The Fag Machine

psa

2006-04-04T08:58:14Z

*waves* Haven't been here for a while, and, um, yeah, won't be here for a ~~long~~ not-so-long time after. Won't be able to visit your journals either. Details are boring, and so.

Thanks for everything! It was mad fun, it really was.

(Defriend me as you wish.)

fanboynextdoor is now on SEMI-PERMANENT HIATUS*.

* No, I don't know why I put "semi-permanent hiatus" either. It just sounds, well, a little less permanent. And very *Nsync-ish.

Y'all can still look me up here. Mostly RL and my weird new fandoms now though.

another one bites the dust

2006-02-28T13:54:55Z

I suppose I should be going "Champagne's on me, everybody!" right now since I passed the UPCAT, and yeah, a large part of me is doing that. *proffers champagne*

But another part of me is thinking about my friends and classmates who didn't get in (I calculate around 120 of them, if the 60+% passing rate is correct), and how tomorrow's going to be like for them. Being surrounded by rejoicing people, people who're complaning because they're not in the course they want to be in - it must feel like shit.

And some of them have already been feeling like shit to begin with, thanks to the prom last Friday (an event which brought about lots of heartwrenching confessions), so it's like the straw that broke the camel's back (to use that cliche).

I might be overanalysing the situation - god knows that I'm hypersensitive due to largely ridiculous stress situations (ex. Sir MP's Patented Bitch Fits ™ for almost three weeks now), and I need to stop thinking, get off my fat ass, and buy that Brokeback Mountain fake DVD.

Viva Freddy Mercury! Hurrah, I passed the UPCAT! :D

a surfeit of victorian england

2006-02-19T03:00:26Z

Joining Pilipinas, Game K Na B? is a singularly most interesting reason to break my LJ hiatus.

Alas, I lost. So no kicking Joross Gamboa's ass for me :(

If you do happen to catch that episode and think that I am a sell-out (*cough apokamcough*), remember this: I will do a lot for money. Up to and including making a fool of myself on national TV.

PS. I blame the principal.

PPS. In honor of Mickey Blue Eyes:

The Knuckle Scraper
People Iced:	Forty One
Car Bombs Planted:	One
Favorite Weapon	Piano Wire
Arms Broken:	Eighteen
Eyes Gouged:	Twenty
Tongues Cut Off:	Three
Biggest Enemy:	El Loco
Get Your HITMAN Name

banzai

2006-01-08T07:02:50Z

I passed Ateneo.

*throws up in nearby foliage*

answer the phone

2005-12-14T01:52:55Z

Serenity screencaps. A huge SPOILER ALERT, of course.

To the webmasters on my flist, how much disk space does a medium-sized forum (estimated at 10,000+ posts and 1,000+ members) consume? I know not this Math thing, no.

I lost in the wes_stillness Last Icon Maker Standing final round. I'd angst and carry on, but I've been doing enough of that offline and with ulop, it just makes me want to laugh ~~and download classical music~~ from the sheer absurdity of my OMGEMOEZ *single perfect tear*

(So bored, and I still need to buy The Chronicles Of Narnia VCDs. :P)

buttsecks mountain

2005-12-13T13:26:24Z

^ subject line not related to actual post. I got that off this amusing exchange.

For my own sake, I bolded everything I'd have watched religiously if I have cable. Because, erm, almost 70% of the shows I want to watch are on cable. Same goes for italics and ~~strikeouts~~.

Bold means I liked it and watched it religiously
Italic means I liked it but didn't watch it religiously
Strikeout means I didn't like it
Regular text means I didn't watch it
* means I added it.

