Today is what? Anniv? Someone's bday? Whatever, did you have a great day? :-)

Cheerio.

STORMY NIGHT this Saturday

Stormy Night is a benefit gig for Tara and a celebration of her works (music, literature, films, etc) together with Joee (their duo called Stormy).

Stormy is the collaborative effort between Tara BoschSantelices & Joee Mejias. With Joee's background in production design & Tara's in political science, their works merge both surreal & challenging aesthetics & intelligent social/ideological commentary using different media, such as video, shirts, graphics, sketches, short stories,& music. They are inspired by such material as vintage science fiction, the surrealist & expressionist movements, Neo-Gramscian & queer theories, & industrial/electronic music.


A. Films:

1. PANDORA
Concept, direction & sound by Stormy

"Pandora" by Tara BoschSantelices & Joee Mejias
Any crisis, be it a failed relationship or a loved one's death, leads one to question his own identity & Weltanschauung. What went wrong along the way? Would the world be my refuge, or my own version of hell? Pandora is a surreal, disjointed study of looking at the ways people cope with these questions. One can shut himself off from everything else, or one can lose himself among everything the world can offer, in an effort to repair his fragmented identity. In the end, the choice is a gamble; anything can open the floodgates to more pain & emptiness. Pandora says: ask & you shall receive; but what it is you'll receive, you are never sure.

Pandora was part of a series of 4 youth-directed short films called Cyclorama, which dealt with the self's seach for identity & unanswered questions. Cyclorama was a finalist in 2007 UP POV FilmFest; Pandora can be watched occasionally at mag:net Katipunan's film screenings.



2. JUANA
Inspired by the poem "Las Ruinas del Corazon" by Eric Gamalinda


Juana the Mad married the handsomest man in Spain
and that was the end of it, because when you marry a man

more beautiful than you, they say you pretty much lost control
of the situation. Did she ever listen? No. When he was away

annexing more kingdoms, she had horrible dreams
of him being cut and blown away, or spread on the rack,

or sleeping with exotic women. She prayed to the twin guardians
of the Alhambra, Saint Ursula and Saint Susana, to send him home

and make him stay forever. And they answered her prayers,
and killed Philip the Handsome at twenty-eight.

Juana the Mad was beside herself with grief, and she wrapped
his body in oils and lavender, and laid him out in a casket of lead,

and built a marble effigy of the young monarch in sleep,
and beside it her own dead figure, so he would never think

he was alone. And she kept his body beside her, and every day
for the next twenty years, while pungent potions filled the rooms,

she peeked into his coffin like a chef peeks into his pot,
and memories of his young body woke her adamant desire.

She wanted to possess him entirely, and since not even death
may oppose the queen, she found a way to merge death and life

by eating a piece of him, slowly, lovingly, until he was entirely
in her being. She cut a finger and chewed the fragrant skin,

then sliced thick portions of his once ruddy cheeks. Then she ate
an ear, the side of a thigh, the solid muscles of the chest,

then lunged for an eye, a kidney, part of the large intestine.
Then she diced his penis and his pebble-like testicles

and washed everything down with sweet jerez.
Then she decided she was ready to die.

But before she did, she asked the poets to record these moments
in song, and the architects to carve the song in marble,

and the marble to be extracted from the most secret veins
of the earth and placed where no man could see it,

because that is the nature of love, because one walks alone
through the ruins of the heart, because the young must sleep

with their eyes open, because the angels tremble
from so much beauty, because memory moves in orbits

of absence, because she holds her hands out in the rain,
and rain remembers nothing, not even how it became itself.



3. UNDERTOW
Thesis of Joee, Cholo and Chesko of CSB Production Design
Written and Directed by Tara Bosch-Santelices

Mid-21st century: The Philippines is moving slowly towards prosperity & development. Her sprawling, polluted megacities are famous for exporting a quality product- human capital. Many of her citizens are being rigorously trained to be domestics, personnel, workers, & professionals of the highest quality, then exported to developed countries. Society is fragmented, with the urban populace living in a highly consumerist, corporate system, while on the fringes live the poor & displaced indigenous people.

One of these dislocated tribes have been known with a lifestyle, culture, & livelihood tightly entwined with the deep blue waters of the Philippines. Yet the seas had become so polluted & toxic due to uncontrolled industrialization that they were forced to relocate to the megacities, hoping to have a better life while keeping their culture intact.

