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Firefly (2023)

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  Before I retire tonight, I feel I should write something about the last movie I saw in the movie theater as a kind of appreciation and celebration for the year that is now ending. This has been a rather hectic and revelatory year  (blog wise) for me and let's just close it with a happy note with the hopes of more positivity in the coming year. Yesterday, after my early morning gym visit plus a side-trip to Burger King on the way home as a rare breakfast treat, I noticed there was an absence of the usual  traffic particularly perennial in the streets of Manila so I rushed back to the mall to perhaps watch (another) foreign movie but I was faced with the ongoing Metro Manila Film Festival's fare of Filipino movies  presented this time of the year  while deciding and planning on what to watch from my connected home computer. Since it was the only one with a preview clip from my clickthecity movie tab website which I equated with a proper promotion or send off, I decided to wa

My Wishes for 2024

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  Try and keep the puzzle together. #gouache

Do you want Christmas?

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  Claim it! ...because faggot/local/envious/loser Kristo-Ramos  will steal it from you if you're not careful. And while you're at it... it will be entirely up to you to make  The New Year Happy too! _________😇_😇_😇_________ There just has to be justice somewhere, somehow  and as long as you choose to be in it...

Something Something

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Greetings from Goku of  Planet Vegeta! #watercolor I've been feelin' freaky deaky so I made: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, something physics, something cats, something midnight, something shades. Something something! Once again say,"parmigiano reggiano!" #acrylic #procreate

Taylor is Man of The Year

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  ...and so I made you a not-so-simple but quickly done (from yesterday to early morning today) watercolor artwork because all the Christmas Cards I write will eventually, hopefully lead me to a White Christmas (doesn't matter when exactly) I've been dreaming of since for - evermore!     Also, you're the reason for the Season! Cheers mate! 👩‍🎤🤶 👩🏻‍🌾  👩‍🏭👩‍🍳💂🏻‍♀️👳🏻👲🏻👮🏻‍♂️🧑🏻‍🦰👩🏼‍🦳🎅🏻🧝🏻‍♂️🧝🏻🦹🏻🦸🏼‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧚🏻🫃🏼🤦🏼‍♀️🧖🏼‍♂️👯‍♀️🕺🏻👯‍♂️🤳🏻👨🏻‍🦯👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👦👨‍👧👻👺👹👿☠️😻🤢🤮🤧🤒🥶🤬🥵😡😰😓😱😨🤯😍🥰😀😃😇😎🤓🥳🤩🥸 #watercolor

Meeting of the Minds

4 am status :  Preparing breakfast for me and Macoy on the Roof where he has been sleeping for a week now (upright on a couch).  I don’t think he will ever come down again because of his deep despise for his Auntie/Doktora who is situated just above his bedroom and is disturbingly noisy, according to him. Idiot Ramos/ Ignoramos and cohorts  Status   :  Ready to Pounce at me with their barrage of filthy vehicular noises.   I can never be accused of being paranoid by my doctor-sister who probably thinks I am paranoid. (She loves profiling and labeling people. It is simply her job to assess and diagnose people with incurable diseases.)  Because everything for me is real!    She thinks every person on the planet is autistic or at least when she finds somebody annoying and "impossible" to deal with like my brother Rocky sometimes, she would secretly classify them as such! I personally think Rocky is in the Autism Spectrum Disorder anyway so why not just tell it straight to his f

Planet of the Apes, Life, The Universe and Everything

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  What's wrong with this picture? First of all, it's supposed to be a painting of a movie mash-up of Planet of the Apes (1968 version) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), two of the movies I deemed necessary or even apropos (to render acrylic on canvas) to avert from what I feel is my present-day existence or existential crisis given the daily grind of having to deal with people I don't like at home and the entire neighborhood especially nearby Iglesia ni Cristo buildings x4, heck, maybe even anywhere I go in this city, town,  country! They're both Sci-fi films by the way. Technically, I used the picture of the leader of the Planet of the talking and intelligent Apes Zaius, a somber backdrop of submerged New York City and what is left of the Statue of Liberty and took a dolphin glass figurine from daddy's library (the coolest one I can find) to remind me of the “hooking” intro spill of THHGG where dolphins do some somersaults while actually saying S

Napoléon

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  I watched Napoleon last Thursday (Bonifacio Day) in an IMAX theater practically all by myself. I was probably viewing it with less than 6 people tops. I wasn’t intending to see this movie when I drove to the nearby theater (unplanned) although I still bought myself a ticket when I got there because well, it’s about a controversial historical figure and this was the better option to watching the Miyazaki Heron Animé that wasn't being shown, the movie I was all set to watch. Anyway, despite the very violent love-making, gory beheadings and graphic war scenes, I sort of liked it. Again, I’m not one to give a review since I slept through many of its parts (the theater was very cold and I had to buy a blanket from the popcorn concessionaire just to be able to stand the cold as I was only dressed in a delicate Spiderman house t-shirt and shorts.) In fact, when I had to go home when the movie was finished, I wondered what happened in (ill-fated) Waterloo since I completely missed it

Saturday's Earworm led to this

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  My #Artworkdujour featuring cantors Kuh Ledesma, Sting and Jung Kook And if you're ready, and if you'll let me... I want to see it, in motion, in 3D. Why not, right?

Death Note

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Just as I don't expect change or even progress to happen (overnight) especially if you aren't mentally open for it 100%; I don't expect my detractors led by this idiot of a former teacher to change its stupid ways (overnight) especially because it is its only preoccupation (to be stupid overall).   Some people are resistant to change and progress even if it means they will eventually be left behind, to put it kindly. Japanese Manga by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. To the uninitiated, this means nothing.  "IgnoRamos" is bliss personified.

Marunong Gumanti ang Katulong (The household help Bherly only knows guileful tactics)

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...Pero hindi marunong magsumbong! It is so intelligent, it rejects Authority. Scared perhaps? Of a proper resolution?  With all her supposed “responsible” problem-solving roles in life : from being tutor and mother to only son EJ,  to being only guardian to elderly, single, sickly-looking father Bert, to being supporter to secondary income-earner Erlu in the family,  (all living  in the kitchen) and being provider to ALL in many iterations including me, Alexis and Macoy and her family entire who all come for a visit time and again; try to resolve me now. ...Because how do you solve a problem like M E ? Try being more open to a dialogue with me.  Try solving the thing you fear the most. At least. Then maybe we can go on with a semblance of a normal household. Otherwise, I will keep living a clandestine life of being host not only to you proximal parasites, but to a whole slew of surrounding ones you have no idea how far-reaching their impact is, in both their importance and my interac