When one would think about an artist whose works concentrate on being nationalistic, you wouldn’t normally think of this person instantly. He is not very popular. But when one mention his name, this would ring a bell. I would describe him physically as like one of your very forgettable classmates in high school who is a loser that easily fades into the background. Not very flattering right? But let’s get things straight by saying that his receding hair and oily nose would be the least of importance here. Well, you have to understand that this is just a way of prolonging things up, everything needs a seedy introduction nowadays. Ok, enough, I now present to you: Mr. Lourd Ernest De Veyra. If I get a lame reaction, I don’t care but for me he is one of the coolest Pinoy writers out there. I tell you, he is not popular but at least he does not talk crappy things when he is on television. Well, I know everyone would want to get a chance to get their faces stuck inside the television whenever possible, with Mr. Lourd however, he do it with style and he really knows what he’s talking about unlike any other snotty artists who think that common people should be obliged to kiss their feet.
If you got on reading this far without any hint who I’m talking crap about here, let me tell you what’s with Lourd De Veyra. He started, or I started knowing him when I begun listening to OPM music. He is the vocalist of Radioactive Sago Project. My impression when I first heard their songs was: “What the heck’s wrong with this man? Anong pinaglalaban nila?” Then I found out that he’s a decent man with a Degree at University of Santo Thomas. I am not trying to stereotype Pinoy bands as illerate, in fact, most of them came from a very well-off family. It just really how they want to appear on television; the idea of “rock in roll” so to speak. In his book, This is the Crazy Planet, I found out that he’s one of the rare male species who is fund of reading and of course, writing. He is a host now in one of the segment of Sapul entitled Word of the Lourd and a DJ in one of the radio program of TV5.
The content of his book, This is the Crazy Planet goes beyond what we call being nationalistic in a natural sense. He did not create fictitious impression about our loved country. His words revolved more around being satyr, ironic and sarcastic about issues in the Philippines who we normal people took with nonchalance and a shrug in the shoulder. One of the many comments of people who got on reading it was: “OO nga nuh?” “Natumbok mo!” so on and so forth. By this comments, a realization came off that we really need someone who would shake us hard from getting used to everything that is happening. It is not a normal report of “what happened on that or this” that Filipino need but a laughingstock-read deliver with style. If you would read his book, you will know what I am talking here, promise. He has this thing he used in his words, you see the world of Manny Pacquiao, Kris Aquino, back to Manny Pacquiao then to Kris Aquino again from the way he monopolizes every words. It is not just mere reading, I tell you, but you’d realized what’s with the business of being born Filipino.
If you got on reading this far without any hint who I’m talking crap about here, let me tell you what’s with Lourd De Veyra. He started, or I started knowing him when I begun listening to OPM music. He is the vocalist of Radioactive Sago Project. My impression when I first heard their songs was: “What the heck’s wrong with this man? Anong pinaglalaban nila?” Then I found out that he’s a decent man with a Degree at University of Santo Thomas. I am not trying to stereotype Pinoy bands as illerate, in fact, most of them came from a very well-off family. It just really how they want to appear on television; the idea of “rock in roll” so to speak. In his book, This is the Crazy Planet, I found out that he’s one of the rare male species who is fund of reading and of course, writing. He is a host now in one of the segment of Sapul entitled Word of the Lourd and a DJ in one of the radio program of TV5.
The content of his book, This is the Crazy Planet goes beyond what we call being nationalistic in a natural sense. He did not create fictitious impression about our loved country. His words revolved more around being satyr, ironic and sarcastic about issues in the Philippines who we normal people took with nonchalance and a shrug in the shoulder. One of the many comments of people who got on reading it was: “OO nga nuh?” “Natumbok mo!” so on and so forth. By this comments, a realization came off that we really need someone who would shake us hard from getting used to everything that is happening. It is not a normal report of “what happened on that or this” that Filipino need but a laughingstock-read deliver with style. If you would read his book, you will know what I am talking here, promise. He has this thing he used in his words, you see the world of Manny Pacquiao, Kris Aquino, back to Manny Pacquiao then to Kris Aquino again from the way he monopolizes every words. It is not just mere reading, I tell you, but you’d realized what’s with the business of being born Filipino.
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