CJ Reverse Playlist 03312005

Album:
Jem
Finally Woken

Snaptrax:
Wish I
Missing You
Stay Now
They
24
Come On Closer

I was listening to this album about a month ago (though downloaded a long time ago - opps, did i say that?) and some of the tracks are hooky enough to uh, hook you in. Overall, this debut effort by one Jemma Griffiths, Welsh would-be superstar, doesn't break new ground, but is inviting enough to realize that the girl has some raw talent. Until I read this recent article on CNN, I had no idea she was already gunning for the big time via the back door. Okay, so she's no longer under the radar. Next stop, Billboard.

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Baby, you're sailing today
Baby, you're sailing away
Sugar, wish I could go too
But honey you know
I'm happy for you

Wish I, I wish I, I wish I
Wish I was going too

Baby, your ship has come in
Baby, adventures will begin
Sugar, don't you worry 'bout me
Coz honey you know
Want you to be happy

Wish I, I wish I, I wish I
Wish I was going too

But if you find that you don't like it
That the people there aren't inviting
Or that city life is too frightening
Won't you come home
But if you find that you don't like it
That the people there aren't inviting
Or that city life is too frightening
Won't you come home
Please come home

Wish I, I wish I, I wish I
Wish I was going too
Wish I, I wish I, I wish I
Wish I was going too

minutiae

'nsama ... Terri Schiavo's blog

walk down memory lane (a.k.a. sinehan sa Avenida at Recto) - Bakbakan Na!

Taser 'em cops!

alba-nia!

merited one-and-a-half apples from NY1. who cares? jesicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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shades of Salma Hayek doing the same thing 9 years ago, courtesy of, who else ... Robert Rodriguez.

it's time to work from home, dammit

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/30/census.commute.ap/index.html

viajero

i bet delphi has better world coverage, hehe.



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Separated at Birth

Chris Evans vs Keempee De Leon

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Magkamukha nga ba sila?

croaked

OJ defender Johnnie Cochran bites the dust. OJ, you're next.

digging your sin

Waiting for me ... on the cover of my GQ mag *lol* - i guess am shredding that Brother of St Augustine Monk-In-Training application.

Sin City opens this Friday. Hooo-haaa!!!

And soon to follow ... Into The Blue

and of course ... Fantastic Four!

jessicaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

V is for Visitors

This weekend, my relatives from LA and Manila took a 7-day East Coast tour. Being the resident New Yorker, I became the de facto tour guide before they went on the official bus tour. Which is just swell - my Tita Josie hosted me last Christmas, and I was only too happy to show them around Manhattan, if only for a day.

After turning up too early (again. story of my life.) - their plane was delayed for a couple of hours out of LA - I had to cool my heels in a Starbucks on 34th St (damn. donut. singular.) and for about another hour more at the food court of the Manhattan mall (Starbucks kicked me out when they noticed I was pretending to drink from my tall empty coffee cup). For my final waiting turn, I was standing for about 20 minutes on the corner of Canal St. and Broadway, trying to look like a dude not be messed with (leather jacket, shades), but the Dillard's shopping bag in one hand (stuff to send back home to Manila) was a little on the soft side (at least it wasn't pink-ish).

Then I spotted a minivan that disgorged my long-awaited kin. Sauntering up to them, I burst out, "You Californians are always late!" Silence and stares followed. Shit, I took off my shades. Then they finally got it. Hugs all around, in the middle of noisy and crowded Chinatown on a Black Saturday. Damn, I should work on my timing.


Meet The LAkers: Uncle Ed, Arvin, Tita Josie, Erin, Tita Jem, Aljon

After having brunch at the usually-packed , my two younger male cousins Aljon and Arvin took to me quickly, even though this is practically the first time we've ever shared any face time together. Erin of course, rolls her eyes at my corny jokes already. She got shut out actually because we dudes were discussing sports. Of course, the boys were impressed by my encyclopaedic portfolio of NBA lore ("Talaga, kuya? Detroit Piston dati si Rodman??"). I keep getting thrown off by the fact that they speak Tagalog, because most of the cousins I've met in recent months always had the American teenage accent.

