Category: Art & Review
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Ballet: The Great Classics 2016 by PBT
LET NO ONE TELL YOU THAT BALLET IS BORING. I almost cried, I kept sitting in awe, I learned to believe in love again. Philippine Ballet Theatre’s The Great Classics was a good show and a fun time! As always, we can’t take photos or recordings while the show was ongoing. Showing in Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo,…
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Acrylic: Kiss of Passion (Remix)
I seem to have a habit of making reproductions. Hello to Leonid Afremov’s oil painting ‘Kiss of Passion’.
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(Bits of) Poetry: Three Points of Pressure
Sadness strikes again, sometimes, always. I wrote these many weeks back, in the silence.
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Spoken Word: slr, flame-resistant
I should have been clearer from the start.
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Comic: Lucifer (2000)
I am in love with Lucifer. It’s brilliant, engaging, and I devoured the whole run within twelve hours. Perhaps. Lucifer’s struggles are, unalarmingly, my own, only magnified to cosmic scale. I have a problem with pride, and the asociality that comes with it. I can only bear few people, and they all must be as…
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Book: Historical Atlas
I finally got around to perusing my digital copy of the Office of the President of the Philippines’ Historical Atlas of the Republic. Self-described as the first of its kind, the atlas traces the country’s geopolitical landscape through the years, from prehistory to the May Day Rebellion. Though I’ve only read bits and pieces (what I…
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quotes for the day(s)
I’ve been collecting so many words lately. My lettering and calligraphy can’t quite keep up. But even without asking, I just want to point out that this: and remember: anything divided by their equal will always become one. al v esben was made by a news anchor writing under a pseudonym. Here comes (some of)…
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entelechy /ɛnˈtɛləki/
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still an egg
Just in case you forgot. I am an egg. 1. seriously, i can’t 2. don’t feel like doing anything 3. ahh…I want to live a stable life. nope, never. 4. if you’re going to be late anyway, why don’t you stay back a year? 5. who cares about the weather, i don’t go out anyway…
jari m 