31 July 2020 Friday

0803 via digital format
Morphine – The Night (2000, DreamWorks)
Ride – Birdman (EP) (1994, Creation)

1032 via digital format
Lorde – Pure Heroine (2013, Lava/Republic)
Zola Jesus – Conatus (2011, Sacred Bones)
Tegan and Sara – I Won't Be Left (live) – Get Along (2012, soundcloud.com/teganandsara)

1257 via compact disc
Voxtrot – Voxtrot (2007, Playloudrecordings/The Beggars Group)

0328 on computer
Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Michael Dougherty (2019)

0711 on DVD
Dead Man – Jim Jarmusch (1995)

Notes
06 June 2020 0301 p.m. on computer The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Robert Schwentke (2016) 13 June 2020 1002 a.m. on YouTube John Malkovich on Being John Malkovich – A conversation with John Hodgman (09 May 2020, Josip Đolo)

McDonald's Carmona breakfast, 29 January 2019

29 July 2020 Wednesday

To the Iloilo City, Iloilo Province sinigang na baboy sa batuan (pork soup
soured with gamboge), this post goes out.

0818 via digital format
Ride – Birdman (EP) (1994, Creation)

0831 via compact disc
Voxtrot – Voxtrot (2007, Playloudrecordings/The Beggars Group)

0914 via digital format
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (2014, Jagjaguwar)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Unravelling (2014, Fat Cat)
El Perro del Mar – Walk on By (Saint Etienne remix) (2012, Control Group)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments to an Elegy (2014, Martha's Music/BMG)

0238 on computer
Abe – Fernando Grostein Andrade (2020)

0615 on computer
I began rewatching the final episode of the first season of Revolution.

Notes

ECQ stairs brisk-walking

28 July 2020 Tuesday

0828 via compact disc
Voxtrot – Voxtrot (2007, Playloudrecordings/The Beggars Group)

0917 via digital format
Cut/Copy – In Ghost Colours (2008, Modular Recordings)

1036 via digital format
Local Natives – Hummingbird (2013, Infectious/Frenchkiss)
Ra Ra Riot – Boy (2010)

1224 via Dropbox
Sampaguita – Laguna – Vol. 2 (1980, Polydor)

0301 on computer
21 Bridges – Brian Kirk (2019)

1034 via digital format
Negativland – Escape from Noise (1987, SST)

Notes
31 May 2020 0357 p.m. on computer The Cell – Tarsem Singh (2000)
21 June 2020 1021 a.m. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Push the Sky Away (live at Sydney Opera House) (03 June 2020, Sydney Opera House)

mom’s ground pork & tofu delight, 24 January 2019

27 July 2020 Monday

0918 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme (2010, Labrador)

0959 via Dropbox
Sampaguita – Laguna – Vol. 2 (1980, Polydor)

1059 via digital format
Wolf Parade – Expo 86 (2010, Sub Pop)
Working for a Nuclear Free City – Businessmen & Ghosts (2007, Deaf Dumb & Blind) (second of two discs)
ERAAS – Fang (Black Marble Lost Borough remix) (2012, felte)
Magic Sam – West Side Soul (1967, Delmark)

0312 on computer
Home Alone – Chris Columbus (1990)

Notes

second of a duo of toiletry baskets

26 July 2020 Sunday

0856 via Dropbox
Sampaguita – Laguna – Vol. 2 (1980, Polydor)


0911 via digital format
Warpaint – Warpaint (2014, Rough Trade)

1055 via digital format
Tahiti 80 – Wallpaper for the Soul (2002, Minty Fresh)
Gil Scott-Heron – I'm New Here (2010, XL Recordings)
My Bloody Valentine – Map Ref 41°N 93°W – Whore: Tribute to Wire (1996, WMO)
Rafael Anton Irisarri & Benoît Pioulard – Until Then (Broadcast cover) – Broadcast Tribute (2011)
Wu-Tang Clan – 8 Diagrams (2007, SRC/Universal Motown)

0309 on computer
The Bookshop – Isabel Coixet (2017)

Notes
Vol. 2 by Sampaguita (the stage name of Tessy Alfonso) was produced by Nilsan Productions and released in 1980 under the Polydor label. She is dubbed as the queen of Filipino rock music.

