please baby don't

i finally got to try the cebu city sports center rubberized track oval the other day, my leg muscles all ache right now but it felt great to run again. i once thought happiness was running with someone of the same pace and stride. it's rare and fleeting, but bliss is bliss.

in the animatrix story 'world record' a track athlete broke through the matrix when he pushed his body beyond its limits. i thought about this while washing the shorts i ran in (technically not running shorts) because i foolishly tried the same thing before, only to have my knees give out on me while crossing EDSA later that night and got sidelined for about a month.

i was listening to the coffeehouse on launchcast radio because it provided good laundry music. it played please baby don't from the new sergio mendez album with vocals by john legend...

• Please baby don't (baby don't)
  Don't fall in love with me
  Please baby don't (baby don't)
  You know my history
  See honey I (honey I)
  I'm just trying to warn you (let me warn you)
  Please baby don't (baby don't)
  Don't fall in love with me

and i thought "HA! GOOD LUCK!" it's like saying "love me baby!!" the following won't work either:

1. i have an assholic side and you're bound to get hurt (
2. i am an asshole
3. i am bound to roam
4. hindi ako naghahanap ng karelasyon
5. wala akong kwentang karelasyon
6. ayaw ko pang makipagrelasyon uli
7. kailangan bang mainlab, pwede bang walang mainlab
8. i am not in love with you

the coffeehouse playlist is quite eclectic, some days they sound like the pirated new york starbucks cd, sometimes it sounds like my mp3 playlist, at times it sounds like 99.5 RT on a good day. sometimes it reminds me of NU107 in the early days. well not during the first months when they would play xmal deutchland's "matador" ad infinitum. but during the time they started playing "kitchen sink drama" "dear god" "nothing like flowers" "tears" "damaged goods" etc.

they sponsored a lot of concerts then, new wave but with some punk acts sometimes. i remember IOV screaming "skate! skate! skate!" over the moshpit at the open air topmost level of the sm north edsa carpark. some of the bands later got their songs played in NU (.... just a loooocal boy...ang taaaatay mong kalbo). XB102 did this before, but it did not have a strong signal. sayang.

last month, i saw the new rivermaya cd isang ugat isang dugo, and wonder of wonders, it's a cover album of songs by dean's december, violent playground, ethnic faces, identity crisis, the jerks, wuds, silos...and 2 songs by joey ayala! (teka no song from the dawn or betrayed?) it's the 80s all over again.

"...i see them people walking down the streets at night, they all look like they long for a fight..." i'm gonna buy that cd and then pogo.