While I was writing and recording the lyrics of the album, I was working for a Korean company teaching English to students over the phone. I remember writing lyrics for the songs during my lunch breaks and going to the old Tower of Doom in Brgy. Pinyahan after work. A handful of the songs were written in the Jolibee on the corner of…
Revisiting Conflagration Part I The Sacrifice Will Never be Enough
Revisiting Conflagration Part I The Sacrifice Will Never be Enough
It’s been 12 Years Since we released Conflagration and before it completely slips away from my memory, I wanted to try to write things down because I seem far enough away from it to look at it objectively. I’m very different from the person I was back in 2003-2006, the timeframe that it took for us to record the album (I think).
I’ve been meaning to write about COG’s music since it’s been on…
I’ve recently been uploading older articles I’ve written for amplify.ph. I figured that since the site’s been down, I wanted to put the few things I wrote for them up. I really liked writing that column and honestly, I wish I still had it. It would have given me an excuse to still keep myself in the scene. The column was mostly about my growing estrangement from the local music scene and me…
LOSING MY EDGE: WHY I HATE RELEASING NEW MUSIC (originally written for Amplify.ph; published in January 2016)
LOSING MY EDGE: WHY I HATE RELEASING NEW MUSIC (originally written for Amplify.ph; published in January 2016)
Note: I had a very short-lived stint writing a column called Losing My Edge for the now defunct music website amplify.ph. Since the website is gone, I thought I’d put some of the articles up here for posterity’s sake. This particular entry was submitted on January 2016, right before I entered the Foreign Service. The lyric video for Clandestine was just released around this time. This is…
LOSING MY EDGE: ONLY SHALLOW (originally written for amplify.ph, published 28 September 2015)
LOSING MY EDGE: ONLY SHALLOW (originally written for amplify.ph, published 28 September 2015)
Note: I had a very short-lived stint writing a column called Losing My Edge for the now defunct music website amplify.ph. Since the website is gone, I thought I’d put it up here for posterity’s sake I once went out on a few dates with a girl who was really into K-Pop. And when I say into K-Pop, I mean OG K-Pop fan fanatic. K-Pop hipster if there is such a thing, complete with encyclopaedic…
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s recent comments about taxpayers being the only ones who should be allowed to vote was met with a lot of shares and likes on my Facebook feed recently. It seems like a simple and interesting solution to our problems and many people have echoed these sentiments before. I don’t completely disagree with it because it could possibly solve some of our problems but I…