Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness. And I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life - the fray.
You know. Some things are beyond redemption. Some people are, too. So. Stop fucking trying to save everybody. Man. This is [...]

Skip this if you don’t like bastos anything ha! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

This morning there was a large pile of human shit on the pedestrian overpass. As I walked by it I noticed two things: (1) there was a trasparent snacking happily at it, and (2) whoever shat had the decency enough to attempt to cover it with one of those round cloth rags — the kind [...]

WITH MY HANDS OPEN AND MY EYES OPEN I JUST KEEP HOPING THAT YOUR HEART OPENS.
It’s not as easy as willing it all to be right. Got to be more than hoping it’s right. I want to hear you laugh like you really mean it. Collapse into me, tired with joy.
Because my MP3 collection has [...]

I don’t know if any of you guys has ever felt this, but every time I look out my office window, into the ant-siezed pedestrians below, and the height of the Ayala Av buildings, and the medium-commercial to medium-residential zones beyond Buendia going on to Guadalupe, I have this frantic urge to jump.
Partly because I [...]

Am reading Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. Because I had read A Million Little Pieces a month or so ago, I’m finding it really hard to like Prozac Nation. I know that James Frey is practically a pariah, what with it being found out that he embellished certain parts of his “memoir”, but the [...]

Do Something Different Today was on the back of some guy’s shirt today, as he was walking ahead of me on the way to the Quezon Av MRT station. I’m taking it as a sign. I’ve been taking the easy way out ever since I was in grade school, without much thought as to where [...]

Listen, I don’t know anything about movies. I mean, I can’t name a writer’s credits off the top of my head. I’ve never watched a movie older than Star Wars. I’m not a movie critic — inasmuch as being a film critic means name-dropping and knowing how to break down a movie into themes [...]