I’ve been looking for this movie for a looong time. Glad to say I wasn’t disappointed (the faults are easy to overlook). If you like it, I encourage you to buy the original copy on DVD, which is available at Odyssey and other video shops. We need to show support so that, hopefully, they’ll keep making more lesbian films in the future. Kudos to Mylene Dizon, Andrea Del Rosario, and the whole staff of Rome and Juliet.
This is part 1 of 14. Thanks to honeybojoandmylene for the upload.
Nung Lunes, nakapanood ako ng Harapan with Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon. Topic: Same-sex Marriage. Panelista sina Danton Remoto at Eytch (isang butch) sa panig natin, at sina Cong. Benny Abante at Bishop Oscar Cruz sa kabila. Heto ang trailer:
Ang isang magandang naidulot ng palabas ay nadiin na hindi basbas ng simbahan ang hanap ng mga humihingi ng same-sex marriage, kundi yung pagsasaayos ng mga legal aspeto ng kanilang pagsasama. Yun lang naman talaga eh. Paki ko sa pari. Paki ko sa sakramento ng kasal. Ang importante, kung may mangyari man sa kin, kampante akong maayos ang kalagayan ng mga maiiwan ko, na ang mga ari-arian ko (wala pa naman masyado pero dadami rin yan) mapupunta kay Celine at sa mga magiging anak namin.
Nakakatawa si Korina kasi halatang pro sya sa gay marriage. Ilang beses nyang binara yung kabila. Rason nya, marami syang staff na bading, at sila daw yung mga pinaka-productive sa trabaho. Dahil sa naitutulong ng mga bading sa ekonomiya, eh ano nga naman ba yung pagbigyan sila sa karapatan nilang bumuo ng pamilya sa legal na paraan? Pati si Ted parang gustung-gusto kay Eytch.
Sabi nga ni Celine, kahit matagal pa ang bubunuin bago maipasa ang batas na ‘to sa Pilipinas, progress na ring maitatawag na ang mga sikat na personalidad katulad nila Korina at Ted ay kayang ipahayag ang kanilang pagsuporta sa panukala ng walang alintana. Sabi nga ni Korina, kung ayaw nila gamitin ang salitang “kasal”, eh di ibahin. Pwedeng “domestic partnership” na lang para di ma-offend ang mga banal na Katoliko. Semantics na nga lang siguro ang labanan.
Hi guys! Sorry if I haven’t been updating in a while. I’ve been busy with work and too engrossed on a website project that’s long been overdue. I’m rather proud of these first posts. Clickie-click. 
I think I really like blogging. The disadvantage of this one, though, is that I can’t monetize it in order to be self-sufficient. That’s why I’m branching out to other blogs, each focusing on one of my various interests. A few of them will be collaborative in nature to make it more interesting.
The difficulty with “professional blogging” is that it takes a lot of time before the money really gets rolling. You have to get a lot of content (i.e. posts) out there in order to attract visitors, as well as implement many SEO tactics. There is a tendency for the uncommitted person to decline in interest, and for posts to degrade in quality and quantity, when it fact it should be the other way around. You probably have to be a little crazy/obsessed to make it all work.
In other news, I checked the site stats and guess what keyword someone Googled before landing on the blog.
“satanic high mass”
Go figure.
Care for a vintage film?
“Ang T-Bird at Ako” is among my most loved Filipino films (fine, nevermind the title). In my book, it’s up there with all the greats by Ishmael Bernal, Lino Brocka, and Mike De Leon. Whoever penned the script is a genius, and as for the acting, you can hype it all you want with the Nora Aunor-Vilma Santos combo and never be disappointed. They’re just amazing actresses, both. If anybody knows where to get the full copy of this film, I beg you, please, please tell me.
Why we love Sir Ian from LOTL Magazine
Sir Ian McKellen is so offended by the Bible’s anti-gay stance he makes a point of ripping out the relevant page everytime he stays in a hotel room. The openly homosexual actor, a longtime campaigner for gay rights, accepts he shouldn’t vandalise the Bible, but finds it difficult to contain his outrage at the contents of Leviticus 20:13 when he spots the Holy book in hotels.
McKellen says, “It’s the one thing I find difficult to defend but do go on doing.” The offending passage reads: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an obomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.”
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Eh nakakainit nga naman talaga ng ulo. Go, Sir Ian, go!
I’m currently reading “The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf”. It’s a compilation of real letters between two of the most famous women in English literature, spanning the whole 19 years of their friendship (1922-1941). It’s been fairly established that the two had an affair, even though both were married from the time they met. Vita was an outgoing Aristocrat who had affairs with both men and women, while Virginia was a quiet but prominent novelist.
Here’s a wonderful excerpt from Vita’s letter that made me blush crimson:
Milan, Thursday, 21st of January 1926
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia.
I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple, desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain.
It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
Ja Rule told Complex Magazine that gays are pretty much evil and to blame for America’s problems. He wants to shift the blame society puts on rap onto the gays.
“And if it is, then we need to go step to Paramount, and fucking MGM, and all of these other motherfuckers that’s making all of these movies and we need to go step to MTV and Viacom, and lets talk about all these fucking shows that they have on MTV that is promoting homosexuality, that my kids can’t watch this shit,” he continued. “Dating shows that’s showing two guys or two girls in mid-afternoon. Let’s talk about shit like that! If that’s not fucking up America, I don’t know what is.”
GLAAD responded with a statement.
“No fair-minded person can look at JaRule’s interview with Complex Magazine and believe for one second that his children could be more harmed by what they might see on television than by the vulgarity and prejudice that comes out of their father’s mouth.”
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