30 December 2020 Wednesday

0913 via compact disc
Bob Dylan – Modern Times (2006, Columbia)

1021 via YouTube
Arcadia – Goodbye Is Forever (official music video)
Jónsi with Elizabeth Fraser – Cannibal (official music video)

1045 via digital format
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009, Temporary Residence Limited)
Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (2013, Milk!/Marathon Artists/House Anxiety/Mom + Pop Music)

0251 on computer
Honest Thief – Mark Williams (2020)

0714 via digital format
The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs (1980, Columbia)

Notes
The family celebrated mom’s birthday (24 December), Xmas eve & Xmas day 2020 with arroz Valenciana, chicken pastel, barbecue pork ribs, tuna macaroni salad, Rodilla’s yema cake, Magnolia salted caramel ice cream, Spanish sangria with fruit cocktail, Portuguese Pergola red wine, Korean soju in green grape flavor, Christmas-designed cupcakes, pan de Rosa & a duo of Christmas hams.

Kuya J restaurant, Southwoods 2nd floor

Kuya J sinigang na bangus (sour-broth milkfish)

29 December 2020 Tuesday

To my family’s yearly home fête for mom’s birthday & Christmas Eve/Day,
this post goes out.

0834 via YouTube
Arcadia – Goodbye Is Forever (official music video)
Jónsi with Elizabeth Fraser – Cannibal (official music video)

0850 via digital format
The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs (1980, Columbia)
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti – Magico (1979, ECM)
Placebo – Live at La Cigale (2006, EMI/Virgin/Elevator Music) (2011 CD EP release)

0206 on computer
An American Pickle – Brandon Frost (2020)

0459 via digital format
Neon Indian – Era Extraña (2011, Static Tongues/Mom + Pop)

Notes

Released by Nina Simone

Screenshot 220 is an Apple Macintosh desktop wallpaper.

28 December 2020 Monday

0854 via digital format
The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs (1980, Columbia)
Jesu – Ascension (2011, Caldo Verde)
Sunn O))) – ØØ Void (2000, Rise Above/Hydra Head/Daymare/Southern Lord)
Wuds – Inosente Lang ang Nagtataka – Fatal Response: Rescue Ladders & Human Barricades (1986, Twisted Red Cross)
Ida Cox – How Long Daddy, How Long (w/ Papa Charlie Jackson) – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1925-1927) (1995, Document)

0322 on computer
Verónica – Sandra Escacena (2017)

0535 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Henry's Dream (1992, Mute)

Notes
12 December 2020 0714 a.m. on YouTube via phone Hayley Williams: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (09 December 2020, NPR Music)
12 December 2020 0804 a.m. on YouTube via phone HIGHWAYMAN feat. Ben Gibbard, Duff McKagan, Isaac Brock & Mark Lanegan for SMooCH For Kids 2020 (08 December 2020, COUCH RIFFS with Mike Squires)

02 December 2019, Southwoods Mall

Kuya J lumpia prito (fried lumpia)

27 December 2020 Sunday

0909 via digital format
Austra – Feel It Break (2011, Paper Bag)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Henry's Dream (1992, Mute)
Beach House – Bloom (2012, Sub Pop/Bella Union/Arts & Crafts/Mistletone)
M83 – Slowly/Sitting (2002, Gooom/Mute)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Ramblin' Man – Ballad of the Broken Seas (2006, V2)

0333 on computer
Lost at Christmas – Ryan Hendrick (2020)

0451 via digital format
Holy Fuck – LP (U.K. release) (2007, Dependent/Young Turks)

Notes

Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat by Charanjit Singh

banana cake

26 December 2020 Saturday

0842 via digital format
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Henry's Dream (1992, Mute)

0934 via Bandcamp
The Antlers – Wheels Roll Home (Edit) (2020, self-released)

0949 via digital format
Vienna Boys' Choir – The Christmas Album (2003, EMI Classics)
Faith No More – Sol Invictus (2015, Reclamation/Ipecac)
Ida Cox – How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim [take 2] – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1925-1927) (1995, Document)

0213 on computer
Godmothered – Sharon Maguire (2020)

0503 via digital format
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008, Type)

Notes
05 December 2020 0256 p.m. Tekken: Blood Vengeance – Youichi Mouri (2011)

creamy baby potato soup, 17 February 2019

23 December 2020 Wednesday

To the 2020 pandemic birthday bashes of all my close friends, this post
goes out.

