Mixtapes
Saints, Skeptics, and Sinners
I’ve got your holy week playlist right here Hi! Are you tired of spending holy week repenting for all the unholy weeks you’ve spent listening to Akon? Do you equate “doing penance” with listening (guilt free!) to the contents of the record store shelves labeled “Christian”? Do you find genuine catharsis in a Creed song? [...]
Searching for the Perfect Playlist on Hate
By GLENN TUAZON Our search for the perfect “I hate you” song often ends in specious aggression – an encounter with pummeling guitars and no-nonsense “fuck you” attitude. In fact, several emo bands have built entire careers on feeding on an insatiable desire to shout out pain and hatred. This need, however, is strangely unfulfilled even by [...]
The Anger Management Playlist:
Music for Bloody Murder This playlist was supposed to be called, “I bet you want to hit me right now because you’re so angry–I’m not angry, okay!–Tell that to the vein on your forehead!–FUUUU–! I’m not angry, okay!” But it was too long. I bet you want to hit me right now because even this [...]
My Manila Playlist
By OWARD BODIE “I should be floating but I’m weighted by thinking” – Animal Collective August of this year was, indisputably, my worst month. I had this persistent cold, felt constantly smothered (“like I’ve been breathing nothing but bad air”), and walked around feeling perpetually unsatisfied. My hunger was never satiated, no matter how much [...]
Everyday I Write the Book
Music for Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic By HANNA KRISHNA N. CALLORA Roald Dahl is one of my favorite writers. Growing up, I always thought he was my other father. I was never the kid who played outside after school, running around after other kids and climbing trees and getting dirty. I read a lot and [...]
We Don’t Dive, We Cannonball!
When placed under the microscope of pop culture, the four years that make up high school are more intensely observed than any other period in one’s lifetime. These are the years we feel immortal and invisible, and we convince ourselves that the friends we have are the friends we will keep. But that was not [...]
The Gentle Art of Making Petiks
By ALICE SARMIENTO The term petiks was derived from “pipitik-pitik”. Directly translated, this means to snap one’s fingers, but in the more familiar territory of slacking off, it can be better understood as the “thumb twiddle”, a.k.a. that thing you do when you sit back and wait for something to happen. Which is highly unlikely [...]
Here’s Your Coffee Motherfucker!
By SOPHIA FISH To Whom It May Concern (you know who you are, you soulless bastard): Please, please, please accept this letter as resignation of my position as fashion assistant, effective as soon as motherfucking possible. I am offering you two weeks’ notice that will hopefully, by some way of miracle, be enough time for [...]
How About Telling a Story?
By HANNA KRISHNA S. CALLORA DISCUSSED: This was a goodbye letter/mix-tape that I made just last year to cap off a wonderfully painful and rather long relationship that ended in shambles. It was one of my many firsts and this marked the last of it. February 23, 2009 Monday 00.56 1 Broken Social Scene – [...]
Neon Lights at Midnight
Intimacy is that dizzying ride home after your high-octane night towards the inescapable lure of slumber – what have I done? How much cash did I burn on booze again? Will I get another tongue-lashing for going home barely an hour before daybreak? How will I drag myself through work? The way intimacy transitions into [...]
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