ramblingsoul: July 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009

'90s Grunge/Alternative Night

Reliving the plaid decade of Beavis, Butthead, and the Butthole Surfers. 9pm onwards TONIGHT, July 25 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan. featuring the following bands:

1. The Front Acts
2. Patience, Dear Juggernaut
3. Gustavo Project
4. Inner Volume
5. Shotgun Lola

plus spinning of anthems, oddities, and rarities c/o TCP (the trusty CD player).

Free Admission. kitakits!

*photo from dancing.net.au

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Happy Mondays LVII: Book Launch of The Long Lost Startle

The 57th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights at mag:net cafe Katipunan kicks off with the book launch and signing of Joel M. Toledo's second volume of poetry titled The Long Lost Startle from 7 to 830pm. Cocktails will be served with an open bar courtesy of Tanduay Rhum, also until 830pm.

Readings will follow from 830-1030pm, featuring the following:

1. Gemino Abad
2. Krip Yuson
3. Marne Kilates
4. Benilda Santos
5. Patrick Rosal
6. Neil Garcia
7. Mikael Co
8. Khavn De la Cruz
9. Pancho Villanueva
10. RJ Baliza
11. Mia Tijam
12. Waps San Diego
13. Angelo Suarez
14. Wincy Ong

featured bands for the evening are:

1. Ang Bandang Shirley
2. Goliath (featuring Lourd De Veyra and Jay Gapasin of SAGO)
3. Los Chupacabraz

Hosting the event is Kris Lacaba.

The Long Lost Startle is a collection of poems from Toledo's NCCA Writers Prize grant, as well as verses that won for him/were shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK), the Meritage Press Prize (USA), and The Philippines Free Press Literary Award.

The 59-poem collection is published by the University of the Philippines Press, with an introduction by Dr. Gemino Abad.

The book is P150.

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. kitakits po tayo. :)

Thursday, July 09, 2009

YEARS LATER X: A New Wave Music Retrospective

The 10th installment of the monthly cover night of anthems and oddities from the '80s New Romantic scene this coming Saturday, July 11 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan features the following bands:

1. XLuthor

2. Tey's Revenge

3. Inner Volume

4. The Superchongs

+ spinning of New Wave tracks from the shadow cabinets of the chong decade.

the show commences at 9pm. FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. kitakits po tayo. :)

About Joel

Joel M. Toledo holds a Masters degree in English Studies (Poetry) from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he likewise finished two undergraduate degrees (Journalism and Creative Writing). He has authored three books of poetry – Chiaroscuro (UST Press, 2008), The Long Lost Startle (UP Press, 2009), and Ruins and Reconstructions (Anvil Publishing, 2011). Chiaroscuro was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Awards. Toledo was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize, and has won several literary awards for his poetry in English, including two Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, The Philippines Free Press Literary Award, The Meritage Press Poetry Prize in San Francisco, USA, and the Bridport Prize for Poetry in Dorset, United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in March 2011 and was the Philippine representative for the 2011 International Writers Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA. Toledo is the current Literary Editor of the Philippines Free Press. He teaches Literature at Miriam College.