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Belated Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury

Gabriel Mercado — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:00:56 +0000

Rather belatedly as well I think, Queen getting voted the 'Best British Band Of All Time'.

As if we needed to be told that.

Anyway, here's a personal collection of select performances. The great Freddie Mercury will always bring chills down my spine.

Radio Ga Ga

Crazy Little Thing Called Love (@ SNL)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Live At Wembley Stadium 1986)

We Will Rock You (Queen Live At Wembley 1986)

Ready Normal People!?!

Gabriel Mercado — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:42:23 +0000

dont have much to post, so here's an oldie but a goodie!

there's a Gary in there hehehe.

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Best Site Evar

Gabriel Mercado — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:31:21 +0000

I'll let you guys in on a secret. One of my fave sites in the world is thebestlegaladvice dot com.

I know, I know, it sounds weird, but where other site can you study the very strange hairdo of Flock of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score?

Just check it out for yourself :

www.bestlegaladvice.com

and click on the first link at the right.

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Youtube’s down

Gabriel Mercado — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:18:37 +0000

Says they're fixing it. But I can't make heads or tails about the diagram they put up:

Supposed to be funny? Oh well.

Update Aug. 05 2006: Apparently I'm not the only one:

:))

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Mac TV Ads Spoof Video

Gabriel Mercado — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:20:49 +0000

I think the "no, that's what my trust fund is for" hits the nail right on the head.

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Can’t Wait

Gabriel Mercado — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:40:27 +0000

They're coming over on the 27th:

Ticket info here. Hilarious hilarious hilarious video here.

Would've wanted to watch the Black Eyed Peas instead, but the tickets are way overpriced imho (although the prices mentioned here are waaay cheaper. Typical of prices to change so quickly when it comes to big names coming to Manila).

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Movie Promotion via (make a guess) Youtube

Gabriel Mercado — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:35:30 +0000

From Yahoo Tech:

Studios catching viral bug to promo new DVDs online
"LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Online video sites like YouTube are Hollywood's hottest new marketing tool."...."YouTube is a key component in our overall marketing and publicity strategy," said Greg Newman, executive vice president development for MPI Home Video and Dark Sky Films"..." Paramount Home Entertainment recently started posting "some content" to YouTube".

tsk tsk. Old news. Here're a few Cinemalaya 2006 Filmfest entries in the short film category:

Rotonda

Donsol

Labada

More details here. Schedules from Movie Exchange to follow.

Plugging: The latest review on Movie Ex is on United 93.

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Youtube: Japanese Tetris

Gabriel Mercado — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:44:29 +0000

Jinnai Tomonori's a really funny tv host in Japan. Here's him playing Tetris. In Japanese but still fun:

via Neatorama.

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Barcamp thoughts

Gabriel Mercado — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:26:35 +0000

I just watched this video about Barcamp, with the goal to show what it's all about and such.

I first read of it from Sacha's blog. Incidentally, her blog, featuring her travails as a stude in Canada, is a fascinating read of the adventures (and misadventures) of a young woman learning her way around the campus, and consequently in life.

It loads like molasses (sorry Sacha :D), but when you read it you'll likely feel like I do, and applaud her, as if cheering on a heroine in a movie, as she goes through her daily stuff. She is me several years ago (just how many years is not the subject of this blog entry thank you very much), and you'd probably find a part of yourself in her as well.

At any rate, Barcamp reminds me strangely enough, of a conference backroom. Anyone who does conferences will tell you that the real action happens in the area behind the stage, where all the geeks, speakers, and geek-speakers join up for refreshments.

The conversations there are fun and all limitations set forth by NDA agreements are thrown into the wind. These really capture the gist of these meetings, afa im concerned. You make friends and have a blast, all the while sharing what you know. In other words, its a party, where the people happen to be interesting (to a geek).

However like any gathering, I foresee some challenges:

logistics. Particularly, where.
Who's gonna spend for this. There must be as little reliance on companies whatsoever, and so it has to be kkb.
Pinoys are an affable, easy-going lot, so I'm sure it'd be easy for everyone to get along. (This isn't really a challenge, just thought that out aloud.)
Someone has to lead.

Even the ~~party~~ Barcamp in that video must have had some sort of taskmaster to get things going. The local tech scene (whether unfortunately or otherwise), has a lot of kids, and I'll be honest here, the maturity level isn't impressive.

It's very easy for things like these to digress into a drinking session, or taken over by one of those loud boring personalities.

So there has to be some chief dude or dudes to take the reins, if only to every so gently, ask a question to a shy speaker so that he can start talking, start talking themselves and ask the right questions to get others involved, and then step back and watch the magic of people enjoying each other's company.

It shouldn't be that hard. No one's more social than Pinoys. Once you get him out of his shell he'll talk up a storm.

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Commercials I want to see on Youtube

Gabriel Mercado — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:42:25 +0000

In no particular order:

Caronia Nail Polish
Tancho Pomade
United American Tiki Tiki (or was this just a jingle?)
La Germania - Generates love.. (especially the early ones.)
YC Bikini Brief (again, just a jingle?)
Seiko wallet
..the toothpaste commercial that goes "Father, Mother, Brother, Sister how do you brush your teeth?"

