Title:	Real or Reel?
Author:	lara_tarranco
Date:	Wednesday, December 16, 2009 @ 06:52
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Music:	Anna Nalick - "Shine"

Hogi and I inspire each other. Specifically LJ entries. Like a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a snippet of my chat here with Betsy and she came up with an entry, and I also came up with an entry inspired by her entry. Recently, she wrote something about contemplating on going back to being called Christine.

I have another Name post brewing in my head.

While we were finishing breakfast, I called my aunt. Tita Roxanne and Noelle were dropping me off at the condo and I wanted to say a quick hi to my Tita. "Si Maeyahn po to," I said. I heard Noelle laugh beside me. She always does that whenever she hears me refer to myself as Maeyahn or someone calls me Maeyahn. She's not used to it. Even Mae. She's not used to hearing Mae.

"So in the house, if we call you and we say Lara, do they give you the phone?"
"Yes."

About that Lara, yeah I say it's tribute to my Lola whose name is Luz so it's both L but another explanation which I give sometimes to people who ask how I came up with a screen name is Lara is Aral spelled backwards, and I 'stopped to concentrate on acting, and even as I act, I am still learning.

At the showcase, Riza asked me for my full name. She was surprised to hear that my last name was really Aguilar, and that Tarranco was just middle name. She asked for my full name because she was writing Noelle's full name as well. "Ang hahaba ng mga pangalan nyo, kaya pala kayo may mga screen name."

Which reminds me of Rito's comment, "I haven't met anyone with a screen name before! Wow! Now don't do porn movies okay, you already have a porn sounding name. Let's not indulge them," Hilarious.

Then there's Diana's reaction. We were co-actors in Baby Angelo and she has known me as Lara the whole time. Since she's also my insurance agent, I presented her with documents that had Maeyahn Aguilar. "Ano ba talaga pangalan mo?" "Sino kausap ko ngayon? Si Lara o si Maeyahn?"

The most recent Name incident was last night when I received a Friend Request from April on Facebook. April is a long lost friend and was an ISO dormmate. We used to call each other "April and Mae with no June."

Her message: "Maeyahn Aguilar! Kinareer mo ang pagiging Lara Tarranco."

When I went to Lucena, my nieces were calling me Tita Maeyahn. Gino and Tyrone calls me Tita Mae. Sophie, whom I'l be seeing later, calls me Tita Lara. When in class, she calls me Teacher Lara. So does her classmates. The Marillac girls call me Tita Lara.

I think of the guys I've dated. Those whom I've dated since 2006 call me Lara.

I dated Patton - and I never called him Rudolf. Rudolf is his real name. I only refer to him as Rudolf in this blog - and that's how Betsy calls him.

Which makes me wonder. What about when I get married? What will the invitation say? Should I use my real name or my reel name? Frankly, most of the people I'm thinking of inviting on that special occasion are those who call me Lara.

I also have a feeling that the groom (even if he is faceless right now) will call me Lara.

Or maybe the invite will just have all four names. Lara Maeyahn Tarranco Aguilar.

Title:	Yuletide Albums
Author:	lara_tarranco
Date:	Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 16:18
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Music:	Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan - "The First Noel"

When I was in grade school, I loved loved loved this Christmas album my mom brought home. I can't remember the name of the album. It's a recording of Santa Claus, Mrs Santa, his reindeers, and his elves preparing the gifts before the strike of midnight. The album was roughly an hour long. I would listen at 11 PM and by midnight, the characters would be greeting each other Merry Christmas.

My eldest brother have Christmas albums of his favorite artists. The one that stood out would be Mariah Carey. Another memorable Christmas album for me was David Foster and a bunch of other artists.

This Christmas, I have these two albums on repeat.





I agree with Mojo Jojo. It will be nice for Noelle to have a Christmas album. It actually started last year when she sang The Gift on Mel and Joey and Christmas Shoes and The First Noel on The Sweet Life, I always think of her when I hear The First Noel. Haha. Christmas songs sound really nice on harp.

Oh and there's the time when we sang Oh Holy Night at a mall show a year ago.

It's nice to have the Christmas feeling - especially when you have Christmas albums playing in the background and loved ones around you.

Title:	Chloe Sevigny
Author:	lara_tarranco
Date:	Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 16:00
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Music:	The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"

The first time I saw Chloe Sevigny was in Boys Don't Cry as the clueless girlfriend who had no idea that her boyfriend was actually a girl. Powerful performance, thus she received nominations from a lot of award giving bodies, won some from indie festivals, and got an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress. After that, I was on a look out for her. I followed her career. I also did my best to watch her previous movies - but had a hard time getting copies because most of these were indies.

I'll download Kids and Last Days of Disco soon.

Other Chloe Sevigny flicks that I managed and did my best to catch are A Map of the World, American Psycho, If These Walls Could Talk 2, Dogville, Shattered Glass, Melinda and Melinda, Manderlay, and Zodiac. She's a really good actress. Very subtle but quite powerful. She's pretty too - in an unconventional way.

She's actually the reason why I watch Big Love. It's nice to see her in a TV series. I'm blogging about her now because last night, I watched The Brown Bunny and Big Love back to back. Okay, I didn't watch The Brown Bunny because I didn't have the time but I did check out the controversial scene and would have to agree with everyone else.

It was not art. It was porn.

The Brown Bunny is the biggest mistake Sevigny made in her career. Vincent Gallo was her boyfriend that time so probably explained why she did it, but then again, you should always think of YOU - which clearly she didn't do. When the film was shown in Cannes, people walked out. Not only that, William Morris dropped Sevigny as their talent. She had a hard time getting roles afterwards. She managed to nab support roles here and there but not lead.

So when Tom Hanks asked her to read for Big Love, it was like a door opening for her. She got the part of Nicolette Grant and joined Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Ginnifer Goodwin as topbillers of this groundbreaking HBO series about polygamy.

Yesterday's episode, she was brilliant.

Brilliant.

Chloe Sevigny, I love you!