The omen of a monster is that one
I saw and knew, the unusual creature
Be it a ghost or an alien, even the tiyanak
Or any monster and phantom from Philippine folklore.

That I dread and fascinate this sight
I warned this to my friends
About what they are going to do
But they wouldn't listen to me anymore.

I can't believe them. They wouldn't listen to me
And I throw a fit about why they rejected my omens
I love them dearly, I care about them
But they fell into their own traps.

I'm not feeling good today
What the hell has happened to me
I was angry, I am disappointed in my tears
I don't get why I am so depressed.

I have grown more upset
Than ever before but I don't know whether
I will be in a good mood or not
I wish I was but I can't help myself.

Magma, one of the characters in New Mutants with volcanism-induced/geothermal photokinesis, is sadly a blonde Western lass born in Brazil (specifically a place that claims to be Rome). This is pretty problematic because her history reflects an All-American mentality. Many superheroes come from America, are published in America and equally reflect All-American values of wealth, intelligence, good looks (but not all), powers and such pretensions and auspicious nature (to varying degrees with regarding to economic class or exotic locale). For some reason why Magma ended up being a white lass with Roman pretensions rather than being a Hawaiian teenager with the same powers going by the name of Pele, the volcano goddess. Besides being a Hawaiian with traits like Pele is closer to home (i.e. America) than say a blonde stuck in "Nova Roma" Brazil, it's more realistic that way. But as I said before Magma the white lass is more All-American than Pele the Hawaiian mutant because of her background. That's why X-Men is surprisingly all-American, the same goes for Justice League and everything else by DC and Marvel (because the others don't produce superhero comics that much).

I hope you enjoy this:

1. Starting sewing, get needles from Cubao and some cloth with your strings and you do embroidery.

2. Learn writing German, French, Tagalog, Italian, Irish Gaelic and Russian

3. Do comics.

I would like to join there in Scans Daily as Phiber Optik (or phiberoptik2 to emphasize that I'm the second person to apply this handle previously used by Mark Abene, the original Phiber Optik) to scan some old Philippine komiks and write about them (a real good essay with scanned samples).

Another day, another evening, another time
We don't do the same thing all over again
It gets exciting when the days change
The future is coming.

I've noticed that as I get older, I grow less passionate towards my interests. I like the Prodigy but mostly for their music, sometimes for the videos and hardly for the bandmembers though I know them. The same goes for Daft Punk and everything else that I like to read or listen to some degree. Maybe I grew up too quickly, that's why I am not as obsessive and enthuisastic about my interests as I was before. I change mentally faster than others do. I end up being more levelheaded and critical that way but still naive in some manner. This is in contrast to others who manage to be more obsessive about their passions more than I am, which I assume them to not have experienced that many changes as it did to for me to mature. And there's also a coincidence that I've grown more critical about people who take their interests passionately and obsessively, preferring more critical types and also why I don't seem to have a favorite character these days. This has something to do with my maturity and that's I don't give a darn about celebrities or characters that much these days.

Peter Murphy used to be black, a very happy black boy back then until that fateful moment when he got abducted by aliens he became a bitter Caucasian lad. Later in life he got his black back from Michael Jackson and the aliens so now he's performing as Eddie Murphy.

Peter Murphy is Cher in drag.

It takes twelve thousand barbers and fourteen months to cut and trim Daniel Ash's spiky hair.

David J (and Liam Howlett of the Prodigy) can easily beat  Stephen Hawkings in the study of black holes.

Kevin Haskins once counted up to infinity...and went to bed.

Peter Murphy destroyed the periodic table, saying that Peter Murphy knows the element of surprise.

Daniel Ash can easily exhaust a wall in bed...a bloody wall!

Kevin and David J were the real life inspiration for Pete and Pete.

David J and Liam Howlett (of the Prodigy again) can solve a Rubic's Cube in 2 nanoseconds but Peter and Keith Flint (of the Prodigy) can smash it with their pinkies.

Kevin Haskins is the Boss of every game.

Bauhaus facts:

The J in David J stands for Jerkass.

Since Peter Murphy's Irish, he ejaculates, bleeds, urinates and sweats alcohol.

When Daniel Ash masturbates, he masturbates with a plug, a live wire, an AC/DC generator, an electromagnetic ball, an electromagnet and a vibrator. No wonder why his hair is so spiky.

Kevin Haskins once owned a marjuana plant and he smokes a lot of weed joints, hence his last name.

Peter Murphy doesn't get fat, fat gets him.

Only David J can see through lead, walls and other solid objects, even when he wears glasses or closes his eyes.

All members of the Goth band Bauhaus have guns. Peter Murphy has a Sub Machine Gun, David J has a Chain Gun and Kevin has a Breechloader. Daniel Ash doesn't need guns he already has them.

