Palabok and Burger?

Rare sighting of Vegie Palabok and Burger from Likha Diwa. Something new aside from pasta and/or rice at dinner.

Currently listening to: Shipwreck A.D. 'Abyss', Tear it Up 'The First Four Months'

Minor Threat 'Bottled Violence'

Minor Threat 'Bottled Violence' shirt (sorry for the shitty pic)

Fazoli's...

One of the best Italian restaurants has only one branch. Fazoli's at Libis. They have it all. Good food, pasta, pizza. Good price. Unlimited garlic bread. The only gripe is that they have shut down all of their branches except the one at Eastwood so in case you're living in Manila, you'll face the gruesome traffic that is C-5. But in the end its' worth it. So GO!

Currently listening: Pulling Teeth 'Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions', Righteous Jams 'Rage of Discipline'

Holiday Season!

It's that time of the year again. The weather is cold. People are going everywhere and there's the HEAVY traffic. The KRUPSKAYA tour will be happening next week so make sure to come out and hang. There's also a show in Laguna tonight so if you're not doing anything, come out and support.

Currently watching: Big Bang Theory Season 1

Good stuff: Celtics 9-0 streak, Blacklisted 'No one deserves to be here more than me', The Rival Mob 'Raw Life'

Krupskaya (UK) Manila, Bulacan and Laguna leg...

Here are the flyers for the upcoming Krupskaya tour aside from the year-end party to be held at Ten02. You lazy suburban kids better check out the Bulacan and Laguna leg of this tour. Plus, the Laguna leg is also a celebration of twenty (20) years of one of Laguna's pioneers AGRESSIVE DOG ATTACK. Twenty years, gotta respect that. Hope they have a discography release or something for that date.

Currently listening to: Soul Control 'Cycles', Unbroken 'Life. Love. Regret.'

SOCIAL PRISON zine Issue no. 1 Review

If you were around in the late 90’s, you might have encountered a zine done by a young punk rocker from Singapore named Shaiful and his zine was called Zerox. It had a nice run and was well-read especially by the international zine community. It is now 2009 and Shaiful is back with his new zine. Bordering more on personal rantings, thoughts, shit-talking than your usual zince content. Most interesting to read was his rant on sexism wherein he asks ‘Are you sexist? Am I sexist? Or are we both equally exist?’. Punk rock has always been about questioning the established order and Shaiful does that again in a few pages of his new zine. (Prohibited Projects c/o Shaiful Bedok Central Post Office PO Box530 Singapore 914605 Singapore, prohibitedprojects@gmail.com)

INCIDENTAL AFTERTHOUGHT zine Issue no. 9 Review

I thought this zine has already died since I did not encounter a new issue for some time already. I saw Joseph (the editor) last week at an NCI event so I asked him about it and turns out he has a copy of the latest issue. I bought it and here I am reviewing it right now. The thing I enjoy most about this zine is Joseph’s endless rhetoric about his life and everything that revolves around in it, from soundtracks to shitty people, public commute and everything in between. This issue does not disappoint since there’s a healthy dose of personal input from the editor including his devotion to Dunkin Donuts coffee and a whole bunch of other stuff.

This time he’s got interviews with local stoner/doom outfit Eyes of Fire, Makati’s Santelmo (not to be confused with the band from Davao), Unearthly Trance (boring interview), Rwake (Arkansas) (another boring one), Kaktus Karuka (now you’re talking!), who rose from the ashes of Chokecocoi to deliver in your face thrashin mayhem! Pick up their demo CD-R if you can. Awesome shit. There’s also an interview with F-Grave, D-Beat, party monsters Guerra Mundial. Average interviews but as I said earlier, the thing I love about this band is the write-ups from the editor. Kinda like how I love Rallye’s Scrawlshop zine. (incidentalafterthought@yahoo.com)


Currently listening to: Abraxis “s/t”

I Remember Halloween zine Issue No. 3

One of my favorite zines today. Dane has been consistently putting out IRH the last couple of years and so far his work has not yet disappointed me. This time we have interviews with Kae-Roe-Shi (Kuala Lumpur political hardcore), Thou (Louisiana) – the interview was done with Zepol so it was a fresh read, Staid (local straightedge group with members from Feud, Chokecocoi, Half the Battle – quite an all-star cast!:)) , quite simply the best interview of this issue, Omerta (Bulacan sludge-masters), Fight Amputation (New Jersey), Protestant (Milwaukee) and Requiem (North Carolina)- a reprint from an issue of Interpretation Fanzine no. 2 from 2007 (the interviewer asks very interesting questions to Brian D. of Catharsis fame), another great read from one of the hardest working guys in hardcore right now. And that’s just the interviews section. The questions were all well-thought out and gives the readers quite and interesting time in getting to know the background of the aforementioned bands.

IRH also features a couple of write-ups from the editor, some zine and record reviews, pics, flyers among other stuff. Make sure to pick this up. This is essential zine reading for all you internet geeks out there. (Dane Cortes, PO Box 1504, Quezon City CPO, 1155 Quezon City, Philippines)

Currently listening to: Civ ‘The Complete Discography), Chuck Ragan ‘Los Feliz’

Tight End zine Issue No. 1 Review

Here’s the debut issue of this zine from Laguna and to his credit, his debut issue was an awesome. It features lengthy interviews with Bystorm (Manila), Easy (Half the Battle) and The Effort from Massachusetts. The interviews were not your usual run-off-the-mill questions but shows that the interviewer took his time in asking questions which is always appreciated by the interviewees since it gives them a chance to talk about not your usual topics. The editor also put up some show reviews and other write-ups. An old friend from the Netherlands also put up an article on why the vinyl had continually survived the different mediums that came after it such as cassettes, CDs and now, the digital revolution. A great start for this zine and I hope he continues the good work.

It’s a good thing print zine are being published regularly this past year. Hope to see more of them in the future so continue supporting these zines! (www.youthcrewrevival.blogspot.com)

Light and Green @ Mongolian Quick Stop

Right now we have y own version of a Vegetarian Bowl from Mongolian Quick Stop as an alternative to their usual vegetarian bowl which has tofu, bean sprouts, pechay baguio and rice. To mix it up, I added some nooles, more veggies and good news: I made it too spicy. All of you should definitely check this out.

For news on this blog: I started reviewing stuff again for this blog so if you're interested in having your stuff reviewed here, then by all means, send me a message and the stuff you want reviewed. For starters, I reviewed a couple of zines you might want to check out.

Currently watching: Bulls vs. Cavs, The Practice Season 1 (just started this week, from what I've seen, should be a good series), Big Bang Theory Season 1 and 2

Good stuff: jogging around U.P. while listening to everything Mental (Boston) recorded. Awesome sht., coffee, teetilldeath.com...