OMG THE LIPGLOSS TRAILER IS HERE!

no abbreviations!

OH MY GOD.

WHAT THE FUCK.

THEY ALL HAD ALMOST THE SAME CHARACTERS. AND IM TYPING IN ALL CAPS COZ I DONT KNOW WHAT I FUCKIN FEEL. EXCEPT THAT IM LAUGHING.

YOU GOTTA LOVE THE NAME JULIVEE. YOU GOT TO.

WHAT THE FUCK!

The Gossip Girl Pinoy Ripoff.

Aside from all Pop foreign songs getting tagalized, after some old underrated international songs "adapted' or should i say ripped-off as well... of course magpapahuli ba ang pinoy pag merong sikat na tv series sa ibang bansa?

I actually dont get it when we started getting hooked up with telenovelas and koreanovelas. But i kinda accepted the fact that we are neither a spanish nor korean-speaking country, so dubbers got a job. I got that. Pinoys were not contented so they "adapted" the normal 3-month or 6-month soaps making them last for a year or two if it begins to hit. Scenes were prolonged, intentionally slow-paced and bombarded with commercial ads. Until i got used to it again and thought of the positive side that maybe,,, adapting something can actually be something good that new writers and traditional directors could actually adjust from there.

When something is actually adapted... at least the filipino people gets to really know who should be credited.

Adaptation is different from being a copycat.

And this news from PEP... is not really good for me. or to any gossip girl fan.

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Bagamat bagong bihis pa lang ang TV5 kinailangan munang manghiram ng talents—mostly from ABS-CBN—for its slew of shows all piloting this week.  May foresight ang Prime Events Force Unlimited to come up with a show that will also introduce new talents exclusively for TV5. This way, kasabay ng audition for available talents, nagpa-go see rin ang Prime Events to discover new stars at tila sinuwerte naman sila sa mga nakuha nila—mostly teens from exclusive schools willing to try showbiz.

 

Lipgloss is a loose adaptation of the hit TV series Gossip Girl and follows the lives of the students of an ultra-exclusive high school through the school's "unofficial" website.

 

Halos baguhan ang mga cast with the rest, the under-exposed talents from ABS-CBN's Star Magic.

 

Leading the male cast are Star Magic's Rodjun Cruz, na kapatid ni Rayver Cruz, playing the main antagonist Jake; Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Season 1 housemates Fred Payawan as Jake's younger brother Jiggo and Mikee Lee as the resident bad boy Maui; at ang first Little Big Star winner na si Sam Concepcion as the moderator of the website Lipgloss as Kyle.

 

Joining them is fresh talent Kevin Lapena as the main lead boy Edge. A high school graduate of Don Bosco Makati, now a college sophomore of De La Salle, he fits in perfectly to the exclusive-school boys Rodjun of De La Salle high school, Fred from Colegio San Agustin, now of De La Salle, and Mikee of Ateneo from elementary to college.

 

Bukod sa exclusive schools, panlaban naman ng ilang mga bagong girls to be introduced in the show ang kanilang showbiz lineage.

 

Playing the two female leads are Saab Magalona as Meg and Maxine Eigenmann as Abby. Saab is the younger sister of Maxene Magalona and the second eldest daughter of Francis Magalona and Pia Arroyo; samantalang nakatatandang kapatid naman ni Andi Eigenmann si Maxine with famous dad Mark Gil.

 

Three other three new girls are Cheska Ortega playing Ziggy, the younger sister of Edge, who is formerly from Poveda and had to transfer to Reedley International School dahil hindi siya pinayagang mag-artista; Charina Suzara, playing the wannabe rich girl Julivee, is a student of OB Montessori; and Mary Grace Perido, the loner skating champ Louise, is from San Agustin College in Cavite.

 

Another Star Magic talent Miki Hahn plays the bad girl Steph. She is the only member of the cast who stopped schooling after finishing high school.

 

Makakasama nila ang mga beteranong artista na sina Lorenzo Mara, Rachel Lobangco, Lloyd Samartino, at Ricardo Cepeda. Lipgloss is directed by Cris Pablo and Aleah Eugenio.

 

Lipgloss pilots this Saturday, August 16, at 5 p.m.

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I cant wait to read the comments.

On The Eraserheads Concert Update.

The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday warned Philip Morris that it may face criminal charges if it pushes through with the sponsorship of the reunion concert of popular 90s band Eraserheads scheduled on August 30 in Manila.

Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla said Philip Morris will be violating Republic Act No. 9211 or the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 which prohibits cigar companies from sponsoring sports, cultural, and artistic events of individual or team athletes, artists and performers.

"If we are able to show and prove that this concert is actually sponsored by you, by Philip Morris, then we will truly train our guns on you for clearly violating the law," Padilla said in a press conference.

He said the tobacco company cannot argue that they did not violate the law since the contract has been signed before the prohibition on sponsorship of events took effect on July 1, 2008 as stated on Section 26 of RA 9211.

"The company already knew when the prohibition would take effect so if they will try to circumvent that by saying 'we signed the contract before' that will not be acceptable," Padilla said.

In a text message sent to GMANews.TV, Dave Gomez, Philip Morris public affairs manager, said they have no comment on the issue.

Appeal to Eraserheads

A lawyer by profession, Padilla said Philip Morris, its president, general manager and board of directors will be held liable if they will proceed with sponsoring the concert.

He said the government, if it has to, could go to the retailers and confiscate the tobacco products.

The Health department and tobacco control advocates also appealed to Eraserheads to reject the Philip Morris' sponsorship of its much awaited reunion concert.

Padilla said the popular band, which disbanded in 2002, should disassociate themselves from a cigar company who will be sponsoring their concert.

"With their prestige, they should disassociate themselves to tobacco products which have no value or use. They should heed the law and bring the youth to other productive activities. Tobacco products should not be promoted," Padilla said.

"Considered one of the most influential bands in the country, the Eraserheads has become a role model of sorts for our young. I hope they will rise up to the challenge, do more than play music, and help young Filipinos reach their potential," said Dr. Maricar Limpin of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance-Philippines.

Limpin asked the Eraserheads to duplicate a recent act by singer Alicia Keys. The award-winning singer and pianist recently rejected the sponsorship of cigarette giant Philip Morris for her concert in Indonesia.

Louis Camilleri, chairman and chief executive officer of Philip Morris, has confirmed in a letter to Matthew Myers of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids dated July 30, 2008 that their company is behind the reunion concert.

Limpin said even if Philip Morris' name will not come out on any poster, billboard or material related to the Eraserheads concert, the public knows that to watch the concert, one has to be a member of the Marlboro red list.

Treachery in marketing

"This is marketing treachery at its worse. One has to be a smoker or must claim to be a smoker to be able to watch the smoker," Limpin said.

She said in registering with the Marlboro red list, one is asked what brand of cigarette he smokes and is asked for contact information and accept the condition that he is interested to receive "smoking-related" information and promotional materials from Philip Morris.

"You cannot complete the registration without checking that particular box stating you are interested in receiving information and promotional materials from Philip Morris. So in your attempt to watch the concert, you are opening yourself up as a target of Philip Morris advertisements," Limpin said.

She said while it is too much to expect Philip Morris "to grow a conscience and think of the well-being of children in the third world country like the Philippines", the former member of the band might be more sympathetic as they may have children, niece and nephews who may suffer from effects of tobacco smoke.

Limpin said Eraserheads former vocalist Ely Buendia knows the ill effects of smoking after suffering a heart problem in February 2007.

The DOH said at least 10 Filipinos die every hour due to smoking-related diseases or 240 Filipinos everyday or 87,600 every year.

"The Eraserheads should not allow themselves to be deceived by Philip Morris and protect their fans from this devious marketing ploy," Limpin said.

She added that Eraserheads will not run out of sponsors for their reunion concert if they will turn down Philip Morris.

"There are many companies who are more than willing to sponsor the concert but they do not want get involved in an activity wherein the company they are going to co-sponsor the event is a cigarette company," Limpin said.

She also clarified that their group only wants to spoil the coming reunion concert.

"I'm not telling the band not to push through with the concert, I want that to be cleared. In reality, we want the concert to push through but we are appealing to the band that maybe we should place more emphasis to the responsibility of the band. Maybe if they cannot get out of this anymore, I will challenge the band to play for anti-smoking event because all the other bands have been into a smoke-free event for the past few months since May," Limpin said. - GMANews.TV

Source: Yahoo.Ph

Treehouse // Lifehouse

Im much more of a hermit nowadays. I wonder why.

