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[2005-09-03 05:33:57 +0000 UTC]
"j.luna"
(Philippines)
# Statistics
Favourites: 8; Deviations: 63; Watchers: 22
Watching: 33; Pageviews: 18107; Comments Made: 65; Friends: 33
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Andy WarholFavorite movies: Kairo:Pulse,Akira Kurosawa Films,Jerry Maguire,In The Realm of The Senses, Audition, Se7en
Favorite bands / musical artists: Bjork,Boredoms, The Velvet Underground, Pinkfloyd,The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Type-o-Negative
Favorite writers: Jack Kerouac, Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima, Pablo Neruda, J.D. Salinger, Allen Ginsberg
Favorite games: Super Mario Bros. 1& 3 80's stuff
Favorite gaming platform: Nintendo family computer
Tools of the Trade: the pen, and the pencil...the mic, and the guitar
Other Interests: poetry, literature and visual arts
# About me
j.luna is the alter-ego of John Robert Luna. He is a Corporate Communications, Ads and PR Writer for a networking company and a licensed English teacher.A member of the Innovative Noise Collective (INC), his repertoire consists of improvised, non-conceptual and spontaneous performances and Punk inspired spoken word consisting of screams, growls and gibberish.
He is currently the vocalist of Post-Punk band, Tom Estrella and The Shadows (with novelist, Norman Wilwayco), Noise/Electrogrind outfit, Annoy! (with Ian Madrigal) and Post-Metal/Noise collective, Gonzo Army (with Karl De Mesa and a whole bunch of collaborators).
As a “performance artist”, j has teamed with The Brockas and Khavn Delacruz (“Tonight, I Will Love You Forever, installation/performance” and as an actor in “Ang Paglilitis ni Mang Serapio”); and with Ian Madrigal and Mitch Garcia ("Placenta: Repression/Salvation" and "Souls For Sale") for Tupada's Inter-Aksyon international performance art event '10, in which he also served as the scribe/journal writer.
As a writer, he has won the grand prize for short story in Filipino for the Philippine Normal University’s Genoveva Edroza-Matute Awards in 2005. He also wrote music reviews for the now defunct Fudge Magazine.
j.luna is also an administrator of one of the most influential humor blogs today: tunaynalalake.blogspot.com
His music reviews, articles poems and works of fiction have appeared in the Philippines Graphic,Fudge Magazine, Playboy Philippines, Monday Magazine, KM64's Tulagalag poetry project, Paper Monsters Poetry Pamphlet 1 and 2, and an upcoming anthology of flash fiction to be published by La Salle Press in 2011.
Being a sound/noise artist specializing in growls and screams, j has performed with Tupada at the NCCA's Philippine International Arts Festival 2010 at the Ayala Center on February 7, INC's Noises at the Park held at The Luneta Open Amphitheater on May 2, 2010
Current Residence: UP Ville, Quezon City, Philippines
Favourite genre of music: Avant-garde/Post Rock
Favourite style of art: Surrealism and Dadaism
Favourite cartoon character: Naruto, Yusuke of YUYU Hakusho,Kenshin Himura of Ruruoni Kenshin, The Voltes Five Crew
Personal Quote: Love is a temporary anaesthetic, to this world of eternal suffering...
# Comments
Comments: 23
thanks for the link! 
sweet gallery by the way!
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so sorry for the late thank you note...^___^
anyways, thanks for adding me to your watch list...^___^
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Anong artwork mo ang nasa "favourites" ko?
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ah..oks lang...Malupit naman ang photography mo and stuff..Astig.
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hey! i remember you, kaw yung nagrecommend sa akin kay kosinzki sa booksale, remember? musta na? finally finished the castle. hmm, absurd talaga si kafka ^^ see you around
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heeeh. Salamat sa mumunting tula! :3 Ngayon ko lang nakita yung iyong comment sa dA page ko.
Salamat!!
Ah, sweet irony.
-sam
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thank you ever so much for the two favourites means the world to me hope you have a blast here on DA.
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