Saturday, October 29, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Happy 1000th!
Me and my big mouth wishes everyone a delightful time of day. Why delightful? Because I am finally accepting e-fanmail. For a second post in Fictional Fanmail, that's a lot of progress let me tell you. Besides that, I have reached 1000 views! Congrats to all the readers, followers, net servers, and free times that made it all possible.
We have our very first e-mail from "imfirstbitch" saying:
Okay, a big shout-out to imfirstbitch for that very inspiring idea, YOU RULE DOG! Stay tuned readers. When I gain enough hype and rep around here, I'm gonna start working on that "2ND BLOG."
In the meantime, I'mma start working on the other labels. Keep sending in your fanmail peeps! It's very much appreciated.
Me and my big mouth, closed.
We have our very first e-mail from "imfirstbitch" saying:
'Sup M.A.M.B.M.
I'm first bitch! Btw, lovin' your blog! Unlike those bitches who snail-mailed before me who love you way more that they should. Anyhows, aside from your blog right here, what else do you do for fun? It would be pretty kick-ass if you'd write a novel or somethin'. Post more of your tracks too! Piece of Pi was an epic way to start your career, if you have any... LOL, just playin' dog. But seriously, you got potential here. Peace out!Hmmm... you know what? I'll consider that, imfirstbitch. After sprucing up this blog, I'm gonna make a new one completely dedicated to said novel. In fact, I'm gonna integrate my music into that novel. So... it's gonna be a combination of blogging, music, literature, and possibly even videos! God, this is gonna be one hell of a project.
Okay, a big shout-out to imfirstbitch for that very inspiring idea, YOU RULE DOG! Stay tuned readers. When I gain enough hype and rep around here, I'm gonna start working on that "2ND BLOG."
In the meantime, I'mma start working on the other labels. Keep sending in your fanmail peeps! It's very much appreciated.
Me and my big mouth, closed.
Learning Helplessness
Me and my big mouth. Here. Blogging. 11:47 PM. October 26, 2011. My house. Family computer. Windows XP SP2. Seriously I still have an XP? At least it's not a Vista... Serial number: Too personal. Hmmm. Fine, I got no intros planned for this one.
Dear Diary,
How's the sem break doing for you, Diary? We haven't gotten in touch for a while since I'm also working on other blog posts. Don't fret though, this post will be a good personal one. I promise.
It occurred to me that I have a fixed face that's either dead serious or freakishly happy. To back this fact up I have two artists in music I am a fan of:
Sincerely mine,
Dear Diary,
How's the sem break doing for you, Diary? We haven't gotten in touch for a while since I'm also working on other blog posts. Don't fret though, this post will be a good personal one. I promise.
It occurred to me that I have a fixed face that's either dead serious or freakishly happy. To back this fact up I have two artists in music I am a fan of:
TRICKY
&
APHEX TWIN (As seen in Fictional Fear Factors)
So Diary, what does these two have in connection with my face you ask? A LOT.
Anyway Diary, besides this face preset I have, I am also a social introvert; basically, a guy who can hang with others but prefers to be alone. Why?
I usually speak in English back then, in an environment of provincial and local students. Due to this, I am not often listened to. Even in high school, when I learned to grasp Tagalog I couldn't get anyone to take me seriously. You see, I was always seen back then as an English-speaking, goody two-shoes, tall nerd who hasn't uttered a single curse or bad word. It wasn't all bad, in fact, I was the teachers' pet and the sisters' future-priest (Catholic school) without even trying.
After my valedictory speech (might as well be proud of it), I made a promise to myself. I will listen attentively to anyone speaking so that they won't feel what I felt when I wasn't listened to. Lastly, I won't talk to anyone unless they talk to me. If you won't listen, I might as well save my breath and spit for someone who deserves it.
So that's what society did to me back then, Diary. Learned helplessness. I learned to stop speaking and save my voice for those who are actually listening. In retrospect, it may also be a lingering fear of social rejection and alienation. Is it wrong if I do not want other people to know me better since I am sparing them from the most uninteresting and boring person of their lives?
I speak more Tagalog nowadays but I still keep my English accent in case I need it. It's very handy for establishing professional rapports, presenting oral reports, interviews, drama and the theater, and voice-acting. If you want a sampler of my voice, watch The Park Bench produced and animated by Trevor Viloria.
Oh well... I hope I can get over this social dilemma soon, Diary. It's now 12:48 AM, one hour since I started. I should get some shut-eye. For now, I am really thankful for my family and friends. Thanks guys for coping with my dullness. I'm really glad that I don't waste anything when I talk to you guys.
I guess I need someone to talk to and I am beyond willing to listen. That's why I got you, Diary...
Bittersweet, ain't it?
Bittersweet, ain't it?
