Epiphany

We always try and be the people that we see in Television. When we see awesome dudes most of the time some people opt to copy em. It could range from Barney Stinson to Borat or to someone like not these two...

But I just realized, as not real as these guys are... in their not real worlds? They're what they are... they're themselves.

All I'm saying is that to be awesome we don't have to copy em, they're them... and we're us. Let's start be our own unique selves...

Being yourself is not that bad... is one of the best advice that I've received and following it.

Thanks for letting this side of me free.

The Script

Enjoying The Script's album right now. You guys gotta check this out. I don't know who to compare this guys like, but they have all the ingredients for awesomeness. They'll sure pass the driving tunes test.

They also kind of remind me of Mute Math in a way? I'm not really that sure. Just check em out... buy their album! It's worth it!

They just got in my iPod and already I can say The Script > Anberlin HAHAHA

Looking Forward 2010

Well since 2010 is just around the corner, and so far it's looking to be something that would really start with a bang. New responsibilities in my work, other stuff looming like old loves coming back... So here's my few want-to-do's in this coming year.

#1.) Old Love: Music -- time to change the rusty strings on my guitar and get the metronome tapping again. Maybe write a few of my own in the process?

#2.) Old Love: Writing -- why not? I've been fairly active with my writing lately (mostly poetry) and like I said, maybe finally get to attempt to write songs this time.

#3.) Old Love: Books -- I was a bookworm when I was young. Yep that era of hard bound Hardy Boys books and the Lady Bug series are still sitting on my bookshelf. They never really got new brothers until the end of this year where I started buying those Tolkien books (Children of Hurin, The Hobbit)... maybe get around with some CS Lewis this time?

#4.) New Love: My Career. Need to build myself up if I want to improve in where I am right now. E-books where ya at? Maybe I need to invest in a "Kindle" too?

#5.) Old Love: Basketball. Should play alot more, and attend coach's clinics during saturdays. I'm having a blast on my asst. coach role in our young team. I train and play with them too having to lose weight in the process too.

#6.) Save Up! I'm turning 25 in 3 months, and I guess I need to have my future secure as well. There's just alot of stuff that's about to happen. Need to see myself in my own place, and of course... the other stuff that would come inevitably... like family?

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These are some things that I wanna do (#4 will definitely do) in this coming year. The others, we'll see as we go. But for now, why don't we just put some smiles on kids as they get to open their gifts?

Which reminds me... I still gots alot of shopping stuff to do!

Tumblr

Ok, I have no idea why I have this knack on maintaining more than one blog...
I have my twitter, plurk -- not that active there but, multiply, which this blog is also synced, flickr, to keep my photos, and now tumblr...

My tumblr account used to be marcodj.tumblr.com but then, other people that I don't know started following aswell. With that, I decided to change the address to somehow keep me anonymous.

Keep up with me in my tumblr if you're up for it peeps. http://djcheese.tumblr.com

oh... and I'm trying this one out, and kind of having fun as well...
got any questions for me? put em up in my formspring!

Memories

Suddenly I remember Trigonometry
when our hands first locked in symmetry
beside each other we silently sat
and on my hands were yours laid flat

Closer

Distance sings a song
it goes with a tune that I can't belong
Pain now hums along a tune
My name along with the casualties it prunes

Why should I sit and stare
Along the vast sky with blinding glare
I still hold what tomorrow would bring
Chin up, stand up, a new song to sing

I know someday, this will all be over
For the distance that now beholds her
On that day when I come over
We'll be closer, we'll be closer

These words I heard over a song
Gives me hope where I could belong
I changed a bit to make it mine
and in time, your hand in mine

I don't know what else to think
your image pops out everytime I blink
and right now I know both are far to link
but then there's still these ideas to sink

that someday, this will all be over
that distance will no longer hold her
for one day I'll come over
finally, we'll be closer

Can we start over?
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Some lines inspired from The Fray's song Syndicate.

The Answer Is Back!

After months of complaining for playing time, retiring and un-retiring. Allen Iverson finds himself back in the arms of Philly, the city of brotherly love.






and look at the people who came by to see their prodigal son. They surely did look at their browser windows, and at the first news that he's coming back... they came in running. It seems that no seats we're vacated and it's just awesome to see those #3 Philly Jersey's back in fashion again.