24 - more of a short attention span thing than any actual dislike. Plus, I couldn't get over the, 'When do they go to the bathroom?' thing
Absolutely Fabulous
Adventures of Jules Verne
Airline
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Alien Nation
Amazing Stories
Anderson Cooper 360
~~Andromeda~~ - couldn't get past the pilot
Angel
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Arrested Development
A-Team - so cracktastic :)
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman
Batman: The Animated Series - even though there was no Robin
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (New)
Beauty and the Beast
Beavis and Butt-head
Big Brother 1
Big Brother 2
Big Brother 3
Big Brother 4
Big Brother 5
Big Brother 6 - WTF
Birds Of Prey - more of a *shrug* kind of show for me
Blackadder - eek! DVDs?
Black Scorpion
Blake's Seven
Bones Boring
Boy Meets World - it's gone now
Brisco County Jr.
Buck Rodgers
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Carnivalé
Charmed
Cheers
Cop Rock
Cosby Show
CSI
CSI: Miami - 'meh' compared to the original
CSI: New York
Cupid
Danger Man/Secret Agent Man
Daria
Dark Angel - I wish Studio 23 would bring this back
Dark Shadows
Dark Skies
Darkwing Duck
~~Dawson's Creek~~ - too much wangst
Day of the Triffids (UK)
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Desperate Housewives
Diagnosis Murder
Doctor Who - *wishes*
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Dream On
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Duck Factory
Duck Tales
Due South
Early Edition
Earth 2
Eerie, Indiana
Electro-Woman and Dina-Girl
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Hates Chris
Fame
Family Guy - the British kid was damn scary though
Family Matters
Family Ties
Farscape
Felicity - I still remember this from RPN of yore
Fifteen
Firefly - IF ONLY OMG
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday the 13th: The Series
Friends - one of the non-crime shows that both my dad and I enjoy watching together
Full House
Gargoyles
Gilmore Girls - it was okay, but I'm more 'meh' on it as of the moment
Greatest American Hero
Grey's Anatomy
Hey Dude
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hill Street Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
HR Puffinstuf
I, Claudius
In Living Color
Invader Zim
Isis
* Jeeves and Wooster - PLEASE. DVDS.
Jem and the Holograms
Joan of Arcadia - liked it well enough. Only problem was it being dubbed in Tagalog when I did watch.
Keen Eddie
Kevin Hill
Kindred: The Embraced
Knight Rider
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Kung-fu
Land of the Lost
Las Vegas
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
LEXX
Life Goes On
Liquid Television
Little House on the Prairie
Lois & Clark
Lost
Lost In Space
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Magnum, p.i.
Max Headroom
Maximum Bob
Medium
Miami Vice
Millennium
Misfits Of Science
Monty Python's Flying Circus - *wants*
Moonlighting
Muppets Tonight
My Secret Identity
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 - desire to watch so strong
Mythbusters
Mythquest
Nash Bridges
* NCIS
Ned and Stacy
Night Stalker original
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Nowhere Man
Numb3rs
Otherworld
Oz - curious
Paradise Hotel
Pete and Pete
Popular
Prison Break
Probe
Punky Brewster
Quantum Leap
Queer as Folk (UK)
Queer as Folk (US) - I'm doing my best to watch the eps, with apokam's help
Red Dwarf
~~Ren And Stimpy~~ - I'm torn on R&S. On one hand, crack. On other, really gross.
Rescue Me
Robin of Sherwood
~~Roswell~~
Rocko's Modern Life
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scrubs
SeaQuest DSV
Second Noah
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Shazam
Silver Spoons
Six Feet Under
Sliders
~~Smallville~~ - Clark Kent with hormones doesn't really appeal to me
Snoops
Solid Gold
Space Cases
Space Ghost Coast To Coast
Space: Above and Beyond
Space:1999
Sports Night
St. Elsewhere
Star Cops
Star Trek: DS9
Star Trek: Enterprise - unfortunately, my sister didn't like this
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: TOS
Star Trek: Voyager
Stargate: Atlantis - curious
Stargate: SG-1 - curious
Starman
Strange Luck
Supernatural - I'd love to watch this
Survivor: Borneo (S1)
Survivor: Australia (S2)
Survivor: Africa (S3)
Survivor: Marquesas (S4)
Survivor: Thailand (S5)
Survivor: Amazon (S6)
Survivor: Panama (S7)
Survivor: All Stars (S8) - So the only one I even remotely liked was All Stars. Because this franchise is seriously WTF.
Survivor: Vanuatu (S9)
Survivor: Palau (S10)
Survivor: Guatemala (S11) - WTF
Tales from the Crypt - used to watch this as a kid
Tales from the Darkside
That 70s Show
The Avengers
The Bionic Woman
The Colbert Report
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Daily Show - want to watch
The Invisible Man (SciFi Channel)
The Job
The L Word - curious
The Legend of Hercules
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
The Muppet Show
The Night Gallery
~~The O.C.~~
The Outer Limits
The Piglet Files
The Powers of Matthew Star
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Profiler
The Sentinel
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos - want to watch
The Storyteller (Jim Henson Productions)
~~The Swan~~
The Third Eye
The Tick- animated
The Tick- Live action
The Tomorrow People (1973 version)
The Torkelsons/Almost Home
The Tribe
The Twilight Zone
~~The West Wing~~ - I admit that I have a short attention span and didn't pay attention
The X-Files - watched one ep, thought it was creepy as hell but intruiging
The Young Ones
Threshold
Thunderbirds
Time Trax
Tremors
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Ultraviolet
V
Veronica Mars - I've heard good things; will attempt to rectify the non-watching
Voyagers
Will and Grace
Without a Trace
Wizards and Warriors
WKRP in Cincinnati
Who's the Boss?
Wonder Woman
Wonder Years
Wonderfalls - curious about this
Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Files: Lone Gunmen
You Can't Do That On Television

