By: Iris P. Concepcion
1.) Revolution from creation
Nobody was questioning the content of information fed to us before. We are quite numbed by accepting things just because they are "there" and looks spectacularly powerful. No one was providing competition. Closely observing the taglines and billboards, it sure looks like status quo couldn't be so facetious about what it had been routinely doing. The world is watching and it is using scalpels to reach out to examine their brains. The new forerunners are getting heard and seen and they are wearing shorts.
2.) Affordable finds with impossibly low price tags
Either they do not rely on advertisements or they are not just too greedy to make an easy buck. You get these deals if you are fastidious enough in scouting the odd, ubiquitous and the unprinted. I just follow my directions. It involves a sign, a sculpture and a vehicle that asks:"Where are you going? I can take you there."
3.) Expertise rests even unto the unknown and the young.
They are flapping their wings. They invade the roads with weepy memories of productive cognition. Beware of literati power masquerading as bums. It studies the framework of mass conceptualization: it can rather be lethal and mouth-zapping. I am not talking about crass tussles here. Men and women in this select echeleon of saberwriting no longer do images, they do psychology. They do not even fight back. They create these massive edifices with kickass, subliminal matches and I go: "Pow-wow, what the hell was that?" I just realized too many smart people are peopling this country and they are just getting noticed. We can be a brain tank of the universe for crying out loud.
4.) Sprouting parks and prettily designed buildings.
These are chosen areas: spacious, closer to nature, wild and unboring and ridiculously brave and upfront. Go to art hideaways. You can have match set (this) and (that) games in your aesthetic sensibilities. See what tingles your spine afterwards.
5.) Triumph of common sense over ridiculous extortions via boom voice.
They are extracted from the ground: nobody beats silence and knowingness.
6.) Music with melodic sense, finally.
Just condition yourself to not sleep when catching these butterflies of notes. If you are jammed, simply switch off. The kindred voices always come back.
7.) People weeping over music and billboards.
I do not know why. Better than watching celluloid and theater plays.
8.) 15 peso films of the terrible horror genre.
They star almost all the movers of media in some form or the other.
9.) Sidewalks and pathways that put greater distance between me and the zooming vehicles.
Good work always wins over mere blah. Always.
10.) This ability to answer back among those who had been extorted, blackmailed, betrayed and abused.
They are finally getting their just due via heavenly wands. There is justice here. If not tangible, then, at least for the most potent part, psychologically.