the chaka list

i'm bored.
and sleepy.
and tired.

para di masayang ang oras ko dito sa opis, sulat-sulat muna
ako biglang may idea at maiayos ko na ang script kong tinatapos.

so i tried to list down the stuff i'd like to hate or in other words,
mga chaka. (pahiram chocaloy, miss na kita katrabaho)

chaka ang american idol.
poteks kahit paano mo pagbaligtarin obvious namang mananalo si danny gokey.
maglokohan pa tayo.
boring na ang show. boring na ang tema.
natutuwa na lang kami kung lumalabas ang greenwich tvc ni anne curtis
at gagayahin ni jhett ang kanyang dialogue na "bora" na sobrang high-pitched.
tapos biglang susundan ni nicole parang duet ng mga chipmunks. sumasakit ulo ko.

chaka ang commercial na greenwich ni anne curtis.
see prvious post.

chaka ang fantasy nba.
puro injured mga superstar.
walang revelation na player this year.
boring na. sana naman di matalo ang pusta ko sa liga ng jro.
tinatamad na talaga ako at gusto ko ng idrop mga players
dahil pag pinapasok ko naiinjure agad.

chaka ang pet society.
wala na silang pwedeng gawin sa pets kundi patakbuhin.
can they kill each other for a change?

chaka ang gold's gym.
simula lumipat ako wala pa akong nagamit kundi treadmill at stair climber.
wala yung mga equipment na nakasanayan ko.
tipid nga ako, mukha naman akong kawawa.

e-heads from upstairs

took this pic from the 5th level parking of SM Moa
30 minutes before the concert started.
I used my trusty Canon digicam because my SLR's lens are not wide enough
Just sharing the experience.

Who Watches the Watchmen

This post is bloody delayed.
But I felt I needed to post something to shush the haters.

Watchmen is not your typical movie.
If you come in expecting a superhero-ish flick, you're going to be disappointed.
Yes it has over-the-top violence and sex scenes abound.
And Dr. Manhattan's blue penises steals the movie's thunder, well almost.
Zack must be infatuated with dicks, there were way too many unnecessary exposures
but I guess its his way of flicking his middle finger at the system.

This is a movie about the Cold War and alternate realities.
don't go around saying this situtation never happened etcetera, etcetera, punyeta alternate reality nga.

There's no "major villain" in this movie.

The opening scene rocks.
Zack managed to condense a lot of the comic book in one scene.

After watching the movie, read the graphic novel. You'll notice that they were so faithful to it, even to the framing of the scenes.

Did I mention Dr. Manhattan's pututoy kept making peek-a-boo again and again?
Till then I'm waiting for the DVD.

Who Watches the Watchmen

This post is bloody delayed.

E-heads, Finally...

I've run out of words to describe
E-heads: The Final Set. The word Spectacular is an understatement and eargasm seems too mild a word to describe it. This is THE concert that the band should have given us the first time around. But after all the hullabaloo I'm not complaining.

Great setup. the place was waaay better than the ruins of Taguig. Huge videowalls gave justice to the band's performance (esp. to us who watched it from far away.)

By 5 pm, the venue was already crawling with people. I even took pics from the 5th floor of North Parking of SM MOA. The bay was a perfect complement to a the sea of people watching. The venue was large and breezy enough and it wasn't as "rocky" as Taguig. The mall even piped-in Eheads songs all day. I loved it. So off I went with Les (who made abono my tickets) to early dinner at Gram's and meet her friends.

By 8, the tribute avp was already rolling. As we hurried to the "Silver" gate, the big burly guy from security stopped me and said he can't allow to bring in my Canon SLR. I wonder what's wrong with bringing an SLR to the venue, we were so far away as if it posed a security threat. So like happened during the first concert I had to hurry back to my car and stuff my slr. I had to make "tiyaga" with my digicam...
We almost missed the first song which was Magasin and place was already crowded, more crowded than the Taguig concert. Then the songs came one after the other I noticed Eli's mood was lighter and he was reacting to the crowd. Marcus sang a lame regggae version of... I can't remember the title. Raimund brought the house down with Alcohol... they should've gotten Radioactive to jam with them but it sounded great. The place was superjampacked but people were more behaved. No hint of maryjanes in here, hehe.

