Pulse.ph : MUSIC + CULTURE
July 21st, 2009
FINE LINE: ON LINER NOTES IN GENERAL AND PUPIL’S ‘WILDLIFE: SPECIAL EDITION’ IN PARTICULAR
It was with a bored drawl that I told my girlfriend one slow April afternoon, “You know what I would really like?” “What?” she asked, biting her lip, looking like she was bracing herself for a major financial catastrophe. “To see liner notes in local albums again,” I said. “Of course, it would be way cooler if I’d get invited to write one myself,” I added. She sighed her relief. After all, my dumb reverie was fairly reasonable: it wasn’t like I daydreamed for Gary Valenciano to all of a sudden start doing renditions of Alice in Chains songs; it wasn’t like I prayed for Manny Pacquiao to actually put his Gibson Les Paul Standard to good use. A couple of days later, after pigging out on liempo—pigging out on pig, really—I got a text message from Ely Buendia that went, “Sony is releasing a special edition of Wildlife. Would you be willing to write the liner notes?” Some days, when you’ve been considerably good (maybe you didn’t elbow your way through a train ride; maybe you decided to finally small-talk the office weirdo by the copying machine), I guess you get rewarded.
July 2nd, 2009
OUR LADY PEACE’S ALL YOU DID WAS SAVE MY LIFE
It’s not by coincidence that I find myself burning minutes listening to the song a night after watching a couple of episodes of Grey’s Anatomy for the first time.* And I presume its likeness with the ditty by The Fray (How To Save A Life) used in the Ellen Pompeo-headlined medical drama—which doesn’t reside only on the theme portrayed by the songs’ titles but strangely also in some hallucinatory points in their melodies, the latter being a slower alter-ego of the former—isn’t of direct concurrence as well. Read more…
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