Friday's Fanstastic Five

In salute to the glorious, glorious, glorious day that ushers in my favorite part of the week, I’ve decided to put up a weekly Top 5 list of awesome randomania, fittingly called Friday's Fantastic Five:

1) Norwegian electronica duo Röyksopp’s truly zap-tacular music video for “Happy Up Here” that collected inspiration from one of the most cherished old-school video games known to man, Space Invaders.


Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

2) Two months back, I came across a couple of very curious photos of dapper chaps and dashing dames, all dressed up with a ton of panache whilst riding their bikes in merry ol’ England.

I immediately thought, “Oh golly gee, what could this be?” A couple of mouse-clicks later, I found out it was the first FGSS (Fixed-Gear and Single-Speed) Winter Dress Club Run or simply called, Tweed Run.

The idea was simple: all dapper gents and elegant ladies were welcome to join the leisurely bike ride through London, provided they show up in the spiffiest attire worn during the era of jaunty capes, cravats and tweed, tweed, tweed!

Simply put, it was “a social ride with a bit of style”.

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Here’s another dream to add to the already lengthy list of Will It Happen? Probably Nots: Move to London, buy a fixie and dress up like a dapper English gent.

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Goodbye, Manila! So long, Stress! Au revoir, Anxiety! Adieu, Apprehension! Farewell, Fuckaz!

I’ll just be with the monsters.

Any minute now and I’m about to croak from exhaustion, stress, and plain ol’ existential angst. How I long for days long gone, when all I had to worry about was devising a sneaky plan on how not to take my daily afternoon nap or a clever diversion to lure my nanny’s eyes away from the yucky warm milk that's about to be poured down the drain, or which nook, cranny or crevice would be the best place to hide away from scary, scary It.

I would truly give anything just to be able to live again as a child, when all the monsters in my head didn’t equate to the past, or with pressure, fear and anxiety – but more of the furry kind that carried me high up on their shoulders.



Anyway, allow me be a fangirl for a minute: Wasn't that an amazing trailer?! It's been so long since a trailer sent shivers running up and down my spine. Oh my god. This movie is gonna be amazing!!! (Yes, it deserves three exclamation marks.)