..or any still using Caucasians for a Pinoy market such as Alaska, Milkmaid, etc. well into year 2000 and over.
More, Hope, and Champion cigarettes, aka where the hero saves the day by snapping his fingers and his car starts to fly avoiding bad guys..
680 home appliances with Rod Navarro.
Any one with Kuya Germs, Bentot, Chiquito, Babalu, The Aldeguer Sisters, Don Pepot, Panchito, a younger Dolphy, Palito, Tito Vic and Joey, Babalu, Weng Weng, Bert Marcelo, the host of Kwarta o Kahon (at the tip of my tongue..) etc..
Jaworski and Francis Arnaiz Toyota Corona and Corolla "Macho" and Liftback commercials. And those of Atoy Co or Christina Paner's Dad, if any.
Sarsi with egg with Danny Vanni (am really stretching it here, can hardly remember that)
Magnolia milk using those small cute glass bottles that always left me wanting more during recess.
Movie trailers for skin flicks with fruit / vegetable / suggestive names, like Patikim Ng Pinya, Sariwa, Talong, Tikim, Kangkong, Amasona.... kumakasa, pumuputok, Balat-Sibuyas, Tigasin, Malagkit, Lollipop, etc.

And finally (and this is doable):

Players Cologne for men.

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Dani California Vid and what little I know of Rock

Gabriel Mercado — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:45:53 +0000

Ex-boss Boss Ruby (who'll forever be called 'boss' till the day I die) was kind enough to correct me on my Beatle's "Rain" post, where I mentioned Paul McCartney was 'years away' from the 'Eagles' when it should've been 'Wings'. Arrgh. Hey at least it was close.

So no sooner than this snafu was pointed out than when I checked out the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California" video, where they parody several other rock bands, further testing my (by now, well established) weak rock knowledge.

So what the hey, let's try naming them all:

First, the vid:

Then, here're the bands I counted:

elvis
beatles
prince (?)
tom petty (?)
freddie mercury (?)
alice cooper
kiss
kurt cobain, so that's nirvana

and Flea's impersonating someone else I can't figure out. Maybe from Motley Crue? And now to look for the official list..

(few mins. later..)

and here is the official Wikipedia page, with:

elvis
beatles
jimi hendrix
alice cooper
sex pistols
motley crue
nirvana

Preeeety close i suppose. Although I couldve sworn that's Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons when Keidis (?) sticks his tongue out, and I'm sure that's Tom Petty (credit my having older sisters with rock tastes), in the tall hat. Incidentally, there's an accusation of plagiarism going around between the song and one of Tom Petty's.

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Songs that make you weep

Gabriel Mercado — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:56:48 +0000

I just uploaded my Strawberry Switchblade Video On Youtube, singing one of their most famous hits "Since Yesterday". Strawberry Switchblade is a UK two-girl band that started in the early 80's, and whose songs reverberated all the way throughout high school and college in the 90's.

I have two of their albums in vinyl (hopefully still ok in a box under the stairs), and hundreds of memories listening to them along with many other artists of that era with my friends.

I happened onto Joey's blogpost this morning about Nostalgictrip.wordpress.com, and immediately decided to upload it so I can share the video with them, along with my own Youtube find, the Beatle's 1966 Rain video (which believe it or not I give a listen to at least once a day).

Anyway, here's the video I just uploaded:

The lyrics are quite apt to whenever I attend one of our HS reunions. It goes:

And as we sit here alone
Looking for a reason to go on
It's so clear that all we have now
Are our thoughts of yesterday

HS reunions are often forced, awkward meetings of people who have very little in common after having so much back in the past, and so I catch myself thinking these lines whenever we meet up.

Inspite of that, we all know we've played important parts in each other's lives, and so we make an effort to meet, only to feel the same each time.

Anyway, I did a dir > prn of my hard disk mp3 directory and here's a list of some of the 80s and 90s songs I have in it, just for kicks.

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Chingy / Tyrese: Youtube pick of the week

Gabriel Mercado — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:55:20 +0000

My to-do list is full, I got up late, and I'm all confused on what to start. What then to do?

Why, Surf Youtube of course! Second favored activity to "aimless - blog - hopping", and followed by "playing - NBALive - 2k - until - my - eyes - turn - red", Surfing Youtube aims to serve my need for superflous information and voyeuristic impulses whilst being only slightly more entertaining than channel surfing on the couch for a few hours.

At any rate, today we've got Chingy & Tyrese, with "Pullin me back", definitely on my A-list of "songs to surreptitously download off the Internet", incidentally, another favored activity.

Other than the killer beat, it features the fantastic Aston Martin Vanquish, and for a techie bent, the interesting Helio mobile phone, which I really wanna get a hold off one of these days, if only because of it's very hip website and Myspace connectivity.

Then of course, there's Yaya DaCosta, supplying the shorty role for the video, who was in America's Next Top Model (2003), and in the movie "Take The Lead", which I reviewed for Movie Exchange, btw (notice the not - so - subtle plugging. Smooth no?).

And now, for your viewing pleasure:

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Alyssa reacts!

Gabriel Mercado — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:29:29 +0000

Check out Alyssa Alano's interview on Chikka Minute. Right click this link, and Windows Media Player, if you have it, should play it.

If not, try again here.

I love the part where she says she doesn't know 'why the lyrics were wrong', and decides to demonstrate how she can sing it well, by singing it exactly the same way she did in the video. God bless this girl.

She says she'll be performing it again on July 1. I cannot wait.

thanks to joey for the link.

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MS Origami Vid

Gabriel Mercado — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:37:57 +0000

Truly radical new thing in computing? Or just another 'cool thing to have'? I've seen this 4 month old vid twice and over, and my conclusion: this commercial isn't very good at telling us what it actually does.

Which means I wanna find out, and therefore wanna give it a spin. So I guess the commercial worked! Anyway, check it out yourself:

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Banned Office XP Commercial

Gabriel Mercado — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:11:12 +0000

Too sexy they said. Wonder if it's true.

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