0928 via Bandcamp
The Antlers – Wheels Roll Home (Edit) (2020, self-released)



0935 via compact disc
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008, Type)

1032 via digital format
Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (1991, Creation)
Sarah McLachlan – Wintersong (2006, Nettwerk/Arista)
Ida Cox – Coffin Blues (1925) – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1925-1927) (1995, Document)

0302 on computer
Wander – April Mullen (2020)

0501 via digital format
School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (2008, Vagrant/Ghostly International)

Notes

Loyd soothing throat herbal infusion

22 December 2020 Tuesday

0840 via compact disc
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008, Type)

0939 via digital format
Massive Attack – Special Cases (2003, Virgin)
CAN – Tago Mago (1971, United Artists)
Broadcast – Work and Non Work (1997, Warp)
Mist Glider – Neon Sky (2012, Bad Panda)

0313 on computer
Thunderball – Terence Young (1965)

0519 via digital format
Big Thief – Two Hands (2018, 4AD)

Notes
28 November 2020 0314 p.m. Sword Art Online: The Movie - Ordinal Scale – Tomohiko Itō (2017)

fried bulao (matangbaka), 12 February 2019

21 December 2020 Monday

0859 via digital format
Massive Attack – Special Cases (2003, Virgin)
Big Thief – Two Hands (2018, 4AD)

1033 via digital format
Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity (Radio-Aktivität) (1975, Kling Klang/EMI/Capitol)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (2015, Sub Pop/Bella Union/Mistletone)
Mogwai – Batcat (2008, Wall of Sound/Matador/Spunk)

0252 on computer
Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon – Greg Rankin & TJ Sullivan (2020)

0529 via digital format
Jesu – Ascencion (2011, Caldo Verde)

Notes

Super Typhoon Rolly (Goni) from our verandah

20 December 2020 Sunday

0912 via digital format
Big Thief – Two Hands (2018, 4AD)
Xmal Deutschland – Viva (1987, X-ile [Phonogram])
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998, Merge/Domino)

1255 via digital format
Wuds – Inosente Lang ang Nagtataka – Fatal Response: Rescue Ladders & Human Barricades (1986, Twisted Red Cross)
Madonna – Nothing Really Matters – Ray of Light (1998, Maverick/Warner Bros.)

0255 on computer
Zatoichi – Takeshi Kitano (2003)

0503 via digital format
Modest Mouse – This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996, Up) (Glacial Pace, 2014 reissue)

Notes
Two Hands is the fourth, 2019 and latest studio album by Big Thief. Produced by Andrew Sarlo, it was released under the 4AD label. In its annual critic's picks, Spin named the record as the best of the year.

Benguet Arabica coffee granules pack

18 December 2020 Friday

0855 via Dropbox
Patatag – Julian Makabayan – Nagbabagang Lupa (1986, Forum for Rural Concerns)

0859 via digital format
Madonna – Nothing Really Matters – Ray of Light (1998, Maverick/Warner Bros.)
Lansing-Dreiden – The Dividing Island (2006, Kemado)
Cruyff in the Bedroom – Saudargia (2008, Glides/Musicmine/Universal Music)
Great Northern – Remind Me Where the Light Is (2009, Eenie Meenie)

0259 on computer
Songbird – Adam Mason (2020)

0527 via digital format
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (1994, DGC) [recorded in November 18, 1993 at Sony Music, New York City]

Notes

from "Love and Monsters" by Michael Matthews

ube kutsinta with yema sauce

17 December 2020 Thursday

0853 via digital format
Madonna – Nothing Really Matters – Ray of Light (1998, Maverick/Warner Bros.)
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (1994, DGC) [recorded in November 18, 1993 at Sony Music, New York City]

1014 via digital format
Low – Long Division (1995, Vernon Yard Recordings)
Fol Chen – Part II: The New December (2010, Asthmatic Kitty)
Bright Eyes – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – A Christmas Album (2002, Saddle Creek)