ECQ stairs brisk-walking

24 July 2020 Friday

0913 via Bandcamp
All India Radio + Josh Roydhouse – R E A L M (2020, self-released)

1016 via digital format
Wu-Tang Clan – 8 Diagrams (2007, SRC/Universal Motown)
Urlaub in Polen – Liquid (2009, RAKETEmusic)
Débruit – Get Blum [feat. Eriksolo] (2006, self-released)
Nirvana – Oh, the Guilt – Puss/Oh, the Guilt (1992, Touch and Go)
Working for a Nuclear Free City – Businessmen & Ghosts (2007, Deaf Dumb & Blind) (first of two discs)

0241 on computer
Deranged – Park Jung-woo (2012)

0700 on DVD
I started rewatching Revolution by Eric Kripke.

Notes

from "Okja" by Bong Joon Ho

chocolate doughnuts

23 July 2020 Thursday

0737 via digital format
Wu-Tang Clan – 8 Diagrams (2007, SRC/Universal Motown)
Nirvana – Oh, the Guilt – Puss/Oh, the Guilt (1992, Touch and Go)

1055 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call (1997, Mute/Reprise) (remastered 2011)
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994, Atlantic)
Michael Jackson – Dirty Diana – Bad (1987, Epic/CBS)
Viet Cong – Viet Cong (2015, Jagjaguwar/Flemish Eye)

0322 on computer
Adam – Michael Uppendahl (2013)

0537 via compact disc
VA – Techno Breakbeat: Fast Forward to the New Century (1998, Irma America) (compiled by Fabrizio Carrer and Umbi Damiani)

Notes
23 May 2020 0414 p.m. on computer Interstellar – Christopher Nolan (2014)
06 June 2020 1008 a.m. Walang Hanggang Paalam – Lea Salonga and Aiza “Ice” Seguerra – Bayanihan Musikahan, 29 May 2020 (30 May 2020, N UPDATES)

my new normal as a travel-hungry stroke patient

Merit heavy paper, chopping board easel

22 July 2020 Wednesday

1024 via digital format
Nirvana – Oh, the Guilt – Puss/Oh, the Guilt (1992, Touch and Go)

1101 via compact disc
VA – Techno Breakbeat: Fast Forward to the New Century (1998, Irma America) (compiled by Fabrizio Carrer and Umbi Damiani)

1216 via digital format
We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls (2009, Fat Cat)
Little Girls – Concepts (2009, Paper Bag)

0301 on computer
Gretel & Hansel – Oz Perkins (2020)

0503 via digital format
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991, Def Jam/Columbia)

1024 on YouTube via phone
PRADA presents "CASTELLO CAVALCANTI" by Wes Anderson (2013)

Notes

ECQ stairs brisk-walking

21 July 2020 Tuesday

1012 via compact disc
VA – Techno Breakbeat: Fast Forward to the New Century (1998, Irma America) (compiled by Fabrizio Carrer and Umbi Damiani)

1152 via digital format
Chimes & Bells – Chimes & Bells (2010, tigerspring)
Medicine – The Buried Life (1993, American Recordings)
London Grammar – Interlude – in advance of If You Wait (2013, soundcloud.com/londongrammar/london-grammar-interlude)
Ra Ra Riot – Boy (RAC mix) (2010, via RCRD LBL.com)

0328 on computer
Flu – Kim Sung-su (2013)

0629 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (second of two discs)

0739 on DVD
(500) Days of Summer – Marc Webb (2009)

Notes
The three kids made from 10:30 a.m. to 03:30 p.m. of 09 July 2020, Thursday, box sculptures of a human, an animal and a plant.

02-06 May 2020, Saturday to Wednesday

various brushes, palette, palette stick

20 July 2020 Monday

To me having stumbled and fallen hard in 14 July 2020, my second-worst fall
while with a stroke, this post goes out.

0834 via Bandcamp
All India Radio – The Shining Darkness EP (2020, self-released)

0928 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (second of two discs)

1042 via digital format
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – IX (2014, Superball Music)
Stars – In Our Bedroom After the War (2007, Arts & Crafts)
Neon Neon – I Told Her on Alderaan – Stainless Style (2008, Lex)

0155 via digital format
Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right (2014, Hardly Art)

0336 on YouTube
Short Term 12 – Destin Daniel Cretton (2013)

Notes

Screenshot 213 is an Apple Macintosh desktop wallpaper.

a gravestone, a street, the chapey

Jim Morrisson's gravestone at Pere Lachaise, Paris, 2000

So then, I was around 2 or 3 years of age when I went to a funeral procession, by foot, for the very first time in my life! Moving on now to the year 2000, in September or October, I found myself in Paris, France – and, in particular, in front of the grave of Jim Morrison at Pere Lachaise.

