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RUBBERDUCKIES - The Third Prong (DOWNLOAD FOR FREE!)

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:43:51 PDT

The Third Prong now available for download here in Multiply! Those in Manila can still probably score original the EP at MiniStop, Munsterrific (Bacolod), or Music Zone (Davao). It's a "mixed mode" CD with the video of "Anti-Climax Villain" featuring old friends and talents from eTelecare and the Klub Gabaldon (aka the bad boys of Ateneo Law).

Track Listing:
- Humdrum
- Aftermath of a Heart Attack
- Lazarus Rising

Happy Independence Day!

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:24:56 PDT

Musikang angkop sa nagmumuni-muni ukol sa kalayaan, pambansa man o trip lang:

Einstein Chakras - the most relevant leftist punk band
http://music.download.com/einsteinleftpunk/3600-8705-100714168.html?tag=quickurl

Triad Records mySpace - featuring foodshelterandclothing, ioHann, El Kiko's Way
http://www.myspace.com/triadrecords

kordero - dayuhan!!!
http://music.download.com/kordero/3600-8622-101032555.html?tag=MDL_quickurl

Enjoy!

Is the World running out of fresh ideas?

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:22:33 PDT

I think that to be true.

We will be living thru the remainder of our lives with remakes, adaptations, and hopefully more fusionists. The current trend in movies and music has seen no "Next Big Thing" anytime soon since The Matrix and The White Stripes (which is also an echo in itself) respectively. If we delve closer, music hasn't heard a fresh sound that had created the same buzz as Nirvana did in '91. The ensuing era had been one of fusions (or what fsc would fondly say "genre-benders"), knock-offs, and the ever pervasive local "revivals".

Let's make up that list (in no chronological order):
nu-metal - deftones, linkin park, incubus, korn
rap-rock - quarashi, limp bizkit
electronica - Prodigy, chemical brothers, moby
"the" bands - the vines, the hives, the music
glam - the Darkness, velvet revolver
disco - maroon5, kala, daft punk
emo/screamo - thursday, glass jaw, chicosci
hiphop (rebirth) - black eyed peas, kanye west, eminem

acousticaaaaarrrgghhh - paulo santos, nyoy volante, jimmy bondoc
asap modern sing-and-dance interpretations (every Sunday)- all your favorite hits from the 70s to present performed by your favorite local stars, starlets, wannabes, and manufactured outfits.

In movies, if Paolo Dy's most recent blog is any indication, sequels and adaptations will be mainstream Hollywood's main dish for the next hundred or so years (doh!).

The list continues:

Comicbook, cartoon, action figure, novel franchises - Spider-man, X-Men, Transformers, Harry Potters
Sequels - Pirates, Friday, Star Wars
Remakes - Ocean's 11, King Kong,
Remakes with sequels - Ocean's 11
Spoofs - Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Epic Movie

My question: Are we perhaps entering a new cycle of consciousness where creative frontiers are exhausted and merely regressing, but forward, to our roots?

UFO Sighting in Bacolod - approx. 10pm, May 29th '08

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:23:54 PDT

At approximately 10:00 pm, I spotted a UFO in the Eastern sky of Bacolod City. I was driving on my way home along Burgos Road (eastward going to Lopue's) when I noticed an unusual glow in the night sky. It was too bright and its position was too low to be any kind of celestial body. It wasn't an aircraft because it remained stationary.

A Message To All Pirates of "18-in-1 DVD-Movies"

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:06 PST

First of all, thank you!

I am a big patron of piracy in all forms: music, movies, software, games. BRING IT ON!!!

I have just recently been an avid buyer of 18-in-1 collections. So long as the movies are at least 2 months old, I am assured of good quality video and subtitles.

Now, here's a tip from a collector: PLEASE start featuring collections by director. You know, Spielberg vs. Lucas, Kevin Smith vs. Richard Linklater, Kubrick vs. Scorsese. Us, serious movie buffs would be most pleased.

And we guarantee only increased business thru your underground distribution channels...

Godspeed, ye pirates!

myPodcast (Greatest Hits)

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:47:06 PDT

Worthwhile Promises

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:09:46 PDT

Now that election time is over, it's about time we listen to new promises.

