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She's a Leo with seven piercings, three tattoos and astigmatism who studies Nihongo on Saturdays, shuts her brain off on Sundays and for the rest of the week tries to make all her dreams come true.
EDSA XXX is the most wasaXXX of them all. Go and see it.

EDSA XXX is the most wasaXXX of them all. Go and see it.

Can’t You See // Fando & Lis

can’t you see
i’m in love with you
can’t you see
are you blind too
can’t you see
i’m crazy for you
can’t you see me

can’t you hear
my heart beats for you
can’t you hear
are you deaf too
can’t you hear
my heart stops for you
can’t you hear me

give me your kiss
and i won’t return it
give me your hug
and it’s mine
give me your love
just for a moment
and i’m the richest guy in town

can’t you feel
the electricity between
can’t you feel
are you numb too
can’t you feel
the fire within
can’t you feel me

IMPRESSIONS: FANDO & LIS: FOUND & LOST/LISTEN: “GUSTO” | Pulse.ph : MUSIC + CULTURE

Beware of cute things, they hurt you the most. Check out my Fando & Lis playlist here.

Writing letters is a recurring theme in my life recently, so I’ve decided to screen Cameroon Love Letter by Khavn dela Cruz for T.So Movie Night’s VDay shebang. Some Post-Kundiman music courtesy of Vigo for the night is in order as well. So bring your wine, your beer, your popcorn, your pizza and your lovelorn heart. It’s time to get wazakinlab.

“See if this is the only thing we can rely on to make us happy - my capacity to love - then, darling, we are well and truly fucked.”

Cameroon Love Letter, Khavn dela Cruz

Maybe for Valentines Movie Night at T.So. Over alcohol and love(r)s lost and found.

MFMF!: Mondomanila Filmfest MotherF%*#ers! This December, get in line as Khavn De La Cruz gives you the gift of alternative cinema for four days straight. MFMF! Mondomanila FilmFest Motherf%*#ers! will premiere Khavn’s 28th full-length film “Mondomanila” at the UP Film Center from December 1 to 4, 2010. “Mondomanila: or, How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey” is Khavn’s latest masterpiece. It’s an adaptation of Norman Wilwayco’s triple-Palanca-winning novel (2002), short story (2000), and screenplay (2003). Explains Khavn, “It’s a post-modern version of Edgardo Reyes’ ‘Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag’. It not only explores Manila  and its humanity, it also delves into the whole rationale behind the irrational lives these people experience everyday.” “In my film ‘Mondomanila’, I strived to present the truth as gleaned from the cracks in a celluloid curtain. But the “truth”—it is not “out there” as pundits from the other realm put it. It’s in one’s own backyard—and backyards can shock, especially if one doesn’t go out too much. I believe that Mondomanila offers one of the most horrifying backyards in the tradition of films made by one of the foremost directors, the late Lino Brocka. If Brocka’s films a decade ago talked about the wounds of Manila , I would like to believe that ‘Mondomanila’ belongs to a new breed of storytelling that makes one feel as if one has actually touched that wound, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus.” The complexity of characters portrayed in the film fits perfectly in the rabid world of Mondomanila, where only those with a strong stomach could survive. Definitely not for the faint of heart, Mondomanila shows you a side of the metro that its citizens would only too gladly a turn blind eye on. In Mondomanila, you will meet the incorrigible Paranoid Squad; the devoted loanshark, Lovely 5-6; the queer, romantic princess, Naty; Naty’s chauvinistic retired cop of a father, Sgt. Pepper; the definitely un-virginal Mother Maria; the loving and caring sibling with a deep, dark, bloody secret, Dino; the unseen arsonist-slash-Maria’s-lover, Shoeshine Pablo; and of course, the iconoclastic anti-hero running the show, Tony D. These characters are brought to life by the masterful portrayals of the cast: 15-year old Urian nominee and Makiling High School for the Arts scholar Timothy Mabalot (Tony D.); Gael Garcia Bernal’s “Mammoth” co-star, Marife Necesito (Mother Maria); the late great Palito (Shoeshine Pablo); Whitney Tyson (Lovely 5-6); midgets; strongmen; lesbian triplets; dirty old white man; and talented teens with disabilities but with incredible rapping and breakdancing skills from Talentadong Pinoy (Talented Filipinos). Mondomanila will have six screenings from December 1 to 4 at 7:00pm and December 2 to 3 at 5:00pm at the Cine Adarna, UP Film Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. A forum on the relevance of the Metro Manila Film Festival dubbed “MMFF vs MFMF!” will also be held on December 1, 4:00pm at the UP Film Center . TRAILERS: http://www.youtube.com/user/oracafe#g/c/91CB211D37ABD93D BLOGS: http://mondomanila.co.cc/ http://mondomanila.blogspot.com/ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/mondomanila WEBSITE: http://khavndelacruz.org/