Getting through the packed streets of Chinatown took a lot more time than I expected (what is this? Easter Sunday at the Vatican? Nope, its tourists-meet-merchants on Easter Weekend). Finally getting to a subway station, we made the purchase for a Metrocard day pass for each of them, one card at a time. As to how the MTA managed to not think of the possibility that people might purchase several cards at one time, I don't know. What I do know is NuYorkers are totally pissed at them anyway for the recent price hike and increasingly crappy service.


Shepherding the flock through Times Square

Kin went nuts upon getting out at Times Square. Decision was made to go there instead of stopping by South Street Seaport for a peek at the Brooklyn Bridge because they wanted to catch a play. Moron that I am, I wasted time sitting around prior rather than looking for tickets. So when we got there, of course the Majestic Theatre box office (Phantom of the Opera) only had $200 premium matinee seats, and TKTS had nil. We ended up settling for (not that its a huge step-down) for, tada ... The Producers. Its not Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick, but Richard Kind and Alan Ruck ain't chopped liver either. The first act was a lot livelier than the second. Babe for Delphi: Angie Schworer (playing Ulla). Celebrity sighting (while loitering around theater row): Luis Guzman.


Ok, this is actually illegal. I could have been thrown out of the theatre for this.

Scampering out of 44th St to catch an alleged 5.45pm mass at an uptown church (St Thomas More on East 89th), we actually made it in record time, even stopping by for Starbucks (caffeine overload for me) and banana loaf bread. Then, turns out, the Easter vigil is still 8pm. We visited a neighbor of theirs, but one who has seemingly not in tune with the other residents of New York City, a.k.a. anyone not from the Upper East Side. Good thing I was in tune with my Tita Josie and resolved to scramble out of there before she ordered Chinese and we'd end up making a mess out of Tita Lulu's posh condo.


Dahan-dahan, baka makabasag ka. Walang tatawa. Walang gagalaw.

After escaping from the ivory tower, we went back to Times Square to get some grub (obviously, any inclination for religious services has now been thrown out the window). They never believe me that Bubba Gump is always full. So was Red Lobster. Didn't bother with Virgil's. John's? Full. Chevy's? 45 minutes. So we ended up at ... Yoshinoya. Stuffed ourself full with beef and chicken bowls. Thank God for koboy kamag-anaks.


Bright lights, big city, big smiles, big people

And then we all parted at 34th St Penn Station around 9pm. Squeezed as much hoops talk as possible with the 2 boys. Hugs and hugs again. They were staying out in a Wyndham in Newark so its not convenient to stay late or spend more time. Their East Coast tour kicks off at dawn on Easter Sunday - ending up at Boston a week later. At least for one day, they brought the California weather with them - great day!

I had to go back to where I started this morning - Manhattan Mall - to do some jingle bells. And then went to find an R train for long trek back home.

Non-PC: Types of Women

bato-bato sa langit - ang tamaan ay hihiyaw.

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WHITE WOMEN:
First date: You get to kiss her goodnight.
Second date: You get to grope all over and make out.
Third date: You get to have sex but only in the missionary position.

IRISH WOMEN:
First Date: You both get blind drunk and have sex.
Second Date: You both get blind drunk and have sex.
20th Anniversary: You both get blind drunk and have sex.

ITALIAN WOMEN:
First Date: You take her to a play and an expensive restaurant.
Second Date: You meet her parents and her Mom makes spaghetti & meatballs.
Third Date: You have sex, she wants to marry you & insists on a 3 carat ring.
5th Anniversary: You already have 5 kids together & hate the thought of having sex.
6th Anniversary: You find yourself a girlfriend.

JEWISH WOMEN:
First Date: You get dynamite head.
Second Date: You get more great head.
Third Date: You tell her you'll marry her and never get head again.

CHINESE WOMEN:
First date: You get to buy her an expensive dinner but nothing happens.
Second date: You buy her an even more expensive dinner, nothing happens again.
Third date: You don't even get to the third date and you already realized nothing is going to happen.

INDIAN WOMEN:
First date: Meet her parents.
Second date: Set the date of the wedding.
Third date: Wedding night.

BLACK WOMEN:
First Date: You get to buy her a real expensive dinner.
Second Date: You get to buy her and her girlfriends a real expensive dinner.
Third Date: You get to pay her rent.
Tenth Date: She's pregnant by someone other than you.

MEXICAN WOMEN:
First Date: You buy her an expensive dinner, get drunk on Tequila, have sex in the back of her car.
Second Date: She's pregnant.
Third Date: She moves in.

