Christianizing Baby Dexter Draco!

I know!I know!

Blogs aren't supposed to be too personal. But today I went to a baptism ceremony (I won't go philosophizing on my stand on this) and here are my cute nephew's pics showing how enthusiastic he is of it (LOL):

Baby, you'll understand in time. 

CINEMALAYA 2008 at the UP Film Center!

Here's the CINEMALAYA 2008 schedule as it invades the UP Film Center (AKA Cine Adarna) next week:


July 28 Mon

Manuel Conde Retro: Genghis Khan 2:30 p.m.

Baby Angelo 5 p.m.

Concerto 7:30 p.m.



July 29 Tue

Cinemalaya’s Past Best Pictures Showcase: Pepot Artista 2:30 p.m.

Jay 5 p.m.

Huling Pasada 7:30 p.m.



July 30 Wed

Cinemalaya’s Past Best Pictures Showcase: Tulad ng Dati 2:30 p.m.

Brutus 5 p.m.

Namets 7:30 p.m.



July 31 Thu

Cinemalaya’s Past Best Pictures Showcase: Tribu 2:30 p.m.

100 5 p.m.

My Fake American Accent 7:30 p.m.



(Aug 1 Fri

Ishmael Bernal Gallery Night with Film Premiere of Adolf Alix’s Imoral 7:30 p.m.)



Aug 2 Sat

Endo 2/5/7 p.m.



Aug 4 Mon

Anita Linda Tribute: Tambolista 2:30 p.m.

Boses 5 p.m.

Ranchero 7:30 p.m.



Aug 5 Tue

Manuel Conde Retro: Krus na Kawayan 2:30 p.m.

Cinemalaya 2008 Competing Shorts A 5 p.m.

Cinemalaya 2008 Competing Shorts B 7:30 p.m.



Aug 6 Wed

Anita Linda Tribute: Sisa 2:30 p.m.

Cinemalaya 2008 Special Jury Prize Winner 5 p.m.

Cinemalaya 2008 Best Picture 7:30 p.m.



Aug 7 Thu

Donsol 2:30 p.m.

Kadin 5 p.m.

Anita Linda Tribute: Sisa 7:30 p.m.

60 fun things to do in an elevator!

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: "Shut up, all of you just shut UP!"
4. Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.
5. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
7. Shave.
8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!"
13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14. One word: Flatulence!
15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
16. Do Tai Chi exercises.
17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, not now, motion sickness!"
19. Give religious tracts to each passenger.
20. Meow occasionally.
21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
22. Frown and mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh and say "oops!"
23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
24. Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
25. Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
26. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
28. Burp, and then say "mmmm...tasty!"
29. Leave a box between the doors.
30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
31. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.
32. Start a sing-along.
33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your beeper?"
34. Play the harmonica.
35. Shadow box.
36. Say "Ding!" at each floor.
37. Lean against the button panel.
38. Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."
41. Bring a chair along.
42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?"
43. Blow spit bubbles.
44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
45. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
48. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at the passengers.
49. Stare at your thumb and say "I think it's getting larger."
50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler "Bad touch!"
51. Bring a water pistol. Soak everyone's shoes.
52. Start brushing off invisible bugs from your arms, screaming "Aaughh! Get them off!"
53. Challenge your neighbor to a "Tic-Tac-Toe" tournament.
54. Laugh hysterically for five seconds, stop, and glare at the other passengers like they are crazy.
55. Charge into the elevator dripping wet, holding a towel and wearing only a bath robe. Mutter something about how husbands/wives always come home early just when it's getting to the good part.
56. Make chalk drawings on the walls.
57. As the elevator is going up, jump violently up and down, shouting "Down! I said down, dang it!"
58. Crouch in one corner and growl menacingly at everyone who gets on.
59. Try to get a game of "Twister" going.
60. Wrinkle your nose and smell the air repeatedly. Sniff at your neighbor suspiciously, give a disgusted frown, and take a step away.

