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Just Caffeine pt. 12
In the 1990s, Manila was gripped by news of an aswang invasion, an umbrella term for monsters that prey on humans. The attacks seemed to peak in 1997, during the Asian Financial Crisis, and many took it as a grim recession indicator. Most reports of attacks came from the slums. Two of the biggest stories β read more
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Listening Party: Batuco, Son Rompe Pera
I was sitting on my bed with the window cracked open, letting in the sound of late-night cars humming down my street like spaceships. Too lazy to get up and flip the vinyl, I streamed Batuco on Spotify instead, my body still and humming faintly. Sometimes you just need percussion that wakes your bones up β read more
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Listening Party: In/Casino/Out, At the Drive-In
I found In/Casino/Out in a piano room at St. Ceciliaβs Hall. No one had came back for their things. It was just a pile of CDs, abandoned, along with a copy of Deftonesβ Around the Fur and a burned mix CD that opened with βWhen I Come Around,β by Green Day. Someone once listened to β read more
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Movie Night: Talladega Nights – The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
There arenβt many fun movies anymore. Most new comedies feel like theyβre trying to prove something. They come with a built-in thesis about inequality, politics, or identity, and the jokes are often secondary to the message. The humor is dry. The scripts are self-aware. Everything is a reference to something else. So lately, Iβve been β read more
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Movie Night: Mountainhead
Mountainhead is frustrating. Not because itβs incomprehensible, but because it thinks itβs saying something important when itβs really just four rich guys name-dropping dead philosophers to one-up each other. This is what happens when a movie wants to be My Dinner with Andre but ends up being Entourage for men who took one undergrad course β read more
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