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Things I knew about James Blunt before yesterday:
1. If you hear his hit song 200 times in a row, you fly into a murderous rage.
2. He briefly dated the model Petra Nemcova who appears on the billboards of a local clothing brand.
3. He served in the British army and was in the UN peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

Things I learned about Blunt from Kermit, one of his first fans in Manila.
1. His accent was considered too posh by British record labels.
2. The original spelling of his name is “Blount”.
3. One of his ancestors was a mistress of Henry VIII and his family has been the keepers of some lighthouse for 14 generations.
4. He was voted second most annoying pop star in Britain, after Paul McCartney.
5. Carrie Fisher was his landlady in Los Angeles.

Must ask Kermit if James is related to Anthony, who was the Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures and head of the Courthauldt Institute until he was unmasked as a Russian spy.

Things I learned after Kermit compelled us to watch James Blunt at Araneta Coliseum in the most vicious way possible (He bought us patron tickets, making it impossible to resist).
1. Blunt’s voice recalls the Bee Gees, which is not a bad thing.
2. He puts on a good, solid show that one can enjoy even if she knows exactly one Blunt song (the one that triggers murderous rage).
3. He seems very down-to-earth, does not whore himself out to the audience, or make cute patter. The concert was actually about the music.
4. The venue was half-full, but nearly everyone in it knew all of Blunt’s songs and sang them back to him.
5. All this talk of Kosovo makes me think I should’ve been a war correspondent. True, I don’t like discomfort and I demand a private bathroom, but I’m calm in a crisis plus I’ve read a lot of epics.