Promised Land, the new EP from electro-punk artist Kordero, is a revelation that echoes the prophecy of Cindy Jacobs. With the Philippines gaining international acclaim these recent years, the ex-Rubberduckies frontman believes his motherland has a major role to play in the destiny of humanity. "There's lots of prophecies: the Mayan prophecy of 2012, the prophecy of St. Malachi, the Third Secret of Fatima. Everything seems to be in convergence towards an Age of Awakening. Even the new Pope has been including [the Philippines] in his papal addresses," explains Kordero.

Hear a glimpse of the Good News!! 3 songs are available for free download. Just click here.

The Phenomenology of Sell-Out

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:44:17 PDT

When do we spot the peak and pinpoint the start of the decline in the career of any respected band or artist? Foreign or local.

The waning intensity. Some attribute it to ego clashes. Or sometimes the lyrics got lousy and too concerned of the "lifestyle". Yet even some blame it on such puny issues like fashion, looks, and the puniest of them all: RECORD SALES.

Which brings us to another question at the opposite end of the spectrum: SO WHAT IF A RECORD SELLS BIG TIME? Does it remove all musical merit, then? To be honest, I did truly enjoy What's the Story (Morning Glory) and Nevermind. Circus, the Black album, hell even Jacko's Dangerous!

And yet, I listen to bands like foodshelter&clothing, mindrape, or even Jai B (himself climbing fast in the Download.com charts) who've all been making music for at least a decade with none of the above symptoms, lest of all any sort of monetary expectation arising from the creation of such music. The music is steady, in the truest sense of the word .

And that the phenomenology of sell-out can, in reality, be construed as nothing but the by-product of a system that, in the first place, rewarded rich monetary gains to hitmakers (who may otherwise be respectable artists) thereby altering their lifestyles, their perceptions of the world, and ultimately the music that they will be making. So you dig why P. Diddy would be totally fake if he started rapping about foodstamps.

Now suddenly we realize: IN ORDER TO PREVENT A SELL-OUT, DON'T SELL. AT ALL.

Bastardizing Filipino Talent

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:07:50 PDT

This month's issue of Reader's Digest (Asian Edition) features an article on First Class Professionals, a hiring agency for Filipino musicians who are "exported" to other countries. In the words of its owner, Jackson Gan: "It's more like in the manufacturing. We groom the talent. We polish it. We package it. We are responsible from raw material to finished product."

Condescendingly titled Filipino Fame, the article patronizes showbandship indicating that the Filipino's musical forte is in copycat as opposed to creativity. To add insult to battery (allow me to use a hyperbole), bands recruited by the agency all have names that start with the word "perfect": Perfect Jam, Perfect Blend, Perfect Fire, Perfect Storm. "I invent the image that any band that is perfect has to belong to me," says Jackson. Perfect Asshole.

It is this writer's contention that everything divine springs from the creative energies of the human person thereby encompassing all creative output from poetry, prose, painting, sculpture, and ultimately, music. Thus did Jesus say that you are the Temple of the Holy Spirit (Corinthians 3:19). For wasn't it in the temple that Jesus' Biblical account of rage only did manifest when the traders and moneychangers desecrated it to make a profit?

And perhaps it's his first name that makes it easier for me to say this but: PUTANG INA MO, JACKSON!

See other related articles: The Phenomenology of Sell-out, Gry and the State of Philippine Music (Part 3), Truth is in You

Pimple Years & the Ghost not Gained

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:32:30 PDT

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>>>THIRST<<<
Suffice it to say that Rubberduckies is a 90's rock influenced band. Everything from Blind Melon to the Wishkah (Seattle) scene, 311 to Beck, Prodigy to Marilyn Manson. Being resident students of Cervini in the prestigious Ateneo de Manila University, these "promdi punks" had a lot to say about defeatist feelings, ungodly alcohol consumption, and places where they like to bang.

Pimple Years and the Ghost not Gained is a memoir of Rubberduckies' "garage days" in the relatively futile attempts of the band to conquer the tiny cosmopolis of Katipunan (circa 1995). With artwork from Ceasar Buenviaje.

Listen to Pimple Years @ Philcast!

Join the Club!

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:54:03 PDT

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The Bad Boys are Back!

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:06:48 PDT

How are you feeling today?

OKAY?