Some high points in the concert:
1) Eli singing Kaleidoscope World as tribute to Francis
2) the unexpected encore, which made people rush back to the venue buti di nagkastampede
Raimund was saying: Bitin ba? Asan si Marcus?
3) the Group Hug, which I felt was sincere
4) Eli giving the mike to Tim Yap, and making him look like a total loser and faker for not even knowing the lyrics to Toyang. (Boo Gucci gang)
5) Amazing fireworks
6) And... the burning of the old piano from Sticker Happy

This concert is Eraserheads at its memorable best.
Thanks guys.

damn you pet society

my firefox crashes everytime i play pet society.
arrghh...

heard there's a cheat to earn gazillions of coins. yay! m gonna design my house.
this game is so shallow but i love it

WTF?

Saw this kanina when I passed by Vito Cruz Extension.

Why only now, Steve Kerr?

So Coach Terry Porter was fired after 4 months with the Suns.
Now you guys "discover" that this team was meant to run.
Why only now, Steve?

You've made a very good team weak, dude.
You've traded good players for what?
Jason Richardson?
With that trade you also lowered his stats, you creep.

And I hear Amare's about to be traded, too.
For what? A bunch of veterans?
And you want them to run-and-gun?

Get off the Suns train, Kerr.
Before there's nothing left.

Meatball Movies - Gran Torino

There's something about Clint Eastwood's movies you just can't get enough of them. This movie is a testament starring a geriatric star can be amazingly cool.

Cliff plays Walt, a misogynistic Korean war veteran/mechanic/anal jerk/ grumpy old fart who was just widowed. His kids doesn't understand him, he has spoiled rotten grandkids and worse, Asians have invaded his neighborhood town of Highland Park, Michigan.

A family of Hmongs have become his neighbors next door. He has noticed the Hmongs have almost occupied the whole block making him an odd man out in his own Yankee American neighborhood.

One day his teenage neighbor Thao almost got gun-whooped by a roving Hispanic gang. His cousin, part of a Hmong gang goes to his rescue but was it his luck was jsut starting or it had just ran out? These thugs wanted to Thao to be part of the gang and for his initiation he had to steal Walt's spanking cool green 1972 Gran Torino sport/ eye candy/geriatric fuckmobile. Unfortunately for him, Walt was there to point a rifle to his face before he could even steal it.

The gang returns for mayhem, but the sad blokes were almost at the receiving end of Dirty Old Harry's rifle making them flee in fear. After that Walt became a neighborhood hero of sorts, receiving flowers and food from the Hmong neighbors. Walt acting like the racist anal jerk that he is, throws the stuff away in full view of the people. Anyway Thao's sister, Sue managed to befriend him after he sees her being terrorized by 2 black dudes. And he points his rifle at them dirty Harry style but still no action. (You're disappointing me, Clint) They get close but not sexually because Walt also befriends Thao and makes a man out of him. Giving him lessons in life
while he in turns learns more about the Hmong culture and the people of Laos.

One day, the gang returns and Thao gets it in the face. (a cigarette burn- ouch! pogi points fail)
Dirty Walt retaliates by punching the lights out of chubby Hmong gangmember.
And now the comparison to a Lito Lapid film begins in 3...2...1...

Gang returns nightime strafes the house with bullets, Mafia-style.
They also get to rape Sue.
Of course Walts transforms to his Dirty Harry mode... or will he not?

