Guilty confession: I was a big New Kids on The Block fan.

I was nine years old, and literally didn’t know any better. I loved Hanging Tough, and knew every step in Step by Step by heart. I could also proudly sing Joe McIntyre’s “it’s just yooooou and meeeee” in perfect pitch. I watched the cartoon, and had a little NKOTB fan group with my grade ( Read more... )

I tell people that I saw my first David Lynch film when I was 11. That is not true. I saw my first David Lynch film when I was 4. It was a movie called Dune. I don’t really remember the film, though I tried watching it ten years later and couldn’t finish it. All I remember is that it had sandworms, and outside the theater, in Quad, there were these ( Read more... )

for my friend Alexis, on the day of his funeral.

a note, before i begin: during Alexis's wake i was sitting with digitaldaydream, pilya, sevenbohemia, sleeplessplanet and slambradley. we were reminiscing about the Livejournal days, which, compared to the Friendster, Facebook and Twitter days, were the happiest social networking days of our lives. a lot of my friendship with _fiction_ developed here, and i even ( Read more... )

i don't know when i exactly became a fan of Jade Castro ( Read more... )

goddammit, trillanes ( Read more... )

( Part V : Violence is Best Enjoyed in The Company of Others )

( Part I : How Pulp Fiction Changed My Life )

i'm sure you guys all remember Lars Von Terrier,

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Warning: this is the ultimate fanboy post. It has never been and will never get any more fanboy than this.

In the long time I’ve been listening to music phases have come and gone, bands have gotten together and broken up, groups I grew up listening to have had best-of collections and reunion tours, and ‘hot new artists’ have come in to replace ‘ ( Read more... )