The Punk Scene In Ny

Growing Up In The Philippines, I Loved All Kinds Of Movies. We Had A Very Healthy Film Industry There When I Was A Child. It's Now Gotten Very Limited. They Only Make Action Movies And Hard-core Exploitation Movies. Women Get Raped; Men Get Shot.

We Didn't Have Television Until I Was About Eight Years Old, So It Was Either The Movies Or Radio. A Lot Of Radio Drama. That Was Our Television, You Know. We Had To Use Our Imagination. So It Was Really Those Two Things, And The Comics, That I Immersed Myself In As A Child.

Music Is Very Influential To My Writing, As Are Theater And Film.

I Don't Believe In Sampling Some Tibetan Music Just To Make It Sound Groovy, But You Do Your Homework, You Understand What You're Doing With It.

Don't Say Fili, Sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, Pili Means To Choose. Pino Means Fine. Pilipino Equals 'fine Choice.