casieplanet

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Photography

I had the pleasure of shooting three of my talents from the Amazing Show for a mural study we're working on for a 24'x90' billboard inside the theatre. So I did a test shoot so I can see how reasonable the concept is...

Donita Gauten

Jaytee Castro

Lena Macarasig

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Hand me down

one of the good matchbox twenty songs I really like...

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

the sunset of my life

A long time ago, I named my home studio label "sunset records limited" and people always ask me why I would name a label "sunset". I always say that the sunset is more meaningful for me compared to sunrise. That's because I rarely see the sunrise because I would have just slept at the time as well as the fact that I enjoy watching the sun go down with all that beautiful transformation from light to dark... I guess that I would want my death as dramatic and as colorful as a beautiful sunset.

There was another logic to naming my label sunset... I wanted to give musicians, much like myself an opportunity to record their music. Specially those who were never given a break in life or the opportunity to record their songs.

When I transferred into this new office, my Boss did not like the idea. Actually, I was saving the transfer for the day I become President. But since that is impossible, I decided to go ahead and transfer on my own as well as the fact that Senate seems to be salivating to occupy this building soon.

Anyway, the most I love about this office, which doubles as my recording studio is the sunset view I enjoy. Every dusk is a marvel as I peer out into Manila Bay.

That's why despite suffering from my diabetic frozen shoulder, I took these pictures and decided that this magnificent sunset should be memorialized through a Joe Jackson song I've been wanting to cover. My window looked like a painting and it was wonderful. And like a magic pill, all my bad ailments for the day went away.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Frustrated...

Frustration is a big part of life... without it, life won't be as exciting as it should be. But frustration fortunately is a resource I've had an abundance of all my life and it isn't my monopoly and therefore its value is less than that of oil.

More than a week ago, I told myself, after being caught in a lot of stupid and unnecessary stresses, that I will be happier as a human being by simply being content and just give up on ambitions and goals that seem to be the root cause of my frustrations. And I did! And I was... happy for a while.

Happy that I wouldn't have to be frustrated anymore in my career, with my relationship, and with my life in general. That state of happiness lasted a few days until I realized that like most things, we are designed to serve a specific need or purpose and therefore not necessarily flexible or adaptable to all conditions.

I guess maybe I'm designed for something else and my current desire to be happier and therefore quitting the game of life has led to my system of wires going pasta on me and I've finally felt the after affects of complacency.

WebMD says that; Stress, both physical and mental, can send your blood sugar out of whack.

But seemingly, my decision to quit the game has given my body more stress simply because I failed to follow my design. I'm simply not built to be sedentary... emotionally, physically and mentally.

So over that period where I wanted to be happy by being sedentary, I simply couldn't. My blood glucose levels went berserk a few days and I had no way of knowing because my glucometer got lost so I had to purchase a new one. And it was swinging like crazy, 161 to 136, 214 to 136 and 250 to 134.

Bottom line? I won't be getting any extra attention from this... as usual, I will be alone dealing with this.

I need to do something new, I swear... or else my already hay-wired system will overload. I need to keep to my design and settle within myself that complacency will get me killed... and I need to stop writing useless rants like this.