frank cimatu
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: writer
- Location: baguio : cordillera : Philippines
About Me
so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow and my dreaded one-inch punch (line)
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
Once upon a time in the 1960s a frog fell in love with Soul Train. So he practiced his moves and got a new hairdo. One day, Afrog was hopping...
Interests
- Pugo & Tugo
- Cerveza Negra
- sinigang
- Ada
- Bruce Lee
- Ilocos politics
- books
- writing to save myself
- godforsaken places where I am regarded as a demigod
- writing to seduce you
- jazz
- art
- ukay ukay
- tragic characters
- travel
- unconventionality
- dictators
- things that get lost in translation
- Japan but not going to Japan
- poetry
- esoteric essays
- unrequited loves
- forgiveness
- faith
- Marcos
- physics
- family
- friends who are crazy after all these years
- humor
- billiards
- journalism
- bitches and sons thereof
- colors because I'm partly colorblind
Favorite Movies
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Virgin Suicides
- Annie Hall
- Pillow Book
- all the Lynches and Scorceses
- Raging Bull
- Magpakailanman
- Purple Rose of Cairo
- Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos
- Batch 81
- Itim
- Citizen Kane
- Shakespeare In Love
- Seize The Day
- Baguio Noir
Favorite Music
- Frank Sinatra
- The Blues
- Dave Brubeck's Take 5
- Mood Indigo
- The Great Ms. Licad
- One by U2
- Bob Dylan
- all the songs in Soul Cages
- Joss Stone
- Billie Holliday
- Jacqui Magno
- Bob Barlig and Don Macliing
- Bird
- Ella
- Paul Simon
- Manhattan Transfer's Corner Pocket
- Nora Aunor's take on What a Wonderful World
- The Company's Minsan Pa
Favorite Books
- John Irving's Cider House Rules
- E.L.Doctorow's Loon Lake and Ragtime
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera
- Calvino
- Chatwin's Songlines
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Berryman's Dream Songs
- Borges
- Calvino
- Barth's early fictions
- Barthelme
- Rushdie
- poems of Rilke
- Frost
- Neruda
- Lester Bangs
- Jingle Songbook
- Yuson
- Fidel Rillo and the Beats
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