ramblingsoul: HUNGER STRIKE: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Saturday, June 26, 2010

HUNGER STRIKE: Smells Like Teen Spirit

The monthly homage to the era of plaid and Beavis and Butthead and Aeon Flux continues TONIGHT, June 26. HUNGER STRIKE: Smells Like Teen Spirit features a listening party of the decade's anthems, rarities, and oddities followed by '90s covers from the following bands:

Bayaw Himself
Stone Sutra
W.A.P.S.
Inner Volume

8:30pm onwards. Ride & Roll Diner along Xavierville Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.

FREE ADMISSION.

kitakits po!

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.