Sunday:::One-Day Weekend

Hang out for a while at Book Sale SM and got these two books—Iron John (nonfiction) by Robert Bly and Free Enterprise by the Jamaican Michelle Cliff and reserved The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (nonfiction, kinsay interesado?)

"Biologists once thought that herons and geese created their puzzling ritual dances for fertility or survival reasons, that they were, in the word we use about ourselves, practical. But biologists in recent years, after extensive observations of herons, deer, geese, peacocks, and so on, have concluded that some ritual dances have no particular value for survival-they amount to display. Display embodies beauty and expressivenesses often united with a zany grace. Human beings tend to display at the front end; we emphasize the beauty in the face, and the face becomes emotionally expressive. Deer, however, display at both ends: white-tailed deer show beauty in the facial area and in the anal area with their gorgeous tails. Heron dances, peacock strutting, stag processions can all be considered as artistic or superfluous displays.

Longing is expressed, beauty, high spirits. The energies that are caught there, held in a formal moment, activate something in other birds or animals watching. So the displays are activating dances. The events are meant to be seen."

"We all know how history comes down to us, which stories, which versions tend to be passed on. What my great-grandfather told me, what he carved into this bone, was the heroic version, the one he wanted to become history. But the real story is not as colorful, not as tidy; it never is."


Around six, on my way to Turtles, it was close—sakay jeep—naog Colon. And nakapalit ug DBD DBD—tulo wan handrid.


Seven films in one by the Japanese American filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, including Ran, Dreams, Rashomon, Madadayo, and Red Beard.

Niya kay wap-a man ko kakita sa film, ang kut nga akong ibutang kay sa kang Akira mismo, dili sa iyang film kay mao ra may makit-an sa Internet. Sa iyaha ni gikang ang

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Nakakita sad kog Capote, nangita gani kog laing copy kay naay garas, niya las kapi naman diay ni, ingon si Kuya Muslim. Gikuha nalang nako, nangalimuyo sa pirated sad nga DBD player sa akong Uncle nga kan-on intawn siya. Si Capote gud, ang likod sa nobelang In Cold Blood nga gihimong salida, niya dakong hit. Nakahinumdom naka? Naa koy kopya sa novel, gihuwaman nako ni Maam Moling, adviser namo sa school pub, niya wan-a nako giuli, kuyog sa Ulysses ni Joyce. Yawg saba ha.

"On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men—the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night."

Niya ang last kay pil-gud mobies—seben-in-wan—bahin sa mga iro kay hilig man tawn tag iro ani. Niya pagtesting di man mopley. Balik ko ni Kuya Muslim, niya kakitag kog The Godfather 1,2,3 in one. Mao akong gikuha.

"I believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a boyfriend; not an Italian. She went to the movies with him; she stayed out late. I didn't protest."

Bonus kay nindot kaayo ang resolution, wa gikuha gikan sa sinehan. Ayos! Bisag makauli kog Tuburan aron magmaraton kay Thanksgiving karon Byernes sa Amerika. Way trabaho. Tan-awon lang kon makauli ba o mantineran lang to nako ang DBD player sa akong uyoan. Tan-aw kag apil? Adto nalang Colon o, ukay ngadto tulo wan handrid ra baya. Kon dili mopley, okey ra na kay naay silay waranti "no pley, return sud sa duha kasemana" Tarungag pili ha.