dinner with shirley

two instances: informal and formal.

informal: at hap chan makati ave. after a meeting with our label about our album. table looked like disaster area afterwards.

formal: at owel's sister's friend's debut at the manila hotel, pandanggo ballroom. food was scrumptious. we were dressed in our best. we played an hour-long set that left us dead.

Broken Social Shirley

It was my most important mission during meet and greet (after the wonderful crazy concert). I was to give Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning our band shirts and the unmastered CD haha (by no means and to hell with pesky usherettes!)

and t'was mission accomplished! :)

i miss my bandmates,
kathyg

missing LOA

i was watching the smashing pumpkins' vieuphoria this afternoon and couldn't help recalling all the footage we've been collecting so that kathy our super videographer-cum-korean-secret-weapon can concoct a cool documentary for our upcoming shirley album launch. we pretty much have the same kooky slice-of-life stuff as the dvd, though they probably can't hold a candle to d'arcy's tea party segment...

one of the interludes was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of siamese dream. manny chevrolet interviewed the pumpkins and butch vig (drummer of then-unformed garbage), the producer of the album. his sober answers to the questions reminded me of master engineer joey santos of love one another studios and his poker-faced replies to our own queries. he and the other sound engineers of LOA were integral in setting the right mood for the trippy artistic atmosphere that our album could only have been conceived in. discussions on light sabers, the making of paper dolls, and the formulation of alternative "papapa" sounds were just some of their invaluable contributions to ang bandang shirley's creative process. this kind of joyous interaction between joey et al. and shirley members seemed to me not unlike the pig-head dance butch vig and another man performed by the engineer's board at triclops studios, which surely must have directly begun the germination of several of the pumpkins' future works of outstanding craft in their heads and hearts.

chevrolet: how do you guys like working together?
corgan: as much as any two men could like working together.
vig: (pause) good answer.
chevrolet: (to camera) i gotta go. bye.

- selena

broken social shirley

nagtext sa amin si kathy straight from singapore kanina. eto sabi nya (translated from text speak):

Nabigay ko kay Kevin Drew yung cd (ng Shirley) tapos pinatago niya talaga sa assistant nila, pati (Shirley) shirt. tapos navideo ko sila. sabi ni Brendan (Canning) Shirley is his favorite band! Tangina. Tapos ang ganda ng concert, nasa harap ako. They played "I'm Still Your Fag"

grabe, ang husay husay mo talaga kathyg! sobrang proud kami sa yong fangirl powers and prowess! we love you, mabuhay ka!!!!! :D

love,
jing

myx pinoy countdown update

as of march 9, Number 13 na ang "sa madaling salita" sa top 20 opm music videos. please keep on voting para mag number 1 na, woohoo!!!!! :D

MYX<space>VOTE<space>SA MADALING SALITA

send to 2366

kagabi, sa kakaboto ko, i discovered that you can vote 10 times max in one day hahahahaha

much much love,

=jing=

Jollibeer

Matters of immense epistemological value are discussed by the Shirleys in the Jingmobile. You know, stuff like why Jollibee is simply an anthropomorphic bee wearing gloves and a red tuxedo. With a huge ass. Nothing but high brow, Ph.D.-level stuff. We're all intellectuals, you know.

Every now and then, we tackle an idea too good not to share. Like the mythical JOLLIBEER. Jollibeer came from a discussion of Beeracay, a beer joint along Xavierville Avenue which has, sadly, closed down. (It used to be located near the Meat Shop and the future location of Ababu, one of many Shirley favorite places to eat.) Ean christened our hypothetical bar "Jollibeer" and though we wanted to have a full product line, we could only come up with two:

Regular Rhum with Cheeser

and

Champerador

We want you to help us fill out the rest of Jollibeer's product line. What other products should Jollibeer serve?


Update: Jing googled "Jollibeer" and it seems that it already exists. There's a Jollibeer nightclub along Avenida. But I'm sure their product line is far less interesting.

Oh and if you're interested, mixing is done and we're now studying mastering options for the album. A little bit more waiting and the most kick-ass debut album the world has ever seen will be out. Tell your mom about it.

-z

music video talk, moonstar 88 - 1, ang bandang shirley - 0

haha stupid title. anyways i was watching the music video channels, waiting to see the "sa madaling salita" video on tv (i still haven't seen it) when i saw the new "migraine" video by moonstar 88, and it so beats our video. i know it's futile to compare two really different things, lightweight and heavyweight, no budget and big budget, etc. but i can't help but be thankful that our video came out first, otherwise it'd seem like we copied the dance sequence, which would not be cool. and they didn't copy our dance sequence either, ours just came first. and great minds think alike. and all those other disclaimers. check out the cool references to cool things like nacho libre and wes anderson, the stellar performance by mikey "the new mong" amistoso, and of course the pretty song by moonstar 88.

cheers to mr pancho esguerra, director of the best opm music video i've seen in a while. on a side note, he also directed the super great "the herb" video featuring joey santos, our studio engineer, as the bear.

-owel