coffee break

ages. it has been ages from my last post. though i was truly moved, and still i am, from the passing of our late president cory, i wouldn’t say it’s because of that. overwhelming work is what it is. for the last 4 weeks, i was putting in 16 hours a day. even weekends and holidays was not spared from doing work. crazy is what i can call it. crazy schedule, crazy pursuit, crazy. but that’s the nature of pursuit. your is not the time. we are all just pawns of getting a bigger deal, of demanding customers and circumstance and a more demanding drive to outdo the competition. i have to say that we did, we blew the competition away. thanks to a kick-ass poc (proof of concept) that made a huge impact to the customer. what can i say, filipinos are there to please. a wide gapping jaw and stunned look is a good enough payment for my endless nights and days…

with the exception of indie films, true indie films. cinemalaya has been paving the way for indie film makes and digital media, bringing them to the attention of a wider audience. but there are ’indie’ films who just poses to be one. since the late night 90s, bold/skin flick movies have died down as the sm department store chain decided not to show r-18 movies. one of the reason why sex an the city the movie was edited to make is pg-13 is because sm refuses to show play it in its cinemas. however, there’s a surging trend of ‘indie’ inspired gay movies. where acting is bad as its cinematography, casting and storyline. as long as you have a digital camera, people who’d bare all in front of it and some badly written plot, you have your indie movie. let’s call a spade a spade; these are not indie movies, these are bold movies. and most of them are released straight to video. like i always say, may ginto sa basura. in the sea of skin, dicks, bad script and even worse acting is a glimmer of hope and nuggets on insight. there are still who champion the beauty of the art of movie making and makes relevant depiction of the microcosm of life in manila. be it he urban poor’s struggle to live, a probinsyano’s drive to make it big in the city or the harsh life of people in general. it may sound humdrum but that is our reality. movies is supposedly entertaining, but it has a social obligation as well to educate. movies is a social depiction of us, of society and its intricacies and nuances. that is what movies are supposed to ne.

i am one who’s quick to draw on judgment but i do acknowledge beauty when i see one. or lack there of.

listening to:
Future Memories – ATB : New Day