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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Don't Ride The White Horse

Posted on 1:43 PM by fjtrfjf

I found myself humming that lost 80's tune "White Horse". You know, it goes "If you wanna ride, Don't ride the white horse!" Remember that tune? It was made famous by a Danish group called Laid Back in 1983. I remember the song being played as a soundtrack to funny 80's movies, or when there were quick comedy sketches on television. It's only now I find out that this tune was actually an anti-drug song. Its lyrics speak to people and sway them from being lured into the drug culture. The term "White Horse" was actually another word for heroin. So basically the song is simply saying "Don't do heroin!". Who would've known?

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Ernest Santiago - The Mad Days

Posted on 1:14 PM by fjtrfjf
By Nicholas Stoodley

And they were mad indeed. Ernest Santiago, in many ways, was the embodiment of those insane, crazy, free-wheeling days (and nights)... actually more the nights! that tore through Manila in the 70's and 80's. He designed clothes but that was really a second placer compared with his genius as a showman - an impresario of glitz and glamor and the outrageous focused on his disco COCO BANANA just off Remedios Circle in Malate. But wow was it so much more than just a disco! This was where the electricity that made those years hum and whirl and dance was generated. This was where the movers and shakers of the Wild Side wilded, and wild they did!

The air was balmy with forbidden pleasures as we made our way up dimly lit streets towards COCO for in those days there was still a mini forest in the center of Remedios Circle and the mayor at that time hadn't considered the garish searchlights that now illuminate the new squalor of that area in a hydrogenated light that turns the skin green! They totterered on improbably high Cuban heels which made small boys tall and careened and preened in stiletto heels that made other boys girls. They were dropped off in fancy cars by drivers at the door who had walkie talkies before cell phones were invented and a blur of St Laurent would be lost in the swirl of ravers milling around the entrance.

Petusa was always there... I had first seen her on Mabini posing at the side of the road as Marilyn Monroe, pirouetting and posing for visiting tourists and his own vague amusement. And he did it well. The sons and daughters of politicians and foreigners looking for an easy lay mingled in an easy embrace with call boys, designers, social climbers and even those who had reached the top and stayed there. And me. In a town so easily divided by class and caste and money and power and poverty and glamor and grime, COCO was unique in that it mixed it all up together and it worked. And standing in the entrance as always was Ernest - an immense Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland smile on his face just loving every damned intoxicating moment of it. And I mean this was a disco yet the flower arrangements were fabulous. Flowers! This wasn't a disco at all, It was a social experiment where we all came together with Donna Summer and screamed and just lost it with no inhibitions at all. With flowers!

Then there was the show. Transvestites miming to the usual greats but with such zest and verve and, actually, great talent, that for those moments it didn't feel like a drag show at all. It was REAL. The tourists couldn't believe it and sat there opened mouthed until somebody sunk their lips upon that mouth and they became one. Pinks and Gold and tulle and froth and satin and improbable feathers swayed before us in a chorus line of hedonistic excess that somehow always teetered on the edge of decency without managing to crash into the shadows. Fabulous. To say nothing of the music. Sure, it sounds like a typical comment of one who is getting on a bit but honestly kids these days don't know what they're missing! I could go on and on but I won't. This was for you Ernest! And for all of us that were there. Ernest Santiago was murdered a few days ago in his house in Laguna.





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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

INXS - The Original Sin 80's Music Video

Posted on 3:01 PM by fjtrfjf
Tuwing hapon nanunuod ka noon ng Video Hit Parade. Ang dami mong mga music videos na napanuod, at ito ang una mong introduction sa mundo ng MTV. Marami kang nadiskubreng mga banda at music artists na may kanyakanyang mga hits, porma, at siyempre, music videos! Video Hit Parade Classics brings you classic music videos na hindi natin malilimutan!


INXS - The Original Sin
"Dream on white boy, dream on black girl. And wake up to a brand new day."


Ang kantang "Original Sin" ay sinulat noong 183 at ini-release noong 1984 ng Australian group na INXS sa kanilang pang apat na album na ipinangalang "The Swing". Ang kanta ay composition ng INSX singer na si Michael Hutchence at si Andrew Farriss. May chismis na hindi nai-release ang kanta sa US dahil sa anti-racist lyrics at mensahe nito. Pero ang totoo ay naging malaking hit ito sa mga Los Angeles radio stations. Malaking hit ito sa Pilipinas noong 1984, at isa sa mga standard songs on rotation sa mga popular na mga radio stations. Ito rin ang kantang sinasayaw ng mga dance groups sa mga popular tv shows noong mid-80's.

More Video Hit Parade Classics: Spandau Ballet - I'll Fly For You


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Intramuros, 1900 Photo

Posted on 2:47 PM by fjtrfjf
Sift through this magic chest of amazing vintage photographs! Take a peek and let them transport you back to a time almost lost forever. Discover places you've never been, or revisit the places you always thought you knew; that is until you see what these places used to look like! Travel back in time and rediscover the Philippines.



Outside the walls of Intramuros (CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW)


More Mahiwagang Baul photos: Manila Cathedral, 1910 Photo

Many thanks to everyone at www.skyscrapercity.com, and the www.pinoyexchange.com forums.


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Tarzan: Tarzan's Trial Part 1 / Watch Cool 70s Cartoons DVD Quality Video

Posted on 2:42 PM by fjtrfjf
Nostalgia Manila Free TV
Enjoy watching full-length DVD quality episodes of some of your favorite '60s, '70s and '80s tv shows! New episodes posted daily! New show titles added frequently!

Relive the magic of '70s and '80s tv, only here at Nostalgia Manila!


Tarzan: Tarzan's Trial Part 1

Many thanks to hexseeker.



Watch more Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle

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Daimos: Episode 37 The Sacrificial Bride / Watch Cool 70s Cartoons DVD Quality Video

Posted on 2:39 PM by fjtrfjf
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Enjoy watching full-length DVD quality episodes of some of your favorite '60s, '70s and '80s tv shows! New episodes posted daily! New show titles added frequently!

Relive the magic of '70s and '80s tv, only here at Nostalgia Manila!

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Daimos: Episode 37 The Sacrificial Bride

Many thanks to Jong of PinoyCartoons.



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The Adventures Of Superman: The Deserted Village / Watch Cool 50s TV! DVD Quality Video

Posted on 2:35 PM by fjtrfjf
Nostalgia Manila Free TV
Enjoy watching full-length DVD quality episodes of some of your favorite '60s, '70s and '80s tv shows! New episodes posted daily! New show titles added frequently!

Relive the magic of '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s tv, only here at Nostalgia Manila!


Lois and Clark visit Lois' hometown where reports of a sea monster have driven the townspeople away.




Watch more episodes of The Adventures Of Superman

VIDEO PLAYER OPERATION GUIDE

BASIC OPERATION
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There is usually a commercial before each episode, but once the opening commercial is finished playing the show is commercial free!

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