Digital Fortress

Lagi kong naririnig sa bus at jeep ang bagong kantang ito ng The Bodies(?). Ngayon naman, batuta naman ng pulis ang subject. Sobra na talaga ang mga novelty songs. Tapos pag kinwestyon yung song nila, ang isasagot nila “Wala po kaming ibig sabihin masama sa kanta namin. Nasa nag-iisip po yun kung may malisya ang kanta o wala” Duh? 

Ma-e-explain kaya nila kung bakit lahat ng kanta sa album nila ay may mga words na “malaki, matigas at mahaba atbp”? Wag nilang sabihing nagkataon lang…

* not in particular order 

1. I can type the phrase Lord of the Rings without looking at the keyboard…or rather it is the phrase that I can type the fastest.
2. I can spot the phrase Lord of the Rings/names of LOTR cast and crew in a newspaper/magazine/webpage as quickly as possible.
3. I know almost every dialogue in the movie. (except maybe for the Elvish part)
4. I know my favorite scenes/trailers well. Yung music, sound effect, yung camera shot na pinapakita at syempre dialogue.
5. Upon hearing a familiar word, an LOTR dialogue will just pop out of my mind…(example: When I hear the word “assault”, naalala ko yung dialogue ni Saruman na may word na assault…Siyempre hindi naman every word na naririnig ko, may naalala akong dialogue from the movie. Pag nangyari yun, ipa-mental nyo na ako)
6. I now appreciate the beauty of trees…(its appearance etc…it resembles the Ents…)
7. I reminisce some scenes upon passing in a place that reminds me of LOTR. Example: Almost 2 years ago, I saw a vulcanizing shop watching The Two Towers on their TV. Everytime I pass there, I always run that particular scene that I saw on that TV in my mind. Abnormal no?
8. The movie’s soundtrack automatically integrates in my daily life. For example, if I’ve been in a beautiful place for the first time, a particular LOTR music accompanies my feelings.
9. It is the main subject/design inspiration of any school presentation and projects. Example: this blog and my official website.
10. I feel depressed or Frodo-ish after watching the extended DVDs. Why? Because LOTR is finally over. (Frodo at the end of ROTK: How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back?)
11. There are almost 1000 images of Lord of the Rings in my My Pictures folder. And I’m having a difficulty in organzing it.
12. I learn to create LOTR logos/banners from scratch.
13. I created a super medley of the first 2 movies’ soundtrack. The first one is 15 minutes long and the second one is 30 minutes. I can’t organize the third one in my head.
14. I have a collection of LOTR trailers in my hard drive.
15. If that’s not enough, I created my own trailers. A fan-made trailer…
16. I’m trying to learn Elvish languages…and write in Quenya/Sindarin style…
17. It is still against my constitution to delete my copies of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (VCD quality) in my hard drive even though it consumes almost 4 gigabytes of memory. It will be the last file that I’ll delete….
18. You have to convince me very hard to let you borrow my LOTR DVD collection…kahit DVD copy lang.
19. I tried to buy LOTR DVDs kahit hindi orig…at least pag afford ko na…itotodo ka na ‘to…
20. If ever I win P1 million, LOTR original goodies are the first few things in my list.
21. I’m interested to watch shows/movies that starred LOTR casts or anyone that involves the LOTR crew (Peter Jackson and co, Howard Shore etc)
22. I’m interested to watch shows/movies that has been filmed in New Zealand. If ever I go abroad, I’ll go to New Zealand first.
23. I have created my own version of music videos (May It Be, Gollum’s Song, Into the West) featuring the clips from the movies…
more to come…

I was studying my report in Computer Achitecture at 1:30 midnight while listening to the Return of the King soundtrack with my earphone earphone connected to our main radio. When my favorite track (The White Tree or ‘The Lighting of the Beacons Theme) started to play, I closed my eyes for a moment, tried to relax and play the Lighting of the Beacons scene in my mind while the music is playing.
After the 3 1/2 minutes of awe-inspiring music, I opened my eyes and all of a sudden, I found myself staring blankly at the paper I was holding for about a second!
In that one second I thought I’m in Middle Earth few seconds back. It was a wonderful feeling. I realized the great effect of Shore’s music to me as well as the LOTR movies.
I just wish na hindi na lang ako nagising….I’m back to reality….