It’s so hot inside the house so I am now catching some cooler breeze outside with my cats.
I kept putting this off for two years but I finally had the bandwidth to do it now: I am finally having an accordion screen door installed on my front door. It was my brother who finally found me a vendor.
Here is how it’s going to look like:
They measured my giant door and it’s going to cost me PHP 22k. Normal-sized doors only cost PHP 15k. 😬
I just need to keep my hardwood door open because it’s freaking hot but I don’t want the insects to come in. I live in a forest so it’s not only mosquitos and flies that I have to be worried about. I also deal with beetles, grasshoppers, moths, cicadas—you name it.
Hopefully they would be able to install it before Maundy Thursday.
I love Drumeo even though I’m not a drummer. I love them for doing this for Phil Collins, one of the greatest drummers who ever lived.
Most people know him as a solo artist, as a singer-song writer. But I regard him as a drummer first, singer second. The fact that he can shift genres from progressive rock (Genesis) to pop to Big Band/jazz is a testament to his versatility. Not a lot of drummers can just jump to jazz (watch Whiplash, the movie). His songs, if they’re not piano-driven, are drums-driven. Drums part shine, as shown in In the Air Tonight. Once you hear the concert toms, you know it’s Phil Collins.
His soundtrack for Tarzan was really good—heavy on drums and catchy. Percussions = jungle, to put it simply. I don’t like the movie but I liked the soundtrack and that was the one that stuck with me. And Glenn Close as the mother ape. 🤣
Anyway, my favorite Phil Collins song is Everyday, which was released in 1994. There was a guy I met in Davao where I spent my whole summer vacation in 1995. He made me a mix tape of the hits that year. It contained No More I Love Yous by Annie Lennox and Hey by Fatima Rainey…so you get how that 90 min tape sounded like. One particular song hit me to the core: it’s Everyday by Phil Collins.
These lines hurt and soothed me at the same time, in different seasons of my life:
You’ll never know, no, no, no, no, no
You’ll never know just how close we were
You’ll never know, no, no, no, no, no
You’ll never know
No, you’ll never see
The book closes, and we try to forget
But I know that things won’t change
How we feel, how life goes on
And that seems so strange
And so the light fades away, (everyday)
Try, try, try as I may, (Everyday)
I can’t stop thinkin’ about you, (everyday)
It seems my life’s worth nothing without you