Saturday, September 12, 2009

I am crazy about Flight of the Conchords.
They're actually my new heroes now.
It used to be Ali G, and then Peter and Stewie Griffin, and then Michael Scott.
Now Bret and Jemaine have caught my attention and I am addicted.

God I remember my high school years.
I used to collaborate with a number of people to write songs.
Mostly with Nikko, who is by the way (ahem ahem) a lawyer now.
Congrats Nildy.
Ok and then there's Fifi.
I remember this rap song that we wrote.
Well, re-wrote. It was our version of Humanap Ka ng Panget.
It was called Humanap ka ng Gatas.
It's about breastfeeding an ugly baby that was so hungry when it was still a fetus that it ate up its mom's placenta.
We performed it in front of the whole batch on Sophomore Day, when the guest performers didn't show up.
Man, we were great fillers.
And then there's Izza. We wrote a song about meeting a princess and eating Snaku with her.
And then another one about salted eggs in Pateros. Ooookay.
That was way out of this world.
We weren't even smoking anything then.

I was so psyched by Flight of the Conchords that I rummaged through my old stuff under my bed and found the Lulubhelle Morayta CD.
It was a bunch of songs that Nikko and I recorded when we were in third year high school.
We skipped our big chemistry quiz so we could stalk our prom dates, and afterwards, if I remember correctly, we went to her house and decided to legendize Lulubhelle Morayta.
So we recorded 15 tracks using her portable CD player/recorder, in her room.
I listened to the whole thing in the car on my way to work on Thursday, and it cracked me up.
The songs were about falling in love with our teachers, falling in love with our prom dates, falling in love with a house boy, falling in love and falling out of love again.
And we didn't even know how to make out then.
I would probably deny to have written some of the songs if it wouldn't make people laugh.
But they would. Sherry cracked up when she listened to Corn Bits, the rap song I wrote.
I honestly believed I could be a female Snoop Dogg.

Anyway I miss Nikko and her second voice, eventhough she always overpowered my voice and hers always seemed to sound like the main one.
I miss Izza and her lyrics.
And Fifi and her ideas.
But Fifi's right here with me so maybe I don't miss her all that much.
I miss her Betty Boop hairline though.
Too bad she discovered the joys of threading somewhere between college and her early career.

I probably don't have the knack to write such songs anymore, which is why Bret and Jemaine are so awesome. They've been doing this stuff since college and now they're over 30 and can still rock the house.

We used to do that a lot. I swear when I go back home I am going to let everyone listen to the CD. I'm not sure if they'll still find it funny, but for sure I'm going to crack up again.
And maybe this time we'll be smoking something.

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