The Carver's House

SO! So. The Zaturnnah musical would have performed 41 times when the present run ends tonight. As it stands, the musical is the longest-running production of Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) in its 20-year history. Still, with tickets sold out again, TP wants to give it another go. Makati City, particularly the RCBC theater, is being tapped by TP to be the venue of the musical come June 2007. I heard that they may announce this at the end of tonight's show (which I won't be able to attend due to our out-of-town trip) so take my little announcement as a teaser until something official spreads. With 41 shows, I personally think that Eula Valdez, Tuxqs Rutaquio, and Joey Paras should take a semi-break from the role and have alternates. Fantastic as they are, having new blood is always interesting to see. Keeps things fresh. But who can TP tap to match the prowess of a fine set of actors? I'm sure they'll think of something.

The night before the 25th, I invited my boss to watch Todd Field's Little Children , an emotionally-charged film based on Tom Perrotta's novel. With nearly a dozen awards to its name, Little Children is a slice-of-life tale that layers lust, longing, fear and innocence in one smoothly flowing narrative. It's an adult film, not only because of intimate scenes between Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, but it exposes what it means to be an adult. It reveals how, despite our age and experience, we're still kids in search of acceptance, love and affirmation. I'm really glad that Jackie Earle Haley got an Oscar nod for supporting actor. His role may not have been the most saintly, but his scenes affected me the most. Nothing much happened on the 25th apart from work. I broke my low-carb diet by bingeing on Yellow Cab pizza and Friday's desserts with my co-workers. Later that night, I went to the gym. In the past, I didn't really care much about my birthday. While ...

Har har har! Ripped this off Erica's blog. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Piliin ang buwan ng iyong kapanganakan... January- Nakipagsex ako kay February- Sinampal ko si March- Pinatay ko si April- Tiningnan ko si May- Nagmasturbate ako kasama si June- Natulog ako katabi si July- Tinawanan ko si August- Sinaksak ko si September- Dinuraan ko si October- Mahal ko si November- Sasapakin ko si December- Kakagatin ko si Tapos, piliin ang araw ng iyong kapanganakan... 1. Gloria 2. Erap 3. Fidel Ramos 4. Kuya Germs 5. Mahal 6. Nora Aunor 7. Pong Pagong 8. Blak Dyak 9. Nur Misuari 10. Miriam Santiago 11. Aga Muhlach 12. Mike Enriquez 13. Rustom Padilla 14. Aiza Seguerra 15. Winnie Monsod 16. Kiko Matsing 17. Ruffa Guttierez 18. Franklin Drilon 19. Willie Revillame 20. Mark Herras 21. Susan Roces 22. Ping Lacson 23. Ely Buendia 24. Ruby Rodriguez 25. Asi Taulava 26. Willie Garte 27. Rosanna Roces 28. Albert Einstein 29. Angel Locsin 30. Dora the Explorer 3...

Last January 5, the American Dialect Society (ADS) voted "plutoed" as the word of the year. To pluto means to demote or devalue someone or something, as was experienced by the former planet Pluto when it was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in August. The full list of nominations can be found here . Other words nominated by the members of the group included: lancing - the forced public outing of a closeted gay celebrity; lactard - a person suffering from lactose intolerance; and flog - an advertising site disguised as a blog. Last year, the ADS (which was founded in 1889) voted " truthiness " for 2005. For the year before that, it was " red state, blue state, purple state ". Other past winners are commonly used today: metrosexual, weapons of mass destruction, and "not!" (the expression). While the voting result is widely reported in media, noted lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower says in his Slate column: But once in a while we like to...

While checking out my site statistics, I found visitors coming from a site I've never encountered before. It turns out that there's this industrious chap named Tino Buntic who compiled the pics of 300 bloggers and placed them all in one site as a showcase sample of blogdom. There are a few other Filipinos in there, too. It's a great linking project. His goal is to compile 2000 bloggers. If you want to be part of it, just leave a comment in his 2000 Bloggers entry . Oh, but you have to have a photo of yourself in your blog. - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Zaturnnah poster isn't ready yet, but should be come Friday. I'm excited to see how it looks. And the original soundtrack has been selling quite well at the theater. What's more, this weekend's shows are virtually sold out. As of last Saturday, the P600 tickets have been accounted for, with only a number of P500 tickets remaining. My sister texted today, saying Ticketnet ran out when she tried to get seats fo...

The original soundtrack of Zsazsa Zaturnnah: Ze Muzikal is now available online through Digijooze . To download the songs, you have to register with the site, though there's no published price tag. They should include the price there, methinks. The two-CD set contains 25 tracks all told, which includes three bonus tracks. You can find the track list here . The image appearing here is the cover of the label, designed by yours truly. Thanks to Ballyhoo Records for allowing me to do this--I've only done one CD package design before this, and it isn't even available commercially. I got word that the set will find its place in record bars towards the end of January, but copies will be sold during the musical rerun which begins tonight. As usual, I'll be attending a number of performances. Se you there!

Another good resource courtesy of Google's brain drippings is Google Notebook . A fine research tool, Google Notebook allows you to instantly add sections of a website into a virtual notebook which you can access at a future time. Use your Google account to log it, afterwhich you will be prompted to download (less than 30KB) a widget which will eventually appear on the lower right side of your browser window. The new link accesses your notebook which displays as a small window--you can resize it to full screen if you need to. During the time I was emotionally distraught, I'd scour the Web for self-help and psychology resources. When I'd find something that I could use, I'd cut it out and paste it into my word processor. Right now, with Google Notebook, I just highlight the text I want copied, right-click, and select "Note this". The highlighted text appears in my notebook, along with the link to the source site. What's nifty about Google Notebook is that y...