The Magnificent.

Lullatone - Wake Up, Wake Up - Little Songs About Raindrops

Obviously I haven't updated in just about forever! I've been keeping a more loyal habit of blogging on my sister blog, instant vintage, as well as on my group blog Certified Fresh. Follow us with your Tumblr account & tell your friends to, too!

It's been over 9 months since I've last blogged here; & my do I have a lot to talk about! Although I'm gonna attempt re-cap the past year to date, i'll definitely come back to add more things that I've left out.

Highlights over the past 9 months:
-Sneakers Require w/ Lu @ the Buena Vista Center for the Arts
-All the amazing Listening Lounges by Reignforest Collective @ 111 Minna

-PCC18 @ UC Santa Cruz
-Bay-2-Breakers 12Km. Run @ SF
-finally seeing Dave Choe's "Dirty Hands" documentary @ the Asian Film Festival
-bumping Stephen Yan's "(Your) Favorite Mixtape" Mix
-Janelle Monae & Raphael Saadiq with Justine & Mattie G.
-French Art Auction @ 111 Minna & Grad Celebrations @ Poleng right after
-Ryan Leslie @ Yoshi's SF
-Certified Fresh volunteering @ Stern Grove Music Festivals
-M.J.'s Passing
-My first BLOW UP SF!

-Change The Beat 3-Year Anniversary @ Paradise Lounge (G.L.K.!)
-FeelGood 1-Year Anniversary @ Blush Ultralounge
-Composing mind-blowing music with Mark (coming soon!)

-Allison Torneros' "Face Value" Show on Opening Night
-More BLOW UP SF!!
-PERFORMING IN SF for my VERY 1ST TIME! @ Azul Lounge, SF for the Legendary show
-Santa Cruz w/ Mark & Farrah
-12ft. Dwende's ALL TOO FRESH Interview Posts!
-Foreign Exchange @ Yoshi's SF
-Mayer Hawthorne @ Rickshaw Stop
-BLOW UP SF!!!!!

As you may have noticed, i LOVE going to the Blow Up SF! I know I've missed a number of things I did & music that came out but these Facebook highlights struck me the most... damn that's hella stuff! haha. I'll add more pictures & media as time goes.

Working with Mark on our music for the past few months has been really, really invigoratingly refreshing; I came to realize that being happy is all that I really want most out of my life, and I thank Mark for helping me see that. Of course I want to be successful, too, career wise and everything.. but with the music we've been making, if this can blossom into a career, then that's fine; and if not, well I'm just glad I've realized how much I love doing this and love how good it feels. DAMN. Like, nothing feels better!

Anyway, Life Is Good (Word to M. Def) & the possibilities are equally as endless if not more endless in possibility for every day that I WAKE UP, WAKE UP. (GOD I'm awesome for connecting that Lullatone song with this closing salutation! Or not.)

P.S., I'll try to post more often, as Ana Vi(ctorious) has limitlessly inspired me to just live my life better. & my fault I didn't make it to your farewell dinner, I caught a tough flu that very weekend :(

"Drifing away like a feather in air,
Letting my words take me away from the hurt & despair.."

You've Gotta Squint Like You've Got The Mothaf!cking Sun In Your Eyes.

Talib Kweli ft. Res - Too Late - Train Of Thought

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Peace to L-Boogie & You + Yours!



^Like our tree? Long's Drugs mini trees what it do!!

PS, damn I miss that tie ^up there, got ruined in the washer =[ oh well, new ties will get rocked then!

I've given until I break,
The ground beneath us quakes;
How can we grow when we've only begun?
Forsake beneath the sun.."

I Crossed An Ocean Of Words & Found You.

Nobuo Uematsu - Tifa's Theme - Final Fantasy VII Piano Collection



Lost In Translation is one of my most favorite movies, ever! The sleepy, dreamy aesthetic of this film (recorded on film and not digital video), paced with the consciously detached sensation that you're all alone would push the impatient audiencee to blink 40 winks, or perhaps dismiss the movie as "pointless" or "plotless," but they'd be completely missing the most profound element of this movie: It's about getting lost in many things--lost in loneliness, lost in a fast-paced world--but it's ultimately about being lost in love. And lost in an ocean of words.


Talib Kweli ft. Les Nubians - Love Language - Train Of Thought

^Listen to the chorus of this song:

"L'amour n'a pas de, frontiere (Love has no boundaries)
Restes car je t'aime comme tu es (Stay because I love you as you are)
J'ai traverse l'ocean du verbe (I crossed an ocean of words)
Et je t'ai trouve (And I found you)

Falling in love in a different country.. Imagine falling in love in a different language! As the Def Poetry poet Shihan put it, from his "Love-Like" piece:

"..I even be fantasize about walking out on a green light just dying to get hit by a car just so I could lose my memory,
get transported to some third world country just to get treated and somehow meet up again with you so I could
fall in love with you in a different language and see if it still feels the same type love."

This is type of love is that miracle-type love, that every single one of us has a chance of happening to. John Green of the novel Paper Towns put it so well, as it goes along the lines of this: If you think about it, everyone gets their miracle: if you consider all the unlikely things put together (i.e., getting struck by lightning, getting terminal ear cancer, spontaneous combustion, getting eaten by a whale, etc.), at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. but my miracle was this: Out of all houses, of all the subdivisions of all the cities in Florida, I lived next-door to Margot Roth Spiegelman."