Tell me: am I being too annoying when I plug, plug, plug something (i.e. Serenity) that I really like and hope that other people like as well? Because I am starting to get jumpy, considering some recent (and not-so-recent) events in certain fandoms. < /existential crisis>

0_o

2005-12-12T11:48:12Z

I am boggled.

As to why, a conversation with apokam will tell the sordid story:

fanboynextdoor: lam mo ba, nag-showing na pala serenity sa pinas
apokam: weh?
apokam: kailan?
fanboynextdoor: september
fanboynextdoor: 10 days bago siya na-release sa us
apokam: there goes your chance of seeing it then
fanboynextdoor: it was one of those ayala/greenbelt special things
apokam: oh ok
fanboynextdoor: i still have my fingers crosses
fanboynextdoor: *crossed
apokam: serenity - in ayala???
fanboynextdoor: well, it's, er, artsy?

I. NO. *HOPES*

Pinoy Slang: because everyone has a burning urge to find out what dyakol is.

not magic. just shiny.

2005-12-09T10:56:48Z

I'm sick and bored. Not a very good combo.

It seems that I am in the minority of people who did not go to the school retreat. The only other person I know who didn't go was o-benjo, who, incidentally, sold me Hellbazer: High Water, featuring the canonically gay John Constantine {"the only person who could calm him down...was his boyfriend."). I will attempt scans, as with Serenity the comic book ~~which I might have promised a while ago T_T~~.

So I watched movies instead.

Originally, I watched The Brothers Grimm because of Heath Ledger, who, as we all know, will be playing a gay cowboy in the near future (please, let it be R-13). I liked his character Jacob Grimm - sweet and bumbling, but with an indecipherable accent.

A passable movie, and I particulary enjoyed playing "Guess The Fairy Tale Reference!" Favorite scene would have to be near the end, where Will Grimm had just been stabbed, and Jacob was muttering, "True love's kiss will break the spell", and attempted to kiss his brother ;)

All this time, I've been looking for a movie with Hugh Laurie in it, and it turns out there was one at home? *facepalm*

Sense and Sensibility - wow. I am in love with the way it was done. I have no words.

AND! Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant *and* Hugh Laurie? OMG. This is almost like Love Actually (Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam NeesonHugh Grant, Martin Freeman, plus the Operative from Serenity!) *has a deep infatuation for British actors*

Also: Ang Lee directed both Sense and Sensibility and Brokeback Mountain. So. Amused.

