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April 14, 99
SPEECH CLASS
I am a teacher. Speech class. I have a small group of 10 students I
need to tutor on how to speak properly. We have a special class after hours
that takes place in a small deserted building lobby in UP. I decide it's
better to be there so no other students can pass by and watch my shy students
deliver their speeches.
___ They find a few chairs and a makeshift table, and I outline the rules
of the night. Everyone must listen as someone talks bec. you dont want to
come up to the stage and not be listened to, right?
NINA ONBOARD WITH KITE
Suddenly I am in a magazine's pictorial. It is onboard a ship in the middle
of the sea and we are supposed to shoot Nina Alagao in a glorious 2-piece
bikini. There are lots of merons hanging about. And in one shot, we are
supposed to catch her lying on a bench with the open sea behind her, and
a kite being flown in the sky behind. I have my musician friend from the
choir, Arnold, handling the kite... except that we don't know when to
get it in the air. And we must. Because the pics will be printed in the
world Kite Flying Day.
___ At some point in the break, I accompany Nina to the sari sari store
onboard, and we meet my old high school friend Pros Urbano--- who is so
close to the store owners, he can open a beer there and have them store
it in the fridge if he hasn't finished.
SAN JUAN WITH ANIMA
Then the ship turns into my lola's old house in San Juan. All of ANIMA
and the girls of Anima are there... the shoot has now turned into a product
shoot in the late afternoon light. Our photog is taking shots of Agnes'
friend Clariza and some pieces of gold pottery. My aunts are in the sala,
listening to a review tape. And I am so harried, because I am still i
charge of the shoot... as managing editor of the mag.... I grab a towel
and a shirt and don my good old black belt bag (of four years ago) and
return to the main pictorial area.
___ Some Anima girls (Fiona and Clariza?) are saying, "Sayang, paalis
na si April, di niya mahintay na matapos ang pictorial." And I am
thinking, why didn't she get down from the car?
April 16, 1999
PLAYING "RATTLESNAKE" WITH LIVE
For some bizarre reason or another, I am onstage with the rock band
LIVE, playing a ride cymbal with one drumstick to their song "Rattlesnake."
They've re-worked the entire song so that other people are singing the
verses... extras in glorious victorian ball costumes, complete with balloon
skirts and white make-up. It's like a scene out of some weird Madonna
video with everyone looking like a French courtesan. So, the extras are
singing the verses and lead singer Ed Kowalczyk is singing the choruses,
meanwhile the only other instrument that's playing is my ride cymbal.
Yes sir, this version of the song is a cappella, except for the cymbal.
At some point, their guitarist pipes in with a ripping solo, and I am
forced to play with one drumstick on the ride cymbal and a china crash.
I do a 16-beat on the ride (also utilizing my free hand) and use the china
like a snare.... and my arms are getting tired.
___ Meanwhile, throughout the entire song, Filipino celebrities have been
clambering into the theater ostentatiously. But it doesn't seem to bother
the band. In fact, some of them clamber onto the round stage... much like
an MTV unplugged performance, and still it doesn't bother them. It bothers
me, though.
___ The chorus thunders all around us.... "It's a crazy crazy mixed-up
town, but it's the rattlesnake I fear..."
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