30 December 2019 Monday

1054 via digital format
Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 (2019, Warner Bros./Transgressive)

1154 via digital format
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti – Folk Songs (1979, ECM)

0242 via digital format
M.I.A. – AIM (2016, Interscope/Polydor) (tracks one to ten)

0326 on computer; first two-thirds
Silent Hill – Christopher Gans (2006)

0600 via digital format
M.I.A. – AIM (2016, Interscope/Polydor) (tracks eleven to seventeen)

0647 on computer; last one-third
Silent Hill – Christopher Gans (2006)

0711 via digital format
Ladytron – Light & Magic (2002, Telstar)
Cloud Nothings – Morgan – Morgan/Another Man 7" (2010, Group Tightener)
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – Home (ArpLine remix) (2010)

Notes
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 is the fifth, 2019 and second-to-latest studio album by Foals, which the band produced with Brett Shaw and Transgressive released with Warner Bros. With a title taken from the epigraph of the T. Michael Martin novel, The End Games, the record features artwork from Ecuadorian artist Vicente Muñoz.

The Original Rodillas yema cake

Lucena, Quezon, 13 & 14 January 2019

29 December 2019 Sunday

1059 via digital format
Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson – Scream – Scream single (1995, Epic)
Ladytron – Light & Magic (2002, Telstar)

1233 via digital format
Placebo – A Place for Us to Dream (2016, Rise) (first of two discs)

0356 via compact disc
Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites (2005, Sony BMG)

0549 via digital format
Hunters – Deadbeat – Hunters EP (2011, via RCRD LBL.com)
Morrissey – My Early Burglary Years (1998, Reprise)

Notes

from “Midsommer” by Ari Aster

SM Mall of Asia ciabatta

28 December 2019 Saturday

1221 via digital format
Ladytron – Light & Magic (2002, Telstar)

0204 via digital format
Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson – Scream – Scream single (1995, Epic)
Weezer – Make Believe (2005, DGC/Geffen)

0418 on computer
Hellraiser – Clive Barker (1987)

0616 via digital format
Sonic Youth – Sister (1987, SST)

0721 via digital format
Morte Macabre – Symphonic Holocaust (1998, Mellotronen/Musea)
Cloud Nothings – Hey Cool Kid (Memoryhouse remix) (2010)

Notes
The whole family, eight people on this trip, demolished lunch at Kuya J, Southwoods mall on Monday, 02 December 2019, partly to mark the homecoming of T. even just for a vacay. There were kare-kare, sinigang, pinakbet, baked chicken, sotanghon, fish lumpia.

letter from niece

both from Keni Po, Tagaytay

27 December 2019 Friday

To the cacophony of wine, beer, cheese, chips & Graham balls that flowed
post-dinner in the nightfall of the 2019 Noche Buena, this post goes out.

0928 via digital format
Portishead – Third (2008, Go!)

1043 via compact disc
Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites (2005, Sony BMG)

1144 via digital format
Freezepop – Freezepop Forever (2000, The Archenemy/Elefant) (2005 reissue)

1246 via digital format
David Sylvian feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Steve Jansen – Forbidden Colours (version) – Red Guitar 7" & 12" single (1984)
Adventure – Battle Cat – Adventure (2008, Carpark via insound.com)
Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique (1989, Capitol)

Notes

26 December 2019 Thursday

0813 via compact disc
Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites (2005, Sony BMG)

0918 via digital format
Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique (1989, Capitol)

1053 via digital format
Dead Man's Bones – Dead Man's Bones (2009, ANTI-)

0149 via digital format
David Sylvian feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Steve Jansen – Forbidden Colours (version) – Red Guitar 7" & 12" single (1984)
British Sea Power – Tugboat – Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before... (2003, Rough Trade UK)
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988, Def Jam/Columbia)

1008 via digital format
the Cure – Wish (1992, Fiction/Elektra)
British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy (2013, Rough Trade)

Notes
On 25 November 2019, my younger sister (aka their biological mother) took the three kids to see Frozen 2 at the Southwoods mall in Biñan, Laguna.

