Songs We Can’t Erase From Our Heads
After more than two years of the pandemic, our town was finally able to properly celebrate it’s annual fiesta last January. And perhaps to make up for the two years that our town was bereft of its most anticipated annual week-long celebration due to the dreaded coronavirus, the municipal government pulled the necessary strings to bring---tadahh—Ely Buendia to our town. For those who do not know, Buendia was the chief songwriter and frontman of the seminal 90’s Filipino band, the Eraserheads. To the generation who grew up during the 90’s, and were therefore able to witness the Heads’ rise and eventual demise in real time, watching Buendia perform live onstage was like meeting one of the apostles. I belong to that generation. And so braving the cold night and the traffic, and defying the doctor’s advice that I should always get a decent amount of sleep, I, with my wife in tow, put off watching The Hunt on Netflix (we were in the movie’s climax, by the way), and rushed to the show’s ven...