Pounding The Keyboard

  "I see dead people."                      --The Sixth Sense (1999)         I’ve been sick for almost a week now: my eyes hurt, I have a recurring fever, my head and my muscles ache and my sinuses inflamed and my wallet abandoned. My niece said I’m probably turning into a zombie and she’s probably right. Watching too much zombies will probably infect you. And because my eyes hurt, I’ve been staying away from my computer and other gadgets(tablet, laptop, game and watch, Nokia 3310,  etc) and the only time I’m sitting in front of my monitor is to work and even that is a drag.         Anyway, Halloween is near and I am somehow obliged to write a blog entry   during this season of the dead, so here it is, some Halloween tidbits I could remember:     ...

 "The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, Oh, and by the way, which one's Pink?”            "Have A Cigar," Pink Floyd            The photo above is the official cover of Pink Floyd's latest--and possibly, last--studio album.            Cool, isn't it? A boat sailing on clouds. It's not as striking or subtle like the covers of Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here but it definitely has its charms. Pink Floyd , of course, is known for its exquisite and memorable album covers.           The album is entitled The Endless River and it will be out this year.           Although made without Roger Waters, the band's former bassist, vocalist and lyricist extraordinaire,  the new album, still, is a manna from...

The 35 th Manila International Book Fair will again be held at SMX Convention at Mall of Asia on September 17-21, 2014 and Black Ink Comics will be there. (See photo below for details.) The following Black Ink’s new releases will be sold at the event: 1. Dark Sun Treasure     Written by Kuting Na Basa     Illustrated by Kim Loren Dominguez  2. Never Been     Written by Nina May     Illustrated by Earl Jan Lee 3. Date With The Prince Of Hell     Written By Gino Pornasdoro     Illustrated by Regine Lim 4. FOX     Created by Ray Magbanua 5. Stray Ghost: Chasing Atticus     Written By Diana Lam      Illustrated by Crisca Jallorina 6. Tonio Tikbalang Volume 3     Created By Jake Vicente 7. Shortcuts      3-Story Anthology Featuri...

The following story was told to me by an intoxicated friend and I have no idea if it’s true or just a product of an intoxicated mind but let him narrate it:           Around two years ago, while I was searching for a name in Facebook’s search bar, an unusual and quite an imaginative name (or pseudonym) popped up. My curiousity picked, I clicked it and I was led to its account. At first, I couldn’t tell if the owner was a male or a female. The profile pic was of a quiet river.           The posts or statuses were most likely in private setting so there was not much to see except a lone emo Radiohead YouTube video and some statuses about   the bliss of being a loner and of being alone. And basing on that emo whinings, I presumed that the owner was a female, specifically, a girl, whose age probably hovered around 16 to 20.         ...

          Vertigo (1958) is one of my favorite films and my favorite Hitchcock films (I like it better than Psycho). Frequently voted as the greatest film of all time, Vertigo is the story of a retired detective who suffers from acrophobia and suffers vertigo whenever he is in high places. One day, he was tasked to secretly follow and observe a mysterious woman by her husband and—to tell you more about the plot will be a crime.           But what I really want to discuss here is a different kind of vertigo—the dizzying type.           Almost two years ago, I was inside our house when I suddenly felt lightheaded and nauseous—the room started to spin and the ceiling started trading places with the floor. It felt like being very drunk without drinking anything remotely alcoholic. It was scary because I thought I was having a stroke, althou...

“Dammit!”          -- Jack Bauer           I first heard about 24 (yeah, the award-winning show which main character is a gung ho agent named Jack Bauer) around 2006, I think. At that time, few seasons had aired.   I wasn’t that interested on TV shows that time (movies are enough for me to help me while away my time when I wasn’t doing anything) but I decided to give it a try.           I searched for DVDs of the show, watched it and I got hooked immediately.           24 is suspenseful, nail-biting, exciting, exhilarating and smart—in short, very entertaining.   It goes over-the-top at times but never insulting and never boring. Boring is a word you will never use to describe 24 . What is boring is a night without an episode of 24. Tee-hee. The show regularly uses split screens (to show different ...