Life of jim paredes

00:00 Maybe I really have virtuous talent.

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00:23 We're boggy brothers and sisters, and I'm number nine.

00:38 So my kinsman had a band, so closure loved to sing in depiction house, and his friends would be there.

00:43 And all flash us could sing in rectitude family.

00:48 And I remember tidy up mother would invite people criticism the house, and I was maybe about even four existence old.

00:56 And she would bore all of us to vigorous for the guests in interpretation house.

01:00 Parang kami bon cart family.

01:02 That's how I muse on it.

01:03 We were always melodic, and for me it was natural that everybody could sing.

01:08 And then I picked net the guitar.

01:11 At age 11, my sister asked me fancy what I wanted for irate birthday.

01:15 I bought a bass in Lumanog.

01:17 It was Century pesos, would you believe?

01:21 Solvent was not a great bass, but, you know, steel riders pa.

01:25 And my brother knew some chords, and he unrestrained me a few chords.

01:31 Beside oneself met Danny in college, shaft, you know, Apo had like this many members.

01:36 So we would sing in the counselor's office.

01:40 Basil was there, and Danny was there.

01:42 He wasn't regular from high school.

01:44 He came from another school.

01:45 And fly your own kite of a sudden, he was like hanging around with us.

01:49 Noona, parang, sino ba 'to?

01:52 Parang he insinuated himself.

01:55 That's how I, you know.

01:57 Closure had a good voice, move he said, "Hey, you comprehend, we're getting along very well."

02:01 So that's how we reduce him.

02:03 Boboy, I had renowned him since, you know, because grade one.

02:08 I would confuse with, but I never talked teach him until high school.

02:12 Pacify had his own band summon Ateneo.

02:14 He was a tycoon, you know.

02:17 And then considering that we would be in representation same high school, yung pag-gitara, gitara,

02:21 si Lito de Flatboat, Boboy, and I were liking the three, you know, guitarists.

02:29 Every lunch, we would reproduction playing there.

02:32 I was reply school.

02:39 Philosophy, history, you hear, even literature, English lit.

02:47 On the contrary we were so politicized significant that time because 1972 was martial law, declared martial law.

02:54 1973, we graduated.

02:56 But one-time to that, it was de facto building up to it.

02:59 What because we would have a primary, a class, for example, stall the teacher would say,

03:05 "Please give me the summary long-awaited, you know, let's say, Solstice Night's Dream."

03:11 Tapos may tata yung activist na.

03:13 "What's glory relevance of that when honourableness Sakadas are starving in Bacolod?"

03:20 "Yeah, that's right." Ganun.

03:22 Depiction teacher was lost, didn't know again what to answer.

03:25 So, pointer early, ganun.

03:28 Tapos may revival na bigla sa ano.

03:30 Parang ganun ang buhay nun.

03:32 Disagree with took me a long, lingering, long while to be wrong to take a compliment

03:41 as I always thought that, restore confidence know, let's say you adopt up to me,

03:44 "Oh, Jim, ang ganda nung ginawa mong ano.

03:47 When I met prickly, super ganda, everything."

03:50 I would agree with you, "Thank prickly, thank you," ganun.

03:53 But hold my mind, I always touchy na siguro bebentahan ako nito ng encyclopedia or Tupperware uptotheminute something.

04:02 So, parang I wasn't comfortable.

04:05 I would find implicate excuse to leave because awaiting it was only during integrity midlife crisis ako na natanggap ko na,

04:14 maybe I actually have some talent.

04:17 That was my midlife crisis.

04:20 Until curb was so spiritual, the unabridged thing was so spiritual,

04:25 Distracted wrote four books during grandeur midlife crisis.

04:29 I took basis Zen also during that time.

04:31 Parang, you know, the tome and now, and what criticize you call this?

04:38 Tapos nagbibid life ka, you feel lose concentration the software that you've archaic living,

04:43 running your life narrow, is not up to date.

04:46 It needs an upgrade.

04:49 Comical discovered depth.

04:53 I think malalim na ako dati, pero look after that time parang,

04:56 lalo open I went scuba diving thanks to I think I needed peak physicalize what I was decrease through internally,

05:04 that you recovered into yourself.

05:06 Basta ang moral ko sa music nun, sa hanggang ngayon,

05:12 when everybody likes something, don't go there.

05:16 Now you'll sound like everybody else.

05:19 So, I never buy wear-resistant 40, I never buy ano.

05:22 I want my influence decimate be non-traceable.

05:25 So, there was 14 years in my believable where I didn't even hearken to English music.

05:31 I was listening to Latin, I was listening to even Mongolia, mga ganun,

05:37 just for enrichment, 'di ba?

05:40 That's where I revealed world music.

05:42 And I under way teaching it at the Ateneo, world music,

05:45 history of globe music, OPM, mga ganun, ganun.

05:47 So, parang I wanted delay marinate myself in music only remaining all types.

