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Lifehouse in Manila

Published in the wee hours of July 31, 2008

The first time we knew about Lifehouse’s concert here in Manila, Hana was instantly disappointed as it’s on the same date as my mother’s birthday. She wanted to watch it so badly that she even blogged about it. (It’s a rarity for both of us these days.)

When Aileen’s sweetie messaged me if we wanted to cover the band’s CD signing/presscon, we thought it was gonna be a good enough compromise if we were to miss the concert. I never thought Lifehouse had a huge fanbase locally but I was surprised to see the Mall of Asia main atrium filled with the young and the not–so–young crowd. With a turnout that big, we just felt we had to be in the concert the following day!

So we did go to the concert after all, sneaking out of the house in the middle of my mom’s party. We got the cheapest tickets (damn gas prices voids all leisure spendings) but still enjoyed the music of Lifehouse nonetheless, just as much as everyone else. Or I’d like to see it that way.

I managed to record some songs with my phone; I’m sharing it here just in case you’d want them. Don’t expect anything magical though, recording quality is passable at best. I didn’t get the chance to shoot the concert, only the CD signing.

11 Replies· 2008.07.31

Five on Friday: Sabi ng Eraserheads…

Published in the wee hours of July 19, 2008

Totoo na daw talaga yung balita, tara, game na!

Pero sandali eto muna, Five on Friday muna tayo, late nga lang, walang wifi kanina eh. (Okay lang, Friday pa naman sa ibang bansa ngayon.) Eto five song verses na feeling ko applicable sa e–heads reunion fever, uso daw ngayon eh.

1. Naalala kita ilang bukas pa ba
   Bago tayo ay magkita
   Ako’y naiinip na bawat oras binibilang
   Sabik na masilayan ka
2. Di mapakali
   Magdamag hinahanap
   Nababaliw tuwing naaalala ang init
   Di malimutan
   Kailangang muling makamit ang tamis
   Sa aking mga labi
3. Ito ay para sa mga masa
   Sa lahat ng nawalan ng pag-asa
   Sa lahat ng ng aming nakasama
   Sa lahat ng hirap at pagdurusa
4. I hope we could spend more time together
   A few hours is better than never
   If we could only make it longer
   A whole day would be fine
5. At ngayon
   Di pa rin alam
   Kung ba’t tayo nandito
   Puwede bang itigil muna
   Ang pag-ikot ng mundo

Wala lang, excited lang ako.

(By the way, I did not shoot the source for the photo above. I just found it through google and made my edits. Thanks schizo-archives.com! If you are this photo’s photographer, let me know so I can credit you.)

10 Replies· 2008.07.19

Eraserheads: 83008

Published terribly early in the morning of July 14, 2008

Other bloggers have already written about this though it seems all information are coming from a single source. The clues are giveaways though and the plot almost too good to be true, but everyone’s wishing for a miracle anyway: the Eraserheads are reuniting for a concert on August 30, 2008!

You can’t miss it. The teaser graphic posted on gorgoro’s entry has the conspicuous letter E drawn backward that only the Eraserheads has used (well, at least popularly) since the early nineties. The clincher is the source’s allusion to the band using the codename “David Lynch project,” referring to David Lynch’s movie “Eraserhead” from which our pop favorite Eraserheads got their name.

The concert is said to be a one–time event, which is just how it should be as each E–head now has his own gig going. And not all fans would want them to stick together for long anyway, they’ll end up fighting soon enough. Maybe once–in–a–while concerts or surprise gigs would do, and perhaps a few new songs here and there. Tickets are rumored to be free courtesy of a major sponsor with lots of money to burn, which makes me think it could only be San Miguel Beer. Just a hunch though, but knowing that this year’s Oktoberfest officially kicks off in the first week of September makes an E–heads reunion concert the perfect preview to the opener! And if SMB isn’t part of this yet, they have a million reasons to start flexing their marketing power.

But it doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s all about the Eraserheads and their music. Tickets could be priced by the thousands and it will be a sellout still. The people who have been listening to their music a dozen years ago now have the money to go to their concerts; we can now afford the price of nostalgia that we never thought we’d yearn for.

Was it destiny bound to happen?

I wanna go home now
Back to my old hometown
Where I can sing the blues
Let’s stop this running around

I miss the people dancing
I’m just saying this
But, baby you can bet your pwet
I’ll do it again some time for the money
Combo on the run

But I’m sure this one’s not for the money. Now dust off your Chucks and shiny Adidas sports tees, we’re goin’ to a real rock concert!

Update: Jaemark somehow thinks Rayms hinted on this just a few days ago, I think he got it dead on. Funny thing, we thought of the same E–heads song for this milestone.

15 Replies· 2008.07.14

Saan ka ba nanggaling?

Published terribly early in the morning of July 2, 2008

At saan ka pupunta?

9 Replies· 2008.07.02