Even though his actual ashes or, in fact, his actual coffin might not be inside the gravestone at all, I was still blissed out to have been there at the time. It was one of the highlights of that specific Paris train trip... Nick Drake's gravestone at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene graveyard at Tanworth in Arden, England would have been next on my list?

Six years afterwards, in 2006, I had become a creative manager for an online advertising enterprise in Makati, Philippines – one that paid for my working vacation journey to Las Vegas, Nevada.

the Fremont Street Experience at Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006

There, as far as music goes, I saw “Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular” at The Venetian, and went to the House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay along with the Cirque du Soleil shop at the Bellagio. As well, I went down to the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Vegas for some five or six days straight.

In 2007, I was a creative director for an advertising agency in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and our team made the 'Say It Clear' ('Kgnom Niyeay Chbah') campaign for Cellcard. The campaign included a TVC in which we used Kong Nay and other Cambodian musicians.

Kong Nay, known as the "Ray Charles of Cambodia", is a master of the chapei dong veng, and our Cellcard campaign was how I got to know of him and then meet him. That was one of the highlights of my couple of years and few months in Cambodia. And I was going to watch Placebo at Siem Reap in 2008, but something came up on the day...

Well yeah, a few musical zeniths of a few voyages to other nations!

Kong Nay and his chapei dong veng at Phnom Penh
and Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2007

18 July 2020 Saturday

0835 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (second of two discs)

1013 via digital format
The Raveonettes – Pretty in Black (2005, Columbia)
Grouper – Ruins (2014, Kranky)
Neon Neon – Trick for Treat (feat. Spank Rock & Sean Tillmann) (2008, Lex)
Faith No More – Songs to Make Love to (1993, Slash)
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (1973, Atlantic)

0232 on computer
Lethal Weapon 4 – Richard Donner (1998)

0809 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Closing Scene – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (second of two discs)

Notes
Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 is a compilation album by The Radio Dept. that was released in double CD and vinyl formats in 2011 under the Labrador label. A second disc of B-sides and rarities is also included.

my second one-working-hand drawing/painting

Faber-Castell 0.5mm, Color & Co. acrylic paints

17 July 2020 Friday

0849 via digital format
A Place to Bury Strangers – Breathe EP (2006, self-released)
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (1973, Atlantic)

1104 on YouTube
Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Pixies – On Graveyard Hill (official music video)

1129 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks (1986, Mute)

1214 via digital format
Spoon – They Want My Soul (2014, Loma Vista)
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (2008, Lies/Last Gang)

0322 on computer
Piranha 3DD – John Gulager (2012)

0727 on DVD
My Life Without Me – Isabel Coixet (2003)

1012 on YouTube via phone
Matangtubig – Jet Leyco (2015)

Notes

from "Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no takkyūbin)" by Hayao Miyazaki

Goldilocks crema de fruta

16 July 2020 Thursday

0953 via digital format
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy (1973, Atlantic)

1049 on YouTube
Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Pixies – On Graveyard Hill (official music video)

1152 via digital formatt
El Perro del Mar – From the Valley to the Stars (2008, Licking Fingers/The Control Group/Memphis Industries)
2:54 – The Other One (2014, Bella Union)

0136 via digital formatt
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication [2009 remastered edition] (2009, Capitol/Grand Royal) (second of two discs)

0229 via compact disc
Nina Simone – Released (1997, RCA Victor Europe)

0330 on computer
Vox Lux – Brady Corbet (2018)

Notes
16 May 2020 1008 a.m. on YouTube Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford sing Sondheim (14 May 2020, NewYorkTheater)
16 May 2020, Saturday, 0242 p.m. on computer Speed – Jan de Bont (1994)

face & sitting exercises

15 July 2020 Wednesday

To the Cebu City, Cebu Island lechon de Cebu, this post goes out.