One week later: Her mother, father, his girlfriend, her two sisters, her brother, all of their kids, her grandma, her father's girlfriend's mother,her two cousins, her sister's boyfriend and his three kids move in and you live on rice and beans for the rest of your life in your home that used to be nice, but now looks like a home along the Rio Grande.

CJ Reverse Playlist 03212005

Album:
Destiny's Child
Destiny Fulfilled

Snaptrax:
Lose My Breath
T-Shirt
Bad Habit
Is She The Reason
Soldier

This is looking to be their swan song before Beyonce completely starts a solo career (what? she still hasn't? what about that 3-song performance at the Oscars?). Am not a Beyonce fan, but the girls deliver some nifty goods in here. Trouble is, you get the feeling that its like "Michael Jordan and his supporting cast "(Chicago Bulls circa 1984-1990). Maybe its better that she does go off on her own.

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How many times
Are you gonna apologize about the same thing
And how many times can I take you back
When I'm not the one that's doin' wrong
(When I'm not the one that's doin' wrong, yeah)
I thought maybe if I started prayin'
That we would get better, but
When I would pray the answer would always come back to me bein' done
But we are so hard headed when we're in love
So I

I told myself that I would make some changes
But the more I change there's one thing that remains the same
I can't seem to shake ya
You seem to really have a hold on me
And everytime that we break up
We turn around and make up
This can't go on now
I gotta move on now
It's not the fact that I don't love you no more
But I gotta break this bad habit
Can't take his bad habit no more

I'm totally out of my element
Learnin' new ways to live, while your in a comfort zone
Not even thinkin, (you couldn't think about me) to call
And then when I get mad you buy me gifts
Thinkin' it's gonna solve every issue
From the girl callin my phone, to the pictures that I saw
And every time you would break up with me for nothing at all
I've takin all I could take (I've takin all I could take)
But the way I live has gotta change, oh

Let me break it down
Have you ever loved somebody
So much that you was just to blind to see
Past, all of the pain they was causin' you
Ladies do you feel me (do you feel me)
Have you ever loved somebody
So much that you went against the right things that you should do
Then it's time to make a change
So I

bwahahahaha

What Is Your Seduction Style?

Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover

You seduce people by tapping into their dreams and desires. And because of this sensitivity, you can be the ideal lover for anyone you seek. You are a shapeshifter - bringing romance, adventure, spirituality to relationships. It all depends on who your with, and what their vision of a perfect relationship is.

the tests are back!!

personality tests by similarminds.com

What Classic Movie Are You?

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What Famous Leader Are You?

"A gathering of friends brings you lots of luck in the evening."

So said the little paper in my fortune cookie. Which kinda came true in a way, given that I had to travel through several zip codes from the Upper East side to get home to Brooklyn. I spent the (rainy) afternoon with an old friend, tutoring her and her sister-in-law in some of Bill Gates products, and thus ended in dinner in a small cozy Jap-Chink diner on 83rd and 1st. I figured I wouldn't get back to Bay Ridge until 11ish, but I made a serendipitous choice by getting off at 59th St from the 6 line and getting on an N train, which went express until it got to my usual stops in Brooklyn. I made it home before 10 pm.

Haven't been to the Upper East side area in a while. I still remember the Comfort Diner on 86th (where I got off after a long circuitous trip uptown coming from Brooklyn), where my pal Edrich and I used to take late lunches (4 PM lumberjack platters!?). Its closed now and the glass windows have been peppered by Wanted and classified ads. Shame. I liked their steak and eggs.

The area is still clean and nice as I remember it. Brownstones, coffee shops, bookstores and the usual glut of commercial establishments dot the area, but it hasn't turned into a rowdy mecca like Downtown. My friend lives on a 3rd floor walkup on York Ave (near Gracie Mansion, which she hasn't visited yet. Well, neither have i). A $1,500 studio is nowhere near my idea of a comfy (physically, aesthetically, financially) place to live, but she didn't have much choice. She talked about moving later to Queens, which I absolutely pass on (yeeeech. No offense to Queens residents).

