29 February 2020 Saturday

1156 via digital format
Ladytron – Witching Hour (2005, Island)

0115 via YouTube
Bamboo – 214
The The – This Is the Day (official video)

0136 via digital format
Morrissey – My Early (1998, Reprise)
Placebo – Meds (2006, Virgin) (U.S. re-release)

0342 on computer
Gemini Man – Ang Lee (2019)

0823 via digital format
Van She – Changes (G.L.O.V.E.S. remix) (2008, Modular Recordings)
Fred McMullen (ft. Ruth Mary Willis) – I'm Still Sloppy Drunk – Georgia Blues 1928-33 (1994, Document)

0854 via compact disc
The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief (2006, Labrador)

Notes
While at Waltermart Carmona mall on 25 February 2020, Tuesday, mom, the three kids and I went grocery shopping for mom’s sari-sari store (neighborhood convenience store) for the first time ever since the store would have a soft opening the next day. Natch!

Ratner’s Star by Don DeLillo

28 February 2020 Friday

1013 via YouTube
Bamboo – 214
The The – This Is the Day (official video)

1022 via compact disc
The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief (2006, Labrador)

1128 via digital format
Siouxsie and the Banshees – A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982, Polydor) (2016 remaster)
Weezer – Weezer (The Green Album) (2001, Geffen)
The Beautiful South – Old Red Eyes Is Back – 0898 (0898 Beautiful South) (1992, Go!)
Bauer – Libitz in a Car – Baueresque (2004, Excelsior Recordings)
Joy Division – Radio Sessions (1979-1980) (1990, bootleg)

0308 via digital format
Future Islands – The Far Field (2017, 4AD)

Notes

Loacker Classic mini wafers

27 February 2020 Thursday

1005 via digital format
Shunsuke Kikuchi & Michiaki Watanabe – Akumaizer 3 & UFO Robo Grendizer (1976, Columbia)

1052 via digital format
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2009, Capitol) (first of two discs) (originally, 1992) (remastered)
Deerhunter – Microcastle (2008, Kranky/4AD)
The Hundred in the Hands – In to It – This Desert (2010, Warp)
Wolf Alice – Blush (2013, Chess Club)
KiD CuDi – Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' (2016, Wicked Awesome/Republic)

0222 via digital format
Pixies – Head Carrier (2016, Pixiesmusic/PIAS)

0315 on computer
The Sisters Brothers – Jacques Audiard (2018)

Notes
Mom, the three kids and I went to the Waltermart Carmona mall on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, for a ton of shopping and grocery shopping. Afterwards, we munched on regular and chili fries, tuna pies and peach-mango pies plus imbibed Coke floats and pineapple juice, all at Jollibee.

Top Valu milk cocoa

26 February 2020 Wednesday

To the Baguio City Good Shepherd Convent ube jam, this post goes out.

0954 via compact disc
The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief (2006, Labrador)

1126 via digital format
the Cure – Disintegration (1989, Fiction)
No Joy – More Faithful (2015, Mexican Summer)

0155 via digital format
Eddie Mapp, James Moore & Guy Lumpkin – Where You Been So Long? – Georgia Blues 1928-33 (1994, Document)
Lana del Rey – Summertime Sadness (marbert rocel rmx) (2012, soundcloud.com/marbertrocel/lana-del-rey-summertime#t=1:14)
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2009, Capitol) (first of two discs ) (originally, 1992) (remastered)

Notes

Mi Sueño by Ibrahim Ferrer

tomato trees

24 February 2020 Monday

1212 via digital format
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2009, Capitol) (first of two discs) (originally, 1992) (remastered)

0146 via digital format
Jesu – Conqueror (2007, Hydra Head)

0253 on computer
The 73rd British Academy Film Awards

0434 via digital format
VA – Pachuco Soul: East-L.A. Grooves (2004, Vampi Soul)
Dark Sky – Night Light – Frames (2010, Pictures Music)
8Bitch – Orpheus (Claude Speeed (American Men) remix) – Orpheus (2010, via XLR8R.com)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks (1986, Mute)

