I planned to do this last week, days upon reading 100 Songs that Could Change Your Life by Larry Cayco, who was inspired by Baddie and Ade. I even posted a number of his selections at blip.fm.
When I was in undergrad, I made a list of the songs I wanted played at my wake. I think I only came up with around 25 songs, most of them alternative rock. I wonder if I had saved that list. Anyway, here are the songs of my life (in no particular order) – from the time I was a kid listening to my red portable cassette tape player, to when I was a depressed young adult cutting my emo skin away, and even including a period of my teen years when I was head over heels in love with that gay guy on BoyZone and had to dance to a BSB tune while campaigning for the student council. I would have jotted down Macarena but then that would be an overkill. You'll also find some from OSTs, since I love movies. Hope you enjoy them.
1. The Rolling Stones – You Can't Always Get What You Want
2. Nirvana – All Apologies
3. Silverchair – Suicidal Dream
4. Hoobastank – The Reason
5. The Cardigans – Lovefool
6. O.A.R. – Shattered
7. Eraserheads – Fine Time
8. Parokya Ni Edgar – Halaga
9. Suede – Beautiful Ones
10. The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
11. Keane – With or Without You
12. U2 – Staring at the Sun
13. Daughtry – Home
14. Edwin McCain – I’ll Be
15. Joshua Kadison – Beautiful in My Eyes
16. R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
17. Metallica – Unforgiven II
18. Blink 182 – All the Small Things
19. Petula Clark – Downtown
20. Meredith Brooks – Bitch
21. Aerosmith – Crazy
22. Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
23. David Cook – Always Be My Baby
24. Mariah Carey – Honey
25. Spice Girls – 2become1
26. BoyZone – Key to My Life
27. Backstreet Boys – As Long as You Love Me
28. Destiny’s Child – Emotions
29. Limp Bizkit – Rollin’
30. Eminem – Cleanin’ Out My Closet
31. Green Day – Nimrod
32. Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
33. Blur – Song 2
34. Oasis – Stand By Me
35. The Temptations – My Girl
36. Marilyn Manson – Rock Is Dead
37. The Beatles – Hey Jude
38. Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
39. Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back
40. Pussycat Dolls – Don’t Cha
41. Phoebe (Friends) – Smelly Cat
42. Timon & Pumba – Hakuna Matata (The Lion King OST)
43. Shelby Flint – Be Brave Little One (Dumbo OST)
44. James Horner – Somewhere Out There (American Tale OST)
45. Michael Jackson – Gone Too Soon
46. Alicia Keys – Karma
47. Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
48. Pink, Mya, Li’l Kim and Christina Aguilera – Lady Marmalade
49. Ewan McGregor – Your Song (Moulin Rouge OST)
50. Johann Pachelbel – Canon (My Sassy Girl OST)
51. The Knack – My Sharona
52. T.L.C. – No Scrubs
53. Madonna – Like a Virgin
54. The Cranberries – Linger
55. The Fray – You Found Me
56. Paula Cole – I Don’t Wanna Wait
57. Roy Orbison – Oh, Pretty Woman
58. Rick James – Super Freak
59. Funky Chicos – Funky Town
60. Maksim – Flight of the Bumblebee
61. Marcy Playground – I Smell Sex and Candy
62. Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
63. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
64. The Prodigy – Firestarter
65. Matchbox 20 – Unwell
66. Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
67. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
68. Stereophonics – Superman
69. The Calling – Adrienne
70. B.J. Thomas – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
71. Frank Sinatra – Singin’ in the Rain
72. Marilyn Monroe – Happy Birthday Mr. President
73. Nino Rota – The Godfather Theme
74. Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther Theme
75. Lea Salonga – Sing a Song
76. The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
77. Frankie Valli – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
78. Jim Carrey – Cuban Pete (The Mask OST)
79. Solomon Linda – Mbube/The Lion Sleeps Tonight
80. Prince – Kiss
81. Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
82. Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
83. Turbonegro – Age of the Pampirus (Wildboyz Theme)
84. Catherine Zeta-Jones – All That Jazz (Chicago OST)
85. Britney Spears – Slave 4 U
86. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
87. Fergie – Fergalicious
88. No Doubt – Don’t Speak
89. Garbage – Paranoid
90. Goo Goo Dolls – Name
91. Vertical Horizon – You’re a God
92. Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry
93. The Darkness – I Believe in a Thing Called Love
94. Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out Of My Head
95. Staind – So Far Away
96. Bush – Swallowed
97. Incubus – Megalomaniac
98. Nickelback – Animals
99. 3 Doors Down – Here Without You
100. The Kooks – Do You Wanna
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Lulu - A Review
It could have been shorter, simpler and sexier.
