By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net

ON stage, you see them bringing the house down as they rock the house with their eardrum-popping music. But off stage, they are your ordinary people like you and me.

Vocalist Henry Allen of Filipino rock band Faspitch, for one, says he and his bandmates play computer game Warcraft for pastime.

“We’re a geeky band. We grew up playing computers,” added Faspitch bassist Trevor Bicknell.

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

I THOUGHT it was about a little fish that got lost… er, oh, that was Nemo!

Okay, this has been “bugging” me since I heard a teenage kid say to hairstylist, “I want an emo haircut.” What is an emo haircut? And why are kids today going gaga over anything that’s emo? For starters, emo, as shown by the need for disambiguation in Wikipedia, is a topic that leads to other topics. So that means, emo can mean different things to people, as this blog attests.

I understand emo as I understood the headbanging rockers in the 80s, the grunge movement in the 90s, and well, the hippies in the 60s and 70s. But again, these are terms that are often used loosely (read: abused).

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