u ever meet someone and its clear they dont have a mythos or like any delusions of grandeur and they only believe in the things they can touch and u just kinda get hungry
"there is an ontological difference even before an aesthetic one". This is key. It does not matter how good your machine is at regurgitating a simulacrum of human imagination, how skilled it is at fooling people, or how efficient it is at that subterfuge. It is a priori fucked up
the most commonly heard argument for reading great books is that they develop empathy. maybe that's true. but i think it's less appreciated that they also teach you humility: that you're not that smart, you're not that special, and someone has had all your ideas before
1. day drink in Ayala
2. walk from Ortigas Station to Boni Station (or vice versa) for no reason
3. just go around Intramuros with no budget
4. walk from Tondo to Paco to prove you have free will
5. crash out past sunset in the Ayala Triangle (free)
6. ride LRT-1 end to end
Animated sapphic short film "The Lovers" will be free-to-watch on Youtube starting August 30. Set in a dark fantasy Philippines, the story follows a romance between a Binondo seafood chef and a siren.
Deliberately misspelling words is one of my favourite types of humour because anyone can misspell words normally, but it takes a special type of genius to breakdown words into phonetic, layered jokes...heindzeit, the back-time, is actual genius
a poor farmer without valid id struggles to claim money for her husband’s medical treatment. as bureaucracy delays the funds and his condition worsens, her faith, conscience, and humanity are put to the test.
‘2 valid ids’ dir. ma-an asuncion-dagñalan, a cinemalaya 2026 entry.