Videos (again)
Yes, yes, yes! I missed Regina Spektor. Laughing With is so delicious. Lovet. Lovet. Lovet.
From Britanin’s Got Talent. It’s just sad (and weird) when a kid breaks down.
More Cinemalaya. Saan Nagtatago Ang CCP?
And these kids are just great. They made an awful song interesting. I’m Yours. Google Lydia Paek.
We love Google Maps
Web Mapping is the best! It makes the lives of indolent travelers painless. Plo arranged the itinerary for our Thursday trip to Iloilo and she used Google Maps—a mapping service application provided by Google. It’s great when maps are being implemented and delivered on the internet. They even recommend nice places to have lunch in.
Here’s Plo’s e-mail:
RE: Iloilo
I arranged the places to visit according to their location. I used Google Maps ha ha and so we can make the most of our stay.
I should be finishing something for work, but I don’t want to do it—so I’ll just do this.
(If it’s ok with you) who wants to print this? Ha ha.
PS: yes I’m a nerd!
Notes on a Scandal 3
The Pig had a complimentary shower on today’s senate hearing.
Who is this ex-cop Abner? a.) a fan? b.) a concered citizen? c.) or just a man trying to baptize the sexy beast?
Time can never mend the CARELESS SHOWERS of a good friend . . .
Notes on a Scandal 2
It’s funny how some scandals, in the Philippines, are bigger than fertilizer scams and drug trafficking.
You have to give Lolit Solis recognition—for once, she says something appropriate and inconspicuously . . . nice.
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Payat and I were watching the illustrious and ubiquitous scandal yesterday.
Payat: I’ve had enough of doc’s derriere. Why would you want to spread someone’s murky behind?
Me: Admit it, we like seeing semi-famous people’s organs—no matter how small it is.
Notes on a Scandal
Since it’s the LSS of the year, everybody’s obliged to have their favorite cover. Here is mine:
So delicious, diba?
Kinatay na Litsonero
I had a date with Brut because we badly needed to talk about boys. We had pizza and soup in Las Palleas Café in Festival Mall. Their logo reminds me of the movie poster of Namets.
My family used to go to the Las Paellas in Alabang-Zapote road, which is now closed. They sell cold cuts and cheese back then, in Festival they don’t. I love Las Paellas’ Fabada and Chorizo but I can’t order them anymore because of my HTN. Brut and I ordered Pizza instead, damn it was bland. I hate local cheese. Brut had to finish 5 slices because I can’t even finish one. Look how happy she is:
I loved the soup though.
And thanks for the free paella.
The cake was great too.
My dad used to order cochinillo in Las Paellas for my birthday. Cochinillo is roasted suckling pig which is crispy on the outside but so tender on the inside. I’m not sure if you can still order it from the café.
Speaking of roasted pig, Brut and I wanted to watch Litsonero but it closed (in Festival Mall) on its second day. Nobody watched.
The mall’s on sale so we went shopping. I bought a cool shirt from Happy Days—for Payat. I wasn’t able to get DVD’s because the mall was jam-packed.
After 2 hours of walking my feet started to hurt so we had to sit down. We chose Cravings because they have cool lighting. And the waiters are really nice.
I was still hungry so I ordered my favorite club sandwich.
Brut had another cake.
Bonggang Bonggang Philippines!
CANNES, France (AFP) – Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines on Sunday picked up the best director prize at the Cannes film festival for his dark movie “Kinatay”.
“Kinatay” (meaning “massacre”) notably features corrupt cops hacking a prostitute to pieces with blunt kitchen knives.
Mendoza, at Cannes for the second year running, again split the critics, drawing both hisses and applause for “Kinatay”.
Last year’s “Serbis” was set in a Manila porn-theatre with long close-ups of festering boils and overflowing toilets, as well as the poverty and distress on the streets.
Still determined to portray the social reality around him, Mendoza in “Kinatay” traces 24 hours in the day of a trainee policeman, happily beginning with his wedding in the morning to close with the young man’s first outing at night with a band of corrupt colleagues.
To his surprise, fear and anguish, they pick up a prostitute accused of betrayal and wind up torturing, raping, killing and hacking her before disposing of the body parts across Manila.
“This is not just entertainment, these kinds of stories are real,” Mendoza said at Cannes.
Last year was the first time since 1984 the Philippines had a film competing for the top prize at Cannes, the Palme d’Or. – http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090524/ennew_afp/entertainmentfilmfestivalcannesdirector_20090524181826
LSS (ever)
Say niyo kay James? Ang pogi!
With Keisha of Sugababes, Here’s the fat version:
The tacky version with Girls Aloud:
The drunken version with Ambra Marie of Italy:
And of course there will always be the worst:
Here’s my favorite cover, by the talented Carmina Topacio. Google her!
James Morrison is so bleep . . .
Bonggang Bonggang Kinatay
CANNES, France – Amid the economic gloom, Asian movies are lighting up the Cannes Film Festival.
Six of the 20 films competing for the top prize at this year’s fest are from Asian filmmakers, offering audiences everything from troubled gay lovers to a vengeful father to a vampire priest.
Palme d’Or contenders include romantic tragedy “Spring Fever,” by China’s Lou Ye; vampire morality tale “Thirst” by South Korea’s Park Chan-wook; and revenge thriller “Vengeance” by Hong Kong’s Johnnie To.
Other Asian films competing for the prize are graphic crime shocker “Kinatay” by Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines, and “Visage,” the story of a Taiwanese director trying to make a movie in Paris, by Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-Liang. Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brought “The Ice Storm” to Cannes in 1997, is back with U.S.-set hippie homage “Taking Woodstock.” – Jill Lawless, http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/45400197.html
Say niyo?