You go get em, you cornrowed, complaining, future hall-of-famer you... go and do yo thang. (11 points 5 rebounds 6 assists and a steal on his first game back as a Sixer)

A Must Read: Why We MUST Watch Breaking Dawn (Movie)

THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE:

WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE

by Devin Faraci | 11/27/2009

With New Moon likely to make yet another metric fuckload of money this weekend we need to find the bright side to the entire Twilight mania. There must be something good that comes from this awful Mormon fantasy that seems to have invaded our culture on every front. That something is the eventual movie version of Breaking Dawn.

Even though New Moon has made a bazillion dollars and even though the third Twilight book, Eclipse, is already filming, Summit has declined to announce the fourth and final Twilight book as a movie. There's a good reason for this: Breaking Dawn is completely fucking insane, and it is probably totally unfilmable. But if they do film it... man, we are in for a treat.

Breaking Dawn opens with Bella Swan, the lacteal heroine of the series, finally getting married to Edward Cullen, the mopey vampire hero. They go off to honeymoon on Isle Esme, a Brazilian island the Cullen clan owns (this is already ridiculous beyond belief. Imagine a vampire going snorkeling; it basically happens in this book), and Edward is afraid to fuck his new bride. The reason: he's super strong and she's just a human - Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex type of situation here. But Bella wears him down and Edward throws it in her - and knocks her the fuck out, leaving her badly bruised.

Let's go over that again: Edward fucks Bella into unconsciousness. This alone should have you running to Fandango to pre-order your tickets, but it only gets better.

Despite being knocked out cold by his sexual style (and having the headboard destroyed), Bella goes back to Edward for seconds. This time he knocks her up. Yes, an undead vampire apparently has enough viable sperm to impregnate a human woman while fucking her off the coast of Rio de Janero. Stephenie Meyer, you fabulous idiot!

The baby in Bella's belly starts growing incredibly fast. And it starts hurting Bella, as each kick it gives has the super strength of a vampire behind it. As it grows, Bella gets sicker, and then the good stuff starts. The baby kicks so hard it breaks Bella's ribs and then severs her spine. Are you imagining Kristen Stewart wearing a fake pregnancy belly and pretending to have been suddenly crippled by her own fetus? Because I am and it's making me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Oh wait, I missed something. Edward is completely freaked out about the baby, fearing it will kill Bella. He tries to convince her to get an abortion (but seriously, how could she? Vampires are tough to kill even in this shitty series), and goes so far as asking Native American wolfboy Jacob to impregnate his wife so that she can have the baby she desperately wants. I'm dizzy with how ridiculous this is, and we're just getting started.

Eventually the baby starts to get born and Bella is dying. The baby has telepathy, by the way, so everybody can read its thoughts while it's in the womb, and it turns out to have an essentially adult mind. Like Alia in Dune; I would accuse Stephenie Meyer of ripping this off, but anyone who thinks that Meyer might have read Frank Herbert has never been within spitting distance of Twilight. The woman is a moron.

In a moment that demands to be shown on the silver screen, Edward gives Bella an emergency C-section with his fucking teeth. It's like something out of XTro, for the love of God. It's so horrible it's brilliant, and this scene alone is why I remain firm in declaring that David Cronenberg must direct Breaking Dawn. This is surely his movie.

Once the baby is out, Bella gets vamped by Edward, as she's about to die at any moment. Then comes the most astonishing turn of events in 21st century literature, and possibly in the entire history of awful fiction aimed at tweens: Jacob the werewolf, who has been madly in love with Bella, sees the new baby girl and immediately imprints on her. What this means, in layman's terms, is that he falls in love with the baby.

I want to pull this out on its own: Jacob falls in love with a baby.

The book makes no bones about this; while Jacob doesn't want to fuck the baby right off the bat, he can't stand to be away from it and visits everyday. His love has been transferred from Bella to the baby (who has the tongue shattering name Renesmee), and because of the science behind imprinting he'll love her forever. So one day he's going to stick his wolf dick in this girl that he see as a bloody newborn. Romance is not dead, it's just being abused by insane Mormon writers.

