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  • Fluent in English, Tagalog; learning Spanish
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2012
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  • Filmmaking
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About Me

Experimental filmmaker and Film Photographer

https://www.flickr.com/photos/b-sideportraits/albums/72157640006415246

"I think there should be more love in the world. Gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people."-Brene Brown

"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”-Charles Bukowski

Interests

Cinema. Photography. Stories. Mountains. Waves.

  • arts
  • books
  • poetry
  • photography
  • dining
  • beer
  • movies
  • traveling
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films-
Chungking Express, Bande à part, La Jetée, In the Mood for Love, Amélie, Le Petit Soldat, Pan's Labrynth, Spirited Away, Seventh Seal, Waking Life, The Before Trilogy(Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight), Annie Hall, Lost in Translation, City of God, Enter The Void, Requiem for a Dream, Fallen Angels, Paris Je T'aime, Unmade Beds, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Garden State, Mulholland Drive, À Bout de Souffle, A Clockwork Orange, Midnight in Paris, Gadające Głowy, Trainspotting, Synecdoche New York, Un Chien Andalou

Music-
Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sun Ra, Chopin, Thelonious Monk, The Roots, Nat King Cole, Etta James, Nujabes, Erykah Badu, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Up Dharma Down, Mos Def, Common, Eraserheads, Bon Iver, Fink, Sage Francis, Cold Specks, Nick Drake, Imogen Heap, Massive Attack, Bonobo, Quantic, Thievery Corporation, Cyne, Dj Krush, Jazzual Suspects, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Nas, Submotion Orchestra.

Books-
Uncollected Poems-Rilke/ L'Étranger-Camus/ Micromegas-Voltaire/ The Sea Close By-Camus/The Denial of Death-Becker/ Studies on Pessimism-Shopenhauer/On The Shortness of Life-Seneca/ Meditations-Aurelius/ Norwegian Wood-Murakami/ Siddhartha-Hesse/ Poems of The Night-Borges/ The Book of Disquiet-Pessoa/ The Hero with a Thousand Faces-Campbell/ Man and His Symbols-Jung/ The Bell Jar-Plath/ A Brave New World-Huxley/ Delta of Venus-Nin/ A Short History of Decay-Cioran/ Breakfast at Tiffany's-Capote

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Canada - Travelled on the road across Canada for 2 months.

Philippines - Rode on top of vans through the mountains of Luzon to get to a tiny village and get tattooed by the last of the mambabatoks(traditional tattoo artists) of Kalinga Province.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Love for cinema and photography.
Filipino food.
Tagalog language.
Insane stories.
Books.
Some pretty cool hidden spots in the Philippines.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, China, Philippines, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Philippines

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