Notes
23 February 2020 Sunday 0303 p.m. on computer The Flood – Anthony Woodley 2019

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

22 February 2020 Saturday

0135 via digital format
Stereolab – Oscillions from the Anti-Sun (2005, Duophonic/Too Pure) (third of three discs)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks (1986, Mute)
VA – Trainspotting: Music from the Motion Picture (1996, Capitol)

0446 via digital format
Soft Cell – Kitchen Sink Drama (extended mix) (1983, Some Bizzare/Sire/Vertigo)
Baby Panda – Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together – Enforcer (2007, Absolutely Kosher)
Pixies – Definitive Pixies, Disc Two: Radio Sessions (bootleg)
Arcade Fire – Everything Now (2017, Sonovox/Columbia)

Notes

from “The Dead Don't Die” by Jim Jarmusch

Carmel Sun Parmesan cheese

21 February 2020 Friday

1042 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks (1986, Mute)
Soft Cell – Kitchen Sink Drama (extended mix) (1983, Some Bizzare/Sire/Vertigo)
Nina Simone – Anthology (2003, RCA) (first of two discs)
VA – 10 Deep House Tunes, Vol. 17 (2015, Play This!)
The Octopus Project – I Saw the Bright Shinies – Hello, Avalanche (2007, Peek-A-Boo)

0158 via compact disc
Rachel's – Selenography (1999, Quarterstick)

0332 via digital format
The Sea and Cake – One Bedroom (2003, Thrill Jockey)

Notes
16 February 2020, Sunday, 0602 p.m. on computer The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Gingo ginger tea

20 February 2020 Thursday

To this day being a 20th of the year 2020, the post goes out.

1140 via digital format
Soft Cell – Kitchen Sink Drama (extended mix) (1983, Some Bizzare/Sire/Vertigo)

1147 via compact disc
Rachel's – Selenography (1999, Quarterstick)

1258 via digital format
CAN – The Peel Sessions (1995, Strange Fruit)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Juju (1981, Polydor) (2016 remaster)
Eddie Mapp & Guy Lumpkin – Riding the Blinds – Georgia Blues 1928-33 (1994, Document)
Van She – Strangers (!!! remix) (2008, Modular Recordings)

0307 via digital format
Massive Attack – 100th Window (2003, Virgin)

Notes

Edo sesame seed ramen with nori

19 February 2020 Wednesday

0907 via compact disc
Rachel's – Selenography (1999, Quarterstick)

1011 via digital format
Orange & Lemons – Love in the Land of Rubber Shoes and Dirty Ice Cream (2003, Terno)
Lamb – The Secret of Letting Go (2019, Cooking Vinyl)
The Beautiful South – Here It Is Again – 0898 (0898 Beautiful South) (1992, Go!)
HASYMO/Yellow Magic Orchestra – Rescue/Rydeen 79/07 (2007, Commmons)
KiD CuDi – A Kid Named Cudi (2008, 10.Deep)

1253 via digital format
Color Cassette – Passing Time – Assemblage Sessions 2 (2006, Abandon Building)
Bauer – Thin White Line – Baueresque (2004, Excelsior Recordings)
N*E*R*D – In Search Of... (electronic version) (2001, Virgin)

Notes
On Valentine’s Day, mom made heart-shaped pancakes for the three kids.

Magnolia tablea yema ice cream, 10 February 2019

Royal spaghetti, cream dory, chicken breasts, Hacienda Macaluan kesong puti

18 February 2020 Tuesday

To K.’s birthday shindig on 13 February 2020, his actual birth date,
this post goes out.

1114 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technodelic (1981, Alfa) (remastered)
Lamb – The Secret of Letting Go (2019, Cooking Vinyl)
Lamb – Imperial Measures – The Secret of Letting Go (2019, Cooking Vinyl)
Lamb – Deep Delirium – The Secret of Letting Go (2019, Cooking Vinyl)

1252 via digital format
Tunng – Comments of the Inner Chorus (special edition) (2006, Full Time Hobby)
Van She – Strangers (!!! remix) (2008, Modular Recordings)
Rainbow Arabia – The Basta (2008, Tiny Man)
Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell (1981, Mute) (remastered)

0241 via digital format
Beth Orton – Trailer Park (1996, Heavenly/Dedicated)

Notes

Screenshot 208 is an Apple Macintosh desktop wallpaper.

