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Here’s Jared from the cellphone store’s second choice for great bands from the Philippines, Typecast. They are enormously popular with some of their videos drawing two million plus views on Youtube. Singer, Steve “Daddio” Badiola, reminds me a lot of Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and a dozen other . . . → Read More: Typecast – The Boston Drama Jared at the cell phone store was telling me about some great bands in the Philippines and in particular he recommended a band called, Manila High. I haven’t found a band called Manila High yet, but here’s a really nice little song and video. The band is Kala, the song is Manila High. It’s . . . → Read More: Kala – Manila High
Only Reminds Me – Mymp from mara bernaldo on Vimeo. This is an ad for Datu Puti sugar cane vinegar and soy sauce, two necessary ingredients for adobo. The mom in the ad is Pacquiao’s real mom, Dionisia. I think everyone makes a sour face when they say “Datu Puti” in order to refer to previous ad campaigns touting the tartness of Dati Puti . . . → Read More: The True Story of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao Three quarters of the way through one poor woman gets flung across the room. Those two are newlyweds and her energetic husband still has some pop in his loins: . The True Story of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao . One of the many missions of this blog (five year missions) is to bring Philippine pop culture to East Portland. Thus, I present the Jollibee bee dancing his little stinger off. Never has a mascot, or a bee, danced so gleeful-ly. Jollibee is the Philippines’ No. 1 fast food chain and has recently opened . . . → Read More: Everyone Loves the Jollibee Bee Because He’s Jolly… “In the Philippines, he’s an obsession…”, “a greater fighter than Muhammad Ali…” . . Pacquiao Defeats Margarito to Win 8th Title in 8th Weight Class . Happy Slip underwear humor. Happy Slip is the Stan Boreson of Fil-Am culture: |
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