The Complete Substitute for All Forms of Sociability

That's a line from Bottle It Up  by Sara Bareilles, which, for a while, has been my message tone. Anyhoo, this blog isn't going to be about my resolutions for 2012. Oh, I have resolutions but I won't post them. Instead, I've decided to make lists. 2012 is for 12 Books a Year List: January - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami) February -  The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) March -  Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) April - Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) May - A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin) June - Tess of the D'urbevilles (Thomas Hardy) July - Drive (James Sallis) August - The Marvelous Land of Oz (L. Frank Baum) The Awakening and Other Stories (Kate Chopin) September - Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) October - Animal Farm (George Orwell) November - Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Candide (Voltaire) December - Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) UPDATED: 01/21/2012 Replaced The Marvelous Land of Oz ...

I love my Greek mythology. Let's see, I first encountered my first Greek god in Grade 5 when I read on my English Reading textbook the story of the seasons, how Hades kidnapped Persephone, the pomegranates, Ceres' despair, and all the stuff that followed. Then movies like Clash of the Titans (the original, not the idiotic, not to mention completely unnecessary remake),  The Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts (to a point) and all that heady stuff came and my love was practically etched in stone. So despite movies like Troy , which is awesome in its own right (because Brad Pitt in a skirt, yo) but which didn't feature any of the gods or goddesses of the ancient Hellenic culture, I'll always have a soft spot for anything remotely touching mythos. It's no small wonder then that one of my most anticipated action movies of the year would be Immortals, directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill (whom I first discovered in the UK series, The Tudors, playing the sex...

Doodles while waiting for the next class.

It's the Holidays. I'm looking forward to spending it with the family, which would be my mother, my brother and his wife, and my four nephews. My father would have to stay at our house here in the city because we don't want to leave the house unattended, what with all our dogs. We have four now, did I mention that? There's my baby, of course, Boris, a shi tzu/japanese chin or maybe japanese spitz mutant creature lol. There's Barack, whose breed I'm still trying to figure out. He's our biggest dog and the quietest (although he can be loud when he's in one of his watchdog moods). Then there's Humay, previously called "Judge," who is the basic irong bisaya. And finally, there's Boris' own baby, Crystal, the only girl and so acts like one of the boys. A dyed-in-the-blue tomboy. If Dad lets me drive my car home to Moalboal for the Christmas, maybe I can bring Boris with me, but that's a long shot because the last time I drove down th...

Textless cover for Brilliant at 3:00 a.m.  We are revamping again. Yay. Here at Aberrant Productions .