Rockestra!!!

Now playing: Oo - Up Dharma Down

When two distinct and entirely different things are mixed up, its either you get something really bad or something really good... Its like combining eggs with, erm, say, sardines.. Yeah they taste good, individually.. But try and put them together in a blender and see what monstrosity will come out of that.. Haha!!!

But nuff said, classical and rock music were both at the ends of the spectrum. Literally.. Rock, as some classical conneusieurs like to call it, is just rampaging noise. On the other hand, some people believe classical music to be the ultimate sleeping pill, causing boredom to the nth... It took some dude who new both genres of music to really appreciate it and at the same time cook up a plan that, if generated a few years back, would have been laughed at by people.. But at the end, through some nifty orchestration from both the media and the musicians themselves, they managed to give us this.. A rocking ensemble of people who would have been fighting for the stage if not for the guys who organized the event...

ok, before I continue... a recap of the day as it went by:
- woke up early, got stuck in traffic, didn't go to Math class due to sheer boredom
- read half of the book about Michael Jordan in Powerbooks for 2 1/2 hours
- took the "exam" (more of like, a seatwork really..) in Philosophy
- met two people, Joseph and PJ, who were good enough to lend me their guitars! Shout out to both of you!
- went to DLSU to buy something to eat
- went to Folk Arts for the whole shebang

Its really amazing how two kinds of things put together can give you a whole new entity. Its like what LP and Jay-Z did with the mash up album Collision Course, earning themselves some Platinum records and Grammy nominations. It's when bands like Yellowcard or Silent Sanctuary exist to further push the envelope for other musicians to follow. Guys playing today have set the standards high, and are getting the praise for going against the flow. OK, so much for preaching the good news, lets get into the concert.

thoughts during the concert:
- I like it when the orchestra pulls off that getting-louder-and-louder-then-poof-the-sounds-gone type of thing.. You probably know what I mean
- I saw this girl in the entrance, wearing this Giniling Festival tshirt (by the way, its a band who sounds like Kamikazee, funny lyrics and all), lugging around some 20 pcs. of items you normally see on a Mcdonalds menu. Yup, I think she brought the whole menu...
- I am pissed because Urbandub didn't go with First Of Summer, I thought it would rock if the damn song had orchestrational inputs (violins and stuff)
- I am glad that Up Dharma Down had a great set, so did Itchyworms, although Beer wasn't in the set list... Maybe the conductor was too drunk to think of a musical arrangement for the song
- my beshie says Ney Dimaculangan of 6 Cycle Mind is cute.. Ok.. So may you explain why you snubbed him when we saw him in Robinsons?
- there's a midget in the Manila Symphony Orchestra!!!! And he's playing the percussion!!!!
- I got the feeling that 90% of the women there were probably going to watch Hale. I was right...
- Lalay Lim of Urbandub is super cute... haha!!!
- I admit it, I wanted PJ's battery operated electric guitar!!!!!
- Shit, all the free booze was lost when we got in line... Poor us....

and so we ended the day... Got home safely though it was around 12am... but its all good.... gotta stop philosophizing and all. Lets save that for another post.

See you in Rockestra 3!!!!