To continue the theme of British actors, I will now endeavor to find BBC's Pride and Prejudice and Wilde. I wonder what are the chances of me actually finding these (legally or otherwise) in the Philippines?

I decided to predict what rating Brokeback Mountain will get if and when it reaches Philippine shores. See, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (which has very interesting capitalization that I'll ignore) recieved an R from the MPAA. In the Philippines, it recieved an R-13 from the MTRCB.

Hopefully, since the homoerotic bits in BM aren't blatant (I hear the actual sex was more implied than shown), it'll recieve the same rating as well. If not, the pirates at DV will profit more and the whole film industry will suffer the consequences! BWAHAHA - *ack*. Take that, MTRCB.

now i ded from iocane

2005-12-06T10:51:10Z

Memage!

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. urbandub score: 24
2. sandwich score: 18
3. chicosci score: 13
4. ciudad score: 13
5. kapatid score: 13
6. the dawn score: 13
7. narda score: 12
8. razorback score: 12
9. kamikazee score: 11
10. sponge cola score: 10
11. opm score: 10
12. boldstar score: 10
13. session road score: 10
14. the mongols score: 10
15. typecast score: 10
16. parokya ni edgar score: 10
17. aziraphale score: 10
18. kjwan score: 9
19. moonstar88 score: 9
20. stonefree score: 9

changed by ouwiyaru based on code by ixwin
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From mushroom18:

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2005. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

January 2005
Well, shit. I had a long entry all typed up ang Firefox decided to go X_x. Let me try to restate this *takes deep breath*

February 2005
From heartsgofaster:

Random 10 (Winamp shuffle):

March 2005
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 88% Expert!

April 2005
Hey. I'm back.

May 2005
Who's going to the blogging summit on Saturday? ulop and I are, and I'd really like to know who else. I'd really love to meet some of my LJ friends there ^_^

June 2005
Pirata! Is up! *glee*

July 2005
My head hurts from this research thing. Arr.

August 2005
Terry Pratchett vs. J.K. Rowling. Or, to be more accurate, Rabid HP Fans vs. Terry Pratchett. Because people just don't get it, do they?

September 2005
Yes, I confess: I have succumbed to the temptation that is Lost.

October 2005
I've finished reading Anansi Boys, and right now, I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

November 2005
OMG SERENITY = HOTNESS.

December 2005
Pirata has been finally, ~~after a million years!~~ been updated.

1. My username is fanboynextdoor because I thought it would be amusing to have a username with "boy next door" in it. No, I am not male.
2. My journal is titled The Fag Machine because it was from this RPS fic and it was describing Ewan McGregor *SQUEE*
3. My subtitle is standard disclaimers apply because I see that a lot in fanfiction and I thought it would be amusingly appropriate for a fannish journal.
4. My friends page is called wanted: bedspacer because ulop once told me about how Ely Buendia's album of the same name was appropriate because the emotions evoked in said album were transient, like they were only there for a little while before they go away.
5. My default userpic is House and Wilson because I have so much love for this pairing. Plus I am fond of the coloring I used here.

You want to download this.

what a feeling

2005-12-04T08:20:00Z

I could go on at length why I like Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros ('The ~~Puberty~~ Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros'), why I think everyone should watch it, etc etc, but I won't, because I do not have the words.

Then again, I do have the words:

- Plot not the most original that I've ever encountered. But the way it unfolded, the way that the numerous subplots were handled, was undeniably skillfull. No cheap tricks (ex. dead mother woes) to tug at the audience's heartstrings and no dramatic monologues or weepy scenes set to swelling orchestraic music.

- The family's relationship was well done. The subtle chemistry was there, the way they argued and bickered and yet loved was wonderfully shown. All of my favorite scenes featured their dynamics.