I'm not revealing the ending watch it yourself

Gran Torino
5 meatballs out of 5
It's that good and moving.
Clint is amazing.
Lito Lapid can actually remake this into Gran Turismo
using a Tamarraw or a Fierra hahaha

Meatball Movies - Red Cliff

i've been a john woo fan for years.
but never did i imagine that the legendary mr. woo would do a wuxia film.
this is a movie about the intricate Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, one wrong move and you will be chastised for screwing with history. But John outdid himself on this one.

one look at this film and you can see that they didn't scrimp. the costumes and the sets were elaborate. in fact i read from wikipedia its THE most expensive Asian film ever made to the tune of U$ 80m. Taro Iwashiro of Samurai X did the soundtrack, giving the movie a more "Asian" feel instead of using traditional Chinese wuxia soundtracks. And you can tell this is a BIGASS John Woo films because I think he used the "flying dove" scene at least 4 times and at different camera angles. hahaha all these for the love of birds.

the movie starts with Tsao tsao, the prime minister of Imperial Han "armtwisting" the emperor to attack rebel forces in the South to unify China. Back then China was divided into small kingdoms governed by feudal lords. 2 prominent lords were heading the South- Liubei and Sun Quan. LiuBei was the royal uncle and Sun was the head of Wu kingdom. So Tsao tsao the biggest badass in Chinese history setforth his Napoleonic conquest with hopes of seizing the throne for himself after conquering all of China. First to fall was the kingdom of Liu Bei. They were outmanned and they had to protect the people who were caught in the crossfire. Liu Bei was a softie but he had brave men under his command. And moving bravado and camarederie made this film endearing almost in a brokeback way.

He also had China's greatest military strategist and advisor- Zhuge Liang. (This is my disppointment of the film, they casted Takeshi Kaneshiro for such a big role because this guy looks Zoolander dumb.) Zhuge suggested they join forces with Sun since they will be next.
So off he goes to Wu to convince Sun, who has some inferiority complex issues himself (I'm no good, my big brother always whooped my ass, but I'm glad he's dead.) Zhuge Liang also needs to convince Zhou Yu China's answer to Patton for his quest to be triumphant. So he goes to Zhou Yu first, since this dude commands the naval army.

Zhou Yu wasn't a regular dude. He's a rockstar ahead of his time. Not only does he rock with his chin (the chinese version of the guitar this was used in Kungfu Hustle with the 2 blind men)
he also has a rocking hot wife, Xiao Chiao (who didn't appear in the history books nor the novel)
She apparently was the object of lust of Tsao tsao, who jacks off to a very ancient centerspread scroll of her at his room; making her this story's Helen of Troy. Zhou Yu was the master of naval warfare and was the friend of Sun Quan.

Zhuge Liang earned his spot as a cool dude to Mr. Zhou when he delivered the breech birth of Zhou's horse. Then during night they jam together to dueling chins. After that, Zhu gets Zhou's nod through music, talk about a higher form of musical understanding beyond us. So fucking Freudian!

Anyway it was Zhou's turn to convince Sun and they go tiger hunting. This is a parallelism to Sun conquering his inner demons. Thank God, WWF and PETA still wasn't around back then to stop them, if not somebody's about to get their head chopped off. So Sun kills off tiger and uses the fur as his bathroom carpet, kidding! They declare war on Tsao tsao by not answering Tsao's letter of surrender. Well back then, it's the simplest way of flicking your middle finger.

This angers our Tsao-ey so he sails off to attack them but he sends off his land forces first to test his opponents. Zhuge and Zhao sets off the most amazing formation in military history -the BAGUA! The bagua is literally the turtle or the ridges at the back of the turtle, creating a labyrith for your opponents, when they enter, nobody comes out.

Tsao's forces falls into their trap. And we see the most AWESOME and violent fight in wuxia history to rival that of Lord of the Rings! My jaw dropped so low I had to tie it back on.

Next scene we see Tsao's massive naval fleet at the shore ready to launch their attack.
Zhuge and Zhou check each other out, adoring the other like male dogs sniffing each others butts. Hahaha They comtemplate that this will be their fight together and the next time they might be on different sides. The irony! Love it!

Can't wait for part 2.

Red Cliff 4 meatballs out of 5
There were too many establishing shots
and unnneccesary scenes
but the bigness was incredible
immerse yourself in romaticized and fictionalized Chinese history
watch it