0240 on computer
The Fountain – Darren Aronofsky (2006)

0523 via compact disc
Air – The Virgin Suicides (1999, Record Makers, Source, Virgin)

Notes
28 November 2020 0907 a.m. on YouTube via phone Childhood 2.0 – Jamin Winans, Robert Muratore, Kiowa K. Winans (2020)

Hundas 2019 lunch table

suman with Muscovado, peanuts, latik

16 December 2020 Wednesday

0839 via digital format
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (1994, DGC) [recorded in November 18, 1993 at Sony Music, New York City]

1004 via compact disc
Air – The Virgin Suicides (1999, Record Makers, Source, Virgin)

1133 via digital format
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds [stereo version] (1966, Capitol) (2000 Capitol Records reissue in stereo via iTunes)
Jesu – Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came (2013, Avalanche)
A Place to Bury Strangers – To Fix the Gash in Your Head/Ocean (2008, Killer Pimp/Rocket Girl)

0509 via digital format
Morrissey – World of Morrissey (1995, Parlophone)

Notes

second 2020 balcony dining

15 December 2020 Tuesday

0923 via compact disc
Air – The Virgin Suicides (1999, Record Makers, Source, Virgin)

1044 via digital format
A Place to Bury Strangers – To Fix the Gash in Your Head/Ocean (2008, Killer Pimp/Rocket Girl)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996, Lava)
Tindersticks – The Something Rain (2012, Lucky Dog Recordings/City Slang/Constellation)
Patatag – Julian Makabayan – Nagbabagang Lupa (1986, Forum for Rural Concerns)

0306 on computer
From Russia with Love – Terrence Young (1963)

0550 via digital format
Concrete Blonde – The Essential (2005, I.R.S.)

Notes
21 November 2020 0253 p.m. The Remaining – Casey La Scala (2014)

30 October to 02 November 2019

kakiage (mixed vegetable tempura)

14 December 2020 Monday

To the 06 December 2020 shindig for J., whose actual birthday is on
03 December, this post goes out.

0918 via digital format
A Place to Bury Strangers – To Fix the Gash in Your Head/Ocean (2008, Killer Pimp/Rocket Girl)
Patatag – Julian Makabayan – Nagbabagang Lupa (1986, Forum for Rural Concerns)
Kate Bush – Never for Ever (1980, EMI/EMI America/Harvest)

1122 via digital format
Placebo – Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996-2004 (limited edition) (2004, Astralwerks/Hut) (third of three discs)
Broken Bells – After the Disco (2014, Columbia)

0318 on computer
Mank – David Fincher (2020)

0519 via digital format
The Clash – Cut the Crap (1985, CBS) [2000 remaster]

Notes

Nagbabagang Lupa by Patatag

Screenshot 219 is from Coraline by Henry Selick

13 December 2020 Sunday

0914 via digital format
Patatag – Julian Makabayan – Nagbabagang Lupa (1986, Forum for Rural Concerns)
The Clash – Cut the Crap (1985, CBS) [2000 remaster]
M83 – Junk (2016, Naïve/Mute)
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998, Merge/Domino)

1225 via Dropbox
Patatag – Julian Makabayan – Nagbabagang Lupa (1986, Forum for Rural Concerns)

0312 on computer
The Book of Life – Jorge R. Guiterrez (2014)

0508 via digital format
Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (2014, Mercury Classics)

Notes
Nagbabagang Lupa is a 1986 studio album by Patatag, whose members I have known from the second floor of AS in U.P. Diliman (one is a friend and was my dorm roommate). This folk record was released under the Forum for Rural Concerns label.

our Hundas 2019 DIY art

tuna-salmon o-nigiri

11 December 2020 Friday

0849 via digital format
DJ Krush – Kakusei (1999, Sony Music Entertainment Japan/RED Ink)hiptripelecJap
The Clash – Cut the Crap (1985, CBS) [2000 remaster]
John Lee Hooker – The Healer (1989, Chameleon)
Austra – Habitat (2014, Domino)
Radwimps – Nandemonaiya (なんでもないや [movie ver.]) – Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) (2016, EMI/Universal Japan)

