Category: Art & Review
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“Google Keep”, a collection of idle thoughts
Because sometimes I just can’t stop in the middle of the sidewalk to whip out a notebook and write.
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Three things i learned from life
1. The prince smiles at the pauper and he says, welcome home. He removes her rags and seats her on a throne, gives her jewels, buys her gowns and drowns her in the kind of whispers i shouldn’t repeat. These are the kinds of bedtime stories my mother flushed down my throat: poor girl meets…
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Snapshots: #ArtFairPH
08 February 2015 The Link, Makati City, Philippines
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Willow and Jaden Smith, “5”
Natural high. Don’t look at the comments.
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observations on the self, une.
i have the kind of earnestness that is manufactured and consumed an honesty that lies over the yellowing surface of gritted teeth (prescribed by doctors and thieves) here is a dress i wear to politics and heartbreak and this dress is the skin i wear everyday
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cinderella: origins
i was born dishonest looking for some trouble in the silence. i was born wanting but perfect they tell me shut up, be quiet: look pretty, be steady don’t come and revolutionize but in my head i knew i had plenty of life left to fuck up and demonize. there are rhythms in my head…
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Short Impressions: Bamboo Manalac’s No Water, No Moon
A couple of seasons late, and I discovered Bamboo Mañalac’s first solo album No Water, No Moon. I’m quite happy I did. On the Album: Quirky arrangements. Interesting instruments, second voices, and other noise sometimes pop out of the tracks. It felt like listening to art all throughout somehow. Relaxed melodies. Sometimes there’s a buildup, or a break, and…
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to love;
i think i’ll take this time to fall in love and gamble all my hopes on a single man; i’ll leave my sad days behind and discover forever; i think i’ll take this time to learn how to love and see what wonders await, there in his arms under the sunset, where he’ll kiss me…
jari m 