The Wily Filipino

A Peek.

Breaking blog silence -- I've just been incredibly busy -- with a list of the blog entries coming up, whenever I get to them:

- the coolest band in all of Japan right now , TsuShiMaMiRe (J-Lu will have to disagree, but more about that later; suffice it to say that I gave in to my deepest fanboy impulses)
- another OPM album roundup (including words on the coolest band in all of the Philippines right now, Junior Kilat, and the disappointing Ultraelectromagneticjam)
- book-making (where the V-Monster and I think of ways to justify taking a class)
- the coolest band in all of Canada right now, The New Pornographers
- and how I wish I could say that Belle and Sebastian were the coolest band in all of Scotland right now, but that honor goes to Teenage Fanclub
- all about ATL (but Gladys already beat me to the punch)
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien's wonderful Cafe Lumiere
- Nobuhiro Yamashita's joyous Linda Linda Linda
- and tonight, barring sickness, traffic, bad weather, etc., I get to become a fanboy again by hearing Luisa Igloria read her poetry

But I have an ever-growing stack of papers and exams to grade, another conference in a week, taxes to do...