spot my favorite things

last night i went to the late isabel's video launch for their new single "my favorite things." i really enjoyed myself, i'm so glad! first of all, it was a non-hostile makati club called 6 underground. no smoke is a pretty good trade-off for snotty yuppies, but this had it all! no cover charge to boot. though the waitresses are a bit finnicky about getting orders and payments, that's no big deal. the floor was purple, the ceiling black, the walls a pale teal that had the lyrics of the sneaker pimps song they were named after. very goth, that place, with mismatched chandeliers, and twisted paintings. good sound system. all in all, very much like prospero's banquet hall in poe's "the mask of red death." note to self: must locate unfinished drawing of said banquet.

of course, karl and jill introduced me to all their goth friends. i saw wednesday addams, morpheus from the matrix and mervyn the pumpkin head, dream's ultimate trabahador. (i certainly wouldn't look too weird if i wore my pink beret.) then there's nonong of names are for tombstones. he's my favorite. he opened the show. he's like moby/trent reznor. his precision and range of styles is amazing. he's fuss-free. except with his settings of course.

next was dominion - traditional goth, with a german singer called mike strange. he looks like reneboy (ate glow). he has beautiful tattooes. skies of ember followed. though i'm not so fond of either, and many of their songs sound alike, they're both tight bands. that matters a lot, i guess.

i have come to note a goth's favorite things: alcohol, dark eye makeup, weapons for jewelry, dressing up, photographing themselves, dancing with flailing arms, and "a night like this" by the cure... they're quite a happy bunch, it seems. very nightmare before christmas. Halloweenland was just so fun.

anyway, the cmc film crowd was there as well - ackey, ruthie, joey, and this other guy whose name i forgot. ackey outdid himself. it's really a good video. others spotted: goo and junjie lerma, and possibly wawi's dad, who shouted "ang swerte ng boyfriend ng anak ko!!" poor goo. wahaha!


so far, the band is shaping up to be the only smashing pumpkins-type band in the philippines, in the sense that the pumpkins were saw their videos as art. well, i guess you could put in radioactive sago project there. except of course, not very pumpkinesque in style. note: wawi has "harishuku girls" like gwen stefani. she calls them "nightgown girls" instead.

unfortunately, we were only able to stick around for one song from isabel since my mum was hounding me to get my ass home. they did this funky thing, very bass-driven, which I really like. they can move ala-ava adore too. jill gave me an isabel shirt... in a ladies' small!!! hooray for small band shirts! methinks i will cut it up later. it was an almost famous moment, when the band stillwater only found jason lee's face on their shirts. needless to say, it was wawi printed on it, and available only in girl's sizes. fascists!

so, the point is, watch out for the video. it's really good.