saw the video recording of dad's show 'aspects of love'. he did with the new voice company, which has a reputation for doing controversial productions such as 'the vagina monologues' (they're most popular show) and 'sacriledge' (about a nun wanting to be a priest, which dad was also part of). it didnt take long to figure out why the musical 'aspects of love' was controversial. if you're not too lazy to read the summary i'll write below, you'll see what i mean.
alex, 17, meets and falls in love with an actress, rose, 28 (i think). they use alex's uncle's far away vacation house to hide out in for a week. they do stuff, of course. ahem. alex's uncle, george (played by my dad), 70+ (again, i think), finds out about it somehow and decides to drop in on them, leaving his mistress, julietta, age unknown, in italy. so george drops in on them, gets to talk to them, especially rose. and he's cool about them and everything, and lets them have their fling. he leaves. but by that time, rose had fallen for him. so rose leave alex, and disappears. a long time after that, alex visits his uncle's real house, but his uncle is not there (george is apparently in italy. ahem. with julietta). instead, alex finds rose there. obviously she's been with george. things get heated up. in the end... they end up sleeping together that night. next day, they fight. george walks in on them. he decides that rose is better off with alex, and returns to italy. but rose rejects alex, and follows george. rose meets julietta... and they actually get along well. TOO well. george, julietta and rose end up as... a threesome. ahem. and then rose marries george. at the wedding, julietta and rose kiss. and i'm not talking about a peck on the lips. george watches amused. end act one. yes, act one palang yan. act two opens about 12 years (once more, i think) later with rose hitting it off in the theatres and touring the world. alex sees one of her performances, and comes to see her in person as well. some old sparks fly... sorta. rose invites alex home. then george is shown with their daughter, jenny. there are some hints of incestuous feelings. rose and alex arrived, warmly welcomed. alex becomes close to his cousin. and as they grow up, alex and jenny fall in love. george doesnt like that. at one point, alex is tucking jenny into bed (NOT doing anything), and george is outside the door thinking they ARE doing something... and he has a heart attack and dies (poor daddy.) alex blames himself, and leaves jenny. at the funeral he meets julietta for the first time... and a new flame kindles. the rest is left for speculation.
incest, pedo, and gay. o diba, kumpleto!
we're seeing the restaging in singapore in may next year.
then we brought mom to tita cindy's house coz her barkada was getting together there. all the wives were having lunch at the house... and all the husbands went out to eat at brazil brazil in metro walk. true to my nature... i was "one of the boys", tailed dad to metro walk to eat meat, meat, and more meat.
went shopping with dad in mega afterwards. i'm afraid i tired him out quite a bit. all for nothing too, we didnt find anything i wanted. the only thing that made the trip worthwhile was eating churros con chocolate in dulcinea.
attended the de lara reunion in the evening. we got there late, and the food still wasnt ready. everyone was hungry. some of my boy cousins decided to go out and buy beer instead of waiting. the rest of us just hovered around until mama ting (owner of the house we were in) came out of her room and realized she had guests. haha. there were three kinds of pasta with three different sauces, plus yellow cab pizza. we had picture taking sessions in front of a huge snowman lantern propped up among a cluster of plants. the 9th wonder of the world... a snowman in a tropic jungle! i find it tends to get easier to bond with my cousins every year. i drifted back and forth from sitting with the smokers (old, young, and younger) outside, to sitting with my cousins at the table inside, and sitting with my aunts and uncles on the couches. mama ting gave out pearl bracelets to the girls, and cash to the boys. damn, really, why couldnt i have been a guy? i shouldve just asked for mig's share coz he wasnt there. he'd never have to know. haha!
after that chad took us to saguijo bar in makati. really nice place! not such a great layout, but its clean, no smoking allowed inside, and wholesome too (i mean i was worried about not being 18 yet and then we see 10-year-olds running about!). we saw 4 bands perform, one of which was the itchyworms! ang astig nila! nakakatawa kasi ang kukulit nila! you can tell they have so much fun. they all looked like geeks (lahat sila may suot na tie!) but they can rock the house. they played the best too coz they werent too loud and you could hear and UNDERSTAND the vocals. got to greet kuya chino. left handed guitarist pala siya. asked him where "ate karen" was. apparently she was in cebu.
got into bed a 2am.
woke up this morning at 10:45. cursed, jumped out of bed and into the shower. i had enough time to clear the dining table before kami, jo, and therese rang the doorbell. kwentuhan to the max. pinapak rin namin yung fridge - food for the gods, cake, keso de bola, ice cream. and now we have tons of chocolate and lengua de gato to add to that.
i should sleep now coz the days arent going to get any easier on me! LOL!
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tuning: akin ka nalang (itchyworms)