0921 on YouTube
Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Pixies – On Graveyard Hill (official music video)

0934 via compact disc
Nina Simone – Released (1997, RCA Victor Europe)

1038 via digital format
Destroyalldreamers – À coeur léger sommeil sanglant (2004, Where Are My Records)

1137 via digital format
Come – 11:11 (1992, Matador)
Massive Attack – Protection (1994, Circa/Virgin)

0313 on computer
Lethal Weapon 3 – Richard Donner (1992)

Notes

Korean Dalgona coffee, 10 April 2020

14 July 2020 Tuesday

0811 via compact disc
Nina Simone – Released (1997, RCA Victor Europe )

0920 on Bandcamp
The Antlers – Uprooted (2006, self-released)

1125 via digital format
Silversun Pickups – Swoon (2009, Dangerbird)
Pixies – Pixies EP (2002, spinART)
All India Radio – Don't Leave (2012, self-released, allindiaradio.bandcamp.com)
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (first of two discs)

0240 on computer
Awoken – Daniel J. Phillips (2019)

Notes
From 11 a.m. to 04 p.m. of Thursday, 25 June 2020, the three kids made Tagalog and English free-form poems plus 2-rhyming-line poems.

face & sitting exercises

13 July 2020 Monday

0702 on Bandcamp
The Antlers – Uprooted (2006, self-released)

0822 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (first of two discs)

0916 via digital format
Savages – Silence Yourself (2013, Matador/Pop Noire)

1055 via digital format
Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Aeroplane remix) (2009, via rcrdlbl.com)
Bowery Electric – Untitled (2x7") (1994, Hi-Fidelity Recordings)
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication [2009 remastered edition] (2009, Capitol/Grand Royal) [originally, 1994, remastered] (first of two discs)
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (2012, Modern Love)

0335 on computer
On the Road – Walter Salles (2012)

Notes

Ruines Humaines by Amesoeurs

the first of my duo of toiletry baskets

travel + music + airports

Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport, 2007

As a six year old, I missed the first month of the second grade of elementary school. I was in a ship going from Iloilo City, my home town, in the Iloilo Province of Panay, Visayas Region, to Quezon City in Metro Manila at the National Capital Region, Luzon Region. This was in 1978, and we were moving.

It would be my first taste of lengthy travel, after which I would go on to ride a whole load of ships in my life, including RoRos. I have likewise gone on a train from Brussels, Belgium to Paris, France and back.

As far as planes go, I have gone from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport of Metro Manila, Philippines, to the following airports, from earliest to latest: Narita International Airport, Narita, Chiba, Japan: Frankfurt am Main Airport, Frankfurt, Germany; Brussels Airport, Brussels, Belgium; Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong; Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon, USA; McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand; Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; Phnom Penh International Airport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; several times, and perhaps more.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2008

I have obtained compact discs, books (paperbacks, postcards, others), massages and stuff to become last-minute presents within airports and harbors all over the globe.

In point of fact, I have procured music and musical merchandise within all of the nations where I have gone – tons in Phnom Penh including 5 Cambodian Golden Age pop/rock music CDs such as by Sinn Sisamouth. Ros Sereysothea. Pan Ron; Seam Reap; Bangkok; a few in Ho Chi Minh including a couple of Vietnamese folk music CDs; Bruges; Ghent; Leffinge; Ostende; Werchter; including cassette tapes of dEUS, Zita Swoon, Moondog Jr., Novastar; Portland; and Vegas.

Of course, all the travels came to a halt once I had a stroke, which began to impede my life in 31 December 2015. Since then, I had started short travels again commencing in 2017, even with the stroke, going as far as Tagaytay City and Nuvali, Sta. Rosa City in the South; Manila Bay in the West; and Cubao in the North, but the Covid-19 virus next reared its ugly head and I am back being home all day, every day. Let us see about the next year, 2021.

Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, 2007

12 July 2020 Sunday

0732 via digital format
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 (2011, Labrador) (first of two discs)

0956 via digital format
Ride – Tarantula (1996, Creation)

1049 via digital format
Zola Jesus – Taiga (2014, Mute)
Beaches – In a While b/w Halve (tour 7″) (2010, self-released)
Beirut – Elephant Gun (2007, 4AD)
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991, Def Jam/Columbia)

0319 on computer
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge – Ethan Spaulding (2020)

0711 on DVD
Sunshine Cleaning – Christine Jeffs (2008)

Notes
Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002–2010 is a compilation album by The Radio Dept. that was released in double CD and vinyl formats in 2011 under the Labrador label. It features a disc of all the band's singles released to date, from all of their three previous LPs, and stand-alone and online-only singles.

