Just last week, was the Bloggers Party at Casa Leticia and I volunteered to come up with the music for the night. Yes, I still have those pangs from good ol’ memories of disk jockeying days, so every opportunity to decide a playlist is such a BIG deal for me. Now, part of the BIG deal of it all is to make sure that the music fit the crowd but at the same time, you wouldn’t want something that distracted them from socializing with each other. Aside from the obvious factor of making sure that each song didn’t segue to each other awkwardly, I wanted to use a Music software that’d employ a really smooth crossfade between each song. Then Ria texted and told me to just burn a couple of CDs, heh, I ended up doing that, yes. But it doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about the more software-oriented approach of playing your party tunes.
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Yesterday, that is June 12th, was the commemoration of the very elusive Independence day of the Philippines (since some historians argue among themselves whether it took place during the late 1800s or Post-Commonwealth). In fact, I’ve heard smart alecky remarks from some that we’re not a free nation at all so the theory in practice is rather pointless. But never mind that, ABS-CBN enshrines freedom and have televised that “symbolic interaction” by simultaneously doing a 411 primary school flag ceremony in all ABS-CBN headquarters nationwide. Back at the mothership you realize that they come across as unpretentious, just as long as you think about Eugenio Lopez in all his dignified exuberance say the words, “Mabuhay ang Lahi ng Kayumanggi” without first expounding this profound idea. It’s interesting really, so many social issues to digest in such a short declaration. Are we really a nation who embraces Kayumanggi? What with all this hype of Glutathione and Eskinol sikerto ng mga gwapo? What is the social construct behind Kayumanggi? Was Lopez particularly lauding an idealistic view of our lahi? What does that mean also? Race? Culture? Essence?
You can only relate to this if you’re a Filipino and watched TV most of the day like I did.
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In the height of realising what a big role media has in influencing ideas and inevitably lifestyles, I couldn’t JUST talk about music. I’m part of a generation who hardly cared, the Gen Y, the 2k tykes who are at the prime of their existence today but have been sucked into the vortex of information, entertainment and hedonism. There’s nothing wrong with any of that but what I keep asking ‘em mindless lot: (rephrased) do they always go wherever the wave took them without looking up and noticing they were driving to a waterfall? Thoughtless conformity! Without the slightest offering of skepticism or discernment of its quality!
Enough of this Deep Talk, and hello world.
Welcome to the “NEW AND IMPROVED SOUTHISMS!” Don’t you just love Music? I love it so much. What about movies? TV? Radio? Photography? I love ‘em too. Can’t decide what to write with all those things in mind. So here it is. Like it? The whole point of this blog is to grab you by the nuts and show you the fascinating things happening around the Southern region. Wait, there’s more: you get to think twice about it. Show me some feisty opinion as expected from yours truly. I hear someone belt, “Secret, secret? I got a secret!”
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