Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a f—king big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose a three piece suit on hire purchased in a range of f—king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f—k you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f—king junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f—ked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?
Renton, Trainspotting
6 comments:
tatsulok...gustong gusto ko ang meaning ng kanta na yan ni Bamboo.
nakibasa dito..nindot imo post!keep it up!
how can one not know buklod? of course that is if one never digged buklod in the first place and only discovered tatsulok because of bamboo.
and just what bamboo wants us to think of him when he decided to sing tatsulok, a song that speaks of volumes of societal realities and political statements?
and for that, the song doesn't invite one to be angsty because that would be an understatement--something that threatens to insult the feelings harbored by the artists the time the song was still being written or their feelings when it was first sang.
to say that the song is angsty because it is included in an angsty album is, i guess, bordering in as an insult to the decade when the song was conceived--the time when angs is a non-word because of the raging anger felt by the people.
...so like now.
PS
I guess bamboo is too old to be angsty btw.
thanks for pointing it out bananas. admittedly, i am short on the context on which the song was helmed. but i like the song as it is, bamboo or nothing.
it's by the activist rock group "Buklod." And I agree with Bananas, angst wasn't the whole point of the protest song but it does enjoin us to be critical and to do something.
Whatever is the purpose for reviving the song, the timing speaks volume for the social realities we are experiencing now.
The only way for evil men to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
@ ev: daghang salamat.
@ jo: gosh, i feel stupid that i should've known its buklod. the only activist songs that retains in my mind are from the Rosas ng Digma album. i agree that whatever motives bamboo has for covering the song, it will always speak of the realities that this nation has been eternally struggling.
thanks sa lahat for the enlightenment.
Duo ang Buklod dba? Si Noel Cabangon ang isa.
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