Shakey’s Quorn Cheesy Chick’n Pizza

fried chicken & palabok, macaroni salad, fries, coffee

24 December 2019 Tuesday

0918 via digital format
VA – NOW That's What I Call Christmas (2013, NOW) (first of three discs)
Weezer – Christmas with Weezer (2008, DGC/Interscope)
Vienna Boys' Choir – The Christmas Album (2003, EMI Classics)
Julie Andrews – Deck the Halls – Greatest Christmas Songs (1967, RCA) (2000 remastered reissue)
Andy Williams – Winter Wonderland – Merry Christmas (1965, Columbia)
VA – NOW That's What I Call Christmas (2013, NOW) (third of three discs)

Notes

from “Area 51” by Oren Peli

tricycle front viewed from inside

23 December 2019 Monday

1047 on computer
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950) (2008 restored edition)

0201 via digital format
Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique (1989, Capitol)

0412 via digital format
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti – Magico (1979, ECM)

0604 via digital format
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz! (2009, Interscope)

0728 via digital format
Bright Eyes – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – A Christmas Album (2002, Saddle Creek)
The Andrews Sisters – Jingle Bells (feat. Bing Crosby) – Christmas (1987, MCA)
VA – NOW That's What I Call Christmas (2013, NOW) (second of three discs)

0946 via YouTube on phone
Busta Rhymes ft. Janet Jackson – What's It Gonna Be?! (14 September 2019, UPROXX Video)

1020 via YouTube on phone
From old Belgian water tank to dream tower house with a view (22 May 2017, Kirsten Dirksen)

Notes
The two boys went with mom at 0900 a.m. on 24 November 2019 to a baptism at our former street in San Lorenzo South Village, Sta. Rosa, Laguna, seeing our former neighbors (most of whom are mom’s pals) after some time.

06 January 2018, Shakey’s Scallop Primo Pizza

26 August 2018 fish fillet rice, creamy soup, fried chicken & spaghetti

21 December 2019 Saturday

1011 (pm) via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Service (1983, Alfa) (remastered)
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988, Def Jam/Columbia)
The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving (2000, G7 Welcoming Committee)
The Bolshoi – Crack in Smile – Lindy's Party (1987, Beggars Banquet/RCA)
the Cure – Lost Wishes (1993, Fiction)

0203 (am) via digital format
Blank Banshee – Blank Banshee 0 (2012, BlankBanshee.com)

Notes

from “Old Boy” by Spike Lee

Brew Kettle Belgian witbier-style beer

20 December 2019 Friday

0910 via digital format
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988, Def Jam/Columbia)

1016 via digital format
The Bolshoi – Crack in Smile – Lindy's Party (1987, Beggars Banquet/RCA)
Susumu Yokota – Sakura (2000, Leaf/Skintone)

1222 via digital format
Morrissey – Southpaw Grammar (1995, RCA)

0117 via digital format
Baby Bird – Neil Armstrong – Fatherhood (Baby Bird Recordings)
X – Los Angeles (1980, Slash) (2001 reissue)
Three Mile Pilot – The Chief Assassin to the Sinister (1994, Cargo/Headhunter)

Notes
17 November 2019 0342 p.m. on computer I began watching Sword Art Online II.

Shakey’s Marble Brownie A La Mode

Lemon Bar lemonades, Tropical Hut bistek rice

19 December 2019 Thursday

happy Christening to my fourth godchild, R.E., last Sunday, 15 December 2019

1008 via digital format
The Bolshoi – Crack in Smile – Lindy's Party (1987, Beggars Banquet/RCA)

1014 via compact disc
Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD)

1122 via digital format
Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (1991, Creation)
Cockney Rebel – The Human Menagerie (1973, EMI)

0126 via digital format
M83 – Kim & Jessie (2008, Mute)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones (2006, Interscope)