French onion cheese sandwiches, 03 April 2020

10 July 2020 Friday

1129 via digital format
Thieves Like Us – Berlin, Alex (2007, Fantasy Memory) (free download from last.fm/music/Thieves+Like+Us)
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991, Def Jam/Columbia)

0232 on computer
I started watching the sixth season of Game of Thrones.

0804 via digital format
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971, Atlantic)
Au Revoir Simone – Shadows (It's a Fine Line remix) (2009, via rcrdlbl.com)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – The Last Place You'll Look (EP) (2010, Fat Cat)

1017 via digital format
Thievery Corporation – Saudade (2014, ESL Music)

Notes

from "Ang Huling El Bimbo: The Musical" by Dingdong Novenario

avocado shake

09 July 2020 Thursday

0645 via digital format
Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991, Def Jam/Columbia)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – The Last Place You'll Look (EP) (2010, Fat Cat)
Blackstrap – Steal My Horses and Run (2008, Tee Pee)

0914 via digital format
The Clash – Sandinista! (1980, CBS/Epic) [1991 remaster] (second of two discs)

1047 via digital format
Radiohead – Ceremony (Joy Division cover) (2007, in-studio webcast)

1053 via compact disc
Everything But the Girl – Eden (1984, Blanco y Negro)

1129 via digital format
Minus the Bear – Omni (2010, Dangerbird)

0328 on computer
Lethal Weapon – Richard Donner (1987)

Notes
10 May 2020 1210 a.m. Ang Huling El Bimbo (The Musical) (10 May 2020, ETC Vlogs)

Chowking, Pavilion bola bola, choco, asado pao

15 June 2019, Pavilion Mall

08 July 2020 Wednesday

0929 via digital format
We Were Promised Jetpacks – The Last Place You'll Look (EP) (2010, Fat Cat)

0943 via compact disc
Everything But the Girl – Eden (1984, Blanco y Negro)

1059 via digital format
Urbandub – Influence (2003, Lighter)
Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear (2011, ESL)

1233 via Dropbox
Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad – Buwan, Buwan – Magkabilaan (1991, Universal)

1238 via digital format
Wu-Tang Clan – The W (2000, Loud/Columbia)

0304 on computer
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-Ween – Mark Banker (head writer) (2019)

Notes

face & sitting exercises

07 July 2020 Tuesday

0908 via compact disc
Everything But the Girl – Eden (1984, Blanco y Negro)

0944 via Dropbox
Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad – Buwan, Buwan – Magkabilaan (1991, Universal)

0949 via digital format
Phoenix – It's Never Been Like That (2006, EMI/Source/Astralwerks/Arts & Crafts)
Ladytron – Witching Hour (2005, Island)
2:54 – Now (Paramore cover) (2015, soundcloud.com/twofiftyfour)
The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (1995, Junior Boy's Own/Freestyle Dust/Virgin/Astralwerks)
The Clash – Sandinista! (1980, CBS/Epic) [1991 remaster] (first of two discs)

0302 on computer
Joker – Todd Phillips (2019)

Notes
09 May 2020 0702 p.m. on DVD The Impaler (or Dracula: The Impaler) – Derek Hockenbrough (2013)

Chowking, Pavilion fried pork dumplings, tofu, siomai

Condura 8 cubic feet upright freezer

06 July 2020 Monday

To my second Zoom meet with A + N - U on Saturday, 04 July 2020 in the afternoon, this post goes out..

1024 via Dropbox
Joey Ayala at ang Bagong Lumad – Buwan, Buwan – Magkabilaan (1991, Universal)


1031 via digital format
The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (1995, Junior Boy's Own/Freestyle Dust/Virgin/Astralwerks)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Firstborn Is Dead (1985, Mute)
A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship (2012, Dead Oceans)
Ride – Twisterella (1992, Creation)

0329 on computer
Blumhouse's Fantasy Island – Jeff Wadlow (2020)

0516 via digital format
Pixies – Beneath the Eyrie (2019, BMG/Infectious)

Notes

from "Parasite" by Bong Joon-Ho

Easter Sunday 2020 reverse Visita Iglesia