The Wily Filipino

The Weekend.

Work in the afternoon, then off to Sean's surprise birthday party down in Campbell, awash in linguini frutti di mare and big slabs of garlic bread. As I figured, it would be yet another trip in '80s nostalgia: Lan and Juan pulling out the most obscure-sounding bands (Celebrate The Nun? Sorry, the sound samples didn't sound familiar...), Eloise's story about how Dave Gahan kissed her hand (cooler than the story about how she snubbed Beck)... The upshot is that a post-tax refund '80s party in April is definitely in the offing; now I have to pull out my red Lacoste shirt from the closet. On the way home we drove back up 280, Romeo and Anna and I, the stereo cranked up, "I don't want your freeeeeeedom -- girl all I want right now is you."

(People have been coming to me for '80s trivia advice in the last few days; not sure why. Eloise was going on last night about how she wrote me some lyrics to a song ("Boys do fall in love") she needed to identify. Didn't need to Google that one -- it was by Robin Gibb, from his 1984 album Secret Agent.

But Lawrence had a question last night that stumped everyone: who sang "Love Is Contagious?" Google came to the rescue for that one the next day: Taja Sevelle, surprisingly, a Paisley Park protege.

Lan, if you're reading this: that Seona Dancing track is at this link; it's the only mp3 I haven't deleted from my server (at least until Ricky G. himself tells me to take it down) because I still keep getting e-mails and comments from people telling me that they've looked for this song everywhere for years and finally found it, and do I have their other song? (I don't.) According to my logs it's been downloaded about 225 times, so there are interested people out there for sure... So Lan, maybe you'll recognize it; if not, I hope it's the long-lost New Romantic classic you wish you'd heard in high school.

And then Happy calls me up early in the morning to ask me the name of the model who starred opposite Richard Gomez in the TV series "Ang Boyfriend Kong Mamaw." Finally, something unGoogleable that I could answer: Leah Orosa, also from the "Get Outta My Dreams" Shell commercial. Happy, Happy?)

Today Izzy and Shelby and I went out to the Marin Headlands for a morning hike. The sun was everywhere. We walked for a little while and then spread out a blanket and ate our sandwiches and she ate a pear. We were all alone except for the two deer we saw. Everything was quiet except for the surf and the ringing of the bells on the buoys floating out in the water. Then Izzy felt a little sleepy so we snuggled up close and lay on the blanket. The last thing she saw before she closed her eyes were yellow flowers and green grass and blue sky and blue ocean and when she opened her eyes they were all still there.

Posted by the wily filipino at February 6, 2005 10:36 PM