Synched the Anthology album today to iTunes and iPhone
It’s musically jampacked in the Philippines this August. Doing concerts/shows are Rick Astley, Simple Plan, Spandau Ballet, Randy Santiago, Raymond Lauchengo, Gino Padilla and Louie Heredia in Greatest Hits of the 80s (catched them in PDA tonight), Earth, Wind and Fire (EWF, yay!), Panic at the Disco, Sonic Flood, Sharon’s Mega 30 concert (ho-hum) and other local artists. Oh well, would you believe even Gabby Concepcion is holding a show with Faith Cuneta in PAGCOR Tagaytay?
And of course, the reunion concert of Eraserheads on August 30.
I’m such a fan of Eraserheads. Though I’m not at par with the other fanatics. What I know is I like them since college even if my closest buds then were into Rivermaya, then after college my friend (you know who you are!) and I spent a day talking about them and their music, and that I prayed hard for Ely Buendia when he had a heart attack, etc.
If I happened to be there, I’d definitely be torn between Eheads and EWF. Which holds true, I even brought with me Eraserheads Anthology and EWF Ultimate Collection. Because I like them, ey. The others I was comfortable to have saved in my portable hard drive.
You probably know what’s in my playlist for this month. 
To listen to Anthology album, click here: CD1, 15 tracks and CD 2, 18 tracks.
Many of us are long been planning to read Jane Austen’s classic novels, but at some point we couldn’t sustain the kick of browsing through it. Or probably you’ve read and/or saw any of the books/films already, but would like to revive the Austen feel. With these, we’re starting our own version of The Jane Austen Book Club. But from what’s told in the film or in the book, we’ll have a few refinement and we’ll do the following:
- We’ll be reading the same title each month
- We’ll write about the novel of the month in our own sites and specifically mention about our favorite chapter, scene, quote or anything that struck us most
- Link back the first Jane Austen-related novel post to this announcement and submit the link to your entry through the comment section
- All the posts/links will be summarized monthly and we can have our sort of Q & A for that
- Anyone may participate in the monthly virtual meet up
- I’m dedicating a page for the book club to include the schedule of novels to be read + the screenshot of the primary website (header) of the members. It will be updated accordingly, i.e. when there’s a new joiner, etc. Click here to see the page.
- Contests will be held after we’re done with the 4th and 8th (final) novels.
Jane (yeah, that’s you!), are you ready? We’re reading Persuasion for the month of August. You may submit your entries until midnight of August 31, 2008 pacific time. The rounds up/ virtual meet will be the next day.
Jane Austen e-books can be downloaded here.
- I’ll be hosting the online version of The Jane Austen Book Club. Anyone, anywhere you are may join. I’ll be posting the mechanics soon.
- Once a week, I’ll be blogging in Filipino/Tagalog. This would be tagged as Kwentong Kayumangi. Publishing will be close to or during weekends. Comments need to be in Filipino/Tagalog also. The first of the series will be on August 1.
It took me some time to find a copy of this book. I checked the bookstores in the Philippines since last year and found none, and even from bookstores in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, no success. Until a staff from Magrudy’s offered to order it online for no extra charge, I exclaimed Eureka. For that one reason + other things, Magrudy’s is now my favorite bookstore in UAE.
Einstein’s Dreams is a novel by Alan Lightman. In this modern classic, a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein was narrated. He was working then in a patent office in Switzerland.
Between April 14, 1904 to June 28, 1905, while drafting his theory of relativity, Einstein dreamed of many possible worlds:
- Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
- Wherein time is like a flow of water, occasionally displaced by a bit of debris, a passing breeze.
- Time has three dimensions, like space. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
- A mechanical and body time.
Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time. but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
- Where future and past are entwined.
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
- A world where time passes, but little happens.
If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person hold no ambition in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambition, he suffers knowingly but very slowly.
- A time where no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy.
- A place where time stands still.
- A world without memory is the world of the present.
- A world in which people live only one day. In either case, a man or woman sees one sunrise, one sunset.
- A world where time is a sense.
- Suppose people live forever. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die.
- Suppose that time is not a quantity but quality.
- A world where time is a local phenomenon.
This book is brilliant. At first glance it may appear like a fast read. But you have to think that you are actually in ‘each world’ (each chapter) to be more captivated and delighted. It is supposedly about metaphysics. But it turned out to be a romantic and oh so-poetic novel. Weird, but I can see myself re-reading it soon. That’s how much I did like it.
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As the world is talking much about Batman lately, who thinks about James Batman? In this film, Rodolfo Vera Quizon popularly known as Dolphy played James Bond and Bruce Wayne/Batman. Criticisms from known reviewers were made against this Filipino spoof flick, as they review the films which are Batman related: La Verdadera Historia de Barman y Droguin, Superbatman vs Mazinga V, La Mujer Murcielago, Bat Bitch, Splatman (which features a villain called the Pornguin), Buttman and Throbbin, Rat Pfink and Boo-Boo, The Wild World of Batwoman (aka She Was a Hippie Vampire), Bathman dal Pianeta Eros, the short Robin’s Big Date (with Sam Rockwell as Batman) and Scooby-Doo Meets Batman (which is the only entry in this list authorised by DC Comics).
James Batman was shown when I wasn’t born yet. Among the cast of this 1966 flick, I only know Dolphy and Bella Flores. I was hoping that this would be shown in Cinema Global, but probaby they won’t as Kabayan Central is selling this as one of its vintage Tagalog movies.
Despite the criticisms told about this film, nothing beats the fact that Dolphy is an institution in Philippine cinema. On his 80th birthday, he has launched his tell-all book.
More photos here.
If you wish to read the synopsis or see James Batman through Kabayan Central, click here.
