Exaggeration Theatre

An exchange between roommates @ "CTU Northgate," aka, casa de Denis y JB.....approx. late afternoon Wednesday....


Denis (looking up from playing World of Warcraft): "So did you hear about the thing
with Hilary Clinton & Dimitry...Ram-bama-*&$%! (imitating gibberish)?"

JB: "Whabua-who?"

Denis: "Thats the thing...I can't pronounce the second party's name, though for the record, they WERE talking about international rel-"

JB: "Be Kind, rewind...."

Denis: "Hilary Clinton got slammed during a democratic debate for mis-pronouncing the Russian presidential candidate's name."

JB: "I'm guessing Obama sidestepped the whole debacle simply en-nobling him as just "Mr. Russian Guy-ovitch."

Denis (points to his secondary laptop): "Yeah, heres his name."

JB: "Um, Dimitri...Me deeve deeve?!?"

Denis: "My best guess is Dimitri Me de vee de vee!"

JB: "...Dimitri dev...dev...frak! My goal in life now is to get this right."

Tom (Denis brother, intervenes): "heres an audio sample..."

JB, Tom, Denis (all together): "Dimitri MeDEVDEV"
Computer: "Dimitri MedVEDEV"

JB, Tom, Denis (all together): "Dimitri MEDVEDEV...."

JB: "PHEW...Seriously, his name is a international incident waiting to happen....BURN!"

JB: "no no no. His last name is the little palindrome that could."

Tom (laughs like a little girl)

Denis (World of Warcraft character suddenly gets AOE'd to death...)




Here's the official story:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/02/28/012.html
And the Audio Sample that set the story straight:http://names.voa.gov/DailyAction.cfm
And...some info on the future (well not yet), on Dimitri MEDVEDEV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev

Why not "Step Up with a Vegenance" OR "Step Up Forever?"

“Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.” - Bill Peterson, football coach.

An excerpt from VARIETY, movie site:

Disney will proceed with a third installment of its hit dance franchise "Step Up," tentatively titled "Step Up 3-D."
Pic will become the latest 3-D live-action film from the Mouse House, with "Step Up 2 the Streets" director Jon Chu in talks to reprise.
Offspring Entertainment partners Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, who have reupped at Disney for three years, will develop the film; the pair produced the first two "Step Up" pics.

....hmmm. What else can I say about this that hasn't already been said about...say...Britney Spear's "comeback?!?" -end quote.

I don't think I'm going to dignify this with any further comments.....lol.

...that makes total sense, Dad...

"....the trick is to stop thinking of it as "your money." --- IRS auditor.

Parsons Seattle Office, bottom floor, 11:00 a.m.

Nilo Bonifacio: "hey son, I just came by to give u some work clothes I bought on clearance."

JB Bonifacio: "cool beans! So...how much does this all cost ya?"

Nilo (looking embarassed): "...thats the thing. I need $300 from you."

JB (flabbergasted): "...WTF?!"

Nilo (looking apologetic) : "....the thing is...I actually need $300 to buy this really good golf clu-"

JB (in standoff mode): " the clothes were a peace offering, weren't they?"

Nilo: "...yeah lol. I don't know if you know this, but if your mom sees the February bank statement and sees '$300 for random impulse buy,' she'll totally go sickhouse on your old man. I want to avoid a paper trail."

Nilo: "...and I love u."

JB: ".........."

The Rat and the Vampire

Excerpt from HOUSE M.D. -

Dr. Cuddy: "House, how is it that you always assume you're right?"


Dr. House: "I don't. I just find it hard to operate on the opposite assumption."





Happy Friday!!! (I say happy b/c I finally tracked down a Green Lantern Tee to wear for St. Patricks day...shiny...)

Anywhoo, I have EVERY confidence in my granularity for queueing up new, buzzworthy music... often, in fact, before MTV and Rolling Stone attempt to quote their own precedence (Silversun Pickups, Rocky Votolato, Blue Scholars, Rodrigo y Gabriela come to mind....not to mention U2:3D ;) ).


