Jad Montenegro : Fixed Points & Pendulums EP
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This is a blog on personal alternative style, photography, crochet, music, and DIY. People like to ask questions about my hair, so I answer them here. More detailed description below.
Jad Montenegro is musician and all-around bag lady. She is the current host of Muzika del Sur News and previous host of rock show Durian Shake. She just released her EP called Fixed Points and Pendulums for her self-titled band, with bandmates Dave Ibao on drums and Pjoe Sabanpan on bass. She was awarded Best Pop Artist of The Year by Muzika Del Sur for 2009, and won Best Music Video for 2010. She is the vocalist of Polar Depth, an electronica/experimental band. Polar Depth was also given a special citation for Breakout Electronica Artist in 2009. To support her bad habits, like playing gigs for free and producing an indie album, she works from home as a writer. She is married to professional comic illustrator John Amor, a.k.a The Boy.
She is not a professional blogger, but this is the space she compiles current obsessions in, like
DIY/crafts
clothes
nail polish
music
dyeing her hair
crocheting stuff for her facebook shop Hats and Things
and the occasional lulz-worthy photo.
Facebook
Official Music Page at Jadmontenegro.com .
Twittering
Flickr
Gonna be at two awesome events tonight! :) my band will be playing at the DMN ANNIVERSARY at Saless bar, and I’m giving a short speech at the Lieu magazine summer send off launch! Kitakits and happy weekend! :) #summer #lieu #gig #music #magazine #davaomusicnation #davao
BLUE ROOM x HIPHOUSE PRESENT Jon Game x John Amor and Jad Montenegro on May 4, 2013.
Dubstep + live art stream from Jon Game and John Amor and a long set from Jad Montenegro!
See you this weekend!
http://www.jadmontenegro.com/ is back online, BABY!!! Many thanks to Sean Kay and my husband John who spent FOUR HOURS literally hacking the server, lol. I have amazing (and scary) friends.
Visit now and leave a shoutout in the comments box cos it’s full of spammiru!
Well now. Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes. (Literally, because I haven’t slept since yesterday!)
For people who want to purchase Jad Montenegro Music’s 1st EP Fixed Points and Pendulums, we will be selling these only during our bar tour gigs this March. Like our facebook page for updates and gig schedules!
productive night is productive. Back cover art by The Boy.
February 16th was the night of LitOrgy’s annual event, hosted by The Davao Writer’s Guild, involving poetry reading, performance art, monologues, and this year… a band performance (by us!).
Wrap documenting the goings-on
Chuck Fournier playing his electronica setlist
Spoken word accompanied by music
Spoken word accompanied by dance
I read one of my memoirs before my band came onstage
John Bengan reads a story called Bad Heart
My band performs 3 of our originals from both 1st and 2nd EP
Mandy takes video
An appreciative, intent crowd composed of writers
After the event, goofing off with Marky
Bagane showing a rare smile
Film crew and us
My outfit was… stellar.
MtG everywhere!
The organizers Karla, Allen, Julian and Chi.
LitOrgy’s Love, Loss and Libido was definitely a different sort of event, a little more subtlety, a little more reading between the lines than a regular gig. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Props to the organizers for pulling it off successfully. I’m looking forward to next year’s!
xx Jad
Burning Beats hasn’t uploaded their event poster yet, but :my gig schedules for now. Stoked!
Hiphouse is back with an awesome new event catering to local filmmakers and patriotic movie buffs. Here’s the text on our invite!
After weeks of steady, chillout parties, we are bringing back the artsy vibe with BINISAYA SHORTS! 3 hours of 100% Davaoeno and Cebuano filmmaking artistry will be shown at the venue.
Enjoy a cozy, ambient room: Short movies/films will beprojected on the wall and guests can enjoy refreshments and bring a pillow as they stretch out on the floor on woven mats.(very minor door charge of P50 for rent!)
Relax, hang out and appreciate the amazing talents of our local filmmakers from the 082 & 032 on August 17!
After all the films are shown, we’ll keep playing images on the wall! We invite Davao filmmakers to attend, bring your best video clips on a thumbdrive and we’ll play them!
You all know that Hiphouse is known for providing an intimate, relaxing environment, the best kind of atmosphere for movie marathons!
event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/455872621099707/
Click the link above to RSVP to the event, and for details! See you, movie buffs!!!!
And the blog giveaway winner of these items iiiiiis… Daniella Sanchez!
Watch this one-minute video to find out who (and how the winner was picked automatically/randomly by Rafflecopter)
To Daniella, we can meet up OR you can pick your items up from me this saturday, July 14, at Durian Bar’s (madrazo compound, ponciano st) last full show because I’m playing at the gig! Remember that you need to have been following me on twitter, liked Hats & Things, and Young and Dangerous Clothing on Facebook to have had a valid entry!
Thank you, everyone who participated. There will be more giveaways in the future, so just follow me on tumblr to get updates. You never know, your chances of winning are always as good as everyone else’s!
Our music is featured in Daily Grind Clothing’s website. Check out this interview here!