Sincerely mine,
Me and My Big Mouth
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
This Will Change Your Life
Me and my big mouth are opening up with an all-new segment! Fictional Fanmail, where my imaginary audience finally gives me a piece of their non-existent minds. All letters under this segment are REAL and are from REAL people; I mean that in the most ironic way possible.
Enough fiddle-faddle then! On to the first fanmail from... everyone who has read my blog!
Wow! Let's open it up!
Well...
..........
..........
This is probably the BEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER SAID TO ME! I was really aiming for an asshole-esque, bitch-like, bullshit-approach for my blog. Besides that, my blog is really jamming their computers! It must be a real party over there when you guys are reading my blog.
In fact, they love my blog so much, they wanna fuck me... Okay guys, loving my blog is one thing, but making love with me is entirely different. Control yourselves! Sheesh... and I thought I had problems.
Listen readers, the best way to fuck with someone is to mess them up with your bullshit. Exactly what my blog is doing right now... But that message only goes to those who sent me this first fanmail.
Sarcasm; the kind of bullshit that fucks everyone up. The title says it all, doesn't it?
Enough fiddle-faddle then! On to the first fanmail from... everyone who has read my blog!
Wow! Let's open it up!
Well...
..........
..........
This is probably the BEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER SAID TO ME! I was really aiming for an asshole-esque, bitch-like, bullshit-approach for my blog. Besides that, my blog is really jamming their computers! It must be a real party over there when you guys are reading my blog.
In fact, they love my blog so much, they wanna fuck me... Okay guys, loving my blog is one thing, but making love with me is entirely different. Control yourselves! Sheesh... and I thought I had problems.
Listen readers, the best way to fuck with someone is to mess them up with your bullshit. Exactly what my blog is doing right now... But that message only goes to those who sent me this first fanmail.
Sarcasm; the kind of bullshit that fucks everyone up. The title says it all, doesn't it?
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Sem Break: Paradigm Shift
Me and my big mouth are enjoying the sem break. By enjoying, I mean visiting analytical and pharmaceutical labs for possible OJT and future job opportunities. We are now live blogging in a meeting room like a real boss, which is really not as epic as it sounds, since I'm not part of the meeting...
Anyway, I've gone through a lot these past four days; the so-called "What am I doing with my life?" phase. I've prepared a should-do list that I must accomplish before this vacation ends.
I'm not usually good with lists... but my fellow bloggers are doing it, so hey, why not? Speaking of fellow bloggers who could probably make more sense than my experimental ramblings, here they are:
Hmmm... this is fun. Let's have another go at it, shall we?
What I should probably make a list of:
Going back to more pressing matters...
THE SHOULD-DO LIST:
1. Get myself a compartmentalized tea-box and become a tea connoisseur as well as organizing tea intake by days. For instance:
4. Scope through various companies for future job opportunities.
5. Get an iPad 2. (Optional)
6. Regain weight due to the stresses of the last semester.
7. Finish my Little Prince soundtrack.
8. Finish our film.
9. Get a LAN Cable.
10. Finalize my music projects and collaborators.
11. Read more on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Essays in Existentialism."
12. Read more on "Radiohead & Philosophy."
Hopefully, I aim to be a more focused and more organized individual without sacrificing fun. I should establish myself as a tea-loving, music-making, philsophical, chemistry-oriented, business student of the Ateneo.
Me and my big mouth, closed.
What do you think of the new ending?
Anyway, I've gone through a lot these past four days; the so-called "What am I doing with my life?" phase. I've prepared a should-do list that I must accomplish before this vacation ends.
I'm not usually good with lists... but my fellow bloggers are doing it, so hey, why not? Speaking of fellow bloggers who could probably make more sense than my experimental ramblings, here they are:
Hmmm... this is fun. Let's have another go at it, shall we?
What I should probably make a list of:
- My future downloads
- My archives
- Music
- Movies
- Pictures
- Games
- Applications
- My wishlists
- Christmas
- Birthday
- Graduation
- Immediate Wants
- Future Wishes
- Selfless Wishes
- My future blog posts
- My future compositions
- My future projects
Going back to more pressing matters...
THE SHOULD-DO LIST:
1. Get myself a compartmentalized tea-box and become a tea connoisseur as well as organizing tea intake by days. For instance:
- Green Mondays
- Chai Tuesdays
- Peppermint Wednesdays
- Tarragon Thursdays
- Chamomile Fridays
- English Saturdays
- Earl Grey Sundays (My favorite!)