0335 on computer
Rosemary's Baby – Roman Polanski (1968)

0502 via digital format
Foals – Holy Fire (2013, Transgressive)

Notes

Murderer 10" by Low

puto bungbong, kutsinta, pichi-pichi on July 23 2020

10 December 2020 Thursday

0916 via digital format
The Clash – Cut the Crap (1985, CBS) [2000 remaster]
Radwimps – Nandemonaiya (なんでもないや [movie ver.]) – Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) (2016, EMI/Universal Japan)
Placebo – Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996-2004 (limited edition) (2004, Astralwerks/Hut) (second of three discs)

1119 via digital format
Pink Playground – Destination Ecstasy (2011, Mexican Summer)

1251 via Dropbox
Ride – Close My Eyes – Chelsea Girl EP (1989, Creation)

0313 on computer
I began watching the first season of Ratched.

0514 via compact disc
Goldfrapp – Supernature (2005, Mute)

1026 on YouTube via phone
Charade – Stanley Donen (1963)

Notes
21 November 2020 0722 a.m. on YouTube via phone BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (21 September 2020, NPR Music)

apple cake, 14 April 2020 afternoon snack

powdered milk & sugar cap

09 December 2020 Wednesday

To the ring finger knuckle swelling my left hand up to the shoulder for
13 days, this post goes out.

0909 via digital format
Radwimps – Nandemonaiya (なんでもないや [movie ver.]) – Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) (2016, EMI/Universal Japan)

0921 via compact disc
Goldfrapp – Supernature (2005, Mute)

1020 via digital format
Kraftwerk – K4 (Bremen Radio 1971) (2006, A+ Stereo Soundboard Recording)
Foals – What Went Down
Ride – Chelsea Girl EP (1989, Creation)

0246 on computer
Love and Monsters – Michael Matthews (2020)

0451 via digital format
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (2003, B.A.)

Notes

second 2020 balcony dining/td>

08 December 2020 Tuesday

0917 via compact disc
Goldfrapp – Supernature (2005, Mute)

1022 via digital format
Ride – Chelsea Girl EP (1989, Creation)
Placebo – Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996-2004 (limited edition) (2004, Astralwerks/Hut) (first of three discs)
Sonic Youth – EVOL (1986, SST)
Wolf Alice – Blush (2013, Chess Club)

0317 on computer
The Beach – Danny Boyle (2000)

0529 via digital format
Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (2019, Warner/Transgressive)

Notes
For J.’s 06 December 2020 birthday shindig, there were a duet of birthday cakes (sis' mocha & mom's chocolate), mom’s tuna béchamel spaghetti with Emmental & provolone, a mixed sushi platter, a puto kutsinta cassava de leche platter, beer, cola.

apples, cake flour, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, eggs, butter

Kyowa turbo broiler convection oven

07 December 2020 Monday

0924 via digital format
Ride – Chelsea Girl EP (1989, Creation)

0957 via Dropbox
Ride – Close My Eyes – Chelsea Girl EP (1989, Creation)

1004 via digital format
Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (2019, Warner/Transgressive)
Charlie Haden and Egberto Gismonti – In Montreal (2001, ECM) (recorded at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal on July 6, 1989)
Alice in Chains – Facelift (1990, Columbia)
ARMS – EP2 (2013, Paper Garden)

0322 on computer
Journey to China: The Mystery of Iron Mask – Oleg Stepchenko (2019)

0642 via digital format
Ian McCulloch – Candleland (1989, WEA/Sire)

Notes

BreadTalk at SM Sta. Rosa

06 December 2020 Sunday

0849 via digital format
Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (2019, Warner/Transgressive)
DJ Krush – Meiso (1995, Mo' Wax/FFRR)
Labradford – Labradford (1996, Kranky)

0208 via digital format
Best Pop – When I'm with You – When I'm with You 7" (2009, Black Iris Music [RCRD LBL.com])
Altered Images – Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (1981, Epic)

0257 on computer
Pandemic – John Suits (2016)