- My favorite scenes are thus: a) the part where Maxi was ignoring his family because they beat up Victor (the policeman), and his Kuya Bogs asked him to braid his hair for him, and Maxi did; b) Bogs - in jail - learning about their father's death and throwing a fit, while Maxi and Kuya Boy were just standing there; c) the look exchanged between Maxi and Victor while Victor stood over Maxi's father's body; d) the ending; and e) Victor was in the bathroom, and Maxi's standing outside it, and he closes his eyes.

- Compared to the other characters, Victor was kinda blah.

- Nathan Lopez as Maxi was so cute. I thought the effeminate bit was kinda over the top at first, but I got used to it after a while. The 'Ms. Universe' sequence wins.

- The music worked. Jangling, a little off-key and off-tune, but it frames the scenes perfectly. And Pepe Smith (he who did the music) has an amusing cameo as a drunken pianist.

- The whole 'digital' aspect was painfully obvious sometimes, especially in the long-range shots. The camera quality shifts noticeably, and sound's a bit muffled in the first few minutes.

- Yes, I was a bit discomfited by the whole Maxi/Victor thing. The way Maxi kept following him around was creepifying. But at the same time still wonderfully (and tastefully) done. Favorite bits involving this: Maxi giving up his more flamboyant ways because Victor said so, the Moulin Rouge-esque whistling scene (you know, that bit with Satine singing to Christian in the end?) and Maxi cleaning him up. Several kinkier members of the audience at the moviehouse catcalled when Maxi was in Victor's room and Victor took off his shirt. I might have resisted the urge to yell, "Pedophile!" several times during the movie ;)

- I really, really want to icon this movie. Screencaps?

In this movie's honor, I offer a download: Stephen Lynch - If I Were Gay.

(Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has been rated R-13! More happiness! And ElJay's new header surprised me the first time.)

ambiguously gay

2005-12-02T11:36:53Z

Pirata has been ~~finally, after a million years!~~ been updated. Some of my FL may have already d/l-ed some of the songs I currently have up, but for the rest, they are Cambio, Eraserheads, Orange and Lemons and Sugarfree Christmas songs :)

House/Wilson? LOVELY. I love Season 2, I love the writers of House MD, I love Bryan Singer (who's also gay, FYI) and especially, I love Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard. GAY. ♥ PS: And it's F_W for the win! Can't we just all enjoy the shiny and happy subtext shinily and happily? Please?

Am I the only person here whose sekrit guilty pleasure is historical romance novels? (Except for those with the heaving bosoms on the cover, because, seriously. No.) C'mon, we can't ALL be literature elitists (and I use that term with affection - I am a bit of one too. DIE DAN BROWN DIE!!!) ALL the time. What's on your shelf of Books I Must Not Read In Public?

magnetism

2005-11-28T12:27:35Z

Let's save Blue Beetle II! Because in my happy world, Ted Kord tripped happily off into the sunset and ~~continued his romantic storyline with Booster Gold~~. Damn you, Identity Crisis! XO

So being at kAME Ulit! made me realize how out of touch I am with animanga nowadays. The last time I talked about animanga on this journal was...well, it was a long time ago, I can tell you that. So I was 'bwuh?'-ing a lot because there was so much new stuff I didn't know.

But still, ulop and I managed to enjoy the fair. We got to see some of the AMVs in competition, watch some cosplayers, browse merchandise (is there some kind of con law that states that con enjoyment diminishes at a geometric rate when money is lost at an arithmetic rate?) and meet some of you! It was especially nice to see Red Threads (which I first heard over at F_W *cough*).

Remember that crack-riddled pilot episode I wrote a while back for CSI: Tondo? Because I am such an attention whore, I decided to re-do the thing, properly this time. The old pilot was mostly just bits and pieces of possible plotlines (...what plot?) that I thought up while watching news with my parents.

What I need now is input! I'm trying to match up the following characters/personalities/archetypes with Filipino actors. I've got some ideas, but my knowledge of the Filipino showbiz industry can fit into a thumbnail, so. Help?