MFMF!: Mondomanila Filmfest MotherF%*#ers!

This December, get in line as Khavn De La Cruz gives you the gift of alternative cinema for four days straight. MFMF! Mondomanila FilmFest Motherf%*#ers! will premiere Khavn’s 28th full-length film “Mondomanila” at the UP Film Center from December 1 to 4, 2010.

“Mondomanila: or, How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey” is Khavn’s latest masterpiece. It’s an adaptation of Norman Wilwayco’s triple-Palanca-winning novel (2002), short story (2000), and screenplay (2003). Explains Khavn, “It’s a post-modern version of Edgardo Reyes’ ‘Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag’. It not only explores Manila  and its humanity, it also delves into the whole rationale behind the irrational lives these people experience everyday.”

“In my film ‘Mondomanila’, I strived to present the truth as gleaned from the cracks in a celluloid curtain. But the “truth”—it is not “out there” as pundits from the other realm put it. It’s in one’s own backyard—and backyards can shock, especially if one doesn’t go out too much. I believe that Mondomanila offers one of the most horrifying backyards in the tradition of films made by one of the foremost directors, the late Lino Brocka. If Brocka’s films a decade ago talked about the wounds of Manila , I would like to believe that ‘Mondomanila’ belongs to a new breed of storytelling that makes one feel as if one has actually touched that wound, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus.”

The complexity of characters portrayed in the film fits perfectly in the rabid world of Mondomanila, where only those with a strong stomach could survive. Definitely not for the faint of heart, Mondomanila shows you a side of the metro that its citizens would only too gladly a turn blind eye on.

In Mondomanila, you will meet the incorrigible Paranoid Squad; the devoted loanshark, Lovely 5-6; the queer, romantic princess, Naty; Naty’s chauvinistic retired cop of a father, Sgt. Pepper; the definitely un-virginal Mother Maria; the loving and caring sibling with a deep, dark, bloody secret, Dino; the unseen arsonist-slash-Maria’s-lover, Shoeshine Pablo; and of course, the iconoclastic anti-hero running the show, Tony D. These characters are brought to life by the masterful portrayals of the cast: 15-year old Urian nominee and Makiling High School for the Arts scholar Timothy Mabalot (Tony D.); Gael Garcia Bernal’s “Mammoth” co-star, Marife Necesito (Mother Maria); the late great Palito (Shoeshine Pablo); Whitney Tyson (Lovely 5-6); midgets; strongmen; lesbian triplets; dirty old white man; and talented teens with disabilities but with incredible rapping and breakdancing skills from Talentadong Pinoy (Talented Filipinos).

Mondomanila will have six screenings from December 1 to 4 at 7:00pm and December 2 to 3 at 5:00pm at the Cine Adarna, UP Film Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. A forum on the relevance of the Metro Manila Film Festival dubbed “MMFF vs MFMF!” will also be held on December 1, 4:00pm at the UP Film Center .

TRAILERS:

http://www.youtube.com/user/oracafe#g/c/91CB211D37ABD93D

BLOGS:

http://mondomanila.co.cc/

http://mondomanila.blogspot.com/

FACEBOOK:

http://www.facebook.com/mondomanila

WEBSITE:

http://khavndelacruz.org/

I guess we’ll never know love.