17 February 2020 Monday

0911 via digital format
Lamb – The Secret of Letting Go (2019, Cooking Vinyl)

1015 via digital format
Up Dharma Down (now, UDD) – Bipolar (2008, Terno)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Love's a Prima Donna (1976, EMI)
Little Scream – The Heron and the Fox (Work Drugs Sex-Fi remix) (2011)
Thieves Like Us – Headlong into Night (Codebreaker remix) – deBonton Grab Bag (2009, via RCRD LBL.com)
Wu-Tang Clan – The W (2000, Loud/Columbia)

0257 via digital format
Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull (1968, Reprise)

Notes
The Secret of Letting Go is the seventh, 2019 and latest studio album by Lamb, produced by the duo’s own Andy Barlow and released under the Cooking Vinyl label.

K’s fish-chicken carbonara, 10 February 2019

DK ube macapuno ice cream, 10 February 2019

15 February 2020 Saturday

1105 via digital format
Björk – Biophilia (2011, One Little Indian/Nonesuch)

1259 via digital format
Wu-Tang Clan – The W (2000, Loud/Columbia)

0249 via digital format
Kind of Like Spitting – Hips – Mile: A Hush Compilation (2005, Hush)
Eddie Mapp, James Moore & Guy Lumpkin – Where You Been So Long? – Georgia Blues 1928-33 (1994, Document)

0305 on computer
Supernova – Thomas Lee (2000)

0452 via digital format
Stereolab – Oscillions from the Anti-Sun (2005, Duophonic/Too Pure) (first of three discs)

1004 on YouTube via phone
The Prince of Pennsylvania – Ron Nyswaner (1988)

Notes

from “It: Chapter Two” by Andy Muschietti

Mine hazelnut chocolate bar

14 February 2020 Friday

1024 via digital format
Wu-Tang Clan – The W (2000, Loud/Columbia)

1137 via YouTube
Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn (official video)
Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song (official video)

1157 via digital format
CAN – Rite Time (1989, Mute)
Sun Kil Moon – Benji (2014, Caldo Verde) (first of two discs)

0233 via compact disc
Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration (2005, V2)

0337 on computer
Shaft – Tim Story (2019)

1111 on YouTube via phone
H.E.R.: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (13 December 2018, NPR Music)

Notes
Yesterday, 13 February 2020, a Thursday and K.'s actual birthday, we held his birthday shindig. There was tuna béchamel pasta, a chocolate-filled cake, apples & oranges, and a 1.5 liter Coke. The pasta used Royal spaghetti, Clara Olé béchamel sauce, San Marino regular and chili tuna, Carmel Sun Parmesan cheese and Contadino extra-virgin olive oil, whereas the cake was a Fortune Bakeshop sponge cake topped with Magnolia all-purpose cream and filled with Nips nutty chocolate candies.

05 December 2018, Canton & Bihon noodles with chicken, tofu and pork

13 February 2020 Thursday

To my N95 face mask, this post goes out.

0951 via YouTube
Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn (official video)
Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song (official video)

1001 via compact disc
Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration (2005, V2)

1142 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Running Out of Love (2016, Labrador)
John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillun: Essential Collection (2011, Union Square Music [Soulfood]) (second of two discs)

0131 on computer
The Last Days on Mars – Ruairí Robinson (2013)

Notes

Taal ash fall sandstorm captured from Lantic, Carmona

our newly cleaned roof vs. the neighbor’s dusty roof

12 February 2020 Wednesday

0816 via compact disc
Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration (2005, V2)

0947 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (2016, Bad Seed Ltd.)
Morrissey – Maladjusted (1997, Island)
The Beautiful South – Something That You Said – 0898 (0898 Beautiful South) (1992, Go!)

