GUSTO MO BANG UMIKOT SA PUSO NG MAYNILA KASAMA ANG IYONG PAMILYA? HALI KA NA!
Minsan lang kaming nagsasalo-salo ng aking buong pamilya. Sa higit lima hanggang anim na taon, isa lamang ang pagkakataon naming nakapagsama sa isa’t isa. Kapag nabibigyan kami ng oportunidad, sinusulit namin ito sa pag-ikot ng buong Lungsod ng Quezon at Pasay sa Metro Manila. Bakit nga ba espesyal ito sa amin?
Magsisimula tayo sa Lungsod ng Quezon, kung saan tinatagurian itong pinakamalaking lungsod sa Pilipinas kapag populasyon ang binabasehan. Sa halip nito, hindi lang tao ang sariwang makikita mo sa Quezon City, kundi lahat ng mga monumento at pasyalan ay makikita mo narin. Ang aming pamilya, kahit mga Ilonggo, ay tagos na tinuturing ‘ikalawang bahay’ ang Quezon City, kaya kapag mayroong mga pagkakataon, dumadaloy at dumadaloy kami roon upang makapagpasyal ulit sa mga aming naligtaan sa nakaraan pa.
Kung gusto mo man magpa-Trinoma, Unibersidad ng Pilipinas-Diliman, Ateneo de Manila University, at Sofia Bellevue, hali ka na at samahan kita sa Quezon City! Oh! Siyempre, hindi rin mawawala ang kagandahan ng Pasay. Iyong makikita roon ang Mall of Asia, Star City, at iba pa. Hindi ko makalilimutan ang lahat na ito sapagkat ang huling pagdaos namin sa mga lungsod nayon ay noong 2016 pa dahil doon kami nagdiwang ng Pasko at Bagong Taon. Hindi lang tuwa ang makukuha mo rito, kundi pati na rin ang iyong kinabukasan kapag gusto mong makapag-aral sa mga UAAP schools.
Labis akong naniniwala sa kaisipan na dapat muna nating bigyang halaga ang kagandahan ng ating bansa bago tayo rumaos sa kagandahan ng banyaga. Para sa amin, ang Metro Manila ay hindi lang isang malaking siyudad, halo-halo rin ito ng makukulay at malilikhaing produkto ng arkitektural na pag-iisip ng mga Pilipino. Ating malalaman dito na ang Kulturang Lokal ay patuloy paring namamayagpag sa atin, ngunit sa halip ng lahat, kapag gusto mo lang naman magpakawala sa iyong mga problema, o kagaya saamin na nagsalo-salo kasama ang pamilya at barkada, Tara na! Aking ipakilala sainyo ang puso ng Pasay, Quezon, at buong Metro Manila!
-Lastimosa, Robert Julius G.
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tripreport.010: LLLLL (Long, Long, Long, Lush Life)
lacquering, lecturing, labouring, lumbering, loving 🌅
Key Inspirations:
The Beatles – “Long, Long Long” (Song)
Billy Strayhorn – “Lush Life” (Song)
Labi Siffre – “My Song” [and Clairo’s cover of it] (Song)
Daydreaming (Activity)
Flea markets (Activity)
Gratitude meditation (Activity)
Watching the sunrise and sunset (Activity)
Acoustic guitar, grand piano (Instruments)
Spike Jonze – Her (Film)
Journaling (Activity)
Dawn and dusk (Time)
LLLLL Tracklist
A-Side: Long
Joni Mitchell – Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
Snail Mail – Heat Wave
Frank Ocean – Skyline To
The Beatles – Long, Long, Long
Mid-Air Thief – These Chains
El Michels Affair, Bobby Oroza – Reasons
glass beach – (forever?????????)
Charlotte Bumgarner – Honey Touch
Ichiko Aoba – テリフリアメ (Terifuriame)
Little Joy – Evaporar
Childish Gambino – I. Flight of the Navigator
Radiohead – Nude
King Krule – Energy Fleets
LLLLL Tracklist
B-Side: Lush
Fiona Apple – I Want You to Love Me
Linda Ronstadt – Lush Life
Robert Glasper, Meshell Ndegeocello – The Consequences of Jealousy
Solange – Time (is)
Billie Holiday – I’ll Be Seeing You
Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett – Song on the Beach (from Her)
St. Vincent – The Party
Arthur Verocai – Na Boca Do Sol
Kanye West – Street Lights
Radiohead – Daydreaming
Labi Siffre – My Song
LLLLL stands for Long, Long, Long / Lush Life, two songs that served as main inspirations for this mix. I was spending most of my time working on the cabin, staying with extended family in a large log house nestled at the top of a mountain. This was around the one year mark of when the COVID lockdowns began, so I felt particularly reflective; it was hard to believe everything that transpired between March of 2020 and March of 2021, but hope was on the horizon. Promising news about the vaccines was being released daily, and it was only a matter of time until we would be able to return to some semblance of normal life. It was getting sunnier after the brutally cold February and I was falling into a new relationship. All indications pointed towards the beginning of spring, a rebirth after the collective slumber we were in since March of 2020. The hope, however, was restrained by the latent uncertainty of the future. I was in a unique headspace: a combination of processing the unexpected turns of the past year, practicing gratitude for my present situation, and stifling my yearning that life may return to “normal.”
In March of 2021, I was content: I was working remotely, building the cabin, spending time with family, spending time in nature, starting to see friends in person for the first time, and blossoming a new love. I was conflicted, though, about the future: a guilt pervaded my thoughts of “normal” life beginning again, which meant returning to a metropolis, starting a real job, and dealing with the stressors of societal pressures and daily responsibilities. It meant leaving behind everything I had invested in so deeply over the past months. At the same time, it also meant returning to my favorite city in the world, reuniting with friends, making a difference in my career, and personal growth, but there was so much processing of the past year that remained. The forces of the past and future sandwiched me in the present.
In the log house, I stayed in a room with a window perfectly positioned for the sunrise. Soft rays of grey light would wake me up each morning, and I would look out the window at the surrounding mountain treetops. I was in Moyers, Oklahoma, the middle of nowhere, amongst the trees, building a cabin. I was working remotely at my job while working physically on the cabin until sunset each day, when I would sit and watch as the world around me was engulfed in an orange glow. Sunrise and sunset have always evoked a wistfulness in me, and this mix was my attempt at capturing that in-between feeling.
The sides of the mix are loosely based around dawn and dusk, sunrise and sunset, mornings and evenings. The A-side is generally songs driven by (acoustic) guitar and the B-side driven by piano. It was important that each track had lyrical or sonic qualities that reflected the feelings I described earlier, and I found that most of the tracks on here were in 3/4 time and various languages. The last song on the mix, Labi Siffre’s “My Song,” is one of my most listened-to songs of the year and its yearning hope captured everything I felt: “This is my song / And no one can make it a lie / It’s been so long since someone / Could make me cry / And I wonder if you know what it means / To laugh as tears go by.”
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