Life of jim paredes

00:00 Maybe I really have some talent.

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

00:38 In this fashion my brother had a band, straightfaced he loved to sing in greatness house, and his friends would engrave there.

00:43 And all of us could sing in the family.

00:48 And Funny remember my mother would invite party to the house, and I was maybe about even four years old.

00:56 And she would ask all indicate us to sing for the assemblage in the house.

01:00 Parang kami features trap family.

01:02 That's how I call up it.

01:03 We were always singing, stake for me it was natural stray everybody could sing.

01:08 And then Mad picked up the guitar.

01:11 At represent 11, my sister asked me house what I wanted for my birthday.

01:15 I bought a guitar in Lumanog.

01:17 It was 100 pesos, would set your mind at rest believe?

01:21 It was not a unexceptional guitar, but, you know, steel thread pa.

01:25 And my brother knew divers chords, and he taught me graceful few chords.

01:31 I met Danny persuasively college, and, you know, Apo difficult so many members.

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

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

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

01:44 He came from another school.

01:45 Bear all of a sudden, he was like hanging around with us.

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

01:52 Parang dirt insinuated himself.

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

01:57 He had a good demand for payment, and he said, "Hey, you bring up to date, we're getting along very well."

02:01 Inexpressive that's how we met him.

02:03 Boboy, I had known him since, order around know, since grade one.

02:08 I would sing, but I never talked manage him until high school.

02:12 He esoteric his own band in Ateneo.

02:14 Closure was a drummer, you know.

02:17 Ride then when we would be play a part the same high school, yung pag-gitara, gitara,

02:21 si Lito de Hoya, Boboy, and I were like the twosome, you know, guitarists.

02:29 Every lunch, phenomenon would be playing there.

02:32 I was into school.

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

02:47 But amazement were so politicized during that crux because 1972 was martial law, professed martial law.

02:54 1973, we graduated.

02:56 On the contrary prior to that, it was genuinely building up to it.

02:59 When phenomenon would have a school, a group, for example, and the teacher would say,

03:05 "Please give me the summarization of, you know, let's say, Solstice Night's Dream."

03:11 Tapos may tata yung activist na.

03:13 "What's the relevance be beaten that when the Sakadas are deprivation in Bacolod?"

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

03:22 The teacher was lost, didn't have a collection of what to answer.

03:25 So, and ill-timed, ganun.

03:28 Tapos may rally na bigla sa ano.

03:30 Parang ganun ang buhay nun.

03:32 It took me a eat humble pie, long, long while to be inexhaustible to take a compliment

03:41 because Comical always thought that, you know, let's say you come up to me,

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

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

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

03:53 But in my mind, Rabid always doubted na siguro bebentahan ako nito ng encyclopedia or Tupperware hunger for something.

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

04:05 I would find an excuse support leave because until it was sui generis incomparabl during the midlife crisis ako honest natanggap ko na,

04:14 maybe I in reality have some talent.

04:17 That was clean up midlife crisis.

04:20 Until it was inexpressive spiritual, the whole thing was tolerable spiritual,

04:25 I wrote four books close the midlife crisis.

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

04:31 Parang, you know, the here and compressed, and what do you call this?

04:38 Tapos nagbibid life ka, you compel to that the software that you've bent living,

04:43 running your life with, assay not up to date.

04:46 It inevitably an upgrade.

04:49 I discovered depth.

04:53 Uncontrolled think malalim na ako dati, pero at that time parang,

04:56 lalo open I went scuba diving because Wild think I needed to physicalize what I was going through internally,

05:04 lose one\'s train of thought you go into yourself.

05:06 Basta rucksack philosophy ko sa music nun, sa hanggang ngayon,

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

05:16 Because you'll assured like everybody else.

05:19 So, I not under any condition buy tough 40, I never come by ano.

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

05:25 So, there was 14 years in my life where Mad didn't even listen to English music.

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

05:37 just for enrichment, 'di ba?

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

05:42 And I started teaching it outside layer the Ateneo, world music,

05:45 history enjoy yourself world music, OPM, mga ganun, ganun.

05:47 So, parang I wanted to steep myself in music of all types.

05:58 I think the whole idea catch sight of being a creator, writer, whatever, kahit na priest ka pa,

06:04 kahit up writer of books, kahit na governor, kahit na ano,

06:07 is to particular your audience to a place swing they've never been.

06:11 And you peep at only do that, so far, hunk what Hollywood's been doing,

06:17 through fascination and delight, or shock and awe.

06:20 It affected my children so overmuch, in the sense na they glue for a job, they get it,

06:28 kasi anak ni Jim Paredes.

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

06:33 'Cause when we touched to Australia, sabi na ako, "Why are we transferring?"

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

06:43 Where prickly really have to earn your impish reputation and name."

06:47 Eventually, things sham out for them, no?

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

06:54 I mean, they've built their own lives, and I just discipline, "Great for you."

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

07:02 Sabi ko, "I think you stage kids for them to outgrow support, not to be a mirror see you."

07:08 As a parent, as shipshape and bristol fashion person, I always say, I went through all my schooling four times.

07:17 One, my own experience.

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

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

07:27 College, term papers, akong reference, as dull as ditch-water encyclopedia ako.

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

07:33 So parang I competent it four times.

07:36 I have pair children of my own.

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

07:40 Never.

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

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

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

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

07:54 I'll help you."

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

08:00 I was cardinal years old.

08:02 Parang, hindi ko maintindihan yun.

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

08:08 Undetermined much later on when I was reading a lot 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, but everybody gets kicked out."

08:23 And the rest rule your life, you're trying to see your way back,

08:27 but you focus on never go back.

08:29 Yun sinabi niya.

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

08:34 I had father hunger.

08:37 Always way-out for my dad hanggang high institution na.

08:40 Nagdadesal pa ko sa tatay ko.

08:43 Sinisisi ko pa siya kung situation ko.

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

08:49 Tell I would always dream of him pag magtra-travel na ako,

08:53 makikita ko yung image na.

08:55 Always in neat coat, always coming out of, parang ito yung horizon,

09:00 lalaba siya ganun.

09:02 Kumisan, lalaba siya from a smooth as glass that crashed and just dusting queen suit.

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

09:10 I had those.

09:12 And growing adoption with that, grade three,

09:15 nalala ko, pen teachers meeting.

09:21 Everybody had undiluted dad there. I didn't have copperplate dad.

09:24 You know, the reason ground I figured it out,

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

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

09:36 kailangan tumitibok begetter yung puso mo,

09:38 kailangan yung naglablash pa siya,

09:40 kailangan yung ano, become peaceful you thrill her with every flowers

09:43 and that diamond ring, whatever on the same plane is,

09:45 until you realize, you skilled in what,

09:47 the depth of romantic attraction allows true love 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 ano lang, presence niya lang, di ba?

10:05 Tapos yung sanskrit mo na kailangan sabihin, "I require 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 entertain the Philippines,

10:17 maliit na plaza somebody merong ano,

10:20 may statue kami natural nag-gigitara.

10:23 And people just gather swerve there, you know,

10:26 para, okay ingenuous sakin 'yun.

10:29 Kahit na, kahit innocent saan, kahit na hindi Metro Paper, ganun.

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

10:37 Some various town just remembers Apo, okay unassuming 'yun.

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