1116 via Dropbox
Banyuhay ni Heber – Nena – Katotohanan Lamang (1986, Akasha)

1122 via digital format
Stereolab – Oscillions from the Anti-Sun (2005, Duophonic/Too Pure) (second of three discs)

1225 via digital format
the Cure – The Head on the Door (1985, Fiction/Elektra)

Notes
While at Marikina City on Sunday, 02 February 2020, with her ill younger sister, mom purchased 2 boxes of asado and bola-bola siopao straight from the manufacturing complex to bring home.

07 November 2018, tayuba (pig's feet) & saba bananas

11 February 2020 Tuesday

1016 via digital format
Cloud Nothings – Turning On (2009, Bridgetown)

1042 via Dropbox
Banyuhay ni Heber – Nena – Katotohanan Lamang (1986, Akasha)

1047 via digital format
Iceage – New Brigade (2011, What's Your Rupture?)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (2008, Constellation)

1216 via YouTube
Massive Attack – Bela Lugosi's Dead – live in New York City 2019 (27 September 2019, The Video Pup)

1223 via digital format
John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillun: Essential Collection (2011, Union Square Music [Soulfood]) (first of two discs)
Feist – Monarch (Lay Down Your Jeweled Head) (1999, self-released)

Notes

the ash-free, newly cleaned roof of our residence

10 February 2020 Monday

0949 via Dropbox

Banyuhay ni Heber – Nena – Katotohanan Lamang (1986, Akasha)

1002 via digital format
The Mountain – Heartless Bastards (2009, Fat Possum)
CAN – Unlimited Edition (1976, Harvest/Caroline)

1219 via digital format
VA – Mississippi Blues (2002, Putumayo World Music)
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream (Van She Tech remix) – Walking on a Dream (maxi-single) (2008, EMI Music)
Morphine – Yes (1995, Rykodisc)
Thievery Corporation – The Temple of I and I (2017, Eighteenth Street/ESL Music/Ye)

Notes
Katotohanan Lamang is a 1986 compilation album by Banyuhay ni Heber released under the Akasha label. Heber Gonzalez Bartolome, the band's main person, played guitar, kubing and mandolin on the record.

front of car after two hours of ash fall

the N95 face mask

08 February 2020 Saturday

0826 via YouTube
Massive Attack – Bela Lugosi's Dead – live in New York City 2019 (27 September 2019, The Video Pup)

0833 via digital format
Morphine – Yes (1995, Rykodisc)

0921 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – (L-R Trax Disc 04) Faker Holic (1979) (1991, recorded in 1979 New York City)

1039 via digital format
Lamb – 5 (2011, Strata Music) (first of two discs)
Annie Lenox – Love Song for a Vampire – Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993, BMG/Columbia/Arista)
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial (2016, Matador)

0209 via digital format
Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame (1982, Mute) (remastered)

Notes

Tiffany egg pie Supremo

07 February 2020 Friday

0916 via digital format
Morphine – Yes (1995, Rykodisc)
Annie Lenox – Love Song for a Vampire – Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993, BMG/Columbia/Arista)
Juan de la Cruz – Himig Natin (1973, Vicor/Sunshine Records Philippines) (CD, 2004)
Lamb – What Sound (2001, Mercury)

1152 via digital format
Lamb – Heaven – What Sound (2001, Mercury)
Lamb – Gabriel – What Sound (2001, Mercury)
The Beautiful South – Bell Bottomed Tear – 0898 (0898 Beautiful South) (1992, Go!)
Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry (2017, Sub Pop)

1258 via compact disc
Stereolab – The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (1993, Too Pure/American)

Notes
Mom (without me due to work) cooked spaghetti Bolognese yesterday, Thursday, 06 February 2020, for NX’s birthday. It featured the UFC guisado tomato sauce, Monteray ground pork, Purefoods fiesta ham, Marca Piña Dutch Edam queso de bola and Contadina extra-virgin olive oil. And also, we brought out the Manila Empanada beef and chicken empanadas along with Top Valu milk cocoa.

UFC spaghetti, Contadina basil pesto, chicken, Marca Piña queso de bola

family at Media Noche dinner table

06 February 2020 Thursday

To NX, whose birthday is today, this post goes out with all the love there is.