1. Taciturn Leader Person
(cleverly has no personal life)

I have no idea who to cast T_T Ricky Davao? Wasn't he in Okatokat?

2. Eager To Please Golden Boy
(all the best criminalists have Daddy Issues!)

Dennis Trillo? (<-- is obviously a fangirl)

3. Tough Talkin' Chick
(with a past as dark as the darkest of pasts)

It was chastity_rowan who thought of Judy Ann Santos. Continuing the Okatokat theme, Agot Isidro also springs to mind.

4. Sweet Girl Next Door
(but with a hard candy center and pointed heels to match)

I randomly came up with Kaye Abad or Bea Alonzo during an Alleba search. Yet I don't know who they are.

5. Street Smarts Guy
(grew up in the mean streets yo!)

Jericho del Rosario? Though I am of the opinion that he is a complete wimp. Jay Manalo could work (because it'll be like Aishite Masu, though with less nekkid and sex ;)

6. Cool Science Geek
(smart AND hot like hell)

Hero Angeles so I can have my very own DennisxHero crack pairing~

7. Man of Unrefined Steel Detective
(and yet he's a softie inside)

This makes me think. Still a blank :P

8. One Coroner Comedy Show
(because dead humor is the best humor)

Ditto.

YES. HELP THE INSANE PLZ?

PS: Yes, I love CSI, NCIS, Without A Trace, etc etc verreh, verreh much. I'm mostly poking fun at the state of Filipino entertainment today ;)

twitch

2005-11-27T10:27:18Z

19 House MD icons of varying styles and quality :)

icon count
11 House/Wilson
7 Wilson
1 Wilson/Chase

Comment, credit (fanboynextdoor) and don't hotlink!

teasers


01.   02.   03.
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07.   08.   09.
10.   11.   12.
13.   14.   15.
16.   17.   18.
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Resources here

(x-posted to fanboynextdoor, houseicons and house_wilson)

x_x

2005-11-26T11:46:50Z

Er. Will talk about kAME Ulit! tomorrow. My stomach's kinda unsettled by the fact that my UST entrance test is tomorrow :X

Still, it was nice to see aoimidori, mushroom18, chastity_rowan and caiphas! (Hit me if I miss anyone. My brain is not working properly.)

omg.

2005-11-25T11:32:20Z

I won second place at the Extemporaneous Speaking contest during the YMCA Quezon City Talent Olympics. Wow. And this for a contest that I only learned I was joining thirty minutes before it was supposed to happen.

Look at my pretty and gay Dead Poets Society icons!

Plus ulop has one of the Serenity comic books (the one with Kaylee on the cover) and it's real shiny. Will borrow and scan :D

as you wish

2005-11-23T09:11:32Z

I...need to watch HP4 again!

(All links are not dial-up friendly. Plus, spoilers and Robert Pattinson prettyness *_*.)

Cedric Diggory is Very Very Gay: an exercise in deductive logic.

Two seekers seeking love.

Three seekers seeking love.

Randomly pretty GoF picspam. And nineteen groupies plus a pirate.

Daniel Radcliffe in green velvet. The twins with black hair. Okay, who dressed Daniel Radcliffe? I may have to shoot s/h/it now.

Dread Pirate Robert is a law like love. The Princess Bride references ahoy!

I needed that crack. The ability to be excited about school is beyond my ken.

talk talk talk

2005-11-19T04:30:47Z

Hey! Today is Alan Moore's birthday!

I realized that I haven't talked about OPM here for quite some time. But now I am, because there *is* something to talk about.

First off, Buddy Zabala is now The Dawn's new bassist! So the Fabulous Baker Boy now plays bass for three bands (Cambio, Twisted Halo & The Dawn), meaning I will be able to see him a lot more often in gigs! Not that I go to gigs anymore, being all busy and broke, but the potential's still there, you know?

