"Speed of Sound" - Coldplay

Guy1: "You how I know you're gay?"

Guy2: "yeah how?"

Guy1: "You're gay because you listen to Coldplay...".


These words are some of the famous lines I remember from the movie "The 40-Year Old Virgin"... a discussion about how to know if a person is gay or not.  And it involved Coldplay.

But this is not the way how I remembered this British band.  It was way back 2007 in the mountainous place of the Cordillera Region in the northern part of the Philippines where the mentioned band started to stay permanently in the music archive of my choosy ears.

My friends and I were on our way home to Batangas from this wondrous enchanted place called Sagada and to keep me entertained in this pretty-long time of travel, I had my celphone prepared with its mp3 player to keep me company.  Coldplay's song "Speed of Sound" timely played while we were routing this scary, zigzag and cliffy road and the guitar intro of the song somehow added to the "flying" feeling of that moment.  The zigzag road really made me dizzy and Coldplay made me calm out of my motion sickness and acrophobia.

This small, sleepy town of Sagada is nestled high in the Cordillera Mountains and considered as "The Shangri-La of the Philippines". 

This doesn't mean that I like Coldplay I am gay.  I like the band but I don't like all of their songs.  I like "Speed of Sound"... when I hear the song, I think of the breezy Sagada.  A place so beautiful, it could make you cry (oops, that sure sounds girly...).