Off-kilter

Nota bene: My phone went nuts from Saturday until about Monday. Busted signal plus malfunctioning battery. Failed to receive a number of messages. If you’ve sent a message and I was not able to respond, sorry.
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Pet peeve: Sana lang wag na masyado i-dramatize ang coverage sa Ondoy. Nakaka-asiwa ang romanticized portrayal sa mga victims, sa pangyayari, na nilalapatan pa ng mga music na kundi pang Maalala Mo Kaya eh pang Doomsday soundtrack. Tas ‘yung word usage pa, tsk, di naman ata kasama sa job description ng media ang tumula’t maging makata. As it is, napapakita na nung event ‘yung gravity nung calamity, ‘di na kailangan palabukan pa, sana wag na masyado gatasan. Parang exploitative na ang dating by some measure. Pornographic almost.
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Question: Puwede ka bang mag-panic buying, pero kalmado ka lang habang bumibili?

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Have just listened to the Pains’ new EP Higher than Stars, and I can’t get way past the single! Higher than Stars is so goooood, as in stunningly-jaw-droppingly goooood. I’ve been listening to it all day long. Glittering-fluttering synths and charming-picturesque vocals. Synthgasmic!
Muntik na ako maiyak nung una ko napakinggan, ang ganda talaga eh!

“so sure you kept it under covers, until you knew you loved her”
“no secret’s too safe, and how you can’t stay / higher than the stars.”

Check it out!

Official site

Myspace

Last.fm

Wiki

Bus stops et.al.

The world’s coolest bus stops.

Favorite ko ‘yung sa Ventura.

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Estrade hurls libel charges against Yuchengco and the PDI.

I wonder when our anachronistic criminal libel statutes will be revised.

Here’s a paper from the UK Ministry of Justice on Defamation and the Internet.

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News of the obvious from Scientific American: “Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late.”

I am a true-blue Night Owl. It’s great reading and writing at night.

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Muntazer al-Zaidi explains why he threw the shoe.

Amen

“To change the world—it may not work, but it sure is fun trying.”
-Erick Rudnick, founder of US-based zine “Aftershock”

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Wow, na -shock ako ng sobra sobra sa balitang to.

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I Miss You! by Aaliyah. Ang ganda.

The soloist

- It was such an unbelievable experience. The whole thing. The whole day. And if you had seen him, if you could have felt him. I mean, it’s the same hall. We’re listening to the sam goddamn music, but.. But, no. You see him, it’s one thing, but you feel him… I’m watching him. He’s watching the music. And while they’re playing, I say, ‘My God, there is something higher out there.” Something higher out there, and he lives in it, and he’s with it.” I never even experienced it, but I can tell.. I don’t even know what you fucking call it.

- Grace

A new moon

One of the most beautiful minimalist music videos

Rhinoceros

Santiago’s Economic Affairs Senate committee heard last week the testimonies of some of the above officials during a hearing on the use of public funds for the ads. By the end of it Santiago was delivering a privilege speech in which she referred to the officials as rhinoceros that should be “shot on sight,” presumably for being thick- skinned and ferocious.

Hear, hear, although the comparison might have been insulting to rhinoceros, which are herbivorous, in contrast to some of these officials who dined with Arroyo in Bobby Van’s Steakhouse in Washington, DC.

Soundtrip et al.

“Cause I believe that we are lucky
We are golden we’re stolen manners
In the days when we were one”

-Blinded by Third Eye Blind

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“There’s a little bit of the day we met
A whole long list of my regrets
There’s a two step dance that never swings
A little bit of you in everything

The shimmering of the christmas lights
A lonely tone in the deepest night
As Nat King Cole softly sings
A little bit of you in everything

But, I don’t want to carry these old feelings anymore”

Little Bit of You in Everything by The Rentals

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Sobrang timeless ng Wolfgang grabe, ang galing.

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A sprawling post-mortem analysis by Paul Krugman on how and why economists, like him!, got it “so wrong.” (I know we don’t any more telling already about how them economists steered us toward this current mess, but the essay is quite of the informative kind).

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