JC Medina

Mar 09

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) -

1. Atmosphere (29)
2. Ellie Goulding (29)
3. Mariah Carey (20)
4. Breakbot (15)
5. Husky Rescue (10)

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Mar 07

[IDEA] One-Shot Travel Expo

“A one-shot (meaning, you’re not obliged to organize another tour in the future), let’s-figure-out-the-schedule-once-we-get-enough-people-interested, I’m-only-sharing-this-experience-once travel expo.”

Let’s talk about travel options you’ll never encounter under normal circumstances. With you as tour operator, you provide us with interesting options. Are you finally ready to share this secret with the world? Would you like to improve people’s perception of your neighborhood? Is it time to find people crazy enough to join you in your secret island?

Interested parties shall be asked to design a tour based on the following parameters:

• Duration wise, it should not exceed 2D/1N - the point is have everything in bite-sized pieces.
• Determine the size of the group you can handle.
• If it’s an out-of-town trip, try to include accommodations as much as possible. Food is a bonus.
• Transportation is optional, unless it’s a secret island tour, then you MUST find a way to get us from one point to the other.
• Thinking small is not a bad thing.
• Putting all these elements together should NOT stress you out.
• You can either be strict or flexible with the tour date. What’s important is that you get enough sign-ups during the event.

Then we’ll give you your own booth in the venue for cheap. Prepare the following:

• A one-page brochure of your tour.
• Pricing information.
• …that’s pretty much it.

Here are some ideas:

• Have a curated walking tour of your neighborhood. Foodie stops are a given but interesting standalone tour of small stores add a curious element to it.
• A no-holds-barred food fight in some farm in Batangas? You provide the pie and fruit. Complete with hosing facilities of course.
• A scenic roadtrip to nowhere while you treat your “clients” to an impromptu music appreciation class in your car. Lunch is served after.

Mar 02

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) -

1. Breakbot (26)
2. Go West (15)
3. Taylor Swift (6)
4. Tracey Thorn (6)
5. Broken Social Scene (5)

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Mar 01

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Feb 28

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Feb 23

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) -

1. The Paradise (32)
2. Rosie and Me (22)
3. Everything but the Girl (17)
4. The Temper Trap (10)
5. The Teenagers (8)

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Feb 17

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I’m one happy fella.

“Gabriel is a man who has written and recorded many good songs with thoughtful arrangements in his life, but his approach to this material is that of a pompous buffoon who has no understanding of why any of these songs worked in the first place. His bombast is flat, his phrasing is awful, his instincts are poor. He eliminates rhythm and melody from his Talking Heads cover, strips the wit from the Magnetic Fields and the levity from Paul Simon, and performs David Bowie’s “Heroes” in a way that ignores its essential dramatic restraint. There are two modes on this album, and sometimes they intersect: Bloated melodrama and/or clinical depression.” — Matthew Perpetua on Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back. And I have to agree.

Feb 16

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) -

1. The Teenagers (7)
2. The Temper Trap (6)
3. Michael McDonald (5)
4. Everything but the Girl (3)
5. Coralie Clement (2)

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Feb 11

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Feb 10

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) -

1. Everything but the Girl (60)
2. The Temper Trap (26)
3. The Teenagers (16)
4. Kate Bush (16)
5. Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs (12)

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Feb 06

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Feb 04

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) -

1. Savoir Adore (17)
2. SpeaK (15)
3. Wild Beasts (8)
4. Think About Life (7)
5. Cassis Orange (7)

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