red light district sub cult

Fields Avenue, Angeles, PIMPanga... aka the [infamous] red light district outside Clark. Pics taken last March, before we flew to Bali.

sneakerhead + lomo fisheye sub cult

My herd of Gazelles [yan ang pinaka-paborito kong Adidas]

numerology sub cult

... followers as of today. Woohoo. Mababaw lang kaligayahan ko eh.

degenerates of society sub cult

And one of them is unsubcultured...



This can happen with too much alco so don't do this at home. Do it in your friend's house!

pinoy alternative / indie music sub cult

I may be musically unsubcultured... but I know some band people!

I drink with the drummer of JACK VS THE CRAB and the lead singer of GUARANA...

The lead singer of SIDHI is my meng...

I know one member of TECHY ROMANTICS and MOONSTAR 88...


I know two guys from ENCOUNTERS WITH A YETI...

JETT PANGAN of the DAWN used to voice one my radio commercials in the 90s.

I met the lead singer of TAKEN BY CARS once...


Nakikita ko sa yosi area dito sa office namin ang isang miembro ng PUPIL...

Naka-tambay ko sa isang party si FRANCIS "BREW" REYES ng THE DAWN...

I once hung out with some members of THE DORQUES...


I once bodyboarded with KARL ROY...

Na-shoot ko na for an AVP si KAT ng SINOSIKAT...

Officemate ko dati ang singer ng MIKE'S APARTMENT...

A member of DRIP is my friend's friend... so is AIA DE LEON of IMAGO...


Nakikita ko sa Araneta Coliseum [kapag may Ateneo game] ang ilan miembro ng PAROKYA NI EDGAR...

I know the wife of the head honcho of TERNO RECORDINGS...

FRANCISM composed a song written by yours truly [nasa advertising pako nun]

Naging groupie pa ng INDIO-I ang mga kaibigan ko...

Ka-pangalan ko yung lead singer URBANDUB... pati na rin si GAB ng PAROKYA NI EDGAR...


O HA!!!

hollywood sub cult

Watched the Expendables last night. It sucked. More notably, I think old fart Sylvester Stallone should quit action movies. It was pathetic to see him EXPEND his oldfart energy running to catch a plane in one scene.



Stupid H-wood action movie producers, please make him expendable.

unsubcultured bucket list item #8

Wasted a totally sunny and beautiful Saturday because I was hungover. CHECK.

rizalista + francism style opm sub cult

What was the greatest thing I've ever written?

90s. Nasa advertising pako nun. My agency was pitching for a bank.

My boss asked me to write a song as part of the pitch and the campaign.

Wrote the jingle all night... didn't sleep.

The words came together at around 6am.

Long story short... we won the pitch.

The song I wrote was part of the pitch.

And the song was commissioned to FrancisM.

He revised the words a bit to fit his style... and he made the music.

The song: Idol Ko Si Rizal for RCBC.

Pang-commercial nga lang ang airplay sa radyo. At hindi umabot sa album niya.

Pero one of the proudest damn moments of my life.

Here's a link to that song... http://gabogabster.multiply.com/music/item/1/Lyrics_by_Gab

Idol ko si Rizal

May kuwento ako sa inyo
mga 'tol, wooh
Kuwento ng isang bayaning Pinoy, hoy
Makinig ka, dinggin
Jose ang kanyang pangalan
At nang siya'y barilin sa Bagumbayan
Nagising sa katotohanan ang ating bayan

Malaya, 'di alipin
Mapayapa't 'di marahas
Kalayaan daw ay walang katumbas
Matapang, 'di duwag
Bayani't may dangal
Panulat ang pinairal ni Gat Jose Rizal

Kadugo, kakulay
kayumangging katulad ko
Idol ko si Rizal
si Rizal ang idol ko (x3)

Talino ang sandata nitong makata
Pintor, doktor at guro ng mga bata
Nasa Noli at nasa Fili
lumaban siya hanggang sa huli
Nasa Noli at nasa Fili
lumaban siya

Kaibigan, kapatid,
kababayan nating lahat
Idol ko si Rizal
si Rizal ang idol ko (x3)

Sana ako
Sana tayo
Tularan ng ating mundo
Tunay na bayani ang taong ito
Lumingon sa pinanggalingan
tumingin sa paparoonan
Mga bagong bayani ng ating bayan

Kadugo't kakulay
kayumanggi, kaibigan
Kapatid at gabay
Bayani ang titulo

Idol ko si Rizal
si Rizal ang idol ko
Idol ko si Jose
kasi siya'y bayani
Idol ko si Rizal

pinoy humor + hollywood movie myths sub cult

The movie "Gremlins" was not a big hit like, say, Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean or Superman but it has a significant, invaluable contribution to Pinoy pop culture [gasgas na gasgas wisecracks category].

For an example, check out this everyday conversation between two Pinoys...
Person 1: Bad trip, umuulan nanaman!
Person 2: Paano tayo makakasplit dito. Dapat nagdala ako ng payong... buwiset!!!
Person 1: Takbuhin nalang natin. Tara na.
Person 2: HUWAG, MABABASA KA... BAKA DUMAMI KA!

For all of you who don't know the story of Gremlins here's one from IMDB...

"Sure, he's cute. Of course you can keep him. But heed these three warnings: Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs . . . never, never feed him after midnight. With these mysterious instructions, young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet. He gets a whole lot more than he bargained for."

