Archive for the ‘personal’ tag
Rethinking This Web Presence
The Batanes trip with fellow bloggers, and my religious tech podcast listening, got me thinking:
- As unattractive online monetization is to me - yes, I’m weird, haven’t you noticed- I should think of strategies to drum up at least the pagerank of this site, which once ranked as a ‘4‘, with zero effort.
- Go back subscribing to RSS feeds. My occassional visit to BoingBoing just won’t cut it. I’ve been behind my movie news and reviews as well. I’ve been a good podcast listener and have always had TWiT, and Diggnation to accompany me during my start-of-the-week commutes to work. Oh, what platform should I use? Bloglines has always been elegant in its execution, but maybe I should venture out.
- What is this ‘Twitter‘? LOL. Odd that I have 27 followers there, and I’ve only posted one update, which was when I opened my account. Pownce? I’ll try that, sure, I know I had an invite account there before it went public.
- A blogroll? Oh that’s way too much effort already! I’ve only upgraded to the latest Wordpress version last weekend (which is unfortunate because ver. 2.5 will be released at the 10th of this month), and only figured out that my hosting space was clogged because of spam on a default account I don’t use. But alright, soon, probably.
Slowly finding my way back to the movies
I was shooed away from a Cine Europa 2007 film fest screening because I was thirty minutes late to the scheduled distribution of the free tickets, which was slated at two hours before the movie screening.
Alright, I wasn’t really sent off scampering the Shangri-la mall floors, but this was the only film I really wanted to see among the festival offerings, and I schemed days ahead on how to work this around work and my daily commute. The movie was La Môme, the Edith Piaf biopic.
La Môme movie trailer
Not Exactly Narda at Route 196’s Helter Shelter Night
Funny that I should be semi-active in the rock scene coverage well past my twenties. My best friend, a year or two younger than me, was telling me how she’d go to the old Club Dredd back when she was in high school. Now she has pussycatdolls on her PDA. Ugh.
So Saguijo appears to be, hands-down, the venue of choice for anyone who’d like to watch the better bands of the local rock scene perform. Been there once at the last Narda gig, and got engulfed in the vibe of things. No complaints, except for the proximity. And that’s why this other venue, Route 196 in Katipunan, QC, became an enticing option.
See, Club Dredd being a 5 minute walk away from the office is rad and all, but there’s an observed slow acceptance of it being the legit predecessor of the original venue. Same owner, but too posh a location. Route 196, on the other hand, is a 10-minute ride away, and has built a reputation as being an very viable alternative joint for us northerners. So, what prompted me to go there yesterday?
Members of the now-defunct Narda (view this blog’s Narda archives), in one gig.
All This Useless Beauty Exhibit/Sonic Youth Night
From the artist’s website:
All This Useless Beauty at Mag:net Katipunan on September 8 to 25 of this year 2007.
(with apologies to Mr. Martin Creed and to Mr. Elvis Costello)
This will be the worst exhibit you’ll ever see. Disappointment looms heavy. Why bother anyway?
(SOURCE)
Attended and shot a few photos of the exhibit and the Sonic Youth Night gig right after the exhibit opening.
Hi Hello How Are You
Was sick for some time, was not in the condition nor the mood to shoot, but the past two days had me take photos at three events, with another one pegged for tomorrow.
But for now, lets cover the Manila leg of the Flickr World Tour. Photos here.
Photos from: a few body painting models, some cosplayers, and one of the most promising local pop-punk outfits to follow.
I Like Movies, Too, or Yes, A Non-Photography Post
I’m slowly inching to the topic I frequently wrote when I started blogging, oh, 6 years ago.
Movies.
Oh, there was a time that an aspiring film major valued my opinions when I was active in Livejournal, and there was this other time I was actively conversing with film critics over at the defunct Indiefilipino.com.
Links:
- Over at my Multiply video archive (where I spend most of my post-work mornings uploading from YouTube) aside from the music videos -from Piaf to J Mascis-, there’s a split-in-three feature on Ingmar Bergman, who just recently died. I’ll say it anyway: beautiful black and white photography. Dang. Must brush up on what I still remember, and should watch, of Bergman.
- A 10 minute short film of one of my favorite directors, Krzysztof Kieslowski, is up there, too. Would help if there were subtitles, since it appears to be a talkie.
- Noel Vera lists his 100 Best Filipino Films. Would love to see more Gerardo de Leon films. Oh, and I think I need another Vera book, since I’m re-reading way too much from his Critic After Dark book.
- And in movies of recent times, cable has been showing Judd Apatow’s hit 40 Year-Old Virgin (which is a fabulous comedy to note), and I’ve re-rediscovered Miranda July’s via a short films she wrote (Multiply link). Apatow is increasingly becoming a critic’s fave, and his recent Knocked Up has had favorable reviews. On the other hand, I haven’t heard much form July, but there is an eager anticipation from her followers what her next feature will be after the wonderful Me and You and Everyone We Know, a movie I’m tempted to just force people to see nowadays.