As we suspected. Just when you thought everything was alright, you wake up to a world where everything is suddenly futile. There is no point to anything, that's the whole point. Now, you can sleep tight 'coz all you need is love... plus! FOODSHELTER&CLOTHING.

We proudly serve you two lines of FSC's favorite recipe for your mind-bending pleasure. One from the future (Almighy Dub Remix), the other from the past (Rx Mix). And for the totally most satisfying Now, click here.

If you hadn't clicked OKAY? yet, click here.

Elkiko's Way release Deus ex Machina

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:56:26 PDT

From 7 tracks to 11, Elkiko's Way proves he's got more tricks up his sleeve with Deus ex Machina, a most refreshing electronic novela. It's hard to pinpoint the various musical points of reference, evident in most post-modern artists with wide auditory spectrums. Prog, metal, dance, rock, and even hiphop leanings in the first track hint some collaborations forming in distant nebulaic planes as we speak .

TRACK LISTING
Disorientation
NIN vs Alban (sonicboom mix)
Los Hunyangos
Sarsuela de Kamao
Tony Falcon 2005
Des Kartes
Should we always have to?
Chilled Negra
Downtime
Day Job
The Yearning & the Toil

LISTEN TO THE EXCLUSIVE PODCAST @ PHILCAST REVOLUTION RADIO

Lizard Chips of Davao release Chip Tricks

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:41:18 PDT

The Lizard Chips are back with a new limited edition soft release album entitled Chip Tricks, a compilation of 8 original Davaoeno alternative rock songs, 7 music videos, mp3 files, photos, and tons of other freebies and info all in one CD. Chip Tricks features songs composed by the band throughout their 14 year history. These songs reflect the diverse influences, musical versatility, and poetic creativity of the individual band members.

Read more...
Listen to the Lizard Chips Jam session (with special guests The Black Crowes, Green Day, and U2) for that nice, laid back Davao vibe.

What is the Annunaki?

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:30:07 PDT

Annunaki is rock n roll with clarity. Catchy and arcane, yet off-key and heavy: like Bob Dylan on a post-Seattle binge. Embrace the oscillating universe and the decelerating vibrations. Fasten your seatbelts. Prepare for 2012.

The Annunaki is here (with Ramones, Pixies, and Superchunk comparisons, our Download.com editors never cease to amaze them).

Download now! or Stream this shit
Listen to Annunaki @ philcast

Paano Nagiging Alipin ang Pilipinas?

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:27:57 PDT

Simple lang.

PILIPINAS

PI LIPINA S

PIS LIPIN A

PIS ALIPIN

Pag walang 'pis', alipin ang Pilipinas.

Hanapin mo ang iyong kapayapaan.

Quick Fix

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:07:22 PDT

The LoudMeter Channels explained

Tired of emo? Bling-bling hiphop? or sober pretty-boy rockstars?

Look no further than Philcast Revolution Radio for the latest noise in the music underground. A podcast updated bi-weekly with half-hour "theme programming segments", Philcast is more mood-oriented and blends genres in fitting LoudMeter channels.

Recent series include:

+++ BURN - heavy metal, hard rock, industrial, hardcore.
"Electro-Clash of the Titans (NEW!)"
"Raw Shite"
"Metalhead"
"Welcome to the pit!"

>>> THIRST - punk, grunge, alternative, modern rock.
"Glorius G (NEW!)"
"Hot, Phat and... Latin!?"
"Black Cloud Smoke"
"Strobe Lights"
"Bitter Pills 2"
"Hot, Phat and Angry"
"Bitter Pills"

x+x PACE - pop stylings, r&b, hiphop, funk.
"Philcast Battles (NEW!)"
"The Left Stage"
"Pop Rock Series 2"
"Funk Jazzy Bounce"
"Pop Rock Series"
"Back to the Streets"

{{{ CHILL - mellow, ambient, chillout, gospel.
"Lovers' Paradise (NEW!)"
"Easy Pop Series"
"Slowly and Surely"

PHILCAST EXCLUSIVEs - Special podcasts of the latest releases from the Philippines.

"Rubberduckies: Pimple Years and the Ghost not Gained (NEW!)"
"Deus ex Machina"
"Lizard Chips Jam Session"
"Baylans OST (Parts I and II) - Philcast Exclusive"
"Elkiko's Way: Retro-Techno with a twist of Pinoy Action"

Tune in now!

possibilities.