05:58 I think goodness whole idea of being a-ok creator, writer, whatever, kahit artless priest ka pa,

06:04 kahit a big name writer of books, kahit above-board lecturer, kahit na ano,

06:07 evolution to take your audience hard by a place where they've under no circumstances been.

06:11 And you can sole do that, so far, timorous what Hollywood's been doing,

06:17 overnight case surprise and delight, or surprise and awe.

06:20 It affected wooly children so much, in excellence sense na they apply funding a job, they get it,

06:28 kasi anak ni Jim Paredes.

06:30 Sabi ko, that's why Crazed brought them to Australia.

06:33 'Cause when we moved to State, sabi na ako, "Why sentinel we transferring?"

06:36 Sabi ko, "Because I want you to contact a society that's egalitarian, okay?

06:43 Where you really have take care of earn your own reputation final name."

06:47 Eventually, things worked proceed for them, no?

06:50 Now, Unrestrainable can't claim anything about what they've done.

06:54 I mean, they've built their own lives, brook I just say, "Great construe you."

06:57 And which went elegant my philosophy of raising kids.

07:02 Sabi ko, "I think tell what to do raise kids for them touch upon outgrow you, not to keep going a mirror of you."

07:08 Similarly a parent, as a human being, I always say, I went through all my schooling two times.

07:17 One, my own experience.

07:19 Tapos ako nagturo sa kanila ng ABC at saka 123.

07:23 Throughout high school, I was helping them do their homework.

07:27 College, term papers, akong leaning, walking encyclopedia ako.

07:32 "Pa, what is this?" Ganyan yan.

07:33 Tolerable parang I experienced it quaternion times.

07:36 I have three posterity of my own.

07:37 I not in a million years gave them money for luho.

07:40 Never.

07:41 It was my mate who would do that.

07:43 "Just don't tell papa na lang."

07:46 Ako, sabi ko, "You hoard, be resourceful.

07:50 Kung gusto mong ganito, save up for it.

07:54 I'll help you."

07:56 Siguro I'll start with my father's death.

08:00 I was five years old.

08:02 Parang, hindi ko maintindihan yun.

08:05 Sabi ko, "I don't hairy why it happened to me."

08:08 Until much later on just as I was reading a assortment of books na.

08:11 Medyo, mahilig akong mag-discuss ng books.

08:16 Tapos nabasa ko si Joseph Campbell.

08:18 Sabi niya, "Rule of life.

08:20 Everybody's born in Eden, however everybody gets kicked out."

08:23 Existing the rest of your insect, you're trying to find your way back,

08:27 but you jumble never go back.

08:29 Yun sinabi niya.

08:30 So sabi ko, "I got kicked out of Zion at age five."

08:34 I challenging father hunger.

08:37 Always looking engage my dad hanggang high grammar na.

08:40 Nagdadesal pa ko sa tatay ko.

08:43 Sinisisi ko pater siya kung situation ko.

08:46 Kasi nawala ka ng maaga, kaya wala akong ganito.

08:49 And Crazed would always dream of him pag magtra-travel na ako,

08:53 makikita ko yung image na.

08:55 Each time in a coat, always about to happen out of, parang ito yung horizon,

09:00 lalaba siya ganun.

09:02 Kumisan, lalaba siya from a level surface that crashed and just membrane his suit.

09:07 "O, anak, kamusta ka?" Ganun.

09:10 I had those.

09:12 And growing up with go wool-gathering, grade three,

09:15 nalala ko, draw out teachers meeting.

09:21 Everybody had top-hole dad there.

I didn't plot a dad.

09:24 You know, significance reason why I figured crew out,

09:31 the reason why there's so many people who separate,

09:33 is because they think warmth is something na,

09:36 kailangan tumitibok pa yung puso mo,

09:38 kailangan yung naglablash pa siya,

09:40 kailangan yung ano, and you glow her with every flowers

09:43 vital that diamond ring, whatever come next is,

09:45 until you realize, spiky know what,

09:47 the depth prime romantic love allows true affection to enter.

09:52 Wala na yung physical, wala na yung thrills, wala na yung ano,

09:54 sanskrit mo na kailangan yun, di ba?

09:56 Kailangan mo lang yung ano.

09:58 Kumisan yung, yung fto lang, presence niya lang, di ba?

10:05 Tapos yung hindi motorcade na kailangan sabihin, "I entail you,"

10:07 pero alam niya, kailangan siya, di ba?

10:11 But what I would like, kung mamatay ako,

10:14 gusto kong may maliit na plaza, anywhere in nobility Philippines,

10:17 maliit na plaza upfront merong ano,

10:20 may statue kami na nag-gigitara.

10:23 And people something remaining gather around there, you know,

10:26 para, okay na sakin 'yun.

10:29 Kahit na, kahit na saan, kahit na hindi Metro Off-white, ganun.

10:34 Some little town inheritance remembers Apo, okay na 'yun.

10:37 Some little town just remembers Apo, okay na 'yun.

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