^You will definitely have to read the book to understand how SO SWEET & DOPE this part of the prologue is!

Anyway, my honest intention of this post was to post the ending of Lost In Translation because I recently discovered (through watching Attack Of The Show, I believe!!) the silenced whisper exchanged between Murray & Johannsen.

If you can't appreciate the art behind this decision by Sofia Coppola to blind the audio, then don't watch this video, and stay puzzled in heartache, imagining what was actually spoken!

Or, if you are full of suck and are a curious cat, proceed + continue to push "play":


Bill Murray & Scarlett Johannsen - Ending - Lost In Translation

*Sigh* I want my miracle, too..

"The things I say & do
May not come quite through,
My words may not convey just what I'm feeling.."

Just A Bunch Of Jibberish.

Binary Star - Reality Check - Masters of the Universe

..And then Macy asked me,"Are you happy?" And I couldn't answer immediately at first--I moved my lips and opened my mouth and blinked a second too long, meaning to decide where my answer would fall in this Yes/No/Maybe realm of almost seemingly-innocent conversation..

I said "Yes, I am," but my eyes lied and a teardrop backstabbed my false intention, to agree to disagree with myself, and when I closed my eyes I saw myself staring out into blank void of what would lie ahead in my post-graduate life (for that time.. things changed for the better now!).

PCC17 "Bayan" had just wrapped its closing night, and the whole run crew, stage crew, cast and close friends were partying like it was New Year's, on a cold, dark but unarguably celebratory night in a Western street house, with a lovely basement (whose residency included Will, handsome boyfriend to the Elle front-page, drop-dead divine Tammie D., lead star of the play) to escape the dreaded party-ordinance enforcers known as the Cops.

I had just made a run to the 7-11 near my house to cop a modest 32 oz. of the High Life for myself, but something was missing. Why was I standing here alone, getting a sole-bottle of something that really wouldn't do anything to me unless I downed two of these bottles whole? Why hadn't I asked anyone if they wanted something on the way, too? why was i frustrating myself with silly questions when I could be doing a Soco-Sake-shotgun, or a keg stand, or playing Beer Pong against Luisa in the party basement? WHY COULDN'T I JUST STOP THINKING!

Macy's eyes snapped mine back onto Earth from the Jupiter space they had momentarily rocketed out too, and knew my answer was an honest lie. I didn't even realize that one could lie honestly, only until it was themselves they were lying with. "Carlo, it's important to be honest to you, even though it may take a while to find where your happiness lies.. No matter what, do what pleases you, do what makes you happy. It's taken me a while, but I'm finally happy."

Macy is one of the realest, flyest girls I've ever known. Always given me direction and wisdom words, I owe her the oceans and stars and all the intergalactic space between.

Thanks for always lookin out, Macy!

"Lady all I need,
Darkness she's all I see.."

Your Arms Are Too Short To Hotbox With God.

Keyshia Cole - Let It Go Trackademicks Remix - Trackademicks Presents The ReMixtape Vol. 2

Pacquiao OWNED De La Hoya!!!!!!! No contest whatsoever!!! De La Hoya's quitting now?!!! What a night to be a Filipino! Peace to J.R. of Rogue Status, sure wish I got to see the fight live! & peace to mi familia, Goldilocks cake was on HIT!

He gave us this day!



"I ain't got nothin' but love girl,
Eight days a week.."

Got A Complex About Being Too Complex.

Mighty Joe - Dream - Mighty Fine Mixtape

My wish list for Santa Clause to realize in present-form:
01. Red Visvim Backpack

02. AdidasxFTC Superstar Lows

03. Fuchsia Basic Long Sleeve (to go w/ my fuchsia G-Shock!), peace to Vanaly!

04. Nike Dunk Low Pro Nightshades (I'll never get these.. but if I could have my wish, why not!)

05. Apple Macbook 2008


I need the laptop most of all, my Vaio is finally showing signs of giving in!

BIRTHDAY PARTY UPDATE!

Apparently, this was the last Style/Plus Sign Vibes event @ Agave Ultra Lounge; although the attendance was more timid, all the better to have all that space with all my good folks!!



"..You know you saved me from myself,
You knew that I needed help.."

Happy Birthday, Lisa. (& Me!)

Michael Jackson ft. Bart Simpson - Happy Birthday, Lisa - The Simpsons: Stark Raving Dad

Since my 20th birthday, December 4th hasn't been as crackin as it once was: When I became 21, I had to study for a Calculus final and an Intermediate Macroeconomics final, both to be taken on the same day... WEAK! And on my 22nd? I had to go on campus to a REVIEW SESSION, that time for an Intermediate Accounting final and a Fraud Examination one..

Basically, I've had to study when I should have been going hella dumb, ghost riding my Maxima on Westcliff or some other outrageously dangerous Santa Cruz road with zero-pavement, binging on High Lifes, banging my head on sushi tables before bellowing "Kampei!" to the alcoholic I Love Sushi restaurant owner while being with good folks.. but nooooooooo! Anyway, I always felt that college robbed me of a decent birthday with my classmates, but nonetheless, it's time to celebrate (tomorrow that is)!



"It's not a wrong thing
to be addicted to the microphone like a heroine fiend,
i'll tell you 1 thing: you will never catch me fronting..."