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De-Beer-Gin-ization

February 21st, 2007 by epoyz

one of the reasons i don’t watch that much tv programming anymore is because of the ads. the other reason is all i have time for now are my downloaded US TV series episodes, so i don’t really need the TV as much as i needed it two years ago. fiending for the latest episode of Heroes, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, House, 24, Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, 30 Rock, Prison Break (Scofield, ahahaaaay…) and One Tree Hill take up most of my time, and i even recently finished downloading 6 seasons worth of Northern Exposure and one season of ED. that’s all i do nowadays, watch stuff on my computer. factor in my ebay time and the two hours everyday that i do actual work, wala na talaga akong oras para mag-surf for porn..ehem..(..ulul..).

ok. tuning in to local programming and having to go through the various  commercials  nowadays can be akin to having a root canal while giving birth to a three-year-old boy. i’m exaggerating, of course, but seeing sam milby going on and on about his hotdogs and how he wants to be "complete" (why is he invisible on most girls’ gay-dar? can’t you people see it, specially when he speaks in tagalog? ang taray niya magdeliver ng lines, ha? in denial kayo masyado, e..)? Love
okay, so the picture’s a fake, but still, damn.. and what’s up with aga and those damn "cough syrup alternative" bits? and don’t get me started on PCSO. fuck. there are but a few commercials out there that deserve my 30 seconds of attention and far fewer are the ones that make me chuckle, all the rest are just bits of crap trying to sell off mounds of crap.

so, needing to tune in to the PBA finals game 5 between Ginebra and San Miguel Beer, i had to endure a lot of these motherfucking ads. at siyempre, campaign season na naman. poottangnangyan. having had my regurgitated fill of "Ang Maong", now PCSO rams that "…ikaw ang kanlungan ng nangangailangan…" crap. and manny villar is dancing like an old dude with a displaced hip all of a sudden, catching shovels and weighing fish and shit… hey, isn’t that keanna reeves in the mike defensor campaign ad? the most hilarious unfunny campaign of all? robin padilla endorsing richard gomez for senator. naaalala ko pa nung pinagulong ni robin si goma sa isang suntok nung araw sa star olympics…parang kailan lang…tapos ngayon, chummy-chummy na sila…ang politika nga naman.

i don’t know why so many people discourage actors from running for public office. honestly, i can’t distinguish one from the other. politics and showbiz? e pareho lang yan, e. kung sino sikat at makakapagdala ng political o showbiz career mo, dun ka sasakay. it’s two acts within one giant circus. tingnan nyo yan, the aforementioned goma and binoe relationship. dati, nagsasapakan yang dalawang yan at nag-aagawan kay sharon cuneta, e ngayon, para sa interes ng isa’t isa, nagsanib ang dalawang kumag. panay pa ang panood ni goma ng PBA kasama si lucy. punyetang yan, ang bait-bait ng misis eh ginagamit pa sa maling ambisyon. si loren legarda at manny villar, paiyak-iyak pa sa impeachment hearing ni erap, ngayon daig pa ang rugby na pinatuyo sa magkabilang side ng ididikit ang kapit kay erap ng mga potah. si tito sotto, dati sa ticket ni erap, aba’y sa administration na pala ngayon. ano ba yun? sobra na talaga comedy sa politika natin sobrang nakakaiyak na.

at least we get to see funny campaign ads. meron na ba si cesar montano at manny pacquiao?

ok, maiba tayo. akala yata ng SMB e best-of-3 lang ang finals. because after drubbing ginebra in game 1 and narrowly escaping them in game 2, they have been absent for a whole week now, giving up games 3 and 4 in embarassing fashion and letting slip  a hotly-contested 1st half to give away game 5 earlier tonight. truthfully, after game 2 i found myself dreading that ginebra’s pick-and-roll execution and blazing run and gun offense have been stopped cold by SMB, and for the first time in the conference they were truly outmatched. i thought i jinxed them when i predicted victory before the series even started.

but damn.