I don't have a problem with the cast; I have a problem with the script. For one, the play could have done without a number of characters. For instance, the child. Why make him/her stay on the theater for three hours on a school night if you'll only need him/her to show up at the beginning and end? There's no point in juxtaposing innocence with Lulu (if ever that's the case), because we already know what Lulu is - the personification of desire. Besides, there's no acting involved in walking up the aisle and playing with newspapers on the ground. But then that's just one of the few things that have been thrown into this melee of a play. And I may have an analogy for this. You know the new Red Ribbon cakes with flavors that are a bit too complicated? Like, you have mocha, creme, nuts, pieces of such and such and this and that - how the hell would you even be able to savor the cake with all that, er, "jazz"? It may do ok for others, but not for me. I'd rather have brazo de mercedes or choco roll from Goldilocks.
I expected this play to be, well, R-18. To me, if felt like Lulu's struggles were more implied. What did she really want? What made her happy? Not that I wanted more sex scenes in the play. But who are we kidding. This is a play about lust, seduction and gender. Maybe its sensuality was lost in the long dialogues that I found tedious. One of the important lessons I learned in our documentary filmmaking workshop under Direk Nick Deocampo is that you don't tell, you show. This is intuitive, you might say, but the play could have forgotten it because the lines delivered by the actors were mostly descriptions of Lulu's past and how they feel about her. Plus I hate the fact that the men had to die in order to prove a point.
Some of the parts were incoherent to me, too. Not to mention that Dora balloon which was quite the scene stealer. Lulu is complicated, I discern that much. Perhaps the play's style is akin to the feminist method of storytelling in a non-linear way. The play is chronologically straight, but the way it is executed makes my mind whirl. And my body go into sleep mode (I was able to grab more than 40 winks in the first part, hehe). Hey, I have an apt title change for the play - Lull. I apologize for sounding harsh, but what else do I have but my opinion? =)
For a description of the play, go to Gibbs Cadiz's blog.
I don't have a problem with the cast; I have a problem with the script. For one, the play could have done without a number of characters. For instance, the child. Why make him/her stay on the theater for three hours on a school night if you'll only need him/her to show up at the beginning and end? There's no point in juxtaposing innocence with Lulu (if ever that's the case), because we already know what Lulu is - the personification of desire. Besides, there's no acting involved in walking up the aisle and playing with newspapers on the ground. But then that's just one of the few things that have been thrown into this melee of a play. And I may have an analogy for this. You know the new Red Ribbon cakes with flavors that are a bit too complicated? Like, you have mocha, creme, nuts, pieces of such and such and this and that - how the hell would you even be able to savor the cake with all that, er, "jazz"? It may do ok for others, but not for me. I'd rather have brazo de mercedes or choco roll from Goldilocks.
I expected this play to be, well, R-18. To me, if felt like Lulu's struggles were more implied. What did she really want? What made her happy? Not that I wanted more sex scenes in the play. But who are we kidding. This is a play about lust, seduction and gender. Maybe its sensuality was lost in the long dialogues that I found tedious. One of the important lessons I learned in our documentary filmmaking workshop under Direk Nick Deocampo is that you don't tell, you show. This is intuitive, you might say, but the play could have forgotten it because the lines delivered by the actors were mostly descriptions of Lulu's past and how they feel about her. Plus I hate the fact that the men had to die in order to prove a point.
Some of the parts were incoherent to me, too. Not to mention that Dora balloon which was quite the scene stealer. Lulu is complicated, I discern that much. Perhaps the play's style is akin to the feminist method of storytelling in a non-linear way. The play is chronologically straight, but the way it is executed makes my mind whirl. And my body go into sleep mode (I was able to grab more than 40 winks in the first part, hehe). Hey, I have an apt title change for the play - Lull. I apologize for sounding harsh, but what else do I have but my opinion? =)
For a description of the play, go to Gibbs Cadiz's blog.
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