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Holding Out For Heroes

December 6th, 2006 by epoyz

if you’re not down with nbc’s Heroes yet, let me tell you: you’re really missing something.

at first it would seem like a cheap x-men knockoff, but i find this series more compelling and more in the vicinity of being remotely believable than x-men (tama ba yun?). plus, this i get to follow from the very start, i get to see how everything evolves before everything gets muddled up. but, having seen how the series has been superbly written and directed so far, i’m confident it’s going to really rock for a long time. with a team of great comic book writers/ comic buffs in the fold, i’m sure they can keep this series pretty interesting for a while.

yeah, i know, this human evolution thing, you’d probably say it’s kidstuff, right? hey, it’s a TV series, they can go at it a bit realistically while going completely crazy and we can choose to gobble it up or turn the channel, so.. but for the record, let me just say that i’m not closing my mind to the possibilities, ok? heck, in ripley’s they showed a dude who can chew and eat plates and steel and stuff, he must be something special then. they’ve been suspending people only by their skins, thay have monks pulling trucks with ropes tied to their dicks and shit.. so, yes.. count me in among the believers that humans have it in them to evolve into something out of the ordinary. the power of the human body, combined with the human brain’s potential, i believe, can make The Matrix-like stunts pull-able.

besides, wasn’t it just less than two decades ago that when a friend told you that they’re playing music now through digitally embedded data on a plastic disc, you went "no way" and he said "way!"? fifteen years ago your idea of a 40-gigabyte hard disk is a universe of space that will take you years to fill up with data, because you just upgraded your 700mb hard drive to 2 gigabytes of real estate. heck, go back ten years and upon hearing someone say that you can now play computer games with somebody from the other side of the world in real-time, did it not completely blow your mind? five years ago, if somebody told you that you can have your entire cd collection that you scraped your hard-earned money for to collect over the last 20 years, fit into a bubblegum-stick sized music player to take with you wherever you go, you would have exclaimed "are you out of your damn mind?!", right?

now imagine those folks back in the day who first heard about some crazy man claiming to be able to talk to someone far away through an instrument. well, now you have a camera-phone that can record two people having sex and have that clip distributed thru the net faster than you can say sex-starved-pervert.

so, this human evolution stuff, with the help of the blistering pace of technological advancement, may not be so farfetched after all. tomorrow we may wake up to the news reporting about a "crazy" scientist who claim to have discovered a way to awaken dormant strands in our DNA that can give ordinary people extra-ordinary abilities, like being able to crap little pebbles the way goats do.. or some other amazing or at least practical abilities and stuff, but you know what i mean.

ok, on to other things.

just learned that TIME is honoring efren "bata" reyes, along with other filipinos, for their 60 Years Of Asian Heroes issue. you can find the article here. cdq has his take on all of this in here, and i am wholeheartedly in agreement with what he wrote about "bata" in the article. he deserves every bit of this honor that was given to him, and his meek protestations that he doesn’t deserve any of it only cements our conviction that yeah, he definitely deserves this.

not knocking down manny pacquiao or anything, but hey, i’ve never seen anybody root for any of bata’s foreign counterparts  just for the sake of seeing him lose, but i know a lot of guys who were hoping pacquiao would lose in his last fight  because they weren’t too happy with a lot of his career choices. and, ang ganang akin lang, i’ve never seen bata let himself be used by politicians who specialize in basking in reflected glory. obviously, not so much in manny pacquiao’s case. so is this the reason why despite winning the richest prize in pool history last september, walang en grandeng welcoming party para kay bata nung umuwi siya?

anyways, congratulations, sir efren. don’t believe even for a second that you don’t deserve this. you are one of my heroes.

and manny? you better shape up, dude. you have at most ten years before your body fails you, so you better start making the right choices so you’d have a good retirement plan. those blind items where they have you sleeping with a lot of different showbiz bitches? that shit has got to stop, man. you think bata ever did any of that stuff?

at least in billiards bata can keep doing his shit till he’s 70. you better believe it, i’ve seen 80 year-old hustlers in the pool hall back in my high school days, pinapartidahan pa nun yung mga kapustahan nila, libre na yung 15-ball o kaya walang plangketa.

bawat pasok ng bola nangta-trash talk pa yun, sumisigaw ng "jo-leyns!!".

o ha?

———-

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It’s the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It’s the wrong time
For somebody new
It’s a small crime
And I got no excuse

Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright with you?
If you don’t shoot it how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright with you?
Give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright
With you?

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It’s the wrong kind of place
To be cheating on you
It’s the wrong time
She’s pulling me through
It’s a small crime
And I got no excuse

Is that alright?
I give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright?
If you dont shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright?
I give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright
Is that alright with you?

Is that alright?
I give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright?
If you don’t shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it
Is that alright?
If I give my gun away when it’s loaded
Is that alright
Is that alright with you?

Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright with you?
Is that alright?
Is that alright?
Is that alright with you?

No..

               -  "9 Crimes", Damien Rice feat. Lisa Hannigan from 9

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