THREE NEW THINGS, and one more thing
Posted 1:41 PM by AD in Labels: "speculative fiction", cubao, essay, free books, life stuff, philippine online chronicles, specfic, speculative fiction
I've been very busy the past few months doing stuff that are only now making themselves felt in the ways that actually matter, ie, presence beyond my own monitor, and here are three of the most major, for your perusal:
* First: is the onlinisation of the newish Philippine Online Chronicles - I was hired way back in November 2009 in what turned out to be an effort to reformat the webzine. I wrote a few things, then stopped for a while as a few reshufflings went on behind the scenes, and now we're back. There are quite a few sections, and I'll be writing for around three or four of them, rubbing virtual elbows with Vlad Gonzales and Gelo Suarez and Daryll Delgado. I'll be writing about Cubao, literary theory, some komix reviews, some bits about how great Lost is right now. Lotsa stuff.
Carljoe Javier's intro for the Metakritiko section ought to be a good glimpse on what the newish POC's going to be about in the coming months. He used one of my photos of him as portrait for the essay, taken as if while bingeing in a beer garden looking off into the yellow fluorescent light like some sad poetic something-or-the-other, which was exactly what he was doing that night.
** Second: is the onlinisation of a life-long project I intermittently call Cubao Postcards. I realised a few months ago that I've been writing about Cubao since I was around sixteen years old, and reading through the stuff, I realised that I more or less chronicled quite a lot of changes that happened in that one place.
Unfortunately, a bulk of what I've written about Cubao I basically lost to Ondoy, and so this project - which I've opened up to the public (or at least to anyone who has a Google account) - is a reclamation of that project, and also, a reclamation of a time and place that's largely been lost to the tides of time (... and tide ... ?) and will probably continue to lose despite our best efforts to remember and commemorate and celebrate. Memory is less a recreation but more a recovery.
*** Third: is my latest book, officially my first novel, and a scifi one, at that (or maybe specfic, as known in these parts). It's called ITEM MITE EMIT TIME, a title I've been wanting to use since time immemorial, ie, sixteen (again).
It's the result of reading some Beckett, some Maso, some Markson, and more than a few Ballards, and also by the turbulent discussion here. It took me eight days to finish this. Almost a seven-day novel. Or maybe it's a novella? It's forty or so pages long.
As I was finishing this, I realised that this book was made up of what I previously believed were four completely different ideas for four completely different novels. I was proofreading it when I figured I had articulated all these four narratives and concepts and dramaturgies in this one little thing, and I took that as more from my lack of divergent ideas than the universality of same, but whatevs, dude, I finished it in eight days.
This is the cover design. Read it and tell me if you enjoyed it! Or not. I'm not picky.
**** Also: I'm turning twenty-eight soon. Oh youth and beauty.
* First: is the onlinisation of the newish Philippine Online Chronicles - I was hired way back in November 2009 in what turned out to be an effort to reformat the webzine. I wrote a few things, then stopped for a while as a few reshufflings went on behind the scenes, and now we're back. There are quite a few sections, and I'll be writing for around three or four of them, rubbing virtual elbows with Vlad Gonzales and Gelo Suarez and Daryll Delgado. I'll be writing about Cubao, literary theory, some komix reviews, some bits about how great Lost is right now. Lotsa stuff.
Carljoe Javier's intro for the Metakritiko section ought to be a good glimpse on what the newish POC's going to be about in the coming months. He used one of my photos of him as portrait for the essay, taken as if while bingeing in a beer garden looking off into the yellow fluorescent light like some sad poetic something-or-the-other, which was exactly what he was doing that night.
** Second: is the onlinisation of a life-long project I intermittently call Cubao Postcards. I realised a few months ago that I've been writing about Cubao since I was around sixteen years old, and reading through the stuff, I realised that I more or less chronicled quite a lot of changes that happened in that one place.
Unfortunately, a bulk of what I've written about Cubao I basically lost to Ondoy, and so this project - which I've opened up to the public (or at least to anyone who has a Google account) - is a reclamation of that project, and also, a reclamation of a time and place that's largely been lost to the tides of time (... and tide ... ?) and will probably continue to lose despite our best efforts to remember and commemorate and celebrate. Memory is less a recreation but more a recovery.
*** Third: is my latest book, officially my first novel, and a scifi one, at that (or maybe specfic, as known in these parts). It's called ITEM MITE EMIT TIME, a title I've been wanting to use since time immemorial, ie, sixteen (again).
It's the result of reading some Beckett, some Maso, some Markson, and more than a few Ballards, and also by the turbulent discussion here. It took me eight days to finish this. Almost a seven-day novel. Or maybe it's a novella? It's forty or so pages long.
As I was finishing this, I realised that this book was made up of what I previously believed were four completely different ideas for four completely different novels. I was proofreading it when I figured I had articulated all these four narratives and concepts and dramaturgies in this one little thing, and I took that as more from my lack of divergent ideas than the universality of same, but whatevs, dude, I finished it in eight days.
This is the cover design. Read it and tell me if you enjoyed it! Or not. I'm not picky.
**** Also: I'm turning twenty-eight soon. Oh youth and beauty.
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