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:20:28 PDT

at night i lie, utter and deep confusion.
whirling, swirling, ideas and notions.
i know not the end of this,
as i catch my self speeding to the abyss.

hounded still in sleep,
in wakefulness, floating yet berthed,
bounded by a child's ambition,
battered by my own dereliction.

READ ORIGINAL POST @ 'IN DARKNESS I BECOME...'

Watch Rubberduckies video

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:03:57 PDT

Watch "Anti-climax Villain" by Rubberduckies, my ba(n)d of 10 years now. This video was produced and directed by Rubberduckies and Paolo "The Oracle" Dy. We were playin around with the idea of a rage-manifest situationer where choices caused alternate outcomes with the speed of thought. The result was this video, shot on location at Cervini Residence Halls, QC for two straight days. Post-production took 10 months. This video has never been aired in both local and cable music video channels, i.e. MTV, Myx, GMA, ABS-CBN.

Click here to watch.

Elkiko's Way goes LIVE at Download.com

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:18:03 PDT

Download.com, the best source for music, software, and other things downloadable is now serving Elkiko's Way (aka Francis Castillo).

With a 7-track EP due next month, take a sample of Elkiko's Way's brand of retro-tech, space age pop, and ambient overtures.

Also streaming at Philcast RevRadio.

ioHann FREE Downloads

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:17:22 PDT

"War Cry" has been added to ioHann's artist page in Download.com! This song is further proof of the South-based MC's extensive armada of tricks that includes slick guitar solo's and shaman ramblings.

True to post-modernist form, ioHann likewise dabbles into non-musical territories like play scripts, stage production, and graphic design. "It's all in a day's work," he'd say.

Listen to ioHann and more of that phat smokin hiphop. Tune in to Channel PACE @ Philcast Revolution Radio.

Watch out for the full-length release of this rap prodigy soon...

Download "War Cry" by ioHann

Philcast RevRadio Test Broadcast

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:51:16 PDT

Whoa!

A revolution is under way. And the setting is not in Malacanang. Sample this 3-song podcast featuring Rubberduckies, foodshelter&clothing, and Falstaff Hero. Click here...

PLUS!
Soon... "Elkiko's Way" hailing from the prestigious People Support U - garage house/dance/space age pop with a Tony Ferrer (the Charles Bronson of the Philippines) twist.

Love in a Post-Modern World

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:53:21 PDT

1 Corinthians 13: 1-2
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."

In a world of emotional insulation and political privitization, one should remember to take a step back and ask oneself: "How do I love?" It's no longer a mere question of monogamy and sexual orientation. Contemporary psychology and pop culture tend to dismiss emotion in the love agenda. Feelings of love is merely caused by a secretion of the hypothalamus. Even one's closest friends would advise to use the head instead of the heart because "God put the head higher than where the heart is for a reason".

In the "Bourne Identity", Jason Bourne operates on pure instinct. He reads the signs and acts without thinking. Waking up after an episode of severe trauma, he lost all memory of who he is. He had to rely on "gut feel" to survive, in order to know who he was. In a lot of ways, our birth to the physical world resembles Bourne's traumatic episode causing amnesia. We forget who we are. And thus, begins every human person's quest for identity.

Instinct is a function of emotion. When one says: "I have a bad feeling about this", it's a demonstration of emotion in its primal form, i.e. a means to self-preservation. Jeff Bebe, in the movie "Almost Famous" explains the omniscience of instinct. But as fast as people say: "Trust and follow your instincts" will people also tell you to "think before you act". Businessmen and politicians, for example, are cautioned to make decisions of a certain magnitude when under severe emotional stress. Reason and logic are therefore of equal, if not greater, significance as feeling or emotion in any given decision-making process.

"The brain should be a softening influence on the instincts, but the instincts should drive. Trying to reconcile the brain with urges that come out of millions of years ago...the way the brain interprets these instincts, is a heavy trip," illustrates an earnest Jason Lee in character as the outshined singer of Still Water. People tend to associate emotion with disastrous consequences like rage turning into violence, or lust resulting to herpes. How about the last time people planted trees because they felt responsible for the environment? Or the time one returned an envelope full of money and actually felt good?