I was doing my laundry telline erika and champ that i cant go to kublai's coz of something that really ruined my morning. but instead of moping and stressing about it, i did my laundry instead. then champ made me realize something so i asked ryan, rae and LS to go with me hence... going out, and enjoyed a succesful treehouse night. Its actually the most populated treehouse night as of now. its just so weird that im actually hosting a "smoke-free" night. but the fact that i seriously wanted to quit smoking justifies. but not that i do anything about it. LOL i was mostly with erika and janna (her pretty, smart cousin full of randomness) and we were just laughing about some random stuff like erika's pseudo-stolen phone. hahahaha

then the next day, i watched the lifehouse concert at araneta with ivan, carmela, rochelle and joan.  rochelle bought me the tickets and i havent paid her yet. lol i was frustrated coz i definitely memorized some songs then they only played three of what i tried to memorize. im such a moron. do u actually review songs before going to a concert? cause i do. hahaha. joan and rochelle are ivan's highschool friends. went to starbucks san lazaro (spontaneity!). watching them laugh and talk about some serious stuff makes me so envious that i didnt go to their school. ito ang good vibes.

then it started raining hard until sunday.

Pushing Daisies fckin ROCKS! credits to wawa for loving it and making me utterly curious. hee hee

Poof.

"Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. It's unexplained. It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis. Say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn’t know we had disappears... do we miss it?"

- Meredith Grey

When you actually go through something, like its your pre-midlife crisis, you tend to ask for this certain privacy which nobody could understand and this haze in front of you starts to fade out little by little.

And i just realized im stuck inside a whirlpool. A whirlpool so fast, i literally tranced without feeling nauseated. i thought it was fun. do you get the feeling when you see that swirling thing and youre so curious you tend to touch it and try to break the swirl? thats what i felt the first time.

until that whirlpool became sooo big i didnt know i was inside it. turning, deluded, and then i got tired, confused, dazed and... lost.

thats where i tried swimming against it. just to prove to myself that i am such a strong person and i will get through it. but i didnt. i was stuck. so i stopped struggling. waiting to feel rock bottom and disappointingly i was just stuck. i think its just waiting for me to crack my head open.

then there are these lending hands trying to save you. waiting for you to reach and grab them by the wrist. whats sad is they dont even notice that they are being pulled inside the whirl. congratulations. i am now spinning round and round with GUILT.

as much as i wanted to be thankful that they are now spinning with me, i think it defeats the purpose of salvation.

now i feel surrender. now i feel that i have to just let the whirlpool tire itself and decide whether to spit me out or drag me underneath its eye.

and now is the perfect time to throw up even without the dizziness. even without the churning. i just wanted to feel a little bit of relief after one horrible spin. because God knows its so tiring.

and the little twirl that my finger tried to play upon, that itty bitty twirl... became the biggest stirring of my self. and during these times, the choosing is for the unpriveleged, for it will judge who i really am.

and sometimes, you dont really wanna know the outcome.

- Xavier Pepito

August 19, 2007

Well what do you know... history just repeats itself. It's exactly the same thing as last year. Wow. I really need to use that quote above.

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Isang pambawing good vibes lang.

Charlie and Furball ♥♥♥

The EHEADS Reunion.

There has never been a better time to be an Eraserheads fan than right now - for the first time since 2001.

"Eraserheads Reunion" rumors have been flying all week around the wild and wooly pinoy blogosphere. A number of these had been reported on the decade-old Eraserheads mailing list , sparking speculations a-plenty.

And all these have definitely been enough to get me out of the music journo doldrums and get on the case. Were the clues and leaks and blind items intentionally scattered out there as a devious form of viral marketing? Perhaps.

If it was really a viral campaign, it has proved to be quite effective, and my hat goes off to the digital marketing strategist who conceived it.

The Rumors:

a) All four Eraserheads (for the uninitiated these are four guys named Ely, Raimund, Buddy, and Marcus) have signed up to perform for a one-night only reunion concert.

b) The concert will be held on August 30, 2008 at the CCP grounds along Roxas Boulevard.

c) The concert is sponsored by "a big company," who ponied up the big bucks to entice the eHeads to bury the hatchet and get together.

d) The concert will be free. People will sign up on a website to win tickets.

Whatever the rumors, it all came to a head on Sunday, July 13, when the info was leaked (or deliberately programmed) on entertainment writer Ricky Lo's column at the Philippine Star , who essentially confirmed all of the above as true.

 In a radio guesting on JAM 88.3 FM on Sunday, Ely Buendia confirmed the news as well.

The next piece in the puzzle - the mysterious benefactor.

"‘It took one big company to bring the former band members together,’ said the source who is keeping the company’s identity ‘confidential’ for the time being," wrote Lo.

