just going to modify my previous post...

i am going to list down 20 random movies that i like, then tell me one name of a character in the film (except when the character's name is the title of the film)

1. Almost Famous - Penny Lane, Russell Hammond, William Miller
2. Pleasantville - David
3. Wit
4. The Hours- Virginia Woolf
5. Lost in Translation
6. Orange County
7. Girl, Interrupted
8. Magnolia
9  Wonderboys - James Leer
10. Reality Bites - Troy Dyer
11. Empire Records- Rex Manning, Mark, Gina, Warren
12. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Arnie
13. Vanilla Sky- David Aames
14. Dead Poet's Society- Neil Perry, John Keating
15. Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman
16. Magnifico
17. Keka- Quark Henares; JA Tadena
18. Pangako Ikaw Lang
19. Moulin Rouge- Satine
20. Crying Ladies- Aling Rhoda

Ida- 11, 17, 20
lush_18- 1, 13, 19
Cyberwarp- 1,11,14
Tina - 2,4,9,10,12,14,15

Got this from DeathCabCutie Let's see how many you can correctly guess
The rules:

a. Post the names of 20 of your favorite musicians.
b. See who can guess which is your favorite song by each.
c. Once someone guesses right, bold that row and include the song.

1. Smashing Pumpkins- Thirty-three
2. The Who
3. The Clash
4. Bjork
5. Tori Amos
6. Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Soundgarden
8. Tool - Sober
9. A Perfect Circle
10. Eraserheads- Huling El Bimbo
11. Twisted Halo
12. Imago
13. Led Zeppelin
14. Stone Roses
15. U2
16. Radiohead
17. Cynthia Alexander- Comfort in your Strangeness
18. The Used - Blue & Yellow
19. The Ataris
20. Sugarfree- Burnout

ida- 1, 6, 10, 17, 20
Tina- 18
Cyberwarp - 8

I should not promote piracy but I can’t just let that make me feel all blue and yellow because I did not have that one song.

 

This is a not review. This entry is for the sake of telling to people that I just again thought of one of my favorite bands. They are the emo/screamo band, The Used, who writes agonizing music such as “Buried Myself Alive” and “Blue and Yellow” (which is my all-time favorite). Yesterday, I get to visit my school so I hastily grabbed the chance to drop by the University Mall for “music piracy” updates. I’ll digress here: I find it funny how music pirated shops sell these days. They now have the “underground thing” with the walkie-talkie system that it just made me remember how my grandmother narrated to us their experience of having underground homes during the Japanese colonial period. So enough of that, as I was saying, I get to buy this compilation of up-to-the-minute rock tracks that included one song from The Used. And to think, the song was not that “new” for I’ve been hearing it since late December of last year. But what can I do to make up for my frustration, after realizing that when “In Love and Death” (The Used’s follow-up album) was sold out in all record stores? Resort to piracy of course. Besides, the rate of a foreign artist CD is worth 450-550 so why not prefer to have something economical? Whatever the case may be, I would like to say that I finally have it. It’s just one song and it provided me with a thousand smiles, the lyrical content of it, notwithstanding.

 

All that I’ve Got

 

So deep that it didn’t even bleed and catch me

So deep that it didn’t even scream…

I’ll be just fine pretending I’m not

I’m far from lonely and it’s all that I’ve got

 

I guess I need not feel all gloomy and lonely even though it’s the only song from the new album that I’ve got. Haha!

 

the rolling stones had predicted it right. if it weren't for them, then britney spears would not have had the chance to use this one friggin' great rock track as her alibi for fame.

the human's endless desire...
i just had a class with my student about this. people who are not aware or knowledgeable enough of the english language know this meaning, what more with americans and pseudo-americanized people like us, filipinos?

my previous entry about troy mentioning mtv...

when will this all end? when will this crap in music end? in short, kailan ba matitigil ang kahibangang ito? mahirap bang intindihin ang salitang "hindi pwede"? wala lang, bakit mahirap pumasok sa mga makikitid na utak ng tao ang kahalagahan ng musika? okay, fine, whatever. i know this is a free country and everybody can do whatever they want pero i need to be a utilitarian with this one.

napanood ko si troy montero sa mtv ngayon. he was singing the 100th version of "Special Memory" sa MTV. Oh, di ba sosyal. kung sa bagay, MTV these days di mo rin malaman kung ano na nga ba ang purpose. in fairness, mtv promotes indie music these days. thanks to the existence of marc abaya (may purpose pala ang pag-alis niya sa <s>)sa vj line-up at nagkaroon ng mga pro-pinoyrock segments and shows. sugarfree, imago, sago, juan pablo dream ang mga ilan sa na-feature na sa mtv lokal atbp. pero parang masyadong lumalayo na ang sinusulat ko.

yun nga, i saw the video of troy montero and it made me remember ara mina, sandara park, judy ann santos, rainier, sheree of hot babes and who knows who's next? long and dagul? hay! nakaka-frustrate talaga. music meant to sincerely uplift people's hearts. pero realizing all of these, music disheartens me nowadays. because of the video, i get to check out this err, interesting article about troy and his so-called dream.

FIL-AM hunk Troy Montero finally got his wish of becoming a recording artist.

ako rin naman ah, sino bang hindi pinangarap ang maging singer? yeah right. if it weren't for his great abs, his face and fame, di naman siya bibigyan ng record deal. it wasn't a wish troy, it was all about power and fame.

¡°It has always been my first priority since I came to the Philippines five years ago,¡± Troy says of his singing ambition. ¡°Back home [in the United States], I had this band with my friends and we were called Garage Band. All non-professionals. There is a small rock bar in our town where we were allowed to jam during weekends.

yeah right again. garage? did he just mentioned garage? what a shame for the garage community. why the sudden shift to pop? did he just relinquished his hopes to be a rockstar?

"I made a list and a committee was formed to vote for the ones that would be included in the album," he relates. "They're all my favorite songs but there were so many of them. My special request to include 'All My Life' was also granted. This is a very special song which I dedicate to Aubrey."

ang galing! he gets what he wished for! as if the whole album is his soundtrack. napaka-showbiz yung Aubrey part. Ano kaya song niya kay Nikki?

But there won't be any duets of Troy and Aubrey in the album, nor will there be wedding bells for the inseparable lovebirds. The possibility of recording a Filipino song is also unclear because Troy, after these many years in the Philippines, is still not well-versed in speaking the language. Troy claims he is willing to take a crash course in Filipino.

good gracious if they did have a duet! if ever that happens, troy is considered as the pinoy version of ricky martin in this article, so sino si aubrey? si christina aguilera? haha

yun lang. just another complaint for the day. i have nothing against pop music. as a matter of fact, i do enjoy listening to pop may it be a regine/ogie hit or the new song of barbara streisand. pero sana people will start to open up their ears and minds when it comes to the whole marketing thing in music. we should know the difference of music from crap.

nakakainis. nabura ang entry ko na pinaghirapan at pinagbuhusan ng oras at pinagtuunan ng pansin. di na nga ako masyado nakapag-concentrate sa ginagawa ko tapos nabura lang siya dahil down ang server dito. ayoko na!!!! nakakainis.

kung ma-post ito, mas nakakainis. anyway, siguro mas advisable na isulat muna ang entry bago i-post.
yun ang natutunan ko ngayong araw na ito.

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