Drummer Boy

5 AM Saturday, I just logged out and DB (Drummer Boy) was at my station asking me to smoke with him. I gladly said yes as I wait for P's text. I have to wait until P texts me before I head home, because I have to pick him up at Shaw boulevard, which is the nearest place from where he works. While waiting, me and DB smoked a few sticks outside our office building. After a stick, he bid goodbye to our officemates as it was their last day of the week. After our session, he invited me to his office to kill time, I remembered myself dropping by his office earlier in my shift, and I remembered he has his ipod with him, that thought got me excited like a kid going to get candies!

It is always a treat for me to browse DB's iPod, because I am always surprised at the great number of files we both have and bands we both listen to and I always have new musical discoveries whenever I tinker with his toy. DB is one of the rare few who has almost exactly the same taste in music as I have, not to mention we share the same level of passion in photography, music, tattoos, and bands. He has his own band in which he is the drummer, thus, the alias Drummer Boy. He has a number of tattoos inked on him, one in particular is a new one, and still has three more sessions to go before it is done. The new tat is so big and intricate that it made me stare in awe. His new tat made me so envious to have a new ink! I already have two and the longest I have is a 1 foot tat on my left torso. The only differences me and DB have is that he's straight and he doesn't listen much to Japanese music. DB introduced great artists, bands, and music to me and of which all I'm already addicted to these days, he also frequents my favorite "solitary" and hangout spots... Saguijo and Cubao X.

Me and DB always talk about what lenses to buy next, photography techniques and we often wonder in awe on how fascinating some photographs are. We often debate and discuss how to produce a particular shot, what lens and what techniques were used. One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands was introduced to me by DB, Neon Brights by Taken by Cars is one, as well as Lost by Skin. He knows I am into the melancholic tunes, which he also has a lot. So he made me listen to his song of the day which is in loop in his iPod. He said that it is the only song he listens to all day long. As he do his end of shift reports, I tucked myself in a corner of his office and listened... I was ecstatic, the song just sent shivers down my spine and made goosebumps swell erratically all over me.

Gotten - Slash (Featuring Adam Levine)

So nice to see your face again
Tell me how long has it been
Since you've been here
You look so different than before
But still the person I adore
Frozen with fear
I'm out of love but I'll take it from the past
I'll let out words cause I'm sure It'll never last

And I've been saving
These last words for one last miracle
But now I'm not sure
I can't save you if
You don't let me
You just get me like I never
Been gotten before

Maybe it's the bitter wind
A chill from the Pacific rim
That brought you this way
Do not make me think of him
The way he touch your fragile skin
That hunts me everyday
I'm out of love but I can't forget the past
I'm out of words but I'm sure it'll never last

So nice to see you face again
But tell me will this ever end?
Don't disappear

And I've been saving
These last words for one last miracle
But now I'm not sure
I can't save you if
You don't let me
You just get me like I never
Been gotten before
Like I never been gotten before