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D a t u r a

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I am complicated.

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My Interests


contemporary philippine poetry and fiction, insomnia, urban transportation, philosophy, madness, getting lost in the city, intelligent conversations, good food, good music, genuine people, tragedy, rain.

Music:

thelonius monk, portishead, billie holiday, fugazi, interpol, the stone roses, the smiths, jaga jazzist, glassjaw, mars volta, the sundays, black sabbath, deep purple, thursday, at the drive in, pedicab, drip, the purplechickens, the slavedrum, muse, pinikpikan, cynthia alexander, mum, rilo kiley, radioactive sago, the dawn, eraserheads, teeth, domino, alice in chains, pearl jam, the cure, belle and sebastian, a perfect circle, marty mcfly, sheila and the insects, bloc party, tori amos, the Loboc children's choir

Movies:


pinoy henyos: magnifico, warat, deathrow, tatarin, radyo, ang pagdadalaga ni maximo oliveros, scorpion nights, insiang and other lino brocka films. foreign goodies: cinema paradiso (italian film), waking life, dark city, before sunrise, city of god, leaving las vegas, platoon, apocalypse now, a.i, red violin, clockwork orange, the method, slam.

Books:


Landscapes by Clinton Palanca, 15 Lamang, Kilometro Zero, Barriotic Punk, Twisted Series, The Sky over Dimas, Subterranean Thought Parade/25th Fly, Rio Alma's works, Manananggal Terrorizes Manila, The Alchemist, The catcher in the rye, Ghosts of Manila, Eating Fire and drinking water, Bob Ong's delightful works, Waking Ice, In Search of the Word, Women Enough and other essays, Jolography, Hope for the flowers, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, A Cirilo Bautista Reader, Sionil Jose's Rosales novels and other works, Allan Popa's poetry, Sleepless in Manila: Essays on Insomnia by insomniacs, Reconnaissance, Babel, The Most Careful of Stars.

Heroes:


shaider, sir alex tenorio, f. sionil jose, my muses and demons

My Blog

Hunger

I awoke at past four in the morning with a violent throbbing on my head, piercing my skull deep like an ancient nail. After I met him, I've began to sleep at the oddest hours and get awaken before any...
Posted by D a t u r a on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:09:00 PST

Crossroads

I know being young is not an excuse for getting involved. I know that now, but when I was a kid I swore never to vote, never to partake into anything that involves politics and the evils that seem to ...
Posted by D a t u r a on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:22:00 PST

She's not always right, you know.

Come to think about it, I really did plan on entering a school of Journalism in Manila two years ago, but my mom said she's not paying shitload of money for me to attend college, write about trivial n...
Posted by D a t u r a on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:36:00 PST

True.

I remember being hesitant upon reading The Little Prince a couple of months ago. My friend said t'was good. A lot of people said it was good. Actually, I think half of the world's population ( its bee...
Posted by D a t u r a on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:24:00 PST

Forgetting might be the best option.

I don't mean to be offensive in the traditional sense of the word, but the moral lesson here is, starting your day by browsing on online communities and journals with this ridiculous expectation that ...
Posted by D a t u r a on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:16:00 PST

Its not the Prozac

Just had one of the amazingly calm days in recent memory, and by calm I mean I didnt squirm, I didnt yell, I didnt throw violently the nearest physical object, I didnt kick someones teeth in afte...
Posted by D a t u r a on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:44:00 PST

The Mechanical Contrivium

I can believe this if I want to. Go find out.Top Ten Trivias About Me
Posted by D a t u r a on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:01:00 PST