Well, we're barely into the 2008-2009 fiscal year and already, two buzzworthy bands have fallen into my oh so enthusastic lap. And just how buzzworthy, you say? Well....I'd vouch for them motherfrakkers; like my previous finds, they're WAYYYY too good to just wallow in obscurity.

Enter: Ratatat and Vampire Weekend

RATATAT

--- To simply write them off as over-indulged video game music would be a weak (and ultimately narrow) label to give this eclectic New York duo. Their repetoire is blissfully simple (guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer savant Evan Mast) , yet they get alot of mileage out of said accoutrements. And by mileage, I mean to the moon, Alice. We're talking f*ckin vignettes of simple wonder: somber, sonically harsh melodies played on synth and guitars backed by electronic percussion. Add a dash of hip hop and funk, call it 'Ratatat' and you're off. Surprisingly, they're being groomed to be the apprentices to the Neptunes (I don't actually know the protocol on how this particular form of apprenticeship works lol).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatat



Definitely D/L:
Lex
Gettysburg
Germany to Germany
Everest







VAMPIRE WEEKEND

--- Think 'Graceland' on steroids. Think 'The Lion King' meets 'The Specials.' But for the love of your God, think something, at least...it'll be worth your 15 seconds. Anyways...not since Paul Simon has a band, let alone an indie-rock band, bring Afro-pop back into the spotlight. While frontman Ezra Koenig may be playfully coy about his other musical influences, by contrast, their word-of-mouth is anything but. Already fueled by frenzies of the youTube & MySpace variety, Vampire Weekend seems poised...no no....expected to make a BIG SPLASH (i'll put hard money that this actually pans out) with their plinky keyboards, ska-like guitar lines, and Congo drum beats @ a jungle near you.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48053-vampire-weekend

Definitely D/L:
Oxford Comma
A-Punk
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Bryn





Final Note: Brent, like Axl Rose once said...all you need is...a little patience. I too want Blazin Chicken on this blog in one form or another.

U2:3D --- 01/18/2008 to 02/20/2008 (updated)

phew.....It has since migrated to AMC Pacific Place theaters.

Fandango it.

U2:3D --- 01/18/2008 to 02/20/2008

February 21, 2008 --- approx. 7:24 pm, Greenlake, under a blood red sky....

Gladys D. --- So, JB....just how many times HAVE you seen U2:3D?

JB B. --- Lemme put it this way...I'd be unable to count the number of times....on one hand.

(Thanks to Joss Whedon, comic book /TV show idiot savant...haha j/k for providing the "template" that i'm now COMPLETELY plagarizing....)

Hi, my name is JB Bonifacio. Before we begin this special blog, I have a little story I want to tell you. It's about a film called U2:3D(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_3D. U2:3D premiered on the silver screen a few weeks ago and was instantly hailed by critics as one of the most un-seen shows of the year (at least in MY immediate circles). It was ignored and abandoned and the story should end there...but it doesn't...because the people who talked about the show and the people who saw the show (which is...roughly...the same number of people) fell in love with it a little bit...too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood (and in life, as I am reminded....constantly), people like that are called 'unrealistic' ... 'quixotic' ... 'obsessive'.

In my world, they're called 'fans'.

Whether you've watched U2 before, or saw the DVD's, or whether you've never set foot in their universe before now, the fact is they've been rocking their anthemic sound in upwards of 30 years; that is a little bit remarkable. This movie should not exist. Aging rock stars don't get major motion pictures unless

the creator, the band, and the fans

believe beyond reason. It's what I've

felt....It's what I've seen...

And yet it is, in an unprecedented sense, up to the non-fans to see this movie get its deserved national exposure...which means, if it fails, it's your fault....lol.

