The Anti Con Ass Rally
Some photos I took from yesterday’s event over at Makati.
My sentiments of what took place yesterday will be posted later.
I go to rallies with an almost equal weight on two things: a personal conviction to the cause, and the event being a good photo-op. Last week’s Anti Con Ass rally made me question the first, and since I do these things wholeheartedly, how the hell can I shoot when I’m pissed?
Taking A Stance

I’ve been active not only on Plurk (view blog sidebar), but also on Twitter the past few days for what happened in the Philippine Congress. These days, the news you get from the old media channels come in too late, and gets pretty filtered.
I would rather really not blog about politics, but what just happened isn’t the sort of the thing you ignore.
The 100 Song List
It’s an internet meme. I don’t usually follow these things, but I’ll make this an exception.
Here you go (Artists/Band, Album, Song):
- Adorable, Against Perfection, Sistine Chapel Ceiling
- The Album Leaf, Into The Blue Again, Always For You
- Amiina, Kurr, Rugla
- … And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Source Tags & Codes, Another Morning Stoner
- Anthrax, Sound of White Noise, Invisible
- Astrud Gilberto, Verve Jazz Masters 9, A Certain Sadness
- The Avalanches, Since I Left You, Since I Left You
- Bad Religion, Stranger Than Fiction, Stranger Than Fiction
- Beirut, The Flying Club Cup, Cherbourg
- Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister, If You’re Feeling Sinister, Like Dylan in the Movies
- Belly, Sweet Ride – The Best Of, Feed The Tree (Remix)
- Ben Kweller, Sha Sha, Falling
- Beth Orton, Central Reservation, Stolen Car
- Blues Explosion/Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Now I Got Worry, Fuck Shit Up
- Bon Iver, Blood Bank, Blood Bank
- Brad Mehldau Trio, Anything Goes, Everything In Its Right Place
- Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music For Airports, 1-2
- Buffalo Tom, Asides from Buffalo Tom, Tangerine
- Camera Obscura, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi, Eighties Fan
- Catherine Wheel, Chrome, Crank
- Cinderella, Cinderella, Sa Aking Pag-iisa
- Clint Mansell, The Fountain, The Last Man
- Cocteau Twins, Lullabies To Violaine CD1, Sugar Hiccup (12” Version)
- Cody Chesnutt, The Headphone Masterpiece [Disc 1], Can We Teach Each Other
- The Cure, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, A Thousand Hours
- Danzig, Danzig, Twist Of Cain
- The Darling Buds, Erotica, Sure Thing
- The Decemberists, Castaways & Cutouts, Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
- Dinosaur Jr, Where You Been, Start Choppin’
- DJ Shadow, Endtroducing, What Does Your Soul Look Like
- Dubstar, Stars (Original), Stars (Mother Dub)
- Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis, I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore
- Edith Piaf, Les Meilleurs, La rue aux chansons avec le Choeurs de René Saint Paul
- Eggstone, Sweet Summer Sounds 2001, Wrong Heaven
- Emilie Simon, Emilie Simon, Desert
- Envy, All The Footprints You’ve Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead, A Cradle Of Arguments And Anxiousness
- Erik Satie, Reinbert de Leeuw – The early piano works, Gnossienne No. 2
- Esperanza Spalding, Junjo, Cantora de Yala
- Ethnic Faces, 10 Of Another Kind, Balik Bayan
- Faith No More, Angel Dust, A Small Victory
- Folk Implosion, Kids OST, Nothing Gonna Stop
- Gene, Drawn to the Deep End, Where Are They Now ?
- Gomez, Liquid Skin, We Haven’t Turned Around
- Hum, You’d Prefer An Astronaut, Songs Of Farewell And Departur
- I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Fear Is On Our Side, The Ghost
- Idlewild, 100 Broken Windows, Roseability
- The Innocence Mission, Birds Of My Neighborhood, Where Does The Time Go?