Kevin Haskins is so tough, he pwned Jack Bauer.

When Peter Murphy has anger management issues, he sends all three of his colleagues to the Sun.

Peter Murphy's urine cures cancer. His bandmates force him to drink a lot of alcoholic beverages to urinate, then collects the urine and give the samples to cancer patients in a nearby hospital.

Daniel Ash's spiky hair is his pubic hair.

David J once burnt paper and ants with his own eyes when he doesn't wear glasses...at night.

The Prodigy Facts

Keith Flint's tears can cure  cancer but the only way (and the only people) to make him cry is when Liam Howlett and Maxim Reality torture him day and night by cursing him endlessly, spinning him like a bottle and throw him n the isolation tank until he gets tired.

Maxim Reality always scares Jack Bauer and makes him cry.

Keith Flint bleeds, ejaculates, sweats and urinates kerosene.

Liam Howlett twice beat Stephen Hawking in astrophysics on Jeopardy.

Liam Howlett is so smart that he can divide large and infinite numbers mentally. He also owns a laboratory to test samples for alien life forms as we know it.

Keith Flint and Maxim Reality fought Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris. Chuck and Jack were so sacred that they lost all signs of life.

Liam Howlett is the real deal when it comes to understanding the human mind.

Liam Howlett was the inspiration for many superhero characters, his secret identity is that of Encyclopedia Britannica.

Invaders Must Die was influenced by the Bible and has references to Revelations If you hear "Invaders Must Die" and "Omen" more closely, they say the lines "Keith Flint's the Antichrist, the Beast and Babylon." In other songs you hear the sound of trumptets and you see Keith Flint as the Antichrist immediately. Only brave people like Jack Bauer can listen to it.

Always Outnumber, Never Outgunned is a reference to the fact that all members of the Prodigy have a vast collection of guns. Liam Howlett has handguns, bazookas, pistols and uzis. Maxim Reality posesses machine guns, rifles, paint bombs and shot guns. Keith Flint has flamethrowers, artillery guns, cannons, tank guns and water guns. But Maxim and Keith already anatomically have guns.

Earthquakes and other geologic disasters are caused by Leeroy Thornhill and Keith Flint dancing.

Never get Liam Howlett mad. When he gets mad, he cursed so badly that in 1994 he caused Jupiter's gravity to crush and capture Shoemaker Levy 6. He also caused Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana when he sweared to people who complain about Invaders Must Die. Enough said.

Keith Flint literally burns food (because many foodstuffs have calories) when he eats them.

Maxim Reality is Whoopi Goldberg when no one, not even Liam Howlett and Keith Flint are looking. Or worse, Bob Marley.

Keith Flint's tongue is his weapon against terrorists and criminals as well as crazy fans. His saliva is 21 % kerosene, 15% urea nitrate, 8% xylitol pentanitrate, 22% sodium azide and 10% sodium amide.

Maxim Reality eats up old Reggae records for breakfast.

The women in Charlie's Angels are actually Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality and Keith Flint. It was Keith Flint, not Farah Fawcett herself, who invented and wore the Farah Fawcett hairstyle. The actresses who play the said three women are the stunt doubles. Also Charlie in Charlie's Angels is a mutant (read: highly intelligent, talking) leopard.

Keith Flint can do the wheelie on his motorbike.
 
Liam Howlett doesn't drive bikes, not even motorbikes. Only stupid people like Keith Flint write bicycles and motorcycles and only smart people like Liam Howlett drive cars. People of moderate intelligence drive tricycles (I mean pedicabs or rickshaws) and trucks.

Back in the early 1990s, Maxim Reality didn't get a face cut. It's his hair trying to flip the finger.

Maxim Reality has snakes on his hair and the snakes are are a coral sea snake, an albino reticulated python, an anaconda, a rubber boa, an Indian cobra, a Black Mamba, a Rat Snake, a Diamond Rattlesnake, a regularly colored reticulated python, a Copperhead, a File Snake, an emerald tree python, a green boa, a Night Adder, a Naga, an Egyptian cobra and a flying snake. Take that Medusa.

Leeroy Thornill's house is the size of an anthill. Considering that he is six feet, seven inches and how did he comfortably fit in his house is still a mystery.

Keith Flint is a Cro-Magnon as Liam Howlett and Maxim Reality are cyborgs.

If Philip K. Dick is Edward Cullen, he's definitely sleep with Bella because he likes dark haired women. There will be an empathy test to be taken for both vampires (Philip K. Dick included) and werewolves in relation to humanity because some humans distrust them but some accept them, maybe both. Then we learn that the werewolves are simulated animals and the vampires have a weakness: they don't have a vagus nerve and they seem to lack empathy. That makes better sense why Philip K. Dick/Edward Cullen delight in torturing animals.

Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality went to a moviehouse to watch Twilight. They got popcorn and drinks to devour on their seats and they watch the film. But suddenly something wrong happens to them. Keith Flint has grown bad-tempered, wishing that Edward should drug Bella with rolypol (the date rape drug mentioned in Baby's Got A Temper) and has a flamethrower to express his temper because he's the Firestarter, twisted Firestarter. This similarly happens to Maxim who thinks the film is total crap, unwatchable and he curses it while he raps. The worst thing happened to Liam Howlett, who is a sucker for horror movies, starts vomitting, twisting his head, masturbating and cursing (ala the Exorcist). They left the moviehouse immediately and went back to being sane but they were cursed when they watched this film.

TV Trope is entertaining but it's not recommended for more serious individuals if they want to use story-telling. If you want to use story-telling, use such influences from theories and fact.

For example, if I want to understand and write female figures in folklore such as the diwata, the banshee and the onryo, I want to use annotations to patriarchal (and matriarchal) attitudes towards the female body, previous mythologies, observations made by people (and ghost stories about them also), the female grotesque or monstrous feminine (either way, these are theories on the idea of the woman as other in relation to men). If I want science fiction I will have to read on science references first and also some influences such as Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells and The Planet of the Apes. If I want to understand such symbols and themes, I will use a lot of theories and criticisms such as psychoanalysis (Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein or Carl Jung, take your pick), metaphysics, hyperreality and simulation (when understanding androids, illusions, manipulated realties and shapeshifters) from Jean Baudrillard, Mikhail Bahktin's grotesque body theory and many more. It can also be applied to more realistic fiction as well.

A Handbook to Literature Sixth Edition--This is very useful for new writers and storytellers when it comes to understanding conventions in literature. LIke TV Tropes but only more serious and critical when it comes to understanding modes of storytelling, stock characters and situations as well as archetypes it's also more restricted to literature, hence its title.

Where Shall Wisdom be Found-- Philosophy in literature and a good critique of literary classics, also equally recommended for more intelligent or mature readers.

An Encyclopedia of Science Fiction--A good book covering the different themes found in science fiction with regards to robots, psychological or philosophical science fiction, mutants, aliens and the future.

Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Allusions --Useful in understanding references to literature, pop culture, science, history and politics.

Writing for Children and Teenagers--Though it covers young people's literature but equally useful when applying these conventions and criticisms to mature literature (as in literature written by and for adult individuals).

TV Tropes is a website that provides annotations for conventions in media such as television, literature and comics but what is so annoying about it is that it sounds stupid with too many links to various tropes, with stupid sounding descriptions (but that's not true with the other conventions that do not focus so much on stock characters or situations such as long-running series, authors and cartoonists disliking their own work). What is worse is that the way the annotations and analysis of characters (stock characters such as the angry redhead stereotype) and situations sound so stupid, it is much worse than the descriptions of why some series are so long running, modes of writing and drawing and with regards to franchises and individuals involved there. However if you still want to understand and apply conventions, you should study literary criticism, literature, psychoanalytic theory, philosophical theory and artistic theory to understand symbols, conventions and the writers themselves (there already are books covering on these subjects but these are highly recommended for intelligent or at least more sensible individuals), also take note from reality and experience if you are interested in it. This makes me suspect that TV Tropes are edited by and made for less intellectually oriented individuals who admire pop culture simply rather than critiquing it the way film scholars like Barbara Creed and literary critics do.

More paper, pens and pencils. 

This is for my friend
A rose, a box of chocolates and
A love letter from me
This for you, the one I love. 

There was a study conducted some time ago that if a man were frequently exposed to images of impossibly beautiful women the less he'll have time to relate to and find a real woman. I think this is also related to one man's suggestion that the objectification of women in the media indicates some psychological distance from them (that's from Psychology Today). This also verifies the stereotype of comic book readers as eternal virgins who look up to fictional superheroines as their lovers in favor of flesh and blood women (this could be true for some people and most people sometimes). Either way, the two studies about objectification of women are right all along that the more we expose ourselves to unrealistic (looking) women, the more we distance ourselves from flesh and blood, even less attractive women. 

Running so fast that the feet are moving
Away from the object, into a new path
Running from the truth, running from life
That's how it moves. 

This was last seen on television
A television series about whales and dolphins
It ended so quickly but a good thing about it
Was that it is educational and interesting.

Better than any television show on earth
Because it made me love whales and dolphins
I grew to love them, I obsessed over them
And that's what made me think about their conservation.