Genesis 3:23

there's a nice feature on and banner of Happy Mondays @ www.writersconnect.org. as well as a story, a cnf, and 2 poems by Joey Nacino, Carl Javier, and Waps San Diego, respectively. do pay a visit. :)

photo above's from my current favorite, The Mountain Goats' new album. wasak 'to!

Happy Mondays LXIII + '90s Alternative Music Night

featured readers for the 63rd installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights on Monday, October 19 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Kristian Cordero

2. Iñigo De Paula

3. Jonar Sabilano

4. Pancho Villanueva

5. Kash Avena

6. Siege Malvar

7. Waps San Diego

8. Mikael Co

9. Wincy Ong

10. Lourd De Veyra

11. Cor Arenas

12. JC Casimiro

13. Pancho Alvarez

14. Sasha Martinez

15. Marie La Viña

16. Dax Cutab

17. JP Abrajano

18. Ed Geronia, Jr.

*plus other special guest readers and performers.

readings start promptly at 730pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 9pm-930pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

930pm onwards, it's the October installment of the monthly '90s Music Retrospective featuring covers of hits, rarities, oddities, and anthems from the alternative and grunge music era. performing bands are:

1. Patience Dear Juggernaut

2. The Fuhrer Commands It

3. Lager Louts

4. Inner Volume

5. Dissent

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

*photo taken from zazzle.com

Happy Mondays LXII + Years Later

featured readers for the 62nd installment of the bi-weeklyHappy Mondays Poetry Nights TONIGHT, October 5 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Wincy Ong

2. Waps San Diego

3. Angelo Suarez

4. Lawrence Bernabe

5. JC Casimiro

6. Keith Cortez

7. Jonar Sabilano

8. Mikael Co

9. Rob Ceballos

10. Keith Cortez

11. Dave Buenviaje

12. Pancho Villanueva

13. Larry Ypil

14. Krip Yuson

15. Jimmy Abad

16. Patrick Rosal

*plus other special guest readers and performers.

readings start promptly at 8pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, it's the Imagining October installment of the monthly YEARS LATER: A New Wave Music Retrospective featuring rarities and anthems from the '80s. performing covers are:

XLuthor

Tey's Revenge

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

*photo courtesy of i4.ytimg.com

Intake Interview

What is today's date?

Who is the President?

How great a danger do you pose, on a scale of one to ten?

What does "people who live in glass houses" mean?

Every symphony is a suicide postponed, true or false?

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the
avalanche?

Name five rivers.

What do you see yourself doing in ten minutes?

How about some lovely soft Thorazine music?

If you could have half an hour with your father, what would you
say to him?

What should you do if I fall asleep?

Are you still following in his mastodon footsteps?

What is the moral of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"?

What about his Everest shadow?

Would you compare your education to a disease so rare no one
else has ever had it, or the deliberate extermination
of indigenous populations?

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent
absence?

Should an odd number be sacrificed to the gods of the sky, and an
even to those of the underworld, or vice versa?

Would you visit a country where nobody talks?

What would you have done differently?

Why are you here?

FRANZ WRIGHT

Wheeling Motel
Alfred A. Knopf

Happy Mondays LXI

featured readers for the 61sth installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights tomorrow, September 21 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Nikko Vitug

2. Wincy Ong

3. Johanna Fernandez

4. Angelo Suarez

5. Lawrence Bernabe

7. JC Casimiro

8. Khavn Dela Cruz

9. Keith Cortez

10.Jonar Sabilano

11.Waps San Diego

12. Mikael Co

*plus other special guest Patrick Rosal, Krip Yuson, Marne Kilates, and Jimmy Abad.

*readings start promptly at 8pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Acoustic Night featuring:

Roberto Nicolas

Johanna Fernandez w/ Tonight We Sleep

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

*photo courtesy of jaunted.com

Everclear: A '90s Alternative Music Tribute

re-living the anthems, rarities, and indie ditties of the '90s. From Better Than Ezra and Toad The Wet Sprocket to Mad Season and The Breeders.

Featuring performances by The Moves, Waps and Kael, Patience, Dear Juggernaut, and Taggu nDios.

We'll be spinning classic '90s grunge and alternative music as well.

9pm onwards, Saturday, September 19, 2009.

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

"swim up past the breakers
watch the world die"
-- Santa Monica

Happy Mondays LX: Launch of L. Lacambra Ypil's First Book of Poems

Multi-awarded poet and Ateneo professor Lawrence Lacambra Ypil launches his first book of poems, The Highest Hiding Place, tomorrow, Monday, September 7, 2009 at Mag:net Katipunan as part of the 60th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights.

Collecting the poems that have won for Ypil the Carlos Palanca Awards and the Free Press Awards among others, The Highest Hiding Place charts the author’s more than ten years’ exploration of the intersections of desire, displacement, and voice.

Born and raised in Cebu, Ypil teaches literature and creative writing at the Ateneo de Manila University, while keeping a bi-monthly column in Sun Star Weekend, "Dog-ears in the Wrong Notebook".

The book launch on Monday begins with a book signing and cocktails at 6:30 pm, followed by a reading of poems from the collection from 7:30 pm onwards and bands and performers after.

Joining in the celebration of the book are contemporary Filipino writers and young poets from the Ateneo. The book launch forms part of the regular Happy Mondays poetry reading at Mag:net Katipunan.

Hosting the event is Daryll Delgado.