*see original blogpost here

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Next Stop, Torment!

I just finished my critical essay on Mojares and now reading (and tormenting myself through) Patrick Flores' book:

Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art
By Patrick D. Flores

Co-published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Winner of the 1999 Gawad Chanselor for Most Outstanding Book.

"This art history reconsiders how art historical productions, through the inculcated norms of art and history, tell the story of Philippine colonial painting, from the introduction of the practice in the Philippine 'islands' and 'natives' to its constitution as a State and academic institution of colonial rule. Inasmuch as these art histories have been contrived within local theoretical frameworks, we seek to track down the traces of certain critical modalities underwriting these perspectives, and so mark out a course for a reconstruction of the historical discourse through a critique of the said criticisms, a critical activity that inevitably discloses the tactics of the trade which organize particular operations within Philippine colonial art history and its attendant historiograhic analytic." (from the Introduction)

Crank That Soulja Boy!

So I just came home from an exhausting night out with a friend, Vince. We went to Bar Uno in Timog then went straight to O Bar in Malate. Bar Uno was not even half as crazy as that of O. 

The prior was insanely boring while the latter was packed with people you'd think all the gay people of the metro flocked and forced themselves in that miniscule place they call a bar. You definitely can't move without touching somebody's ass in there nor light a smoke without burning somebody's hand (that I did!). O man that was one hell of a place! To the managers, get a bigger space for crying out loud! LOL. After crawling out of the O, Vince and I did a quick stroll over at the Manila Bay (Roxas Boulevard) where we took a couple of shots:

            

And by the way, thanks Vince for letting me know that song is about jackin' off. Good job!  LOL. Hope you get well soon!

My Lakbayan Grade is C-!

My Lakbayan grade is C-!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!

Created by Eugene Villar.

Now I know I need to travel more. I guess this means there's more than just Luzon? Damn! Who knew? Well try it yourself here and let me know about it! Ciao!

Enough of the Silliness!

Yes. It is the 19th and no magnitude 8.1 reported. Ha! In your face mr.i-can-predict-stuff-and-scare-the-hell-out-of-you-for-fun! So I guess this discredits you and anything that you have to predict in the future. Good luck with that! (I predicted this.) And for those who wasn't able to catch the prediction, you can read all about the silliness here.

The Dark Night at Eastwood City Libis

I just came home from an early screening over at Eastwood City of The Dark Night starring Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger to name a few. A formulaic take on comic superheroes, this film is second installment after the 2005 Batman Begins by director Christopher Nolan. Surprisingly, the Joker (magnificently played by Ledger) steals the show and grounds almost all plot conflict. Might as well have titled the film "The Joker."  LOL

Mojares' "Theater in Society, Society in Theater"

I'm currently writing a critical essay on this book. It's a historical discourse using a lost theater form--komedya. Fun.

Complete Title: Theater in Society, Society in Theater:
Social History of a Cebuano Village (1840-1940)
Author: Resil Mojares
Publish Date: January 1985
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pages: 200

About The Book
(taken from its back cover)

Theater in Society, Society in Theater is both a detailed and imaginative reconstruction of the history of a Philippine village, the barrio of Valladolid in Carcar, Southern Cebu. Though the history ranges from the 1500s to 1940, the focus is trained on a time of increased peasantization, the late nineteenth century and the first four decades of the present century. In tracing the history of the village, the author analyzes transformations in its moral order as revealed in the external and internal changes of the village theater tradition, the tradition of the linambay, or komedya.

In three main parts, the book sketches the processes of integration and dissolution in the structure of the village from the 1500s to 1940, analyzes the dynamics of the linambay tradition, and explores the social and economic conditions in the barrio in the early twentieth century to show how, indeed, theater is embedded in society, and society in theater.

In its combination of the methods of literary criticism, cultural anthropology, and history, the work is an important contribution to Philippine studies.