THERE YOU HAVE IT. DON'T EVER GET HIM WET BECAUSE WHEN A MAGWIE TURNS INTO AN UGLY FEROCIOUS GREMLIN AND GETS WET, THE THING MULTIPLIES.

SO NEVER EVER BRAVE THE RAIN, DIVE INTO A POOL, TAKE A SHOWER. ETC.

BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR ANOTHER OVER-USED WISECRACK LIKE THIS: BAKA DUMAMI KA!!!

hollywood comedy sub cult

My top 4 WILL FERRELL cameos/supporting roles

01. Wedding Crashers
"Mom! The meat loaf! Fuck!"

02. Starsky and Hutch
"I'll tell you what, I do like your blonde friend here. Let me see your belly button. "

03. Old School
"We're going streaking"

04. Zoolander
"I invented the piano key neck tie! I invented it! What have you done, Derek? Nothing!"

ang latest na pinak-trip kong tv series ay tungkol sa community college sub cult...

Lupet nito. Laugh trip. My favorite post Scrubs comedy.

high school sub cult

High school class photos circa the 80s. One is probably sophomore or junior year. The other is senior year. Can you spot the unsubcultured teenybopper?

unsubcultured 80s question...

Whatever happened to Phoebe Cates?



Galing sa sineng Fast Times At Ridgemont High

P.S.

Was watching an 80s movie starring her last night and I realized, di pala siya marunong umacting. Puro pa-kyut lang. Pero nung time na yon, shemps, ok lang sa atin yun di ba? Eto yung movie niya...

windsurfing sub cult

True to my try-athlete nature, I tried Windsurfing a few years back.



Now I can also call myself a WINDPOSER.

modern day lingo sub cult

I know a lot of people who say this phrase... "I KNOW, RIGHT?!"

What's my point? Soon enough, those words will max out on the irritability scale.

Do you agree? I know, right?!

sculpture sub cult

Given to me by a sculptor friend [sneakers my addition]. This art unsubcultured person got a brief taste of the art sub culture by dropping by the studio/gallery where my friend worked and also attending two exhibit openings.

lomo sub cult

I used to have a Diana camera like this one...



But I never got the hang of it. Here are some of the pics that came out from my first roll...











Relatively sucky compared to the Diana pics I've seen on the web. But that's how you roll with a Lomo... ugly is supposed to be beautiful... sometimes. So I gave up on Diana and I bought myself a Fisheye.

drugs + brit movies + brit books sub cult

Diba usually mas maganda ang libro sa sine. So dati, pagkatapos ko panoorin ang sineng "Trainspotting," sabi ko cool 'tong palabas na ito ah... tungkol sa mga adik. Baka trip din yung libro...



Ayun, sa madaling sabi, first page palang give up na ako. Paano, it was written in the way the Scottish or maybe Brits speak English... with an accent that is alien to us.

music sub cult

Unsubcultured music-love history.

I listen to rock, alternative, pop, electronica, a bit of hiphop/rnb, some reggae and ska and a bit of jazz. Relatively a wide selection. But that wasn't the case when I was growing up. Here's what went down over the "decades."


Grade school years: Lived in Baguio. I hung out with my long-haired, refugee from the hippie movement brothers. Boy, did they listened to a lot of jazz... George Benson, Herbie Hancock, The Crusaders, Chuck Mangione, Spyro Gyra, Al Jarreau, Astrud Gilberto, Manhattan Transfer, Michael Franks, Seawind, Ronnie Laws, Stanley Clarke, George Duke and a whole lot more. So because I looked up to my bros, I was into their music too. [Fast forward to workplace setting: found out I had many officemates who grew up just like me, listening to their brother's jazz albums].


High school years: Lived in Manila. Stepped out of my brothers' shadows and stepped into that of my high school friends'. Dropped the jazz thing and listened to what my friends were into: 99.5 pop music and of course, the music of that generation - new wave [the 80s answer to emo]. I listened to dark, brooding shit from Brit artists and of course, you sort of get influenced by their angstiness too.


College years: New wave wouldn't leave my ears but at least it changed it's name to "alternative." If I remember everything correctly, I was just exclusively listening to alt rock. I guess my mind wasn't yet open to the great world of sound at the time.


Early working years: Finally opened my world to the possibilities of other genres. Aside from alternative, I listened to pop [Rick Astley hahaha], dance/hiphop [Bobby Brown, Snap], funk powered rock [Red Hot Chili Peppers], glam metal and acid jazz. This was also the time whenPinoy alternative rock and pop really kicked ass.


The MP3/Ipod years: Thanks to downloading and ripping, I have almost all the music I want. New wave, pop, alternative, jazz, a bit of hiphop... they're all neighbors inside my Ipod. Thanks to other music loving individuals [and also because of the movies], I also get to appreciate the awesome music of artists that existed before I was born... like for example The Beatles. Plus this... growing up, I never really listened to rock. But now, bands and artists like Rush, Hendrix, Blind Faith and Yes are a regular part of my playlist.

So that's it... as I grew older, my world of beats got bigger too. I can now listen to almost anything... except blues, world music, country, trance, house and Celine Dion.

pinoy movie bandido sub cult

Max Alavarado, Paquito Diaz, Romy Diaz and Dick Israel... sila ang mga malupit na kontrabida ng sineng noypi.




They loot, murder, rape, pillage and make life a little harder for our bida and his hot leading lady. Kung wala sila, ang baduy ng action movies natin!

At wala tayong papagtawanan at gagayahin kapag nag-iinuman tayo.