Notes

Tanita weighing scale

weighing self every 2 weeks

18 December 2019 Wednesday

0816 via compact disc
Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD)

1022 via digital format
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea (2012, Merge/Domino)
Red Box – The Circle & the Square (1985, WEA)
Baby Bird – Not About a Girl – Fatherhood (1995, Baby Bird Recordings)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, London)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (1985, Mute)

1246 via digital format
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (1986, Rough Trade/Sire)

Notes
Mom, I & the two boys went on 23 November 2019 at 0130 p.m. to the Waltermart Carmona mall to take care of grocery shopping at the Waltermart supermarket, after which we noshed on a Tiffany chocolate marble cake, Oishi matcha milk tea & Locally guyabano juice drinks.

29 September 2018 3-cheese pasta with potato chips &
sour cream mushroom chicharon

Royal spaghetti, Clara Olé 3-cheese sauce, ground pork,
Bonus button mushrooms

16 December 2019 Monday

0951 via digital format
Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003, Equal Vision/Columbia)

1108 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (1985, Mute)

1209 via digital format
VA – Morvern Callar (2002, Warp)

0114 via digital format
Death from Above 1979 – Heads Up (2002, Ache)
Japan feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Taking Islands in Africa (Steve Nye remix) – Visions of China 7" single (1981)
Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015, Sub Pop/Bella Union)

0224 on computer
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist – Paul Schrader (2005)

Notes

from “Fearless” by Ronny Yu

water pipe on the street

15 December 2019 Sunday

0856 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (1985, Mute)

0948 via digital format
Death Grips – Government Plates (2013, thirdworlds.net)

1233 via digital format
Ida – Will You Find Me (2000, Tiger Style)
Pantha du Prince – Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective remix) (2010, Rough Trade)
Baby Bird – In the Morning – The Happiest Man Alive (1996, Baby Bird Recordings)
Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983, Mute) (remastered)

0234 on computer
Exorcist: The Beginning – Renny Harlin (2004)

Notes
17 November 2019 0143 p.m. on computer The Dark Crystal – Jim Henson & Frank Oz (1982)

right hand swing & press table exercises

baby powder, motorcycle rider glove, dining table

14 December 2019 Saturday

1003 via digital format
DJ Krush – Kakusei (1999, Sony Music Entertainment Japan/RED Ink)

1123 via digital format
Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983, Mute) (remastered)

1243 via digital format
Built to Spill – Keep It Like a Secret (1999, Warner Bros.)

0135 via YouTube
Sinead O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U (live at The Late Late Show, RTÉ One broadcast) (06 September 2019, The Late Late Show)

0142 via digital format
Sonic Youth – Halloween – Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (1995, DGC)
Cobolt – Passoã (2002, BCore Disc)

0244 on computer
The Exorcist III: Legion – William Peter Blatty (1990)

Notes

Chopstop mushroom chowder & nachos

13 December 2019 Friday

0826 via digital format
Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983, Mute) (remastered)

0915 via digital format
Xmal Deutschland – Viva (1987, X-ile [Phonogram])

1054 via digital format
VA – Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer (2007, stereogum.com/okx)

1244 via digital format
The Olivia Tremor Control – Pre-Cubist Castle Demos (self-released)
Mistral Moon – Syntaks (2009, Ghostly International)

0126 via compact disc
Maps – We Can Create (2006, Mute)

0221 via digital format
Colin Newman – Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish / Not To (1988, 4AD)

0349 on computer
Exorcist II: The Heretic – John Boorman (1977)

Notes
10 November 2019 0308 p.m. on computer Deep Impact – Mimi Leder (1998)

31 October 2018 togue & tofu

12 December 2019 Thursday

0924 via YouTube
Sinead O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U (live at The Late Late Show, RTÉ One broadcast) (06 September 2019, The Late Late Show)

0933 via compact disc
Maps – We Can Create (2006, Mute)

1122 via digital format
Mad Professor – Evolution of Dub: Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 3 (1996, Ariwa)

