My Brady Bunch
Posted: January 20, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011, family, happy thoughts, new year Leave a comment »
New Year 2011 / Noche Buena
I don’t think I write enough about family. And despite my growing objectionable notions about the conventions of a family (I will just write about this later on when I am able to articulate this better), I do really enjoy my family.
I love the fact that I know I can call my brothers for absolutely anything. I’m pretty sure they’ll take me in even if I’m a fugitive from the police. And if this plays out I will make sure to leave my mom out of this as she is working with the government.
I still do the secret handshake with my girl cousins even if we’re all grownz up.
We love to overshare our toilet practices and we never tire of talking about it. Crumpled in a ball or folded? Someone scampering for the papers to bring in the toilet for some downtime usually prompts this. And this happens all the time.
I can be such a big brat and be abominably stupid sometimes and they will do the unavoidable tsk tsk and move on and take me in again.
It’s amazing how those years add up indeed. Imagine the constant exposure to them all those years growing up. I’m just so gadawful lucky being around this fantastic atmosphere. And in the picture above, even if that wine we we’re toasting with was absolutely horrible…who cared?
The Bright Side
Posted: December 30, 2008 Filed under: Arkeofilms | Tags: 2009, Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya, Arkeofilms, baby angelo, happy thoughts, Joel Ruiz, Lakad ni Sammy, movies, new year Leave a comment »So maybe we’re all grappling for the next move. What??? Capitalism does not work? Our president’s got the balls to stay in power even if she’s just as famous as the outgoing Bush? Willie R is still doing good business? Cory said sorry?
What to do, what to do. I don’t know what to do. But I do know that it always helps to see the good things that happened this year.
- We made 3.5 movies. The big one was the Cinemalaya finalist, Baby Angelo, directed by Joel Ruiz. It was a difficult piece of movie to make but it was the most rewarding thing that happened this year for us. Second and third movies were also made by Joel Ruiz, Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya and Lakad ni Sammy. The “.5th” movie is still my long overdue documentary (still not done!), Kano. You will be hearing more from these movies this coming 2009.
- We have a new office. It still smells (reeks) of new paint and boxes are still all over the place, but it’s bigger and more conducive to conducting business and that’s just great!
- Obama. It’s nice to know that the world can dramatically change in a year.
- We’re still at it. One day, I’m delivering tapes to clients myself and next thing I know there’s a secretary, a tech head, a messenger, an account executive, an operations manager, and so on. It’s been hard, it’s been tough and on rare times, it’s really been slow. But we’re still around and we got plans cooked up and ready to go!