Going back home, I had Electronic providing the soundtrack as stations whizzed by. One of the stops was 57th St, which reminded me of a Hooters appointment with Delphi the Hooterman soon (Easter Sunday? The Resurrection!). As I crossed the East River (underground) into Brooklyn, a couple of things caught my eye. Three things actually. There was this deaf-mute ABC (America-born Chinese) girl who was conversing in sign language with a white guy (fluently). That's pretty fly for ... yeah, you got it. Another was these two lesbians who weren't that expressive (pardon but i didn't overhear any of their chat, as I had Bernard Sumner in my ears), but you can still tell. Oh, and they were black - and one of them was umm, fat. Ok, not to offend more cross-sections of society, but hey, I was just noticing. The last thing that drew my attention was when an eyeglass fell to the floor. The man across me was reading the paper and the eyeglass slipped. He had a difficult time picking it up - because the eyeglass didn't have temples (the part that hold the frame and slip over your ears - yep, i had to look that up). Once he finally picked it up, he held it near his eyes and resumed his perusal (take that, Jego) of the paper. Poor guy. Kind of the same boat I was in, when i slammed into a McDonald's glass wall in 2000 and broke my eyeglass frame.

And I made it home before 10pm. The drizzle had stopped. Lucky me.

Ah, New York. Am gonna miss this place.

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they´re blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing
It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like dream in the night
Who can say where we´re going
No care in the world
Maybe i´m learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

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Bryan Ferry's words, in Norah Jones' voice, on a lazy cloudy Sunday morning

Do Da Tvist

The Village is no. 8, while Basic is no. 4. Yep, we've seen a lot of these puppies.

The Mother of Jackass Twist Endings!

Kiss My Lists

In a kind of Letterman-esque way, I kind of thought up of personal lists, just to see how much I know myself (what is this, some kind of self-help-Dr-Phil-know-thyself bullshit?).

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Top 10 Pagkain (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner)
Adobong baboy
Daing na bangus + toyomansi (bangus. period.)
Binagoongan ng Nanay ko
Pork Kilawin at Pork Guiniling (with patatas) ng Tita ko
Longganisang Cagayan + Kamatis + Sinangag
Champorado + powdered milk + asukal
Tapsilog or Longsilog sa Goodah or Tapa King
Dallas BBQ Chicken Wings
Tinapa + Danggit + suka + Kamatis
Paksiw na Lechon

(nyhahahahaha! walang gulay!)

Top 10 Dessert/Snacks
Fruit Salad or fruit bowl (mansanas, bayabas, pakwan, saging, lanzones, mangga)
Goldilock's pinipig polvoron
Carabao Milk Candy (another Cagayan staple)
Nirvana (sliced apples n bananas swimming in condensed milk)
pinakufu + buchi (you have to be from Tuguegarao)
Pan De Coco
Peanut brittle (yung buong mani, hindi yung durog)
Leche! Flan
Melted ice cream + skyflakes
Putong Pangasinan

Top 10 Inumin
Water
Smoothies
Starbucks cappucino (tall, 2 sugars, dash of chocolate, stirred, not shaken)
Clearly Canadian
Do the Dew
Coke/Vanilla Coke/Coke with Lime
Royal Tru Orange (Go to Elvie's Turo-Turo, 1st Ave., NYC)
Gatorade
Miller Genuine Draft
Killian's Red

CJ Forward Playlist 03182005

Album:
Bond
Classified

Snaptrax:
Explosive
Midnight Garden
I'll Fly Away
Samba

The Spice Girls of classical music, Bond makes classical and worldbeat music much more accessible to the masses, and being gorgeous and talented doesn't hurt either. They're a marketing (wet) dream. I've been a fan since their debut crossover success, especially since Vanessa Mae has seemingly retired. Admittedly, the music here is heavy on the dance club side, but hey, am not complaining. They're probably a blast live onstage.

O ano sagot nyo dito?

Q: Why does a penis have a hole in the end?
A: So men can be open-minded.

After doing a "bwahahaha", I will stand up semi-indignantly for my species and say "You don't say. Meron din kayong hole a. What makes you more open-minded than us?" Nyahahahaha and a bottle of rum.

Okay, What's The Next Trend?

OK, SMS is soooooo 2001 in the Philippines. The Yanks are catching up. We should have something new by now (not Korean telenovelas!).

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Study: 'Texting' on the rise in U.S.
Posted on CNN. Thursday, March 17, 2005 Posted: 11:36 AM EST (1636 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices' text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.

Usage correlates with age: 63 percent of cell phone users ages 18-27 have used text messaging compared with 31 percent for ages 28-39 and 7 percent for those over 60.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that 28 percent of people who text message have received unsolicited commercial messages that way.

Text messaging allows cell phone users to receive and send short messages to other cell phone users or e-mail recipients. Services also are available to receive news alerts and other information through text messaging.

Also known as SMS, for Short Message Service, "texting" is highly popular in Europe and Asia but only starting to catch on in the United States.

The Pew study was based on a random telephone survey of 1,460 cell phone users January 13 to February 9. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Wow, Cleveland Cavaliers fans spare no expense in vitriol for departed forward Caloy Boozer. bwahahahahaha.

http://www.carlosloozer.com/

Poor Edrich. (reprinting email from July 13, 2004)

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Ano ka? remember lahat ng mga press release "according to sources in Cleveland..." kaya wala pa akong masasabi dahil hindi pa naman naglabas ng comment si Boozer eh...malay mo smear campaign lang ito ng Cleveland (hindi ako magugulat!) dahil pumalpak yung gamble nila na masa-sign nila si Boozer ng 41 million in 6 years. Lahat yan haka-haka lang galing sa Cleveland. Mga sportswriters naman siyempre sakay agad sa issue na pinapalaki ni Jim Paxon dahil pumalpak sila. Plus hindi puedeng umamin and Cleveland na meron na silang agreement before July 1 (na nag-agree silang hindi kunin yung option kay Boozer para maging restricted agent sya, in turn, si Boozer nag-promise na magsa-sign sya sa Cavs kung hindi pinick-up yung option....bawala yan sa CBA!)

wala namang ginawang masama ang utah ah! restricted free agent si Boozer so tanga si Kevin O'Connor kung hindi man lang sya sumubok na mag-offer kay Boozer.

tanga kasi ng utah eh, dapat first round pick nila si Boozer nung 2002 draft! biruin mo twice nag-workout si Boozer sa Utah nung pre-draft tapos hindi akalain ng Utah na babagsak si Borchardt sa pick nila kaya ayun, kinuha tuloy si Borchardt dahil 7 footer!

magco-comment lang ako pagnagsalita na si Boozer, other than that, walang bearing yung verbal agreement (kung meron man) dahil illegal yun! May balita rin na kaya nawalan ng gana si Boozer sa Cavs dahil nung July 5 ata, nag-usap sila ni Paul Silas regarding sa future nya sa Cleveland. Parang gusto ni Boozer magkaroon sya ng bigger role sa scoring. Niyari sya ni Silas. Sabi ni Silas na hindi mangyayari yun hanggang nasa Cavs sya at ganyan na lang palagi ang role nya sa Cleveland. Tapos sinabihan pa sya na "energy player" ka lang! Tsk tsk tsk.....kaya nawalan ng gana si Boozer!

Nyahahahahahhaha!!!! Go Boozer!!! Go Jazz!!! I Can't Wait!!!!

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Current standings:
Cleveland Cavaliers 34-28 (2nd in Central Division, 5th in Eastern Conference)
Utah Jazz 20-44 (last in Northwest Division, bottom 3 in Western Conference)

Where art thou, John Stockton and Karl Malone?

CJ Forward Playlist 03172005

Album:
Gwen Stefani
Lamb. Angel. Music. Baby


Snaptrax:
Hollaback Girl
Rich Girl
Bubblepop Electric
What You Waiting For?
Cool
Harajuku Girls


No Doubt frontwoman finally conquers the world. Straddling the fence between her Madonna-wannabe past and her trendy-as-hell smart pop queen future, she makes a fine solo debut and steps out of the shadow of No Doubt. Completely retro and yet still forward-looking. And only she can get away with lyrics like, "Let me hear you say, this shit is bananas, B,A,N,A,N,A,S." Fun, fun, fun.

HAPPY ST. PATS DAY, EVERYONE!