PhilMusic.com has since learned that the mysterious sponsor is quite possibly Marlboro, the cowboy-smokin' brand of Philip Morris. Furthermore, the tobacco company has been rumored to have ponied up a rather large sum as the carrot on the stick for the reunion. Each member is said to be receiving a rather large sum - with estimates ranging from P2.5M to P10M apiece - in order to pull together for a 45 minutes set.

Given some of the friction reported between two camps of the eHeads over the years - the camp of Ely and Dianne on one side, and the camp of the other three guys (and their partners) on the other - it does appear that the money was sufficient enough to smoothen the path for a one-night gig.

There is some irony noted that it took a tobacco company to pull it off. As far as we know, three of the Eraserheads don't smoke. Raimund is asthmatic (hence the use of his email userID asmatik88), Ely is a heart attack survivor, and we have never seen Buddy with a cigarette in hand.

We also monitored the following message - containing the allegedly official announcement - posted on the Eraserheads mailing list on Sunday night by Villy Ray Villacorta:

Yes it's true. It's been in the works for several months na. Marlboro is sponsoring this concert and paid each of the members a staggering P10M each to do a full 45-minute set. This is the official announcement:

"No more blind items my dear friends. Yes. We are confirming it.
There is no point denying:

August 30, 2008 will be LEGENDARY!!!

The country's most influential band ever will be reunited for ONE NIGHT ONLY.

This once in a lifetime experience will be staged at the CCP
opengrounds.

Tickets are free and you can download it early August. Website to be
announced.

ONE BRAND.
ONE BAND.
ONE NIGHT ONLY...

ERASERHEADS REUNION CONCERT!"

At this writing, the website is speculated to be an offshoot of Marlboro's local website at http://marlboro.ph . Smokers are encouraged to sign up to be included in "The Red List" of special events. The list members are then notified of events by email and SMS. Could the Eraserheads Reunion concert be part of this?

If we could throw in some more speculative fuel in the fire, I'm guessing that music label Sony BMG will take the opportunity to make some money while the sun shines on this occassion - so expect some re-releases or noise involving the Eraserheads back catalog.

This early on, there has already been some buzz involving the release of an orchestral arrangement of the classic Eraserheads tune "Ang Huling El Bimbo" released as the single of an album of orchestrated pinoy rock songs called "Kumpas".

Posting on the Eraserheads mailing list, Romel Sanchez (a.k.a. "Sancho" - long time eHeads compatriot and former housemate of Ely Buendia):

There's a new version of "Ang Huling El Bimbo" performed by Ely Buendia, backed by FILharmoniKa, an orchestra under the baton of Gerard Salonga. It will be premiered this afternoon in Jam 88.3. I think RJ will play it tomorrow afternoon also. NU 107 will (hopefully) play this starting Monday or Tuesday.

This version is part of a new album called "Kumpas", an album of orchestral reworkings of popular pinoy rock songs.

So it's been that sort of a weekend. Smokin' news all around, and I don't just mean sponsored by Marlboro.

 

Philmusic.com

Lost.

I guess this has been one of the most crucial phase of my life. i dont know if i should call this my turning point, but there was this one morning, i woke up and i suddenly realized, that im the only one who understands my perspectives.

i suddenly wanted change. and i want other people to accept the change i wanted to happen. coz its atypical, unconventional and i dont know what else. so i tried to be honest. but yet again, honesty is not always the best policy.

i am suffering. and also, it just hit my head, that its all wrong. i made things happen, but it was all wrong.

i suddenly wanted to be alone. i suddenly wanted to disappear. i suddenly wanted a psychiatrist. i suddenly wanted a blue pill. i was back from myself, where i am afraid to hurt anyone but myself. i didnt realize, i am the only one who's hurting. coz i thought i wanted more. yet its the other way around.

no, i dont pity myself. i am not actually a fan of pity parties.

i think, no, i know, that guilt doesnt have to do anything about being honest. not even on having a clear conscience. this is why, being honest nowadays, deserves a credit. i also believe that some people doesnt even deserve the truth, because initially, they pretend to be okay with it. but as time goes by, little by little, your honesty blows up in your face.

weird right? you tend to make one virtue happen, yet, you suffer. what is that?

well, im one of those people who tries to be honest but not actually trying to enlist ourselves on that waiting area for canonization. i tried to be honest because i actually felt it was needed. just to get off that feeling about secrecy.

im done talking. im done being empathic. i think there are people in my life  who deserves more of who i really am.