0900 via digital format
Annie Lenox – Love Song for a Vampire – Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993, BMG/Columbia/Arista)

0906 via compact disc
Stereolab – The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (1993, Too Pure/American)

0940 via digital format
Annie Lenox – Love Song for a Vampire – Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993, BMG/Columbia/Arista)
Minus the Bear – VOIDS (2017, Suicide Squeeze)
The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust (Australian edition) (2007, Fierce Panda/VICE)
The Go! Team – SEMICIRCLE (2018, Memphis Industries)

1251 via digital format
The Bird and the Bee – Don't Stop the Music (Rihanna cover) (2008)
Feist – Open Season (2006, Arts & Crafts/Polydor)

0218 via digital format
Radiohead – The Bends (special collectors edition) (2009, Capitol) (first of two discs) (originally, 1995, Parlophone/Capitol)

Notes

05 February 2020 Wednesday

0902 via compact disc
Stereolab – The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" (1993, Too Pure/American)

0934 via digital format
Placebo – A Place for Us to Dream (2016, Rise) (second of two discs)
The Church – Starfish (1988, Mushroom/Arista) (EMI Australia remaster, 2005) (second of two discs)

1132 via digital format
Slowdive – Catch the Breeze (2004, Sanctuary Midline) (second of two discs)
Sun Kil Moon – April (second of two discs) (2008, Caldo Verde)
Ride – Nowhere (1990, Creation)

Notes
On Monday, 03 February 2020, I went with J. and mom to the Waltermart mall to purchase our monthly groceries, obtain 12 empanadas for NX’s birthday on Thursday, and have an afternoon snack of club sandwich, chicken macaroni salad, fries, palabok, chicken, pineapple juice and Coke at Tropical Hut.

New Year’s Day 2020 creamy pork with potatoes & corn

Gongogong Revolt 1807 Basi, Saint Celine red wine,
San Miguel beer as Media Noche nightcap

04 February 2020 Tuesday

1119 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – (L-R Trax Disc 03) Faker Holic (1979) (1991, recorded in 1979 London/Paris)
Ride – Nowhere (1990, Creation)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kaleidoscope (1980, Polydor) (2016 remaster)
The Octopus Project – I Saw the Bright Shinies – Hello, Avalanche (2007, Peek-A-Boo)
ARMS – EP2 (2013, Paper Garden)
Depeche Mode – Spirit (2017, Columbia/Mute) (first of two discs)

0329 via digital format
Queens of the Stone Age – Villains (2017, Matador)

Notes

from “Hellraiser” by Clive Barker

potted plants

02 February 2020 Sunday

1153 via digital format
Ride – Nowhere (1990, Creation)
The Church – Starfish (1988, Mushroom/Arista) (EMI Australia remaster, 2005) (first of two discs)

0155 via digital format
Scratch Acid – The Greatest Gift (1991, Touch and Go)
Nirvana – Blew [U.K.] (1989, Tupelo)
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (deluxe edition) (2013, Columbia/The Null Corporation) (second of two discs)
Bernard Hermann – Twisted Nerve (1969, Polydor)
No Joy – More Faithful (2015, Mexican Summer)

0737 on computer
The Kitchen – Michael De Luca (2019)

Notes
Mom went today with my Tita L. and cousin C. to see my Tita O. who is in and out of the hospital in Marikina City due to a heart and kidney failure. Old age! Bonding with a load of my cousins; wish I was there!

Media Noche & New Year’s Day 2020

12 round fruits

01 February 2020 Saturday

0907 via digital format
the Cure – Three Imaginary Boys (1979, Fiction)
Nirvana – Blew [U.K.] (1989, Tupelo)
Franco – Soul Adventurer (2013, MCA Music)

1127 via digital format
Labradford – Fixed::Context (2001, Blast First/Kranky)
Fred McMullen – Wait and See – Georgia Blues 1928-33 (1994, Document)
British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy (2013, Rough Trade)
Slowdive – Catch the Breeze (2004, Sanctuary Midline) (first of two discs)

0208 on YouTube
Ladytron – Ghosts
Moby – New Dawn Fades (live)

Notes

Chinese New Year's Day tikoy lumpia