- Mellow Mondays
- Trip-Hop Tuesdays
- Alternative Wednesdays
- Classical Thursdays
- Electro Fridays
- Screamo Saturdays
- Soundtrack Sundays
4. Scope through various companies for future job opportunities.
5. Get an iPad 2. (Optional)
6. Regain weight due to the stresses of the last semester.
7. Finish my Little Prince soundtrack.
8. Finish our film.
9. Get a LAN Cable.
10. Finalize my music projects and collaborators.
11. Read more on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Essays in Existentialism."
12. Read more on "Radiohead & Philosophy."
Hopefully, I aim to be a more focused and more organized individual without sacrificing fun. I should establish myself as a tea-loving, music-making, philsophical, chemistry-oriented, business student of the Ateneo.
Me and my big mouth, closed.
What do you think of the new ending?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Lavender Town
Me and my big mouth are here once again with the same introductions. So yeah, we're back in Writer's Block where we let the music compensate for the lack of thoughts for a better post. This time around we focus on a tune that gives true Pokemon fans a nostalgia boner every time.
As some of you may know, Lavender Town is part of the Kanto region in Generation 1 of the Pokemon universe. It is the sixth place you visit as I recall which is most memorable due to the infamous Ghost Tower erected there as a memorial for the souls of dead Pokemon. Yes, I have been quite the follower of Pokemon.
Anyway, a conspiracy has been spread across the internet a year ago about the theme music heard in Lavender Town as well as the Ghost Tower and its inhabitants. It is known as Lavender Town Syndrome. Long story, click the link.
Short story, there have been reports of mass suicides and illnesses of children aged 7-12 in Japan upon hearing the original Lavender Town theme music in Pokemon Red and Green due to certain frequencies and images formed when translating the sound into images. The sound engineer who translated the sound found out with his powerful ear that there was a certain frequency missing which made Lavender Town sound incomplete. His friend added it in (after he died) and some shocking images were displayed.
Look, I'm a bit skeptical about this but either way, I love the hauntingly beautiful tune of Lavender Town and I, too, believed that there was indeed something missing. Yes, I am a sound engineer. Yes, I got an ear for frequencies. Yes, my roommate found this out by accident after viewing the Gary Motherf***ing Oak meme. But no, I did not want it to sound more devious than it's current reputation.
Lavender Town was missing beauty. I added more instruments and an additional chord sequence that fit the "hauntingly beautiful" theme perfectly while still remaining faithful to the original. Plus, I sampled a classic horror string sound effect.
P.S. If you play this song in iTunes on repeat, it loops just like in the game.
You're never too scared to move... on. Face the music and make the best out of it.
P.S. I just noticed that the song cut at about 4:24 onwards. That was my bad. It wasn't an intended abrupt cut at the climax to creep you out rather it was an editing mistake I never checked since I made this video at 2 in the morning.
As some of you may know, Lavender Town is part of the Kanto region in Generation 1 of the Pokemon universe. It is the sixth place you visit as I recall which is most memorable due to the infamous Ghost Tower erected there as a memorial for the souls of dead Pokemon. Yes, I have been quite the follower of Pokemon.
Anyway, a conspiracy has been spread across the internet a year ago about the theme music heard in Lavender Town as well as the Ghost Tower and its inhabitants. It is known as Lavender Town Syndrome. Long story, click the link.
Short story, there have been reports of mass suicides and illnesses of children aged 7-12 in Japan upon hearing the original Lavender Town theme music in Pokemon Red and Green due to certain frequencies and images formed when translating the sound into images. The sound engineer who translated the sound found out with his powerful ear that there was a certain frequency missing which made Lavender Town sound incomplete. His friend added it in (after he died) and some shocking images were displayed.
Look, I'm a bit skeptical about this but either way, I love the hauntingly beautiful tune of Lavender Town and I, too, believed that there was indeed something missing. Yes, I am a sound engineer. Yes, I got an ear for frequencies. Yes, my roommate found this out by accident after viewing the Gary Motherf***ing Oak meme. But no, I did not want it to sound more devious than it's current reputation.
Lavender Town was missing beauty. I added more instruments and an additional chord sequence that fit the "hauntingly beautiful" theme perfectly while still remaining faithful to the original. Plus, I sampled a classic horror string sound effect.
P.S. If you play this song in iTunes on repeat, it loops just like in the game.
P.S. I just noticed that the song cut at about 4:24 onwards. That was my bad. It wasn't an intended abrupt cut at the climax to creep you out rather it was an editing mistake I never checked since I made this video at 2 in the morning.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Deafeningly Silent
Me and my big mouth are back fronting the overly underrated self-titled blog. Antonyms aside, how am I doing? The answer lies in the title and stands out so much, it's overstood. Is that understood?