You let us down, but let's not dwell on your failures because the work is not done ;)

Once we are finished, we have to get people to see it. Now, obviously the studio is going to do their thing. There will be ads and trailers and all that joy, but this movie doesn't have Katherine Heigl and it isn't Step Up 2 or even

Hannah Montana 3D (ugh...). What it has is us (well, Dustin and myself, and to a lesser extent, Matt H and Chris A.), the people who believed....unreasonably.....

And now...here we are,

If this movie seems appealing to you, let somebody know. Let everybody know. Make yourselves heard. If you don't like the movie, this is a time for quiet, silent contemplation....haha.

But, when the credits / closing song finally

roll, if you still call yourself a U2 fan,

remember the millions of people who

don't...who might.

My review of the film is up at http://apps.facebook.com/flixster/review?r=792864038_770682062

U2:3D has since been removed from the Boeing & Eames IMAX theatres in favor of "The Spiderwick Chronicles: the IMAX Experience"

The Middlegame in Chess

GMail, 12/20/07

JB, 3:50 PM --- so whats the what with medical school?

Sarah, 3:55 PM --- i'm doing nursing, JB.

JB, 3:56 PM --- sorry, lol. I group THOSE ppl together.

Sarah, 3:57 PM --- well....nothing much...just got my nurse apprentice license. So what's up with being an a**hole?

Sarah, 3:58 PM --- Oh wait, you're an engineer....sorry....I group those together lol ;)

Sarah, 4:00 PM --- burn!

A female confidante' (its not the aforementioned Gmail buddy btw, but they know who they are) once brought an very interesting argument to my attention:

who had it harder in life? the ugliest guy....or the ugliest girl?

White takes Black queen....she did have a point....

Point being said....well...well, allow me to retort:

What's more impossible to find: the perfect girl....or the perfect guy?

Now, I'm not saying our chess match is over by any means; I'm just saying that on behalf of the rest of the y-chromosome-inclined population, I just like to point out: Black effs up White Queen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_middlegame

Note: JB effigys are probably soon to follow...lol

1x01 - Pilot

"All I can be is me...whoever that is." --- Bob Dylan.


NO, my blog won't take the form of a serialized TV show (well, maybe not literally). But part of the reason I titled this inaugural one "1x01 - pilot" is simply because, like any good pilot of any good tv show, a couple of things have to happen:

• You gotta set the protagonist's background:

And with that....Hello, my full name is Jan Nil Andres Bonifacio.....and I'm an addict (lol j/k). I'm a 26 year old banana (*cough* yellow on the outside and white on the inside *cough*) and I spend an unusually (well, unusual for anyone not used to responsibility....lol j/k...i'll stop now) large portion of my day-to-day activity employed as an Associate Civil Engineer for the Seattle Branch of Parsons Transportation Group.

• you gotta establish the protagonist's supporting characters:

I live in Northgate with college roommate Denis Ha, who, along with myself & his brother Tom, have made "arrested development" not just a way of life...but a survival trick (shhhhhhh.....thats fancy prose for "bachelor life" ....end quote). You can find any or all of us on XBox Live playing Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 under the clan names, "CAMP" or "CTU Northgate" on almost any given day of the week. And just so we make this clear, we aren't shy about letting loose ethnic slurs / making punk bitches suck it down during a session of gameplay.

• you gotta establish the protagonist's dilemma / motive / hubris:

In the simplest terms....in the most convenient definition....I find interesting things....interesting. I can't help but SEE stories....no no no....tales.....no no no.....parables in anything and everything in my immediate surroundings. And for some inexplicable reason, I feel that it needs to documented in blog-form, at least in the short-term. I can only hope that in the end, my posts are more "blog" and less "rant."

• and finally, introduce the MacGuffin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin):

To what end is this blog hoping to reach? Just what is my MacGuffin? Well, at the risk of sounding overtly abstract, I'm hoping to find "where the streets have no name." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_The_Streets_Have_No_Name)

Note: this whole Pop Culture reference motif is gonna be a recurring thing with me.