The Highest Hiding Place is published by the Ateneo de Manila Press and will be available at the launch for only P195. For details, visit http://magnetcafekatipunan.multiply.com.

Performing after the reading are:

Roberto Nicolas
Tonight We Sleep

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

YEARS LATER LX: A New Wave Music Restrospective

re-living the era of music that dared to be different, XB 102, and new wave anthems and rarities of the '80s. 9pm onwards, sept 5. lots of acoustic acts, and some spinning. a listening party devoted to the era of great lyricism and, well, bad hairstyle.

this september's installment of this monthly event features acoustic sets by:

Roberto Nicolas
MoreEasy
Wincy The Night Away
The Superchong
Wall of Sound Jamming Session

kitakits, mga chong. :)

The Possessive 90's: A '90s Alternative Music Cover Night

paying tribute to the decade of grunge and plaid, Beavis and Butthead, and the smell of teen spirit. 9pm onwards, Saturday August 22 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan. an all-cover evening of anthems and rarities, featuring performances by:

1. Glenn in Distant Cities

2. Bullman and IndieBoy

3. JohnoyDanao

4. Los Chupacabraz

5. Ward9

6. Inner Volume

FREE ADMISSION. kitakits at makiwasak!

Definitely Sigur Ros

Happy Mondays LIX

featured readers for the 59th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights tomorrow, August 17 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. JC Casimiro

2. Lawrence Bernabe

3, Corin Arenas

4. Kash Avena

5. Wincy Ong

6. Larry Ypil

7. Mikael Co

8. Angelo Suarez

9. Yol Jamendang

10.Petra Magno

11. Keith Cortez

12. Waps San Diego

13. Drey Teran

14. Khavn Dela Cruz

15. Carlomar Daoana

16. Patrick Rosal

*plus other regular guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Acoustic Night featuring

Johnoy Danao
Roberto Nicolas

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

YEARS LATER XI

taking you back to the shadow cabinet of the '80s for the august installment of the monthly Years Later, a retrospective spinning and cover night of anthems, ditties, oddities, and rarities from the great new romantic decade of bad hairstyle, speak and spell music, and XB 102.

featured bands for this month's installment are:

1. The Superchongs
2. XLuthor
3. Tey's revenge
4. The Harutas

mag:net cafe, 9pm onwards.

FREE ADMISSION.

kitakits, mga chong.

Happy Mondays LVIII

featured readers for tonight's 58th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Andrea Teran
2. Pancho Villanueva

3. Gelo Suarez
4. Sasha Martinez

5. Joseph Saguid

6. Keith Cortez
7. Waps San Diego
8. Carlomar Daoana

9. Emman Nobleza
10. Lawrence Bernabe
11. Wincy Ong
12. Khavn Dela Cruz

*plus other regular guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Acoustic Night featuring

Roberto Nicolas

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

'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

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. :)

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. :)

Happy Mondays LVI

featured readers for tonight's 56th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Andrea Teran
2. Gelo Suarez
3. JC Casimiro
4. Larry Ypil
5. Hussein Macarambon
6. Cathy Candano
7. Keith Cortez
8. Kash Avena
9. Waps San Diego
10. Mia Tijam
11. Pancho Villanueva
12. Emman Nobleza
13. Sasha Martinez
14. Lawrence Bernabe

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 7:30 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Zonghitz Night featuring

Roberto Nicolas

Jonar Sabilano
Patience Dear Juggernaut

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

photo from merryswankster.com

WhiteOut V!!!

The Last Remnant rocks!

Happy Mondays LV: Book Launch!

Mag:Net Cafe Katipunan will be hosting the launch of two new books from Milflores Publishing, Inc. on June 15, 2009. The books, Vlad Gonzales’s A-Side/B-Side and Carljoe Javier’s And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth are the latest additions to Milflores’s line of humorous Creative Nonfiction.
Gonzales’s A-Side/B-Side is a collection of music-themed Creative Nonfiction evoking nostalgia, the joy of music, and fond memories of loved songs, while providing rollickingly funny stories. It’s the kind of collection that will have you laughing to yourself awkwardly in public places.
Javier’s And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth chronicles the adventures, or misadventures, of a geek in the Philippines. With essays about being a reality show contestant, spending time with men’s magazine models, teaching at an all-girls’ school, and many more funny predicaments, the collection is sure to leave the reader giggling.
The program is part of Mag;Net Cafe’s Happy Mondays Poetry Nights, and will begin at 7:00. Cocktails will be served during the book signing. Then there will be readings and performances. Everyone is invited to come.

Confirmed readers for Happy Mondays Poetry Nights are as follows:

1. Yol Jamendang
2. Khavn De la Cruz
3. Pocholo Goitia
4. Allan Popa
5. Seej Gomera
6. Donna Miranda
7. Adam David
8. Mikael Co
9. JL Poquiz
10. Totel De Jesus
11. Ali Sangalang
12. Eros Atalia
13. Marguerite De Leon
14. Alessandra Miguel

Hosted by Angelo Suarez

followed by live band performances by:

1. Nerdita
2. Tom Estrella Sr. and the Shadows
3. Los Chupacabraz
4. Broken Sauce
5. Ivan Theory
6. Giniling Festival
7. T.E.A.T.S.
8. Goliath (featuring Lourd De Veyra and Jay Gapasin)

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

Mon(soon)day

photos above from the 54th installment of Happy Mondays. kitakits po sa next installment on June 15.