Inam, a member of the tribe, feels confused & constrained by his roots. Lured by dreams of wealth & escape from poverty, he leaves his people to enter the capitalist rat race- by training as a domestic in one of the centers. At first the rigorous, totalitarian mental, physical, & psychological training goes well. But soon Iman starts to perceive the undercurrents of the system that tear him away from his identity & his roots.


B. Arts and Music

We will be showing some of Stormy's photos and other works including their music.

There will also be other live music performances by our dear friends who plaed mostly with Stormy.




Please join us October 11, Saturday at Mag:net Katipunan for TARA.

We will also be serving Tara punch (also a form of donation) and Tara shirts.

Entrance fee is P125 includes 1 drink.


Thank you.
For more info you can text Laura at 0906-4679632

"... Stormy lives, and where she lives, I flourish..."
-Odd Thomas p.440

TARA FEST

Update5: Fundraising Gigs for Tara and her Family

We, Tara's friends and family are trying to raise funds for Tara's medical bills. It is also to uplift the morale of Tara and her Family. Please support our events for Tara.

Thank you for your support.

August 9 (Saturday)
Bela Bar - Skies of Ember, Rubber Inc., Elemento, Carnival Park, Archaster, and more. (more details on dotternus.multiply.com) 9pm onwards
70s Bistro - Coffeebreak Island, Lady I, Chongkeys, Unitiima. 9pm onwards

August 11 (Monday)
Mag:net Bonifacio Highstreet - "Para Kay TARA" RockEd. Feat: Pedicab, Imago, Rivermaya, Gasulina, Unitiima 6-9pm only
Ten02 - Skies of ember, Scarlet Tears, Names are for Tombstones, The Bernadettes, The Late Isabel, We Nocturnal, Aurora Borealis, Dayuhan, Fuseboxx, La Luna. 8pm onwards

August 12 (Tuesday)
Mag:net Katipunan - Gang Badoy's Birthday (Open to everyone and will also be a fundraising event for Tara)

August 13 (Wednesday)
Freedom Bar - Nyctinasty, Kidzpool, Dayuhan, Sters, Chubibo, Top Junk and more. 9pm
Souk Cafe, Dasma Cavite - "I EXIST for TARA" EXIST artists. 8pm onwards

August 14 (Thursday)
Bela Bar - Electronica and Experimental Artists
Route196 - Chillitees, Cambio, Gasulina, Project 2, Hija, and more.

August 15 (Friday)
Route196 - Terno Inferno for Tara. All Terno Bands. 9pm.

August 16 (Saturday)
Route196 - Open Mic (acoustic) and Open art exhibit for women. Organized by Lunduyan ng Sining and F.A.M.E.
Mogwai Cubao X - "Ingat Avenue" Organized by RockEd. Feat: Radioactive Sago, Juan Pablo Dream, Cambio, Gasulina, Shift, Chillitees
Nine Mile - 420 Party.

August 19 (Tuesday)
Cafe Saguijo - "An ELysium"

August 25 (Monday)
Route196 - slots open

September 4 (Thursday)
Cafe Saguijo - Organized by RockEd

Other venues without final dates yet:
Big Sky Mind
Club Dredd
Gweilos Makati

Other events/groups:
NU107
Jam 88.3
Magic 89.9
RockEd
Terno Recordings
F.A.M.E
Lunduyan ng Sining

Please Spread the Love for Tara. Thanks.

Haven't I spammed you yet? No? Nights of Rizal is some electronic(?) chillout lounge-ish music I've been making. http://migidebelen.multiply.com/music or http://myspace.com/nightsofrizal I also need help coming up with song titles!

lovely!

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Revolt of the Zombies: The Coffin Clutter 3 Mutiny.

Dance to the beat of the Dead

Featuring the Terror creature vs. Planet earth fiends!

Lord Maggs
Massive Sonik Toture
Chaoscradle
Dott
Leatherlace

July 11. 9PM
BELA BAR (P. Guevarra St. cor. Wilson st. San Juan)
100Php @ the Gate comes with a drink!

1st 30 zombies get a shot of tequila!

Oh look! It's our very own resident high school Gollum, Irene!

hello, sorry I left without saying goodbye last thursday... was in a hurry... :P

hey whats that band you said I should listen to again? Curve?

Uuy, fan si Migi.