is this a life update?
Nomar
my last blog was like… march? it’s been crazy since then, from being inaugurated into a DIY label to consecutive roaring typhoons to a beloved band coming back; i’d like to talk about some notable moments in these previous months.
this is in no particular order btw so i’d like to start with my partner’s choir recitals… holy fucking hell that shi got me in my feels at one point like, there was one song they sang titled “ihip ng hangin” and i don’t remember much of it (that was around early july and as of now i’m writing this in mid august) but i do remember tearing up to it because everything about that number was so beautiful and had a lot of emotion. i honestly think everyone should experience a choir recital at least once in their life cuz gat dam it’s such a awesome performance, bonus points kapag performer jowa mo nyeheheh kilig ang galing nya magperform #mybias
i was scrolling thru my gallery just now and forgot i had gone on a side quest courtesy of New Misery (shoutout my goats), i went busking for the first time! oh my what a splash that was… never ko nagustuhan ung busking cuz people pass by you all the time and in ur mind it’s like “they don’t care about you why are you doing this” until you actually go busking and think, “huh, i couldn’t care less if they cared” or some shit like that; it’s amazing honestly, you get to sing some of your favorite songs in public with a guitar in hand, you’re not much of a nuisance to the general public, and hey you can even make a couple bucks off of it yknow, it’s an amazing activity that i wished i appreciated sooner though I do have the New Misery guys to thank for inviting me to busk in their collab thing with Arkayb, it’s so funny that I went there as inanotherworld and played 0 of my songs (because how are you supposed to make slowcore palatable enough for a busking session, that’s just my opinion) so I ended up covering a bunch of songs that I liked, funny times.
Somewhere in mid-july was a week where it was just raining nonstop. like, what the fuck. the rain would stop for a few hours then come back pouring and it was just unpleasant for everyone, but that week happened to be the week leading up to the Ourselves The Elves (comeback? reunion?) show that I helped out at, that was a fucking EXPERIENCE and a half man, I can’t express how grateful I was to not only watch but shet tumulong din ako, ansaya lang OTE’s one of my favorite bands ever. I also had proper door shift for the first time and holy shit when the people started pouring in during my shift, damn, that was like a long ass quick time event. My only complaint is that my partner was not there with me, they bought a ticket but sadly their parents would not budge and they couldn’t go. that bummed me out… big time.
The entire week leading up to the show me n my partner were basically looking for a glimpse of hope na payagan siya, but alas, it never happened. so on the day of the gig we sort of gave up and sold it to my cousin so he could go with his ka-talking stage? jowa? nililigawan? too many labels to worry about pero you get it. btw first time ko rin sa launch garage and potangina anlayo pero sobrang vibes ng venue i love it (shoutout to the 8 man pusoy lobby) and yea the gig went suuuuuper smoothly, but in the back of my mind i was sad my partner wasn’t there. i tried to keep it in the back of my mind but jesus christ i broke during the Elves set, bumuhos lahat ng emosyon ko non grabe I just started crying my eyes out, be it because I finally got to watch them live, or the sadness of my partner not being able to make it, or whatever else was running thru my mind then… truly a generational gig…
I started an emo band with the man himself JLE Music not very long ago and it’s been pretty nice, humbling even. That band is Halfcourt (stylized as Co/urt), post-shift emo… for all you employed people out there lol can’t relate
Although that’s where I found myself in a weird spot with my music recently both for inanotherworld and Halfcourt (and even all the other projects I have), do some parts have to be so complexly written? do they have to be this certain level of complicated to sound cool? I battled with that for months because I was unhappy what I’ve been trying to write for both projects, and I’m gonna circle back to one of the topics here, watching my partner’s choir recitals was like a semi-wake up call to me in terms of how simple some arrangements can be and still give sooooo much emotion like, these pieces usually just contain ur typical soprano alto tenor bass with the occasional alto 2 tenor 2 bass 2 sorry nerded out slight BUT ANYWAYS yea my point is I shouldn’t really be overthinking it sometimes and it’s not really a less is more approach though it might as well be.
So that’s been my goal with Halfcourt recently. It's not a matter of keeping it simple but i’d like to evoke some emotion or add to it type beat. inanotherworld’s a different story, i’ve been confused on what i wanted to do with it, i have so many things I want to do with it especially now that it’s part of New Misery (shoutout again) pero nawawala ako sa wisyo para gawin siya… so the goals are essentially in limbo right now. e nung nagbalak ng bagong single #selfhahareact
BLOG UPDATE: it’s now october and i completely forgot about this entry . . . huling update ko dito august pa . . eeeee i’m not even sure anymore
inanotherworld had its first gig in a while since may, happened during september. roller coaster of emotions during that one, i don’t think i wanna disclose every detail but lest we forget– IT WAS MY WORST GIG EVER. i legit had a terrible experience during that gig, and not to disregard the almost b2b2b weekend i had, amazing. i legit wanted to quit playing after that specific gig, i was so hysterical and out of it. i did end up having the true b2b2b weekend during the first week of october (did i mention that both b2b2b’s were only a week apart from each other) i got to be a sessionist for that 3 day bender, never again. . . willingly. i got to session for the YEARLY ivy hill gig, masaya. I GOT TO SESSION FOR the cheeky things, masaya rin. pero grabe yung pagod ko non, sunod sunod tapos kulang lagi sa tulog oguguhugh, a taste of what they call the life. Grabe ‘tong year na ‘to in general.