storming back and playing like they were on speed or magic mushrooms or somethin’, ginebra has successfully turned the tables on a deeper SMB team. playing with relentless energy and unforgiving offensive precision, they have reduced the beermen to mere spectators of Ginebra Showtime Basketball. it ain’t over yet, but man, i never expected this to be too easy. i mean come on, the beermen are just throwing up three-pointer after three-pointer, some they connect on, a lot they keep missing… give us another scare, dammit…

i admit, i was dumbfounded when they kept making trey after trey in games 1 and 2. i declared that "mauubos din ang bwenas nila…" but in my heart i didn’t believe it. pwede kasi talaga ma-near-perfect ang shooting (reggie miller, rick barry, ricardo brown, allan caidic…), and with lordy tugade plus dondon hontiveros teaming up with the unstoppable danny seigle, topped with chris calaguio and LA tenorio hitting circus shots and shit, i really thought we were done for. babawi naman siguro, sabi ko, and win game 3 they did. still, i thought game 3 was a fluke, Ginebra running away in the 3rd quarter by scoring 43 in that quarter alone and burying SMB in an avalanche of points, aided by the beermen misfiring on their three-point attempts in the 4th. sabi ko nga sa mga boys ko, akala kasi ng San Miguel araw-araw pasko, e Balentime’s Day nga last wednesday, di ba?

so, settling in a sports bar for game 4, i was expecting a hell of a fight. should my boys lose this one, it’s a 1-3 deficit, a hole so insurmountable only one team ever overcame it to win a game 7 (incidentally, that team was the 1991 3rd conference Ginebra Team…), and SMB looked poised to go for the jugular. alas, (king and queen at jack…) as luck would have it (pun, pun, pun..), the gin kings came to play and the beermen attended the game to run their mouth and complain to the officials. ganun talaga, chot reyes. sa isang finals series, kahit sa boxing, ang aggressor ang pinapaboran ng mga tawag, because those who try to make things happen inevitably do. e angalan ng angalan ang mga bata mo, wala na sila sa laro. ikaw naman, kung makasimangot ka parang palagi kang dinadaya… ganun din naman nangyari sa ginebra sa games 1 and 2, ah. they came out flat, they got run to the ground. the officials aren’t going to help you, you have to force them to make the calls.

hay naku. let’s see if i just jinxed the barangay once again. but when my brother told me that chot reyes proclaimed after game 2 that there won’t be a game 7, i wholeheartedly agreed. we had different things in mind, of course, but it’s beginning to look a lot like chot reyes and i are going to be prophetic.

i finally got around to watching american idol again, and it’s down to the final 24. at siyempre may pinoyboy na naman. magaling siya, he needs to step up his game a notch or two, but i think he’ll be a’ight. a’ight?

makatulog na nga muna.

ooops, nabanggit ko a few posts ago yung isang version ng rootless tree, di ba? yung sa mga may gusto, you can get it here. galeng. feel na feel niya, bru.

———–

well i’ve been here before
sat on the floor in a grey grey room
where i stay in all day
i don’t eat, but i play with this grey grey food
desole, if someone is prayin’ then i might break out
desole, even if i scream i can’t scream that loud

i’m all alone again
crawling back home again
stuck by the phone again..

well i’ve been here before
sat on a floor in a grey grey mood
where i stay up all night
and all that i write is a grey grey tune
so pray for me child, just for a while
that i might break out yeah
pray for me child
even a smile would do for now

’cause i’m all alone again
crawling back home again
stuck by the phone again..

have i still got you to be my open door?
have i still got you to be my sandy shore?
have i still got you to cross my bridge in this storm?
have i still got you to keep me warm?

if i squeeze my grape, then i drink my wine
coz if i squeeze my grape, then i drink my wine
oh coz nothing is lost, it’s just frozen in frost,
and it’s opening time, there’s no-one in line

but i’ve still got me to be your open door,
i’ve still got me to be your sandy shore
i’ve still got me to cross your bridge in this storm
and i’ve still got me to keep you warm.

warmer than warm, yeah..

           -"Grey Room", Damien Rice from 9

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  1.   ella said,

    on February 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    haven’t been watching ‘oth’ anymore:(. buti ka pa…

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