Songs For The Un-Heroes

No.. I don’t think “Un-Heroes” is a real word, but I’ll use it anyway.

Dick Israel, Max Alvarado, Romy Diaz, George Estregan jr, Bella Flores, Gladys Reyes.. these are just names of Filipino actors/actresses who always play roles that makes good guys really really really good. They put on their best acting to be the worst character you can ever imagine. And when you watch them, you’ll live to hate their guts. In short, they’re the bad guys. They’re the “kontrabida” (villains).

I use to watch them on TV shows and whenever I see them, my blood starts to boil of hatred for them. Especially during the 80’s from this hit afternoon soapie called “Yagit” (which is a slang for “poor people” and later on became a movie called “Mga Batang Yagit“). Believe me, they have the best cast of villains there. Imagine, 4 measly orphaned kids against adults who would do anything to rid of them, from having them poisoned, kidnapped, physically abused, etc.

Then there are action flicks of the late Fernando Poe jr (before his presidential campaigning days), where he’s always pitted against bad guys like Max Alvarado and Romy Diaz. Man, if you can see how evil these guys are, you’ll hate them.

But get this! Search for their names and you’ll have a hard time looking for info on them. Not even images.

During grade school days (especially in high school when it was our first time to have girl classmates), I tried so hard to be this goody-two-shoe-gentleman for, dunno, maybe because these were the years I’m suppose to form my self-identity.. or was just trying to impress others.

Sure, my teachers will praise me for being good. My peers loved being around me because I’m this sun-shiny kid. Their parents loved having me around with their children because I’m a good influence (and because I don’t slouch while their kids do and they tell their kids to stand/sit straight like me). But in the end, it wasn’t fun. I never ended up having “the girl” (literally and metaphorically speaking).

Till one fine day, I asked myself, what the h3ll’s wrong? Then I realized, all this good guy image is just ain’t me. Sure sure.. if you’d see me in person you’ll be thinking “my my my… that’s one pretty package” (ha ha ha, you don’t agree, go make your own blog). But underneath, this pretty package is not your typical good guy.

Just recently, I got this comment from an old friend of mine telling me that I’m an a$$h0le. Can you believe that? Half a world away and he told me I’m an a$$h0le. But that’s what I like about “real” friends. You can say the nastiest things to each other, yet still be friends.

Then my best buds always use this old comeback line on me, about “the one that got away”, just to make me shut up. Well, FU best buds, time to update your list of comeback lines. But I love my friends. Hope to see you soon, brahs.

There’s an old adage about the only thing that’s constant is change. And probably that’s what happened to me. I’ve changed. Life has been tough on me, and that caused me to change.

And I love watching movies. Love it, yes I do. I can stay home all day just watching flicks. And if you love watching flicks like I do, you know that good guys win, bad guys lose. But then again, think about this for a moment. Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of the whole movie, you’ll know the good guy will get beat up, will be humiliated, will face hardships all because of one guy.. one particular guy. The BAD GUY.

So you can have that .01% of glory and write the final pages of the story your way. I’ll be the odd-man having fun 99.99% of the time.