There's more in Breaking Dawn - the Volturi come back, for one thing - but these are the main amazing events that demand this book to be turned into a film. I will not rest until I have seen a movie in which a werewolf falls in love with a baby. Hell, once I've seen a werewolf fall in love with a baby I may quit movie watching - I will have seen the ultimate culmination of a century of cinema. The entire film of Breaking Dawn would play like the weirdest exploitation film since Doris Wishman died - brutal sex, bizarre body horror, unbelievable pedophilia.

A werewolf falling in love with a baby. This is why Thomas Edison invented this shit in the first place. So we could see a werewolf fall in love with a baby.

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This article is in no way written by me

Quite a Year

I still can't believe that November is ending already. Time does fly so fast. It just felt like I turned 24 yesterday.

But what a year it's turning out to be for Filipinos. After being sent down to our knees with consecutive calamities, bastards then came rushing in like they just escaped from Gotham's Arkham Asylum.

Nobody could explain what kind of souls these people have to just have 57 (or probably more) killed without batting an eyelash. And for what reason? Contesting a political position?

After seeing the Gruesome Photos (found here) I'm at a loss for words. Everyone's been crying about it, and I think nobody from the clan would be punished here. I bet their grunts would be the only ones that would feel the lashing from our laws.

Two words for you guys.
Up Yours!

POSTER!

Look at Anderson Varejao fold like a piece of paper after Dwyane Wade did a number on him.



Unleashing the power of Air Jordan 25

Dear You,

it’s been a while
and it doesn’t help that we’re a thousand miles
I haven’t heard from lately
just wanted to know how are you exactly
emotions plays tough games
let them be
if you need some space
i’ll let you be
I hope i dont go overboard with what i feel
it’s just something that i thought would appeal
it’s so obvious that i feel for you still
i just don’t want to give you a hard time with your ideals

dear you,
i’ll take a step back
just let me know
i’d freely freeze out
even though it blows
here comes that feeling
the one that sings the blues
when i’m sitting here blindly wading out the clues
we promised that no matter what
we’ll still be good
because we’re just that
too good for truth
so here i’ll stay
and watch you from afar
with my heart held tight
and its door ajar
so for now i’ll keep still
wait for the next time we say our spiels
and so here i’ll wait, stay and kneel
until we’re all ready to say what we feel

-mdj

Made True To 1 Promise

So I finally made true to one of my purchases for this year. I finally got hold of the iPod that I have placed on hold for a couple of years now.

You see, I'm not the kind of guy that would get gadgets here and there, for me, as long as they work, I'm good with that. My first mp3 player was a pink one given to me by an Uruk Hai. I thank the kind orc for that gift, and that's from the bottom of my heart. It was a 128mb player that made my commutes alright. I thought to myself that that size would be alright since I just need to carry a few selections and such. But I caught myself at a loss when I heard something on the radio and wanted to hear a better version of it in my ear, alas... I didn't have it loaded in my pocket size player.

My 2nd one was an improvement, it was a 128mb Creative MuVo that was given to me by a friend. It was just sitting there in his desk and when he knew that I didn't have that much to carry with, he gave me the MuVo. The MuVo was an improvement since it's sound quality was way better than the Orc gift. The old player went to my mom loaded with her default favorites. These players needed triple-A batteries to work, which was of course a pain in the ass since you had to charge em everytime.

My 3rd one lasted for a year and a half, my ever trusty 1gb Creative Zen Stone. It was a small player, as big as a skipping stone that hid snug in my pockets for that long of a time. This one carried alot of songs, I could drop a whole playlist there of a certain genre. During work, I find myself dumping alternative tracks, and before ball I fill it up with my Balla-list. There'll be rainy days that I need to have some slow ones in em. But... we all know that sooner or later 1gb wouldn't be enough. Yeah it'll last you for a trip, but then again, it doesn't support mood swings. It's not capable of switching from your rainy day mood to something that would prepare you for a fight.

This year, when I finally got a hold of a stable job, and I thank my new family (work) for that, I finally could afford this dream of mine that have evaded me for a couple of years now. I am finally an owner of an iPod. And guess what... It's playing a John Mayer Trio concert too while I'm typing this blog.



The clicker just felt right, the circling of my thumbs through the songs just felt awesome and the videos that would make my passenger butt go through an hour of travel adds spice to the awesomeness that it already is. I love it.

But then again... as my library continues to evolve, as the movies that I wanna load it up continue to progress... in a couple of years more... will it be enough?

