The Weekend is a Landfill

Going provincial on a weekend wasn't as enjoyable as when I was 17. The establishments I used to hangout were either burnt, which was a businessman tactic in Dumaguete city, or closed. This "loyalty" factor in Oriental Negros' consumers are a businessman's pain-in-the-ass that they would opt to burning so they could introduce new "stuff" when Negrenses forget to remember the ashes of how they used to live. Get this, Milkmaid, long after it was scrapped in other markets was still being distributed in the island. If you are a businessman with Judy Ann Santos in mind to market your new evaporada, how would you wanna bury the old stuff? And, no, giving out free samples doesn't work here.

I stayed home and crunch the weekend away with television. Cable tv here doestn't have the expensive channel blockade yet so browsing was still enjoyable.

Channel MYX: Playing in MYX Live was Pupil, the already very melodic band fronted by former Eraserheads main-man Ely Buendia. Wow! The new album definitely sounded cool. With band members shifting duties on the vocals and the music is just very steady with riffs flying over the room "owned" by The Dawn's vocalist Jet Pangan. I could even hear some Mars Volta-ish intro in one of the songs but that's just so far away genre-wise. But who knows...

Channel MTV: Parokya Ni Edgar was captured by the poorly-moving cameras of MTV Sessions. In fairness to the band, who after 13 years of playing still seems to be enjoying what they do best - play live and say funny things. But, to say the truth, I'm more on the old trippings of PNE. OH YEAH! Celebrity Deathmatch of talkshow hosts. Tina Fey! Tina Fey! Tina Fey!

Channel ETC: Saturday Night Live is always my favorite TV. A television is not a television without it.

Channel Pentagon Channel: The Home of the Brave, eh? When advertising in arms business is stale, this is where you get the catalogue. Bin Laden is sure watching.

Channel Solar: FIBA Europe playing via satellite. Spain's Gasol making easy turnovers. Great. Loyalty check, coachy!

Channel Movie Channels(HBO, Cinemax, etc.): Anne Hathaway on Ella Enchanted! Hard on! Hard on! Hard on! No!