Next, the rumors are true: there *will* be an all-star Eraserheads tribute album coming out soon! One of my classmates just Y!M-ed me the tentative tracklist taken from the Imago ML, and it's something like this:

1. With A Smile - South Border
2. Ligaya - Kitchie Nadal
3. Overdrive - Barbie Almalbis
4. Huwag Mo Na Itanong - MYMP
5. Magasin - Paolo Santos
6. Alkohol - Brownman Revival
7. Superproxy - Francism
8. Alapaap - 6Cyclemind
9. Pare Ko - Spongecola
10. Ang Huling El Bimbo - Rico J. Puno
11. Tikman Ang Langit - Sugarfree
12. Huwag Kang Matakot - Orange and Lemons
13. Para Sa Masa - All Stars

I'm not too crazy about 6Cyclemind doing 'Alapaap', but that's mostly because I have an almost irrevocable bias against that band. Same goes with Paolo Santos and 'Magasin'. I can totally hear Orange and Lemons doing 'Huwag Kang Matakot', and FrancisM and 'Superproxy' seems to fit very well. Also, it's very exciting that Sugarfree is on this album, because they're the one band (besides Cambio) that I really want to cover the Eheads.

(Speaking of Cambio, the random thought of them being in this album is hilarious. Sue me, I have a shallow sense of humor.)

Finally, a Hari ng Sablay movie? Are they shitting me?

And a little brain tickler. Three letters before, three letters after, and in between them are the letters ERGRO. Find the three letters that would form one word without needing to mix said letters up.*

_ _ _ ERGRO _ _ _

* ~~I don't know the answer to this one either.~~ No, wait, I do NOW :DDD

bananana

2005-11-17T09:56:06Z

Happy birthday, saihara!

I need Christmas songs (one English, one Tagalog) for the school! Not the usual order of 'Silent Night' 'Carol of the Bells', 'Pasko Na, Sinta Ko', etc etc. The only unique ones I can think of are 'Mi Karansay' by Cambio and 'Old Fashioned Christmas Carol' by Eraserheads. Somehow, I think my classmates won't agree with my "unconventional" choices.

So. Help?

(And is it so wrong that I found this song enjoyably geeky? Not that I sing it to make other people twitch *cough*)

respect the pornocracy!

2005-11-16T11:25:55Z

So I really didn't feel *that* excited when I watched Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. I felt anticipation, but no real, burning buzz for the movie. Before and after.

Observations:
- GAY. Really. Even my not-slash-friendly friends picked up on it. Harry/Ron, Harry/Cedric, Moody/Harry, Krum/Ron, Crouch Jr/Snape, Karkaroff/Snape, Dumbledore/Everyone, etc etc. GAY GAY GAY.

- The enjoyment of this movie will be significantly lessened if one has never read the book before. Lots of abrupt scene changes that had a non-HP-fan friend going, "Huh?" a lot. I think I got a bit motion-sick too.

- Moaning Myrtle was...disturbing. Ew.

- Dumbledore's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (damn right, it's better than yours!)

- The whole 'Voldemort rises again!' scene was disappointingly anti-climatic. Harry and Cedric's running-through-the-maze bit was more adrenaline-pumping.

- WTF is up with Viktor Krum's Very Gay Companion™? And Ron had one too!

- Neville is such a woobie ♥ Fred and George also deserved major props.

- What just happened to Hermoine's character? And for that matter, Ron! I never liked you in the books, but why did they make you out to be only comic relief?

- The Yule Ball was also startlingly anti-climatic. And the Triwizard Cup. And the World Cup. And Rita Skeeter. And the Wizengamot. And the interrogation in the end. And the funeral.

- The First Task was made out into some cheap adrenaline-pushing event. Blah blah blah ZOMG HARRY KILLED THE DRAGON!!1one Isn't that negative points?

- Some of the scenes in the movie were dim. Even the outdoors scenes made me wish for a nice Brightness/Contrast adjustment because they were so dark.

