat wearing leather boots can only expect the surity of success from YouTube. I had high expectations. Maybe I was just too old for the movie, but... but... (dramatic ending right there)



PS: There is a sudden drop in blog stats. I hope changing the blog URL wasn't entirely a stupid idea!

WHEREAREYOULEO.BLOGSPOT.COM

Will be changing this blog's URL to WHEREAREYOULEO.BLOGSPOT.COM because I realized that claiming I live in my own world is selfish and worrying. This time around, I will assume I exist as a singular cluster of matter that share a bound amount of volume (given I do not expand).

That way I become more of an occupant, a spectator and a participant of the system of the world rather than an onlooker, watching the world take strides towards its end. Yehey. This sounds more positive!