Thank you so much, Team Manila Lifestyle and Daily Grind Clothing, for supporting us! :)
OHAI~
I’m going to be doing circle lens reviews from now on, so I’m trying out a self portrait lighting setup that works for this sort of thing. I think this is pretty good, just having a hard time focusing on myself with a MANUAL lens! Yes. I have to pre-focus it before I take a picture! I’m glad I have a remote, or it’d be even harder, lol.
I would have preferred using my Geo Contact Lenses in Angel Brown to test out this lighting, but I can’t find them so I just put on these guys, which I passed by in EO Executive Optical at SM and bought on a whim. I was getting clear contacts (my eyes are legit broke, all my contacts need to have a grade), but the lady asked me if I wanted to try their Colorflex series. This color is called Peppermint. Comfort-wise, ithey’re ok, but I tend to feel sleepy/eyes get itchy after about 6 hours. They were about P550 but they only last 3 months, so, you might as well get a Dueba/Girly series for P600. They last a year!
Also I added a few colors to the bottom layers of my hair and that makes me a happy panda. ♥
When I opened my inbox on facebook, this was what greeted me last week, with an invitation from Ate Ria.
Hi Jad!
I would like to invite you and all your Tumblr/blogger friends to the Davao Bloggers Acquaintance Party and Induction of Officers. It’s on April 9, 2012, 2 pm - 6 pm at the Royale House Inn.
The details of the event are at this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/411191505561008/.
Hope you and your Tumblr/artist friends can be part of our blogger events.
Ria Jose
Founding President, Davao Bloggers
Awesome!If you guys are from Davao, and you would like to meet other Davao Bloggers, please feel free to attend this event. It’s an opportunity to meet people who think like you, get excited about the same upcoming events, and keep up on the same trends.
Even if your lifestyle is completely unique and you have nothing in common with other bloggers (which I think is impossible), it’s still rewarding to meet the other denizens of the Internet. Think of it as exchanging links, but IRL. Okay IDK, lol.
Hope to see you there! <3
So the 2nd Hiphouse event was more low-key than the first one, since it was partly to celebrate our NFF Tine’s birthday and we wanted to relax from the first one. But it was by no means less colorful or loud, lol! In fact, the loudest thing about it was the color scheme - since everyone was asked to go in 80’s attire. Tin was celebrating her 25th birthday and was flying straight in from Manila to the party!
This was taken while I was getting dressed, for lookbook. I decided it was too tame so I went back and changed my hair and makeup, and added a ton of jewelry haha
I chose to wear my loud polka print shirt again, with red plastic hoop earrings (that’s about as 80’s as it gets, lol!)
Also necessary was bright lime eyeshadow, hot red lipstick and outrageous eyelashes. And 80’s bangs and lots of hair clips :P
Turquoise necklace (which I wear no matter what outfit I’m wearing, lol)
Tacky rhinestone studded purple gem ring
Red animal print creepers, knee-length football socks from high school, red and turquoise wooden bangles, messily painted bright red nails
On to the party pics! (PICTURE HEAVY!) Taken with my IXUS 130:
Can you guess what Hayao Miyazaki film we’re watching?
Jaimee & Cat, lovely ladies I had a long chat with! <3
Maki with his superfly short shorts lol. Colorful glasses and drinks. And we drank mostly soda, so there.
Our kids are going to be so confused when we tell them this photo was taken in 2012.
Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
I can hear the anti-hipster tumblr going: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU’RE NOT A CHRISTMAS TREE STOP THAT” lol
Me with the other half of the masterminds of HipHouse, Cheekie @humminginmyhead. Love this woman forever.
Super awesome shot by @studiobugsy
80’s beat
“All the little loonies, with their sharpies…” ~Guilty by Association, Madonna for Vic Chestnutt
Can you see how awesome mandy’s gray hair is? It looks purple in some photos but it’s gray, I tell you!
Brian looking spiffeh in his 80’s denim outfit
Karla in eye-burning fuschia
Migs in a Tom Cruise outfit, doing a Jack Nicholson smile. I’d say he’s got the 80’s covered
Bagsy, who played These Dreams on a keyboard. LOVE IT!
She & Him
Ramir, Rude Dolf and Kenth
Mawe, who has my lens cap!
SUP
green hair, red shoes
Can I just have Sheff’s hair? Why must it be so long and LUXURIOUS
PHOTOS FROM DSLR (BUBBLES!!!!)
Cheekie behind her arsenal of 80’s songs
Mandy, looking very dramatic with her balloon lol
No idea what Pjoe’s drawing on Bagane, but it looks ticklish!
Blurry picture FAIL courtesy of Yubs
Tine: pop ALL THE THINGS!
Rubbing bubble mixture out of my eye, lol.
Hair twin Mandy. Love her forever
Gleb, Mandy and Maki and the real “star” of the party
Chaos + Bubbles
Sheff AGAIN WITH THE HAIR THAT IS MAKING ME WANT TO CRY
The lovely Kitz
Watching Ben Howard, for some reason. Lol, who put him on? Not that I don’t love him, hey.
Psychedelic Pineapple.
Mandy looking extra colorful with a yellow chip, lavender bangs, and turquoise nails
I think it’s safe to say that Tine had an awesome first night in Davao, right? Haha! Love you Tine! Happy Birthday!
<3 <3 <3
