April Fools

>>Mall Show @ Robinson's Metro East for Flyff
>>Attraction! Reaction! Bday party @ Route 196

sira si copeland. galeng kay versus pics kaya olats haha. love, kathyg.

mall tour, etc.

We had a gig yesterday at the wonderful robinson's metro east. marcos highway reprezent, sta lucia reprezent, far far away and pretty early for a gig: we set up around 430pm and played from 4:45 til around 5:20. 8 songs? i think.

this wasn't the first shirley mall gig though, we played at the market! market! activity center once upon a time. jing and joe were absent so ean played the bass and i played the guitar, that was supposed to be a one hour set. we played all the songs we knew, we doubled all the solo parts (4 measures instead of 2, 8 measures instead of 4, haha), and even with the extended spiels ("warm crowd!" haha) we were only able to play around 45 minutes. that's what short pop gems get you, short sets. haha.

anyway back to metro east, we hadn't gigged in a while (the last one was the 30th of last month) so we really really missed each other hahaha. the attorney and the chanteuse had new haircuts, kathy had a tan from galera, joe just came back from the mountains, zig had an ice cream party at the office, heidi had a shoot with sam concepcion, and ean was being devious haha.

a jingmobile ride and a bit of mall exploration followed by a large scoop of vanilla softserve dipped in chocolate (for me) and then we were on stage. the set was theme song - patintero/habulan/larong kalye - sa madaling salita - wealth of nations - masamang damo - xmaslites - bato - tsuper. long set. haha.

we met wayne! hi wayne. he works for level-up games and he's a multiply friend, and apparently he's heard of the band before, which is very very cool. pa-post nung pics natin! :)

after the gig we tagged along to oi wag dito's practice at pinoy penguin, where i was interviewed for our band's documentary about how important the band members were individually to the band, and i guess i was thinking about how it felt to see them again after the time off and i was talking about what their part in the band was when i made this great realization that i think i've talked about before but i think i put it in better words last night. i don't remember it verbatim, but i remember the feeling after the interview and it was kind of big.

i want the docu and the album to come out na haha.

see you guys tonight at route 196, bring your friends! happy birthday bandmates!

-owel

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

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

much much love,

=jing=