Pinoy movie title massacre: Lord, ano ba ito?
Nestor Torre of the Philippine Daily Inquirer has a very interesting article called, “Wanted: More creative and evocative movie titles … please.” Come to think of it, the list of Pinoy movies has been deluged with titles such as: Iputok Mo… Dadapa Ako (1990) Kapag Ang Palay Naging Bigas… May Bumayo (2002) Romeo Loves Juliet… But Their Families Hate Each Other! (1989) And don’t forget those Carlo J....
Summer sizzles with Sandwich’s Sunburn video
And I love alliterative titles. Anyway, do we have tanning salon’s here in Manila? A few perhaps but I do believe that more and more Filipinos are using whitening cream than get a tan (unless they’re tisoys or tisays). But such is the premise of Sandwich’s video for their song Sunburn (of their Five on the Floor album). Sandwich running a tanning salon with babes and bikinis galore! Sakto for summer! Here’s the...
Utada Hikaru divorces husband
Yep, Hikki called quits on her marriage. Sad but not really surprising. Was it three or four years ago when news hit the stands that Utada Hikaru got hitched with her video director? Now that shocked me. For more of the news, click on The Japan Times Online.
MUSIC STATION to launch at Animax on March 9
It’s been around for a little more than 20 years but it’d be only now that we’d get some of their sugoi stuff. MUSIC STATION is Japan’s most popular music variety show and it’s debuting for our viewing on Animax. It’s pretty much like TRL, J-style! The show features everything about the J-pop scene complete with interviews, live performances and charts. Tune in to chance upon live performances from...
OngakuSociety at 2007 Nihongo Fiesta
OngakuSociety, the premiere contemporary Japanese music community for Filipino fans, was also present at the 2007 Nihongo Fiesta last Saturday. Aside from manning their booth, the OngakuSociety bigwigs also hosted a mini quiz show where they gave away OngakuSociety shirts. I was going to run up to the microphone and answer myself (even if I had to trample on some poor kid to do it nyahahaha!), but I had to maintain a more dignified...
7Thvrsday at the 2007 Nihongo Fiesta
I saw 7Thvrsday perform L’arc En Ciel and Do As Infinity hits during the 2007 Nihongo Fiesta. The performance was good but the sound system sucked. I really wanted to throttle the people in the control booth every time the microphone buzzed. The acoustics of the venue also contributed to the problem. Clam Shell II is definitely not conducive to acoustic music performances. Nevertheless, the band continued with their set as if...