1258 via digital format
Richard Hawley – Late Night Final (2001, Setanta/Bar/None)

0206 via digital format
Ylajali – Twentytwohundred – Syntaks (2009, Ghostly International)
Bush Tetras – Boom in the Night (Original Studio Recordings 1980 - 1983) (1995, ROIR)

0422 on computer
The Exorcist – William Friedkin (1973) [director's cut]

Notes

Nestlé KitKat Mini

11 December 2019 Wednesday

0824 via compact disc
Maps – We Can Create (2006, Mute)

0919 via digital format
M83 – Junk (2016, Naïve/Mute)
Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (2015, Matador)
Meursault – Lament for a Teenage Millionaire (live) (2009, recorded at The Mill Edinburgh 15.10.09)
The Kiss-Off – Brace (2008, self-released)

1138 via digital format
Philip Glass – The Music of Candyman (2001, Orange Mountain Music)

0134 via digital format
DJ Krush – Meiso (1995, Mo' Wax/FFRR)

Notes
The two boys went with mom to Central mall, Biñan on 03 November 2019 to buy new trainers each, which are part of my 2019 Christmas presents to them. These wounded up being K-Chau rubber shoes for both. While there, too, the three purchased a Nova 18” industrial stand fan and more.

Pan de Manila “Batu-Bato” Paskong Pinoy artwork series by Noel Mahilum

Chopstop, Pavilion mall, 09 September 2018

10 December 2019 Tuesday

six people including T. & myself imbibed Red Horse & San Mig Apple beers
with snacks at home on the night of 03 December 2019, Tuesday

0924 via digital format
Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity (Radio-Aktivität) (1975, Kling Klang/EMI/Capitol)

1054 via digital format
Philip Glass – The Music of Candyman (2001, Orange Mountain Music)

1232 via digital format
Morrissey – Beethoven Was Deaf (live album) (1993, HMV)
Meursault – Salt Pt1 (live) (2009, recorded at The Mill Edinburgh 15.10.09)
Sun Kil Moon – All Mixed Up (live) (2004, recorded at Great American Music Hall, 4.31.94)
Colin Newman – A - Z (1980, Beggars Banquet)

0243 on computer
I began watching the final episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones.

Notes

a load of signage outside our house gate

09 December 2019 Monday

0925 via digital format
Philip Glass – The Music of Candyman (2001, Orange Mountain Music)

1044 via digital format
The Field – Looping State of Mind (2011, Kompakt)

1223 via digital format
Richard Hawley – Lowedges (2003, Setanta/XL)

0114 via digital format
Three Mie Pilot – Planets 7"
Paul McCartney – This Never Happened Before – Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005, Parlophone/Capitol)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach (2011, Fat Cat)
The Fiery Furnaces – EP (2005, Rough Trade)

0315 on computer
Cinema Paradiso – Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)

Notes
The Music of Candyman is a 2001 studio album by Philip Glass featuring Music Box and collecting his music from Candyman Suite and Candyman II. With tracks 2 to 7 being produced by Don Christensen and Kurt Munkacsi, and engineered by Pete Keppler, the record is copyrighted to Orange Mountain Music.

Pavilion mall, Biñan, 09 September 2018

Pan de Manila macapuno tarts, pesto cheesesticks, more

07 December 2019 Saturday

0933 via digital format
Holy Fuck – Congrats (2016, Innovative Leisure)

1046 via digital format
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach (2011, Fat Cat)
Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy (2009, Warner Bros./ATP Recordings)

0128 via digital format
Madonna – Rain – Erotica (1992, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.)
M83 – We Own the Sky (2008, Mute)

0203 via digital format
Cobolt – Spirit on Parole (1998, Ampersand)

0303 on computer
Red Planet – Antony Hoffman (2000)

Notes

from “The United States of Leland” by Matthew Ryan Hoge

Alvarez Bakeshop monay

06 December 2019 Friday

0946 via digital format
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach (2011, Fat Cat)