Right now, I love her... and I don't think that'll change anytime soon... ... ... ...

True Story.

I'm On TV!

I'm on TV!!!!

School Boys Schooled The Pros

They're not yet ready for the big leagues, they're too small, I doubt there will ever be a system where 6 footers can beat 7 footers. These are the words of those who doubted the young guys that comprised of the Smart Gilas team that beat the PBA backed RP Team, Powerade 69 to 98.

Their number 1 doubter, the so-called best local coach in the Phils (not! i.m.o.), Coach Guiao, didn't have answers for the perfectly executed plays by the Gilas squad that comprised mostly of college and amateur players. The Gilas squad also have Guiao's former Powerade player and almost Burger King lottery pick Japeth Aguilar, who himself man handled and toyed with the Powerade defense.

Gilas displayed fluid offensive motions that started with point guards Green Archer JV Casio and exiled Tamaraw, Mark Baroca. Picks after picks set the plays to make us see wide open jumpers, three pointers and emphatic slam dunks end it.

American, CJ Giles, finished the game with 22 points, 16 rebounds and 5 blocks to lead the Gilas team to a 29 point victory. FEU Tamaraw JR Cawaling almost broke the century mark as he hoisted a three pointer to end their final play as they winded the shot clock down. I think they didn't want to batter Powerade that much.

This is somehow a biased point since I was a supporter of the Gilas squad since day 1. And maybe the people who watched the game in Araneta last night saw what kind of beautiful basketball these young guys (some of them are still in college) displayed. What's scary about this squad is that they're still gonna grow into their prime together.

That game just proved that team chemistry, and basketball discipline trumps professional experience and talent any day. At least in Philippine soils.

I can't wait to see these guys play in the PBA in the All Filipino cup. I'd probably watch these guys again live. It's basketball love in first sight.

Ondoy

September 26, 2009. A day that will forever live in infamy, a day where Manila experienced Natures Wrath by the name of Ondoy. Hundred lives gone, Thousands missing, Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos displaced and millions of pesos worth of materials lost.

This is what Manila and Filipinos have been mourning for the past few days. All in tears, everybody lending a helping hand to everybody, doing something we Filipinos have been proud of, our concept of 'Bayanihan'.

Even Filipinos who are not outside were actively lending their time by posting updates through Facebook and Twitter, sending donations through text and everybody urging everyone to give give and give. I know it's sad that we're only awakened to hold each others hands during times like this, when a storm levels the playing field, but I'll take it nonetheless.

September 26, 2009, when Ondoy dropped a month's worth of rain in a span of 6 hours, drowned cities, leveled houses, and took lives, is also a day when Filipinos from everywhere stopped, listened and acted upon what they could do.

It would live in infamy alright... but there's still something we could take out from it...
This is also a day that we, as Filipinos, are one.

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Now playing: Ben Harper - Reason To Mourn
via FoxyTunes

[12 of 365] For Casual Fridays

[12 of 365] For Casual Fridays, originally uploaded by marcogol.


One of my trusty sneaks for casual use needs to gain an appearance for this week. Still got 2 more waiting at home.

This one is getting ready for a tough day tomorrow... The beginning of the weekend.

Day 12 of 356: Casual Fridays

[11 of 365] All Tied Up

[11 of 365] All Tied Up, originally uploaded by marcogol.

I've been thinking of what to shoot for today. And since I got these vintage actions from Deviantart why not give my Stan Smith's a go...

So we end up here, I actually enjoyed this set. I have alot more in my Adobe Bridge, just got lazy fixing them all.

So here we are... Day 11 of 365... All tied up.

Day 10 of 265: Work

Work, originally uploaded by marcogol.

After a tiring day, and a hundred steps from home, I park thee to rest thy shoes.

To you who carry my load from Monday to Thursday... I give this day to you.

Day 10 of 365

Day 9 of 365: Worn

Worn, originally uploaded by marcogol.

Just came from a basketball game. Just a usual monday night pickup game with schoolyard rules.

Ended up playing from 7:30-10:00 pm.

To my shoes... I dedicate this one for you.
You continue to do me well

Day 9 of 365 = "Worn"

Day 8 of 365 DJ

DJ, originally uploaded by marcogol.

Day 8 of 365