Weekday Breakfast@Home: Ang Pagbabalik

CJ Forward Playlist 03162005

Album:
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem

Snaptrax:
Daft Punk is Playing At My House
Losing My Edge
Disco Infiltrator
Too Much Love
Beat Connection
Thrills

Imagine if a group of uncultured natives adopted a punk attitude and found a garage full of disco and rock n roll LPs, and a bunch of mixing and synthesizer equipment. The result would be this fine party fratboy record. Though they border on the pretentious (actually intentional) by the end of it, the toe-tappers (at the minimum) are worth the price of admission - for example, the cool single Losing My Edge is an amusing spoken/drawled pataasan-ng-ihi rant about your music IQ. James Murphy, who sings like a cross between a lazy Mick Jagger and a young Fred Schneider, passed up a writing gig on Seinfeld to follow his other muse. Good for him, better for us.

CJ Reverse Playlist 03152005

Album:
Frou Frou
Details

Snaptrax:
It's Good To Be In Love
Let Go
Maddening Shroud
Hear Me Out
The Dumbing Down of Love

Frou Frou vocalist Imogene Heap formally stakes out her own zone in electronica chanteuse territory occupied by Bjork and Dido. Bittersweet lyrics and sparse-yet-full production make this album a nice addition to your collection.

CJ Forward Playlist 03152005

Album:
Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction

Snaptrax:
Rocket Queen
Welcome to the Jungle
Mr Brownstone
Paradise City
My Michelle
Sweet Child O'Mine

Every generation has its rebel records and icons - whether its Dean, the Pelvis, Zep, Stones, Pistols - those who grew up in the late 80s/early 90s had this one (and the whole grunge thing of course). Loud, brash, misogynist, violent, shameless and rocking as hard as anyone - you couldn't ignore it if you wanted to. unless you're brain-dead. For all their excesses, Guns N' Roses lived their rock n roll dream. Now let's see some balls on the establishment side and put them in the Hall of Fame in 2013.

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If I say I don't need anyone
I can say these things to you
'cause
I can turn on anyone
Just like I've turned on you
I've got a tongue like a razor
A sweet switchblade knife
And I can do you favors
But then you'll do whatever I like

Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen
I might be a little young
But honey, I ain't naive
Here I am
And you're a Rocket Queen oh yeah
I might be too much
But honey you're a bit obscene

I've seen everything imaginable
Pass before these eyes
I've had everything that's tangible
Honey you'd be suprised
I'm a sexual innuendo
In this burned out paradise
If you turn me on to anything
You better turn me on tonight

I see you standin'
Standin' on your own
It's such a lonely place for you
For you to be
If you need a shoulder
Or if you need a friend
I'll be here standing
Until the bitter end
No one needs the sorrow
No one needs the pain
I hate to see you
Walking out there
Out in the rain
So don't chastise me
Or think I, I mean you harm
Of those that take you
Leave you strung out
Much too far
Baby-yeah

Don't ever leave me
Say you'll always be there
All I ever wanted
Was for you
To know that I care

U2 gets inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame - wooohoooo!

CJ Reverse Playlist 03142005

Album:
The Postal Service
Give Up

Snaptrax:
Brand New Colony
Such Great Heights
Clark Gable
Sleeping In
Nothing Better

The Postal Service channels electro-rhythms that recall early Erasure, Soft Cell, and A Flock of Seagulls, with some Dream Academy, Prefab Sprout, and Human League harmonies thrown in for good measure. Even the band name seems to be a nod to the music groups of that era. A nice record to listen to on a quiet rainy afternoon at the beach house. Or at the local coffee shop/library.

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I'll be the grapes fermented,
Bottled and served with the table set in my finest suit
Like a perfect gentlemen
I'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the ancient brick
Where you will sit and contemplate your day

I'll be the waterwings that save you if you start drowning
In an open tab when your judgement's on the brink
I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite
Albums back as your lying there drifting off to sleep...
I'll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity's done to you...
You won't have to strain to look into my eyes
I'll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped straight to the throat
With the collar up so you won't catch a cold

I want to take you far from the cynics in this town
And kiss you on the mouth
We'll cut out bodies free from the tethers of this scene,
Start a brand new colony
Where everything will change,
We'll give ourselves new names (identities erased)
The sun will heat the grounds
Under our bare feet in this brand new colony
Everything will change

am i the only friggin' customer of this phone card company in the Philippines (http://www.dlpusa.com/)? problem is i can't be nasty and tell them to fuck off. they keep telling my name came up for a promo offer of computers or whatever. i bet there's only like, 5 names in the tambiolo. ay, caramba. some days, i even fake my voice and accent to get these buggers off my back.

CJ Forward/Reverse Playlist 03122005

Album:
The Crystal Method
Community Service

Snaptrax:
Red Pill
Name of the Game
Breakin on the Street
No Soul
Morpheus
Dude in the Moon

Ok, I admit it. I'm addicted to ... crystal meth. The Crystal Method, that is. I'm helpless. Once i put my Shure earphones on, the booming rhythms and insistent bass lines fire synapses in my brain commanding my limbs to go into kinetic spasms. Good thing I haven't embarassed myself in the subway yet. This remix album even edges their own albums, and those are already so good. And they'll be coming out with a Vol. 2 this year. Bring it on!!!

The World is a Mall.

Bright lights and subdued hues. Elegant marionettes and loud colors. Babies in strollers. Dads in caps and jeans. Moms in jackets and sneakers. Lovers entwined pass me by. Rummaging through piles of clothes. Alternately smiling and blanching at price tags. Cashiers and shoppers looking at the time, for different reasons. A seller making a pitch. A toddler running after his sister. Bags upon shopping bags. Resting tired feet. Leaning on your love over hotdogs and hush puppies. Laughing. Crying. Screaming. Chatting. A babel of tongues. Black, white, red, yellow, green, short, tin, fat, bald, pierced, thin, weird, hungry, lost, found.

The world is a mall.

drunk friend calls at night. first time i've seen (heard actually) him babbling, alternating between laughing and crying (or something like that). geez. get over the waitress already. go to sandy eggo and find someone at the beach. want to borrow my USS Nimitz cap to impress the chicks?

CJ Reverse Playlist 03112005

Album: Vanessa Carlton Harmonium
Snaptrax: White Houses, Half A Week Before The Winter, She Floats
Pennsylvanian piano girl Carlton has served up a sophomore effort that has a bit more replay value - wow, serious music! - than her peers - Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne - have put out. But she needs to work more on the "catchy hook" thing.

CJ Forward Playlist 03112005

Album: The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Snaptrax: Get Up Get Off, Spitfire, Wake Up Call, Hotride
Jettisoning some key members, Prodigy's latest release seem to be lacking, when compared to The Fat of The Land. But main man Liam Howlett is still behind the wheel. That means slamming, pounding offbeat rhythms and changing gears all over the place. That means you're still going to get up and dance, dammit.

Vincent Van Gogh, Vase with Violet Irises Against a Yellow Background, 1890

pacify him!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/vindiesel.html

Brownie Points

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7127228/

It’s the two year anniversary for Da Vinci Code, and its still going strong. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, anyone?

Speaking of grails and quests, I plan to write a treatise (yuck! feeling!) on Garth Ennis' stunning Preacher. It has sex, violence, religion, comedy, philosophy, voodoo, even France (wait, even Da Vinci Code didn't have the first one - or the sixth). This should be made into a movie. I wonder who optioned the rights. Hmmmm ... maybe if Sin City is a hit ... (i saw the full trailer awhile ago too, even before Star Wars E3: Revenge of the Sith).

CJ Reverse Playlist 03092005

Album: Faithless Back To Mine
Snaptrax: Past, Solo Flying Mystery Man, Sunday 6PM, My Life
Faithless will always carry the tag of "the band that launched Dido." The Back To Mine series was intended for winding down parties, late night chilling, and when trying to get that chick to go home with you or when you already have. Headman DJ and producer Rollo (Dido's kuya) compiles his best songs for such an exercise, and the results are good (smoldering ones include Dido's "My Life" and Pauline Taylor's "Solo Flying Mystery Man"). I think i have to get the rest of the series.

o sa mga tigasin diyan .... nyhahahahaha. (if you refuse to browse, there's only one word for ya: hypocrite!!! bwahahahaha)

boy bastus!

CJ Forward Playlist 03092005

Album: Green Day American Idiot
Snaptrax: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, St Jimmy, Give Me Novocaine, Whatsername
Part rock opera, part political rant, all energy, Green Day seems to have grown up beyond their little punk ditties, and adolescent musings. At the height of their popularity, the powers-that-be gave them the best rock album nod in this year's Grammys.

what the ef-!

this is like Morrissey and Lestat combined. nyhahahahahaha!


Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray. You are a horror novel from the world of dandies, rich pretty boys, art and aesthetics, and intellectual debates between ethical people and decadent pleasure-seekers. You value beauty and pleasure but realize their dangers, as well.


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just to get away from the stereotype of playing/pretending/being martial arts masters. once Jeff Fisher leaves, the Titans should be Norm Chow's team.

http://www.popmatters.com/sports/features/050303-normchow.shtml

Joe forwards this pic via email. And triggers a landslide of trashtalking emails that makes me still enjoy working here *lol*


* victim in question is our beloved formerly-fulltime-now-part-time Nuyorican colleague Jason Soto.

J-So: Perfect timing! Better than coffee in the morning for a nice pick me up!

Joe: So, let me get this straight. Thinking about someone else's woody gives you a "pick me up"? I heard 2 gals on the ferry talking about you last night. They mentioned a guy named Jason, didn't know where he was coming from and if he was gay or straight. Now how many Jason's in NYC fit that description?

J-So: Well I guess I better return these Green and Yellow Italian shirts I just bought on sale from Daffy's!

Grifter: you better not return those while having a pen(cil) in your mouth.

J-So: I just don't get it!!! I just don't!

Grifter: short term memory loss. what can i say. its a jason thing.

J-So: UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grifter: ok, ok for the peanut gallery and to refresh your memory:

last friday, we were making fun of you being gay and you tried to talk while you had a pen in your mouth and joe said you were practicing having something in your mouth.

"pick me up, babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!"

J-So: Please cancel his Green Card Processing! We can't have another bad comedian in the US!

Grifter: who do they need less: bad comedians or gay wannabes?

J-So: bad comedians!

Grifter: i rest my case.

Joe: So, is this a confession???

J-So: You guys must have nothing better to do but to gossip all day like the bitches you all are! Get off the damn internet and do some work already for christ sake!

Joe: All our replies are not (in collaboration). We do not talk about you. You do it to yourself.

CJ Forward Playlist 03082005

Album: New Order Waiting for the Sirens Call
Snaptrax: Dracula's Castle, Krafty, Morning, Night and Day, Jetstream
Lacking the immediacy of their last release, Get Ready, it is still a New Order album after all. Things perk up by the 4th track, Krafty. And anyone who has the audacity to compose a danceable song called Dracula's Castle deserves some love. They don't rock or dance as hard, but just enough to keep you interested. Oh, and this is still going to be released on April 26, 2005. And i already have a copy. Hooohaaaa!

i woke up in new york city
from my sleep behind the wheel
caught a train to poughkeepsie
and time stood still

she wrote me a letter from san diego
to qualify her luck
these flights connect through arizona
but i think i'll stay stuck

so here i am
here i am
well i woke up in a car
i traced a way to fall
so i could see the mississippi on her knees
i've never been so lost
i've never felt so much at home
please write my folks and throw away my keys
i woke up in a car
i woke up in a car

i met a girl who kept tattoos for homes
that she had loved
if i were her i'd paint my body
until all my skin was gone

she wrote me a letter as we passed through rockford
she said she won't forget
maybe i do maybe i don't
but i know i haven't yet

so here i am
here i am
well i woke up in a car
i traced a way to fall
so i could see the mississippi on her knees
i've never been so lost
i've never felt so much at home
please write my folks and throw away my keys
i woke up in a car
i woke up in a car

and maybe i could live forever
if that ever i had known
that you'd be waiting there whenever i'm alone

but here i am

well i woke up in a car
i traced a way to fall
so i could see the mississippi on her knees
i've never been so lost
i've never felt so much at home
please write my folks and throw away my keys

well i woke up in a car
i traced a way to fall
so i could see the mississippi on her knees
i've never been so lost
i've never felt so much at home
please write my folks and throw away my keys
i woke up in a car
i woke up in a car
i woke up in a car

"God punishes the ones He loves most."
- Ukrainian proverb

who???

John Sheridan

An experienced survivor who has maneuvered around many obstacles, you are looked up to by those who rely on your good judgment.

In the last few years, we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. When you stumble a lot you tend to look at your feet. Now we have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life have meaning," and to our inheritors before us saying, "create the world we will live in."

John is a character in the Babylon 5 universe. You can read his biography at the Worlds of JMS fansite.

caveat emptor!

nyhahahahahahahahaha!


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