1112 via digital format
Madonna – Rain – Erotica (1992, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015, Constellation)

1227 via compact disc
This Mortal Coil – Blood (1991, 4AD)

0146 via digital format
Foals – Antidotes (2008, Transgressive/Sub Pop)
Pat Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield – Live from Earth (1983, Chrysalis)

0250 on computer
Fractured – Brad Anderson (2019)

0643 on computer
Pandorum – Christian Alvart (2009)

Notes
29 October 2019 0507 p.m. on computer Aquaman – James Wan (2018)

Adelle ashitaba tea

05 December 2019 Thursday

family lunch on 02 December 2019 at Kuya J, Southwoods marking
my nephew’s vacay home from H.K.

1000 via digital format
Madonna – Rain – Erotica (1992, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.)

1006 via compact disc
This Mortal Coil – Blood (1991, 4AD)

1125 via digital format
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) (1978, Kling Klang)

0115 via digital format
Coheed and Cambria – Playlist: The Very Best of Coheed and Cambria (2011, Columbia/Legacy)
Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic – Playlist: The Very Best of Coheed and Cambria (2011, Columbia/Legacy)
M83 – Black Hole (2010, Mute)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell (2003, Interscope)

0309 on computer
Once Upon a Time in China and America – Sammo Hung (1997)

Notes

Love & Sleep by John Crowley

04 December 2019 Wednesday

0926 via compact disc
This Mortal Coil – Blood (1991, 4AD)

1128 via digital format
The Pebbles – First Album (1988, Sympathy for the Record Industry)

1210 via digital format
The Boxer Rebellion – Ocean by Ocean (2016, Amplify)
Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper (live, recorded at The Mill Edinburgh, 25th September 2008)
Moose – Cool Breeze (1991, Hut)
Kate Bush – Director's Cut (2011, Fish People/EMI)

0311 on computer
Natural Born Killers – Oliver Stone (1994)

1116 via YouTube on phone
Moby – New Dawn Fades (live) (07 August 2007, LLLEFTERIS)

Notes
On Tuesday, 03 December 2019, on which his actual birthday fell, the family did celebrate Z.’s day with a Goldilocks chocolate birthday cake. There were as well a three-cheese tuna pasta, Coke 1.5, plus Tesco honey nut corn flakes & Coffee Mame Koubou mocha blend for breakfast.

Tatak Amadeo 10 in 1 turmeric tea

03 December 2019 Tuesday

0944 via digital format
Gotan Project – Lunático (2006, ¡Ya Basta!/XL)

1130 via digital format
Kate Bush – Director's Cut (2011, Fish People/EMI)
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2005, Wichita)

0132 via digital format
Fiona Apple – The Whole of the Moon – The Affair (2019)
Iceage – Coalition – You're Nothing [preview] (2013, Matador)
Faith No More – Introduce Yourself (1987, Slash)

0226 on computer
Event Horizon – Paul W. S. Anderson (1997) [remastered]

0512 on computer
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson (2014)

Notes

Screenshot 205 is an Apple Macintosh desktop wallpaper.

01 December 2019 Sunday

My nephew is home for a three-week vacation from Hong Kong.

1011 via digital format
Kate Bush – Director's Cut (2011, Fish People/EMI)

1145 via digital format
Kraftwerk – K4 (Bremen Radio 1971) (2006, A+ Stereo Soundboard Recording)

0301 on computer
Sunshine – Danny Boyle (2007)

0439 via digital format
A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head (2009, Mute)

0557 via digital format
The Presets – Are You the One? (Van She Tech NYC Rush mix) – Are You the One? 12" (2006, Modular/Universal Island)
Mist Glider – Neon Sky (2012, Bad Panda)
Kicking Giant – Alien I.D. (1994, K)

Notes
Director's Cut is the ninth and 2011 studio album by Kate Bush, which she produced herself and released under the Fish People and EMI labels. Scoring 4/5 stars on The Guardian, the record has been certified silver in the UK.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie