Posted by blacksoup on Dec 14, '11 7:43 PM for everyone Posted by blacksoup on Jun 5, '11 10:08 PM for everyone ANG PAGBABALIK NG WEEKLY SPECIALS HITS!
* Manok na Pinatay sa Saraaaap!
* Spinach & Cheese Wontons
* Pork Ribs with Pineapple
* Potato Leek Soup
* Homemade Guyabano Ice Cream
and ang fagvavalik ng Care Divas on June 11, 8 pm at the PETA Theatre Center. Tickets available at blacksoup! Call 4352549/09178363421 Posted by blacksoup on May 20, '11 6:58 PM for everyone |  | 11 June 2011, 8 PM Saturday. RESERVE NA NG TICKET SA: 584.1582, 435.2549 or 0917.5596196, 0921.4635258
From the theater company that brought you SKIN DEEP, KARAOKE
DREAMS and SI JUAN TAMAD, ANG DIYABLO AT ANG LIMANG MILYONG
BOTO comes another play which will surely tickle your funny bones and
touch your hearts.
Closing Philippine Educational Theater Association’s 43rd Theater Season
is CARE DIVAS, a disarmingly funny and candid musical drama inspired
by the award-winning documentary “PAPER DOLLS”. CARE DIVAS is a
story about five Filipino transgender migrant workers who have
immigrated to Israel to work as health care providers for the elderly and
who in their spare time, perform as drag queens. While desperate to
make ends meet in another country, they also struggle to search for
freedom and acceptance. Entertaining as it is, the play also
demonstrates the generosity of spirit, resilience and humanity of Filipinos. |
Posted by blacksoup on May 20, '11 6:55 PM for everyone | Start: | Jun 11, '11 8:00p | | End: | Jun 11, '11 10:00p | | Location: | PETA Theatre Center, #5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City |
Tickets are at P600 & P800. For inquiries and reservations, please call mitch 584.1582/ 0917.5596196, mai santos 435.2549/ 0921.4635258, gian pagunsan 0906.4871014 or Avic 0917.8363421 -------------------------------------------------------- From the theater company that brought you SKIN DEEP, KARAOKE DREAMS and SI JUAN TAMAD, ANG DIYABLO AT ANG LIMANG MILYONG BOTO comes another play which will surely tickle your funny bones and touch your hearts. Closing Philippine Educational Theater Association’s 43rd Theater Season is CARE DIVAS, a disarmingly funny and candid musical drama inspired by the award-winning documentary “PAPER DOLLS”. CARE DIVAS is a story about five Filipino transgender migrant workers who have immigrated to Israel to work as health care providers for the elderly and who in their spare time, perform as drag queens. While desperate to make ends meet in another country, they also struggle to search for freedom and acceptance. Entertaining as it is, the play also demonstrates the generosity of spirit, resilience and humanity of Filipinos. Posted by blacksoup on Mar 21, '11 4:51 AM for everyone pinoy eats for our weekly specials! i invoke my right not to eat meat!
*Grilled Tilapia Wrapped in Dahon ng Saging with Tomatoes & Coconut
Cream
*Vegetarian Pansit Habhab
*Savory Tomato Soup
*Surprise of the Week Cake
eat well! eat healthy! Posted by blacksoup on Dec 2, '10 2:22 AM for everyone | | It's a Wonderful Life
is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community.
Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world.
Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes … it was initially a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were."[2]
It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars without winning any, but the film has since been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, and placed number one on their list of the most inspirational American films of all time. |
Posted by blacksoup on Dec 2, '10 2:11 AM for everyone | Start: | Dec 17, '10 8:00p | | End: | Dec 17, '10 10:00p |
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community. Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes … it was initially a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were."[2] It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars without winning any, but the film has since been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, and placed number one on their list of the most inspirational American films of all time. Posted by blacksoup on Dec 2, '10 1:17 AM for everyone Posted by blacksoup on Aug 18, '10 10:34 AM for everyone | | A Tori Story
By Pearlsha Abubakar,
Tori Amos’ number one Filipino fan (I think!) Many people assume that since I’m a pianist and composer, I must have learned the craft at the Conservatory. What they don’t know is that I learned the craft from just three people: my cousin Baby and my best friends Christine and Brenda. They taught me the classical pieces they knew. Stuff by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and a handful of other European composers whose names I sadly forget.
The craft – playing the piano – was tricky at best. An octave is comprised of eight white keys and five black keys, eighty eight keys total across the keyboard, and you must be quick to shift from one key to the next. For weeks, I could not play a simple octave because my fingers could not yet span the octave. So I would play C and G, then C and A, inching up the scale until I made it to my first octave. I was a piano suitor, determined to get to first base fast.
A few months after, I had more or less a working knowledge of the craft. Now what I didn’t have was the music.
It took me a while to find out what I really wanted to play. This was 1989, and the new wave era had come and gone. Something was brewing. TFF had just released “Seeds of Love” and “Woman In Chains” had me by the gut. A strange Irish woman named Enya released a strange but beautiful album called Watermark, full of simple piano instrumentals and haunting melodies like “River” and “Miss Clare Remembers.” I promptly took to the piano and played these songs by ear, to work out the sonic mechanism behind these pieces. What made them beautiful and sad? Why did I like them?
Then the cute redhead with a half-smile sitting on an armchair too large for her frame announced herself. Her name was Tori Amos. Her album was called “Little Earthquakes,” and there was a brief review on Seventeen magazine (which I devoured back in the day, along with the almost-pornographic Cosmo US editions). But I didn’t file the article. Instead, I went to the next few pages and clipped a feature on Ethan Hawke. I was young. I didn’t know any better.
Four years passed. During those years I became obsessed with Jim Chappell and David Lanz. They wrote in the so-called new age music vein, which was dismissed by my editor over at the school paper as “wimpy.” This editor listened to the real deal – the Ellas and the Billys. To me, jazz was fine, but I was looking for something different. Actually, something much simpler sounding, something that wasn’t too cerebral and heavy, that was light and sublime.
Then I heard the song. It was in the key of E. It had a “Fur Elise” kind of intro, E then E flat then F then back to E. Then the words came on:
“Excuse me but can I be with you for a while My dog won’t bite if you sit real still I got the antichrist in the kitchen yelling at me again Yean I can hear…”
It was a piano and strings piece. It was a song about an abused wife, but the storytelling had a wonderful sense of humor.
It was Tori Amos.
Instead of the typical Billy Joel-Elton John kind of block chords playing that dominated keyboard pop music for the longest time, Tori was playing a melodic line on the right hand, and she was singing a melody different from what her right hand was playing, and then she would play a running bass line with her left hand, and then she would belt out an unbelievably sublime chorus, in a voice as fragile as glass, again with her fingers doing harmony the whole time, then she would state the main theme and…OH MY GOD! THIS WOMAN WAS INHUMAN!
The accompaniment was definitely classical, but the vocals undeniably pop rock. There was a real bite to the singing, and she wasn’t afraid to be out of tune a little. She wasn’t afraid to breathe very audibly, and use the breath as an instrument in itself. SHE WAS A GENIUS!
The year was 1993. At last I had found the music I’d been looking for.
And so began my fascination with the American pianist-songwriter Myra Ellen Amos, also known as Tori. I listened to her songs and played them by ear. Yes, I played them all. Yes, I copied her. In fact, a song from my debut album – “Life After “– was a kind of homage to “Marianne,” my favorite piece from her album “Boys For Pele.” But like many of my pianist-friends know, it is difficult to play a Tori piece, so to perform one takes days of practice. I no longer bother. It is enough that I have played her songs once. It is enough that I became her for a while. Her music taught me everything I know now about music and about making my own sound.
Everybody’s gotta start somewhere, and my personal somewhere was Tori Amos.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Jesus!
I think she’s turning 47 this August 22, and I would like to celebrate her with a simple toast. August 21, Saturday, 8pm at Blacksoup Café and Artspace. Nothing planned, no bands, not even myself playing. Just come on over and we’ll have a Tori soundtrip, and maybe an impromptu performance if the constellations line up right! No gate, no cover charge.
You will never look at rain the same way again when it’s accompanied by Tori’s music! Pramis. |
Posted by blacksoup on Jun 14, '10 7:14 AM for everyone Roasted Beef Ribs with AppleCrunchy Tofu Steak & Shiitake MushroomPinoy Salad (lettuce, onion, tomatoes, red egg with cane vinegar)PavlovaBanana Loaf Lemongrass & Lychee Homemade Ice Cream
Posted by blacksoup on Jun 14, '10 7:11 AM for everyone | Start: | Jun 25, '10 8:00p | | End: | Jun 25, '10 11:00p | | Location: | blacksoup cafe +artspace, 154 Unit H Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City |
"It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone." -- Patricia Franchini in Breathless BREATHLESS (JEAN LUC-GODARD) The story begins in Marseilles. Michel Poicard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a young hoodlum, steals a car to go to Paris. He is pursued by a policeman on a motorcycle, whom he shoots dead with a gun he finds in the glove compartment. In Paris, Michel steals money from a friend to go off and find Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American girl who sells the Herald Tribune in the Champs-Elysées. He is in love with her and wants to take her to Rome. This film gave Belmondo his first big role and Jean Seberg is exquisite under Godard's direction. A Bout de Souffle, shot with bits and scraps of film on a very low budget, was the first official manifestation of the nouvelle vague, a style of cinema that emerged in France, in the period and was heavily inspired by what was being done in America. Godard threw away the rigidity of French conventions by using hand-held camera techniques and natural settings, giving his film a fluidity and a spontaneity in keeping with the life and character of his protagonist. The young Michel Poicard; dashing, daring, cynical and purile, is himself immersed in American culture (sporting his role-model Bogart's hat and look). The film pays deliberate homage to the films of Preminger and other contemporary directors of the film noir genre. The heroes banter, tell fibs and act silly. Yet the film is essentially about cowardliness, foreboding, betrayal and death on the prowl; on the difficulty of being who we pretend to be and even of knowing ourselves. In the void into which the youth of the times had fallen into, Godard could see only love to save them. The love intrigue set aside, this is a great film about Paris and the spirit that reigned there at the time. -- capsule taken in part from the Edinburgh University Film Society archives Breathless [a bout de souffle] - Details Made in: 1959 Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance Filmed in: Black & White Language: French Length: 89min Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Daniel Boulanger Jean-Pierre Melville Henri-Jacques Huet Van Doude Claude Mansard Jean-Luc Godard Richard Balducci Roger Hanin Jean-Louis Richard Michel Poiccard aka Laszlo Kovacs Patricia Franchini Police Inspector Parvulesco Antonio Berrutti The Journalist Claudius Mansard An Informer Tolmatchoff Cal Zombach A Journalist Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Writing credits: Jean-Luc Godard & François Truffaut Produced by: Georges de Beauregard Music by: Martial Solal Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard Production Design by: Claude Chabrol Film Editing by: Cecile Decugis & Lila Herman Posted by blacksoup on May 25, '10 6:51 AM for everyone | | Film screening of Rent
Friday, May 28, 2010
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
at blacksoup car park garden cafe,
154 Unit G Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna Village
Quezon City
Rent is a 2004 American film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. The movie depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, cross-dressing, drugs, life under the shadow of AIDS, and paying their rent. It takes place in the East Village of New York City in the late 1980s. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, has six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles.
Principal characters
All but two principal members of the original Broadway cast reprised their roles on film. Chris Columbus got the idea to give the original cast first dibs on the roles when he talked to Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal and Idina Menzel about the musical and felt that they all still looked the same as when they premiered the show in 1996. Only Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker, the original Mimi and Joanne were not cast in the film. Daphne Rubin-Vega was seven months pregnant at the time of filming and was not able to reprise her role as Mimi. Fredi Walker said that she felt too old for the role but insisted that she wanted a woman of African-American descent to play the part of Joanne.
Anthony Rapp as Mark Cohen - A struggling filmmaker and Roger's roommate. Was dumped by Maureen for Joanne.
Adam Pascal as Roger Davis - An HIV-positive ex-junkie rock musician. Mimi's love interest.
Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez - An HIV-positive heroin junkie and nightclub dancer. Roger's love interest.
Jesse L. Martin as Tom Collins - A anarchist philosophy professor suffering from AIDS; former roommate of Maureen, Roger, Mark, and Benny; Angel's love interest.
Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard - A gay drag queen street musician who is suffering from AIDS. Collins' love interest.
Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson - A bisexual performance artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend.
Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson - A lesbian Harvard-graduated lawyer and Maureen's love interest.
Taye Diggs as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III - Mark, Roger, and Mimi's apartment building landlord and ex-roommate of Collins, Roger, Maureen, and Mark.
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Posted by blacksoup on May 25, '10 6:48 AM for everyone Posted by blacksoup on Apr 15, '10 8:47 PM for everyone Posted by blacksoup on Apr 15, '10 8:44 PM for everyone next week (april 19-24) healthy eating with pinoy pandesal offerings - *blackened salmon pandesal *grilled eggplant pandesal*veggie pandesal*TLT (tofu, lettuce, tomato) pandesal
fill your summer days with healthy good eats & good vibes! bask in the music of nina simone..write, read, ponder and wonder.. enjoy the emptiness and breathing of the walls.
see you at blacksoup cafe + artspace154 Unit G Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna VIllage, Quezon Cityat the inner courtyard, at the back of Laundrybest & Bed & Breakfast
Posted by blacksoup on Mar 10, '10 6:13 AM for everyone | Start: | Mar 12, '10 7:30p | | End: | Mar 12, '10 10:00p | | Location: | 154 Unit G Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna Village, QC |
WOMEN on the VERGE of a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Director: Pedro Almodovar Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes 1988 Creating “one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies” (Pauline Kael), Pedro Almodovar, Spain’s premiere writer-director, creates an off-killer universe of madness, mayhem and pure fun. Nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and co-starring Antonio Banderas, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a “wild, wanton, wickedly farce” (People)! High atop one of Spain’s poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes. Super-sexy Pepa (Carmen Maura), is forever teetering around atop her skyscraper spikes as she obsesses over Ivan (Fernando Guillen), the lover who just jilted her over the answering machine! Her neurotic best friend Candela (Maria Barranco), is seeking refuge at Pepap’s place because she recently realized her lover is a Shiite terrorist. And Ivan’s ex-wife Lucia (Julieta Serrano), was just released from a 20-year stint in a mental institution. They’re all mighty mad ---- in fact, they’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown…and one of them is about to commit murder unless the other half-crazed femmes fatales can stop her. Posted by blacksoup on Feb 20, '10 8:41 AM for everyone | | february 27, 2010, saturday
7:30 pm
Lifted from one of the reviews online:
"Temptation Island" is easily one of the funniest, wittiest Filipino films I've seen. Filipino humor, in film at least, automatically means slapstick so to see witty humor by itself is a big deal, much less one done well. Dina Bonnevie, Azenith Briones, and Bambi Arambulo deliciously play catfighting beauty queens ultimately ending up fighting for their survival in, oh yes, baby … Temptation Island! Don't ask how the heck beauty queens end up in a deserted island, just enjoy this deliberately silly early 80's film featuring a very young Dina Bonnevie, still very much active in Philippine cinema and approaching icon status, and her future "love team" partner the late Alfie Anido. The hilarious crowd is completed by two studly studs, including the late Filipino male sex symbol Ricky Belmonte, a highly stereotypical tragicomic screaming queen, and the Filipino film staple, the oppressed house maid (played by actress Debraliz?). Directed by gay fixture Joey Gosiengfiao, the film is definitely not without its faults but it's fun while it lasts. No DVD copies exist as far as I know so good luck finding a decent VHS copy.
Note: we wil use a vcd copy for this particular screening c/o the Mowelfund Film Institute Archives |
Posted by blacksoup on Feb 20, '10 8:40 AM for everyone | Start: | Feb 27, '10 7:30p | | End: | Feb 27, '10 10:30p |
Lifted from one of the reviews online: "Temptation Island" is easily one of the funniest, wittiest Filipino films I've seen. Filipino humor, in film at least, automatically means slapstick so to see witty humor by itself is a big deal, much less one done well. Dina Bonnevie, Azenith Briones, and Bambi Arambulo deliciously play catfighting beauty queens ultimately ending up fighting for their survival in, oh yes, baby … Temptation Island! Don't ask how the heck beauty queens end up in a deserted island, just enjoy this deliberately silly early 80's film featuring a very young Dina Bonnevie, still very much active in Philippine cinema and approaching icon status, and her future "love team" partner the late Alfie Anido. The hilarious crowd is completed by two studly studs, including the late Filipino male sex symbol Ricky Belmonte, a highly stereotypical tragicomic screaming queen, and the Filipino film staple, the oppressed house maid (played by actress Debraliz?). Directed by gay fixture Joey Gosiengfiao, the film is definitely not without its faults but it's fun while it lasts. No DVD copies exist as far as I know so good luck finding a decent VHS copy. Note: we wil use a vcd copy for this particular screening c/o the Mowelfund Film Institute Archives Posted by blacksoup on Feb 10, '10 3:14 AM for everyone it's valentine's week at blacksoup:
*feb 12, friday, 7 pm film screening of "once" (from ireland)
*feb 13, saturday, "eat all you can pasta buffet + set meals", dinner time, lunch open for regular meals *feb 14, sunday, "eat all you can pasta + set meals", dinner time with screening of wong kar wai's "blueberry nights", stars norah jones and jude law Posted by blacksoup on Feb 8, '10 3:47 AM for everyone | Start: | Feb 12, '10 7:00p | | End: | Feb 12, '10 9:00p |
film: Once length: 1 hour and 28 minutes A tale that follows 'the Guy', who works part-time helping his father run a small, vacuum cleaner repair business, but dreams of one day having his songs recorded and landing a record deal. Emotionally vulnerable, he is still coming to terms with the recent departure of his girlfriend and lacks the conviction and passion to move on in his pedestrian life. One day, he meets 'the Girl', an Eastern European immigrant who has moved to Dublin to start a new life for herself. Currently working as a house cleaner in an upper-class residence, she is struggling financially. She yearns for what she cannot afford--a piano to help her escape from the daily grind of finding her way through this strange new land. A relationship blossoms between 'the Guy' and 'the Girl', as they're both struggling. Their shared love of music causes them to flourish and grow with a new found confidence as they take a chance on each other and a new beginning on life.
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