Sunday, April 23, 2006

Perplexing Oxymorons

Perplexing Oxymorons

They exist for whatever reason conjured for the sake of its being one.

1. Christian Death Metal - ?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Abstract Social Realism - as conceived by C. Tejero. Ask him yourself what he means by it.

3. Heroic Sexism - I have a friend who's in a band and who has bandmates, most notably their vocalist who's known for being this side of the earth's greatest nymphomaniac but you couldn't tell straightaway if you'd just go by looks alone but he's married with 2 kids but still he goes on bedding every skirted lass night by night. But this friend would often sneak in his admiration for that guy for his being sexist. He says that if not for the likes of him, the world wouldn't be in a rightful balance as it were.

4. Tropical Gothic - more like Topical Gothic
I've seen some black-clad, fishnetted, kohl-lined lassies dragging their cigarettes at some corner in every party, man how cool they are no one talks to them. Like you offer them drinks and they wouldn't even nod a reply, they must have incredible focus to be transporting their minds to the British Isles, a mind over matter feat of turning sweat into icicles.

5. Benign Satanists - self-sacrifice by suicide. hmmm, I seem to also carry the same principle in matters of earthly survival but why would they have to associate the principles of humanism with Satan when Satan himself wasn't even human, he's an angel, a supernatural which no atheist would even believe in. And how can spreading negativism be beneficial for all of us?

6. Budget Fashion and Value meals - popping 500 bucks diet pills for that slinky 20 buck shirt or popping 500 bucks of virgin coconut oil for the grease feast with the free wind-up toy.

7. Indie pop - more than ever now. Pop had always been about the business, nothing more nothing less. Herd mentality.

8. Underground pub in Makati - everything doesn't fit unless it's a house of some ultra-scenester which he/she has transformed into a bar that's so exclusive.

9. Public art in Ayala Museum - but which public ? certainly not that pedestrian, if pedestrians means being at a spitting distance from the nearest Prada.


10.Wholesome art -

11. NCCA - as an agency for funding art