0450 via digital format
The Chemical Brothers – Come with Us (2002, Virgin/Freestyle Dust/Astralwerks/Ultra)

Notes
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 is the sixth, 2019 and latest studio album by Foals, which the band produced with Brett Shaw. Released under the Transgressive and Warner labels, it became the group's first to reach No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. National Geographic photographer Maggie Steber did the record’s cover.

my apple cake with a sugary milk top

loads of red & green apples

04 December 2020 Friday

0844 via digital format
Altered Images – Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (1981, Epic)
The Chemical Brothers – Come with Us (2002, Virgin/Freestyle Dust/Astralwerks/Ultra)
M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (two-disc North American release) (2013, Gooom) (second of two discs)
VA – NOW That's What I Call Christmas (2013, NOW) (second of three discs)

1051 on YouTube
Faith No More – The Real Thing (Festival de Viña del Mar, 1991)
Sinéad O'Connor – Mandinka (official music video)

0157 on computer
A Go Go Cory Carson Halloween – Stanley Moore & Alex Woo (2020)

0235 on computer
Jeruzalem – The Paz Brothers (2015)

0528 via digital format
The Smiths – The World Won't Listen (1987, Rough Trade/Sire) (2011 remaster, Rhino Entertainment)

Notes

Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters (1951-1960)
by Howlin' Wolf

banana cake

03 December 2020 Thursday

0922 via digital format
The Chemical Brothers – Come with Us (2002, Virgin/Freestyle Dust/Astralwerks/Ultra)

1013 via digital format
Modest Mouse – No One's First, and You're Next (2009, Epic)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult – Confessions of a Knife... (1990, Wax Trax!)
Altered Images – Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (1981, Epic)
Altered Images – Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (1981, Epic)
The Ting Tings – Happy Birthday
Ella Fitzgerald – We Three Kings – Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas/Brighten the Corner (1967, Capitol) (2006 remastered reissue)

0315 on computer
Se7en – David Fincher (1995) (remastered)

0552 via compact disc
Tahiti 80 – Wallpaper for the Soul (2002, Minty Fresh)

Notes
For his actual birthday, today, 03 December 2020, separate from his 06 December 2020 birthday shindig, J.’s desire was simply for some Mama E. fried chicken for lunch. We actually had it, fried chicken with fried tofu & saba, for lunch and then microwave mango pie & mixed berry tapuy for me as afternoon snacks.

second 2020 balcony dining

02 December 2020 Wednesday

0908 on YouTube
Faith No More – The Real Thing (Festival de Viña del Mar, 1991)
Sinéad O'Connor – Mandinka (official music video)

0923 via compact disc
Tahiti 80 – Wallpaper for the Soul (2002, Minty Fresh)

1020 via digital format
Lansing-Dreiden – The Dividing Island (2006, Kemado)
Stereolab – Peng! (1992, Too Pure/American)
Nirvana – Sappy (1990 studio demo) – Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005)
Altered Images – Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (1981, Epic)

0319 on computer
Die Another Day – Lee Tamahori (2002)

0515 via digital format
Gattaca – Michael Nyman (1997, Virgin America)

Notes

avocado shakes, raspberry-apple juices, Coffee Project

cheesecake, red velvet cake, chocolate cake of Coffee Project

01 December 2020 Tuesday

0918 via compact disc
Tahiti 80 – Wallpaper for the Soul (2002, Minty Fresh)

1006 via digital format
Nirvana – Sappy (1990 studio demo) – Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005)
His Name Is Alive – Livonia (1990, 4AD)
Minus the Bear – Menos el Oso (2005, Suicide Squeeze)
My Bloody Valentine – Tremolo (1991, Creation)

0424 on computer
I commenced watching the seventh season of Game of Thrones.

0546 via digital format
Beastie Boys – Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science (1999, Grand Royal) (second of two discs)

1013 on YouTube via phone
Neomanila – Mikhail Red (01 May 2020, TBA Studios)

Notes
18 November 2020 0331 p.m. on YouTube via phone Happily Ever After – Joan Carr-Wiggin (26 February 2016, Happily Ever After)

a birthday soak to wash the past year off

two wine glasses of berry tapuy