just got home from a very long day's work and guess what? i'm not sleepy... yes i'm NOT sleepy... i've been awake for the past 39 hours and my eyes are beginning to annoy me but still...
it was a road trip actually and it was quite fun thanks to a compilation i made yesterday morning before i left the house... of the 21 tracks included in the cassette 5 songs really made me enjoy the ride...
first up is from side B track 5 (dreams burn down - ride) this was playing while we were stuck in heavy traffic at balintawak. the sky was a bit dark and cloudy and it was only 2:55 in the afternoon... the noise made by the guitars of that song made me think of bombs dropping on the poor side walk vendors and rugby boys while our driver kept wishing that it would rain hard so that the traffic enforcers wouldn't notice that the van was under coding that time... well there were no bombs, it didn't rain and we didn't get caught; funny because somewhere in that stretch - from SM north to muñoz, the vehicle was so exposed to some MMDA enforcers. luckily we got ignored...
at 4pm, we parked at shell select for a short snack sesssion... while enjoying the sight of two kids playing tag infront of me, i accidentally turned my cassette on and "burned out" by radiohead was playing. all of a sudden, i was in a state of momentary bliss which lasted until one of the kids accidentally (?) threw at me a rubber toy insect, good thing that i was in this blissed out state or else i could've acted like an embarrassment to humankind instead...
by 6pm we were almost in gapan but the traffic was so heavy that i suddenly realised that they were playing songs from rivermaYUCKs on the car stereo... to regain sanity i turned my walkman on and the song "4 men" by kitchens of distinction was playing ... this is a song about being gay according to an old acquaintance and i really got into it, not realising that i was already head bobbing. when someone from the entourage asked me if i was bobbing to the music of the "YUCKIES", i instantly replied with dagger looks sabay smile and said "anong oras nga pala kayo nasundo sa fairview kanina?"
close one... hope i didn't offend them that much but i really hate riverMAYUCKs... no need to explain sorry again... i passed out for 15 minutes maybe... and when i got back "half-life, remembered" from pale saints was playing. i looked around and no one was inside the van. they all went to answer nature's call at the gas station... i hopped out of the van and went inside the store to get a coke, i opened it at once and started drinking. i was about to pay for it when i caught a glimpse of an old buy and sell issue. so i hurriedly went thru the pages and saw some guitars on sale. from the outside, one of my mates was signalling to me that we were about to leave. i went out of the store threw the can into the garbage outlet, got in the van and off we went. then i realised that i did not pay for the coke, hehehe ... i guess the volume of my earphones was too loud...
last song that made the trip a memorable one was "felt so fine" by ahem candyaudioline... the timing was perfect... it was OVERTAKE mode for us and it was like a rollercoaster formula 1 ride for the next 3 minutes... 15 vehicles, 4 of which were 10 wheelers... speed rules...
anyway, life still sucks in the end... i just hope we get to see each other later tonight... hmm it's 6:14 in the morning... I'M HUNGRY!!!
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