5 Anti-Sosyal Reasons You Enjoyed Last Sunday's Vispop Music Festival
1. You're antisosyal, which is different from antisocial. An anti-sosyal is against anything sosyal.
An anti-sosyal is one who never owns a car because to own one just for status is pretentious.
Antisosyals bike their way to work, and they buy Buy One Take One Fruits and Veggies at SM Supermarket JCenter Mall at 8pm everyday because they're saving the fruits and veggies from being thrown away by the mall at closing time.
An anti-sosyal Cebuano went to Vispop Festival last Sunday because it is a statement against hypocrisy of speaking a language that arguably isn't hers.
Listening to Bisaya is also arguably his passion because it implies that he sticks to his roots even if he went to an English-speaking school.
Although her pride for Bisaya implies that she is aware that there can be shame for speaking Bisaya, we will not entertain this irony because this leads to self-conscious, insecurity and the depression that killed Robin Williams. (See Left Photo)
2. You love Missing Filemon, Aggressive Audio and Junior Kilat the way they love the Bisaya Short Films language.
You went to college when Aggressive Audio's "Bakakon Ka Liar Evil Ka" was a song you sang for your girlfriend whom you lost your virginity for but is now married to someone else.
You dropped out of college when "Lingin" was your song for the Philosophy professor who introduced you to Postmodernism and how life is fashionably meaningless.
You started the soul-crushing call center job in the year where Missing Filemon's "Sine-Sine" was a song for your dream of becoming an experimental Bisaya Short Film maker, a dream that's now slowly dying.
You started taking anti-depressants by the time Junior Kilat's "Shudi Abas" had been a cathartic song about how the respected corruption culture in the Cebuano society thrives because no one wants to talk.
No one admits of their lies other than to their priests, and no one's punished because after you ask forgiveness from God, you're now clean and immaculate as an accused pedophile's robe.
Bonus Questions: In theory, could you rape one million kids and get God to forgive you because you already prayed 5 Hail Marys? Are you smiling because being able to rape without consequences is your symbol of complete freedom?
You enjoyed Vispop because Missing Filemon, Aggressive Audio and Junior Kilat had played live that night and made you rethink all this.
3. You speak English.
You speak Cebuano only with the closest people and speak English to everyone else because English is impersonal and Bisaya is spoken to touch someone's roots, the deepest most unpretentious self.
Every Cebuano knows English is spoken to be impersonal.
To be impersonal and pretentious is a defense mechanism against being offended by words like "You're so OA, and you're so Katkat" from mentally ill acquaintances.
All defenses are down when you're Cebuano and speak Bisaya.
4. You saw Missing Filemon's Lorenzo Ninal's sons' Rock and Roll.
5. You are me and the Vispop songs "Bok Love", "Buwag Balik" and "PaPictura Ko Beh" are songs from artists whom you are going to contact asap for a collaborative music video project.