- The whole Harry/Cho was bleh. There was more Harry/Hermoine than Harry/Cho. Heck, there was more Dragon/Hogwarts Castle than Harry/Cho.

- Doesn't the guy at the center of this picture look an awful lot like Cedric Diggory? ~~Seriously. Squint.~~

- Did I mention GAY? Suggestive closets, wand-licking, finger-licking, Necrophiliac!Harry, vinesex, magical spooge, manboobs, blah blah blah GAY.

Verdict: where's the rush? I didn't feel the thrill of this movie. And GAY. (<-- CAPSLOCK OF TRUTH YO)

slash random

2005-11-15T14:00:06Z

David Krumholtz is both in Numb3rs and Serenity. OMGFANGIRL.

Tomorrow we'll be watching Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. It's required for school. At php180, there better be free popcorn.

wibbles

2005-11-13T09:03:19Z

Read this absolutely spoiler-free review (I guarantee it) of Serenity and tell me you aren't even the slightest bit curious about the movie.

Because Serenity is a sci-fi movie with heart, goddamnit, actual human heart that delves right deep into human characterization and relationships and interactions. It's not about the kiss kiss bang bang, or the woobie CG aliens or the Thousand And One Things One Can Do With A Spaceship - it's about people.

Don't get me wrong, Star Wars (the original trilogy haha I almost said orgy trilogy) still remains a favorite of mine, but when it comes to characters, George Lucas could use a few lessons from Joss Whedon. Because Joss is all about the people, and that what gets me in the end.

Also, it totally pwnz when I found out that majority of the actors' favorite scene was the one with Simon and River (which almost broke my heart too).

You can already buy the novelisation at National Bookstore (I know I have), and it manages to do a good job of connecting the TV series and the movie.

And as I've realised that I haven't been talking about anything other than this Big Damn Movie, here's a random observation that I wish to post: Why is it that when National Bookstore has got all the shiny books now (A Wodehouse Omnibus! Catch-22! Lots and lots of DC trade paperbacks!) I never seem to have the money to buy them? *woes*

Plus, Sam - the latest housemate to be booted off Pinoy Big Brother - likes Fight Club and Edward Norton, which made me fangirl him a little. A little. Oh me of fickle faith.

ach, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

2005-11-11T08:32:22Z

A quick advanced happy birthday to mushroom18~! *proffers smutty geek lovin'*

(Will be busy with exams and Serenity with ulop tomorrow :P)

I leave you with a nice, shiny quote from Mal Reynolds: We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw.

This post was lovingly brough to you by Descartes' Firefly-obsessed brain. ~~Any chance someone can hook me up with an mp3 of The Ballad of Jayne?~~

this is an 'oh god, oh god, we're all going to die' kind of interesting

2005-11-09T13:37:06Z

Late-breaking news: Quezon City Science High School is bankrupt. How a public, government-supported high school can be bankrupt, I have no idea, but it is. The school's in debt with a bunch of people (GPTA, alumni, et al). There's talk of public utilities like water and electricity getting cut-off. Periodic exams may be suspended because there is no paper to photocopy the tests on.

On one hand, no exams w00t!

On the other hand, *facepalm* (This is WHY QCSHS should be handed over to Quezon City instead of NCR - the city government takes care of its own)

A Serenity-pimping post will be up soon too.

can't stop the signal!

2005-11-01T14:12:35Z

OMG SERENITY = HOTNESS.

The possibility of it showing on Philippine soil is nil. But there's still your favorite local pirate *nudge*

Substantial entry when I find out if there's school tomorrow or not.

ETA! Numb3rs is the most interesting crime investigation show today. Some guy (Charlie) solves crimes with Math! If QCSHS taught Math like that, I would be on a high (in a good way) with each lesson :)))))

ETA 2! QCSHS' sembreak will end on Nov7! Woot!

i aim to misbehave

2005-10-30T06:06:15Z

Acquired Serenity. Will be watching it while in some hotel in wherever.

Happy Halloween, everyone!