Craving For Giniling

As always during my day off from work, I spent my late afternoon yesterday inside the nearby mall to cool my heels (umulan nga, pero lalong uminit) and at the same time check out what's new on all my favorite window / rack shopping stores. Of course this includes the record bar (naghahanap ng titles na mada-download. haha). Along the way I noticed this brownish / grayish (can't exactly remember) CD packaging entitled Giniling Festival. I said "what the.." another one of those one-hit 'wanderers?' I didn't bother to check, as what I actually thought was that it looks like another Brownmanesque outfit, so no thanks; and then I walked back home (malapit na magsimula 24 Oras).

Earlier this morning while browsing through some files, what do you know, my sis got Giniling Festival MP3s in her file folder and so I checked it out of course. Well, not bad. They play loud and heavy, but the lyrics isn't. Think of Parokya Ni Edgar's 'The Order Taker' and Da Pulis' 'Mukhang Paa'. Kinda entertaining, specially the ditty (and I think their first single and video) 'Psycho Siya'. Now try singing the following lyrics to the tune of the opening song of the Japanese mecha TV show 'Bioman':


Psycho Siya (Giniling Festival)

Umuwi akong putok ang labi, umiiyak at may pasa
Ginulpi ako at binugbog ng aking syota
Sobra na, hayop sya
.
Naglalakad ako nang may nakitang babae
Nakatingin sa akin, nagbigay ng flying kiss
Sinalo ko at kumindat pabalik
Di ko alam nasa likod ko’ng gilfriend ko

[Chorus]
Sampal at dagok, flying kick at batok
Di pa tapos, dinagdagan pa nya uli
Kagat ng aso, sipang kabayo
Di ko na kaya, ayoko na, o ye
Mahal ko sya ngunit psycho sya
Mahal ko sya ngunit psycho sya

Laking gulo ang dulot sa akin
Di pa nga mag-asawa
Sakit sa bulsa, perwisyo ang aking syota
Sobra na, hayop sya

Nakasakay sa bus nang may pumarang babae
Sya ay nakasabit kaya di ko natiis
Pinaupo ko sa kanlungan ko
Kaya lang kasama ko pala ang girlfriend ko

[repeat Chorus]

[repeat Chorus]

Mahal ko sya kahit psycho sya
Mahal ko sya dahil psycho sya

Other tracks that I found here are 'Holdap', 'Hari ng Metal', 'Letter to Angelina Jolie' (which samples that naughty twisted lyrics of the French song 'Angelina'), 'Mabuhay Ang Lahat Ng Single', 'Siling Giniling', and 'Tsong'. For more info regarding the band and to see how they look like too, you can check the following links:

http://www.ternorecordings.com/html/giniling.htm

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=goodLife08_july01_2006

and they also have a music video for 'Psycho Siya', you can check it out on You Tube.

I know they have been around, but unfortunately for me, I'm not. Haha. I just hope they keep the way they sound for the coming years, it's their edge given the number of current bands afloat nowadays which sadly sound all the same to my ears.

Yo Ho

Now this is something I can't quit for the rest of my life.. writing (rather typing) my thoughts which could I could never perfectly.. uhm.. elaborate? No, that's not the word.. someone please shoot me a message if you manage to see it from the tip of my tongue..

Anyway.. what catalyst brings me back here.. actually I was planning on resuming this endeavor (as you might have noticed whoever lost spirit you are that I was somehow gradually reinventing the looks of this page) but without a definite commitment from my brain which is daily being tortured by some people from the other side of the world. I wish I was Davey Jones who could turn them into a bunch of walking undead squids.

Speaking of Mr Jones (shalala lalala), I recently saw the third installment of Pirates of the Carribean (as everybody most probably did). It was okay, if I am to rate all the Pirates movies, the first one would be top on my list and the second is last; that is in terms of fun factor. Regarding 'At World's End,' what caught my attention is how it captured the grim.. uhm.. faith of Lord Beckett's prey of his pirates witch hunt. Pirates / pirates sympathizers falling in line waiting their turn to see the hangman; then suddenly a boy which is waiting for his turn on the rope, begin uttering the pirate song, then the man beside him started to sing as well, until all the rest of the prisoners on the line are chanting their last hurrah before facing death. The scene and the sober melody of the song projects a serious and dark theme.. in which the movie is not. Curiously I searched for the lyrics and I found it from this website, and I pasted below:


YO HO (A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME)
Lyrics by Xavier Atencio and music by George Bruns

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

We're rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.

Aren't the words nice? Yo ho!