Fine, I'll stop. Anyway, I've been silent, blog-wise, life-wise, likewise. I'm just busy. With what you ask? (I just love pretending you guys care.) (I just love addressing an imaginary audience.) (I just love side-quotes.) (Okay, too much parentheses!) "I just love self-contradictions..." "Apparently, you can never have too much love (otherwise it'll become obsession)." "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love. - My cousin" "Wait, can I use another person's quote as a side-quote?" "I got an idea. Maybe if I type it this way..."
" "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love." - My cousin "
"Technically, it's still a side-quote... but an original quote at the same time." "Okay too much quotation marks!" [Hmmm... that's better...] [Oh no...] [I think I have overused ellipses as well...] [By ellipses, I mean the three consecutive dots of uncertainty and "to-be-continudity," not the ovals.] [For those who are green, "to-be continuedness" Happy?] [Addressing with the imaginary audience again.] [Something doesn't feel right.] [It's like I forgot something.] [Oh yeah, what am I busy with you ask?] [I bet you thought I was gonna say that there were too much brackets.] [I also bet you were gonna say that I somehow defied all known laws of side-quoting.] {If there is such a thing...} {No, I did not see what I just did there.} {This is all completely impromptu and spontaneous.} {I was typing this as I thought it out.} (Yeah... either I'm lying or I lied.) (The truth is... I lied, that means I'm telling the truth right now.)
So what the fuck does this what-the-fuckery made by this what-the-fuck!er such as myself mean?
This just proves my points...
1. That I am deafeningly silent. I didn't speak... nor did I make any sound. But saying this blog post alone was deafening is an understatement. It is understatementingly deafening.
2. Antonyms and juxtapositions are cool.
3. All punctuation marks have the right to be used.
4. Too much of anything is bad.
5. "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love." - My cousin
6. Redundancy, repetition, self-contradiction, uncertainty, foul language, and especially bad grammar are things anyone should avoid. I only choose to embrace their unrealized potential. (Avant-garde/Non-conformist much?)
7. I have the right to be this random after months of not blogging. Consider this to be me and my big mouth UNLEASHED!
8. 7 is a lucky number for me but I needed one more number to say this statement. Damn it!
9. You'll never know what I was busy with!
- schoolwork. Happy now?
Plus, 9 is also my lucky number! I have this issue with ending my points in my lucky number. Would it make more sense if I said that all numbers for me are lucky? Well, except 666 and 13. (Superstitious much?)
Fine, I'll stop. Anyway, I've been silent, blog-wise, life-wise, likewise. I'm just busy. With what you ask? (I just love pretending you guys care.) (I just love addressing an imaginary audience.) (I just love side-quotes.) (Okay, too much parentheses!) "I just love self-contradictions..." "Apparently, you can never have too much love (otherwise it'll become obsession)." "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love. - My cousin" "Wait, can I use another person's quote as a side-quote?" "I got an idea. Maybe if I type it this way..."
" "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love." - My cousin "
"Technically, it's still a side-quote... but an original quote at the same time." "Okay too much quotation marks!" [Hmmm... that's better...] [Oh no...] [I think I have overused ellipses as well...] [By ellipses, I mean the three consecutive dots of uncertainty and "to-be-continudity," not the ovals.] [For those who are green, "to-be continuedness" Happy?] [Addressing with the imaginary audience again.] [Something doesn't feel right.] [It's like I forgot something.] [Oh yeah, what am I busy with you ask?] [I bet you thought I was gonna say that there were too much brackets.] [I also bet you were gonna say that I somehow defied all known laws of side-quoting.] {If there is such a thing...} {No, I did not see what I just did there.} {This is all completely impromptu and spontaneous.} {I was typing this as I thought it out.} (Yeah... either I'm lying or I lied.) (The truth is... I lied, that means I'm telling the truth right now.)
So what the fuck does this what-the-fuckery made by this what-the-fuck!er such as myself mean?
This just proves my points...
1. That I am deafeningly silent. I didn't speak... nor did I make any sound. But saying this blog post alone was deafening is an understatement. It is understatementingly deafening.
2. Antonyms and juxtapositions are cool.
3. All punctuation marks have the right to be used.
4. Too much of anything is bad.
5. "Obsession is the worst thing that can happen to a guy in love." - My cousin
6. Redundancy, repetition, self-contradiction, uncertainty, foul language, and especially bad grammar are things anyone should avoid. I only choose to embrace their unrealized potential. (Avant-garde/Non-conformist much?)
7. I have the right to be this random after months of not blogging. Consider this to be me and my big mouth UNLEASHED!
8. 7 is a lucky number for me but I needed one more number to say this statement. Damn it!
9. You'll never know what I was busy with!
- schoolwork. Happy now?
Plus, 9 is also my lucky number! I have this issue with ending my points in my lucky number. Would it make more sense if I said that all numbers for me are lucky? Well, except 666 and 13. (Superstitious much?)
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