A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

By Saddam's beard! I like Britney Spears' In the Zone. ... Uhm. Would it help if I say I also listened to Outkast's latest? No? I really should think about things before I fire off posts from the hip.

Nothing good in the theaters these days except fo Master and Commander which I initially thought to be awful macho crap. It turned out to be a great adventure movie nicely put together by director Peter Weir. I can't wait for Kill Bill to hit the local theaters. I even watched Scary Movie 3 (it had moments of the Zucker/Airplane silliness) out of desperation. I'm giving DVD watching a ...

...from the Man in Black. How an interview with Johnny Cash made a journalist quit her job to become a novelist. "Although it was journalism that had given me this extraordinary day, I didn't want to be the person oohing and aahing on paper about Kris Kristofferson, John Steinbeck and Johnny Cash." I'm still procrastinating.

On heavy rotation: Michael Buble (Thanks to Take it or Leave it for the heads up on this one.) Rod Stewart - It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning That's on top of the usual Frank, Ella, Billie and Tony playlist. Must be getting old. Or just extremely missing you. *** It turns out Michael Buble will be having a couple of ...

I wanted to try to listen to something new this weekend but unfortunately I wasn't within reach of any malls or record bars. I checked out this article on Salon about mash-ups where DJs would take a vocal track of one song and lay it over another song. I guess it's a step up from sampling. It makes for some quirky yet strangely appealing cuts. The songs can ...

I've had this one for weeks. Like Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink before it, Tori Amos' Scarlet Walk seduces you into it's own reality. Shady's not only the one who's back in town. I love listening to A Sorta Fairytale (of course!), Mrs. Jesus, Taxi Ride and the sweet Gold Dust. Gone are the long harpischord stretches of From the ChoirGirl Hotel and To Venus & Back. ...

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