i love a lot of things: music, books, diy stuff, going out, people, serenity, magazines- i'm so crazy over magazines. is one of the reasons i wanted to get a job so i can support my magazine addiction. it used to be that i had to make do with back issues and secondhands. now i can buy the latest iss. These magazines are what i dig right now:
Entrepreneur Phils(Summit Media)
For feeding my fantasy for starting my own business. it's like moneyporn to me. Everytime i open it's pages i'd get high dreaming up about my shop that i plan to set up. Right now i'm saving and waiting for the right time to get started. To think that i used to tag business mags as boring. Entrep is really different from the rest. It gives you ideas on the ins and outs of the whole bz thing.
Real Living (Summit Media)
I love houses. I'm obsessed with them. House magazines make me salivate. I'd relegiously go to Filbars in Limkitkai in Cagayan de Oro to check if there are any back issues that i can buy. Back then the P125 price tag for a new issue is just to heavy for my pocket since i had to rely on lying to my mom. (sorry mom) Real Living got me started. Right now I buy other home magazines from Book Sale. But i still stick with RL. I just wish though that they'd restore including those seminal floorplans in their pages like they use to.
Why am I obsessed with houses? Probably because of that one traumatizing experience I had back in 5th grade. I had this dream of being in the middle of twisters. my lil bro Mark was trying to reach out to me as rains were pelting against my face and strongs winds trying to suck me in when i was suddenly woken up by the feeling of real rain against my face and the wet, soggy pile of clothes i was sleeping on. i heard my mom calling my name. I realized that i am wet like everything inside the room i was sleeping in. The roof was torned open by the strong winds. The next day I had to skip school to hang to dry the wet clothes and other stuff from the previous night. This is no sob story, this is funny.
Homestyle Phils (sorry i dont remember the publisher...)
This is a new home and art mag out in the market. I got attracted to its first iss because Celine Lopez was on the cover. I didnt regret it the contents are great. I bought the 2nd issue yesterday with Quark Henaris on the cover. I barely had it in my hands when the supervisor we trained with snap it up. That means i'll have to buy another set when he pays me up by the next payday. Its a nice mag. So high end and yet, like RL, doesnt make you feel like being discreminated against as just a "mere" reader. Love this new mag I wont be surprise if this will be very popular.
Juxtapoz (art mag)
I only have two copies of this mag which i bought from National Bookstore for 40 pesos each only. I visit the website (www.juxtapoz.com) from time to time This is my concept of modern art. Screensaver art bore's me. I like shocking things like those of Igan d'bayan whom i also admire as a columnist but that's another story. This mag makes me wish i can do art. By the way I love van Gogh's Starry Night.
Flip
The brainchild of Jessica Zafra, this now difunct magazine is one of my treasure finds. This is one heck of an inteligent magazine. I'm sad to know it folded. Too bad now that i can already afford to buy new issues. By the way I came across the mag while browsing Filbar's back issue racks. Filbars Cagayan de Oro really rocks. Filbars Cebu is kind of boring don't know why.
Preview
I bought back issues of this mag out of curiosity and because my entended buys weren't available from you know where. I thought fashion mags are boring and is equivalent to Avon catalogs, i was wrong. Preview is educational. I learned about Ivarluski Aseron and Kate Turralba and the like from its pages. You dont have to be a hardcore fashionista or a social climber to appreciate it. I still keep the old copies coz i notice they dont seem to go out of date.
So theres my shortlist for my fave magazines. Right now my rented room's floor is strewn with them. It'll be a long haul should i decide to quit my job here in Cebu and go back home to Mindanao. I buy art mags and home mags both local and imported from Booksale, they got a wide selection, quite affordable too.