Artists paint emotion in a canvas. Constantly in tune, they seize the instrument (pen, brush, camera) and dive into the emotional experience (or simply emotion or experience because for artists, emotion is also the canvas). Colors have always stood for particular emotions. The color yellow is one of joy, as red stood for lust which should not be confused with its popular sexual connotation. Lust is obsession, a constant desire for life which is not a bad thing at all.

And what about Love, the Greatest Emotion of all? How do we become certain that love is that which we feel? Our elders say: "You just know" like the way we know that we love our mothers. But a relationship with a mother is never "always happy". There are hurts, resentment, or even anger for some, as far as relationships with mothers are concerned. The strange thing is one realizes the immensity of that love to grow proportionally with the so-called "emotional valleys".

White roses signify a love that is pure. How can we tell if something is pure? In chemistry, pure water is H2O in its elemental state. A pure breed is not tainted with other bloodlines. Purity denotes a state of being wholly intact, which also implies the presence of parts or components. Applying the same definition to color, white then is essentially pure, as it is the presence of all colors.

When every strand of emotion has been felt and experienced, is love considered pure and thereby, love truly indeed? So then, does love cease to be an emotion because it is the presence of all emotions? If emotion is the guide and love is the canvas, are we then inescapably saved?

Read original post as 'Postscript' to Gry and the State of Philippine Music

Wiretapped

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:03:38 PDT

Below is a layman's interpretation of Republic Act No. 4200 (Anti-Wire Tapping Law, approved June 19, 1965):

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT AND PENALIZE WIRE TAPPING AND OTHER RELATED VIOLATIONS OF THE PRIVACY OF COMMUNICATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Section 1.
Unlawful act. Wire-tapping is considered unlawful without permission from the parties being wiretapped.

Possession of any kind of wire-tapped content in whatever form or media is considered unlawful, including any verbal, written, or broadcasted communication to other people of such content.

EXCEPT! for the purposes enumeratd in Section 3.

Section 2.
Penalty. Wire-tapping is punishable by imprisonment of 6 months minimum to 6 years max. Also, perpetual absolute disqualification from public office if wiretapper is a public official.

Section 3.
Exceptions. Peace officers acting under written order of the Court, for investigations involving crimes of "treason, espionage, provoking war and disloyalty in case of war, piracy, mutiny in the high seas, rebellion, conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion, inciting to rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, inciting to sedition, kidnapping... espionage and other offenses against national security" provided there is sufficient proof that such crimes are being committed.

Section 4. Except for purposes stated in above paragraph, all wiretapped recordings are inadmissible in "any judicial, quasi-judicial, legislative or administrative hearing or investigation".

For full text, click here

Warriors of Song

noreply@blogger.com (Sora) — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:11:16 PDT

Beware of us. We are the bearers of truth. We are the singers of the national hymn, the fighters for freedom we've been deceived for 500 years. We are witnesses in time, witnesses to all crimes against sovereignty and the basic dignity of human life. Witnesses to a system conspiring to hide a web of lies.

Our story is not confined to the present. Our story is the history we should have written. By virtue of our past, it is only now we realize we're so much smarter than this. We've walked the road, we know we've fallen. We know walkin the same road would just again lead to this. The future is at hand.

We know this because you know this. We all have been witnesses to the same sun shining and moon waning. The same message in the evening news, the same headlines and fearless views. Like potion, it drew curtains down our eyes.. deceived us to thinking the red cloth was actually the play. The way Christof let Truman to thinking the horizon wasn't a painting. There are those of us who've torn past the red cloth, and saw what behind it could be happening. A future so much closer.

Not brighter, happier, prosperous. It is cornball but truth is we've been divided far too long. Closer to Others, closer to our Selves, closer to our Source and our Destination. For our restless souls know only of one wish, Unity.

End the war!
End greed!
End poverty!
End hunger!
End the lies!

End everything you've considered precious up to before this moment in time. Start over, reboot those memory microprocessing the scarcity of funds. There is more comfort and fill as one gets closer to None. Know once and for all, that we have everything to begin anything. We do not lack. We do not look less or more ugly than the other one.

Our truth and lie is one and same. The only way now is not to blame. This is no one and everyone's fault! So there's no point pointing fingers or pretending "I" didn't have anything to do with it. Instead now, look up and find the strength to walk the demanding terrain. Let nothing steer us save our own.

Let nothing come between.
Let truth be sang and serenade.