event-ness and nostalgia

until alanah called at around three it was an ordinary saturday. i was in school, worrying about the report i never prepared for. how do you summarize new criticism in a three-page three-level outline? which books, essays, sample works do you read? it does not end there; there's russian formalism, structuralism, semiotics, and marxism. all the digressions! so anyway around three alanah calls and tells me she has tickets to the eraserheads reunion concert.

i'm not a big fan of eheads because i'm terribly uncool. i know most of their songs because these guys are, well, they're like the beatles, i mean, you don't have to be a fan really. shows one how great they were. still, this one is so huge it shouldn't be missed, so i said i'll go.

there was some hesitation after because it was already seven and we were still at the village. but we arrived twenty or so minutes before the countdown began. alanah even brought her laptop and that wireless internet thing so she could participate in her class chat activity while in the cab.

perhaps you've heard about this before but despite the heat, the not-so-good acoustics, the possible rain, there was an almost magical thing in the place. when they sang alapaap it was worth everything we paid for. then there was the twenty minute-break. it felt too long. while waiting we started entertaining ourselves.

magkano ibabayad mo para maging ikaw yung babaeng sumasayaw dun sa video kanina?
pano kaya kung may koreans pa rin kahit dito, no?
pano kaya kumanta si nicole?

and then something amazing happened. when the announcement was made that the concert had ended thirty or forty minutes ago, everyone just left the place. when the organizer asked for a moment of silence, there was an actual moment of silence. i should've been a fan. i wish i were cool. photos here.

the other major event of the evening was musicguy. two years since that afternoon in the college of music caf and more than a year after the revelation of the name. but i'm not counting. nostalgia is so fun!