- Ivy, Apartment Life, These Are The Things About You
- Jeff Buckley, Live A L’Olympia, Je n’en connais pas la fin
- John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, They Say It’s Wonderful
- Joy Division, Still, Dead Souls
- Life Without Buildings, Live At the Annandale Hotel, The Leanover
- Low, Things We Lost In The Fire, Sunflower
- Luscious Jackson, Electric Honey, Ladyfingers
- Manic Street Preachers, Generation Terrorists, Motorcycle Emptiness
- Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend, You Don’t Love Me
- Medicine, The Buried Life, The Pink
- Miaou, All Around Us, Always Dreaming Of Things To Come
- Modeselektor, Hello Mom!, I Love You
- Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica, Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
- Mogwai, Come On Die Young, Cody
- My Bloody Valentine, Loveless, When You Sleep
- Napalm Death, From Enslavement To Obliteration, Evolved As One
- Narda, Salaguinto’t Salagubang, Jaywalker
- Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, God Fodder, Grey Cell Green
- Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left, Time Has Told Me
- Nina Simone, Live at Ronnie Scott’s DVD, If You Knew
- Odette Quesada, Lite Mellow OPM Music, I Need You Back
- Pale Saints, Slow buildings, Gesture Of A Fear
- Papas Fritas, Buildings and Grounds, I Believe in Fate
- Pat Metheny & Jaco Pastorius, Bright Size Life, Bright Size Life
- Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted, Summer Babe
- The Posies, Frosting On The Beater, Dream All Day
- Prefab Sprout, A Best Of Prefab Sprout: A Life Of Surprises, When Love Breaks Down
- The Railway Children, Listen On: The Best Of The Railway Children, What She Wants
- Red House Painters, Old Ramon, Between Days
- Ride, Nowhere, Dreams Burn Down
- Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness, I Love You Like the Way That I Used to Do
- Sepultura, Blood Rooted, Crucificados Pelo Sistema
- Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg , Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Sergio Mendes, 3 Decades of Music, What Do We Mean to Each Other
- Scheer, Infliction, Wish You Where Dead
- Slowdive, Souvlaki, Alison
- The Softies, It’s Love, I Love You More
- Sound, Bossa Manila, Habulan
- The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses, Waterfall
- Strawberry Switchblade, Strawberry Switchblade, Who Knows What Love Is?
- Sun Kil Moon, Tiny Cities, Exit Does Not Exist
- The Sundays, France Inter FM Radio: Black Session – Dec 15 ‘92, More
- Suzanne Vega, Tried And True, Marlene On The Wall
- Teenage Fanclub, Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds, The Concept
- Toad the Wet Sprocket, P.S.: A Toad Retrospective [Japan Bonus Tracks], Something’s Always Wrong [Edit]
- Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (Disc 1), It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
- Tom Waits, Closing Time, Ol’ ‘55
- Tracey Thorn, Out Of The Woods, By Picadilly Station I Sat Down And Wept
- Up Dharma Down, Songs From The Other Side (Music From And Inspired by Ang Pamana: The Inheritance), Flicker
- Urban Bandits, Brave New World Live, Nagpapapansin
- Velocity Girl, Gilded Stars And Zealous Hearts, Zealous Heart
- Violent Playground, Primordial Soup, Tupperware Party
- Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
And like the following:
Marocharim: 100 Songs. Because iTunes is On Shuffle and Repeat
MLQ3: 100 Songs! For Melodious Success!
Ade: 100 Songs. For Great Victory.
Baddie: 100 Songs to Save Your Life
I will tag whoever wants to bother spending precious time making one of these lists. Link back, too, so I can track your list.
In Other Worlds: Windows Vista and Windows 7 RC
Last week, I was still using Windows XP on my home computer. The urge to upgrade to Vista was non-existent, but during a support call at work when I had to do basic blind-support (no remote access) troubleshooting for one of the bosses of the company on a Vista machine, I decided to bypass my biases, and just proceed with an upgrade. This was timely, as I just got myself a new videocard, and a much-delayed DVD writer purchase was already done a month or two ago.
I have Vista on my machine now, with the latest updates. Great improvement from XP? Yes, I should say so. Does it deserve the negative criticism it has been getting since its release? After a few days with it, I really don’t see anything major to gripe about.
Then, Microsoft released a release candidate for Windows 7 to the public last Tuesday, valid until June 1, 2010.
And, here I am, a few hours after downloading the DVD-sized evaluation-copy operating system, and I’m loving how Windows 7 RC works. Very snappy, just like the recently released Ubuntu Linux 9.04.
HA!
On Vista Aero with my current specs, I’m around 60+ RAM usage. On Windows 7 RC Aero, I’m using less than 40-50. My rig runs on a first-gen dual core Pentium and 1.5GB of RAM.
Sarsi With Egg
I had two official drinks when I started school: root beer and sarsi. I didn’t know any other kid who liked what I liked, and I guess that was the start of my being the oddball that i am now.
Back then, there was this weird concoction you can do with sarsi: add one raw egg. I remember sipping it the classic pinoy way: with a straw, and contained in a plastic bag, the type used to sell ice.
So I posed a question over Plurk about it, and no, I found out it wasn’t something that was just done in the 80s. Read more here.
So, being the naturally brave soul I am, I present you with my refreshing post-breakfast drink:
It was good. Like root beer float.
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