For Nix
Because she gives us free dinner and free WIFI.
Because we love our neighbor.
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Continue Reading 11 comments November 8th, 2009
Flowery Words
Joey thanks everybody who remembered her birthday last Thursday, October 22 – and thanks Facebook’s birthday alarm, too, or she wouldn’t have remembered it herself. Old age can take a toll on one’s memory, and Joey never had a good one to start off with.
This year, the first person to greet her at the stroke of 12 is Krishna – and she was also first last year. (Thank you, Krishna!) Rey has been disqualified on the basis of affinity, even if he started greeting Joey every single day for an entire week before her birthday. (Thank you, Rey. Sigh.)
Recently, Joey has grown to love gardening as old people are wont to. She claims to derive so much wisdom from planting seeds, trimming hedges and occasionally screaming at the sight of earthworms (which she is deathly afraid of). From gardening, she has learned that ‘a flower is a plant that rises above the weeds’ and ‘a coffee bean, when planted on a magnet mushroom, will disarm all the zombies’.*
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Continue Reading 47 comments October 30th, 2009
Nicole Limos’ 33 Questions for Mistula
Writer Nicole Limos sent us 33 questions for the Sense&Style feature on Mistula, but not all of them made it on print. So we’re posting the interview here for you – uncut and complete with Lobo’s licentious remarks about Manx’s boobs.
1. Please tell me about your personal and professional background.
LUGOSI: I am Bella Lugosi, but everyone just calls me Lord Lugosi. I don’t know why. I play the drums and write songs for Mistula and decide the overall direction of the band. Of course I welcome inputs from them as well. When I’m in the mood.
UNO: I’m Uno, ECD – Executive Creative Doll – for an advertising agency by weekday, rockstar on weekends, and extra luggage on holidays.
MANX: My name’s Manx Minuet, and I’m the lead guitarist, occasional vocalist of Mistula. I also co-write the songs with Lugosi. Mostly, I put melodies to his words. Porn films? Been there, done that. Now I’m just Mistula’s “six-string sex siren” – a role I like very much.
LOBO: My name’s Lobo, former leader of the British street gang called Lycantroops. I used to make a living in the underground fighting dens in London until I became the rhythm guitarist for Mistula.
MANX: Notice his sexy British accent.
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Continue Reading 39 comments October 19th, 2009
Mistula on Manila Bulletin’s Style Weekend
In Nicole Limos’ Interview with Mistula for Sense & Style magazine, the writer asked, “What dreams are you in the process of fulfilling?”
Manx answered, “My dream is to be on a cover of a magazine.”
And there she was.
Continue Reading 42 comments October 12th, 2009
Braving the Storm
Something tells me this isn’t going to be a restful weekend.
Last Saturday, Joey and Rey woke up to muddy water rushing into the Shelf. Powered by panic, they were able to lift and save most of the furniture from being soaked with newly discovered super-strength. Outside, streets became rivers and cars floated past. The neighbors shoveled water from second-floor balconies. Phones rang incessantly with worried messages from families and warnings from friends. All of this happened as we sat warm and cozy at the Mistula Complex, unmindful that the Philippines has been declared under a state of calamity.
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Continue Reading 44 comments October 4th, 2009
