Música: Now

I'm a huge fan of rock/pop en espaniol. From Enanitos Verdes to Fabulosos Cadillacs to Los Amigos Invisibles to [Old school] Mana. As I was e-browsing and watching Telehit [& its unique programming], I realized that rock/pop en espaniol is really exciting right now. Really exciting...interesting enough, coming from MX [and the trifecta of Guada, DF, Leon].

Elis Paprika [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:

Los Concorde [DF]:

Mothora [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:

Playa Limbo [Guada, Jalisco, MX]:

Ximena Sariñana [DF]:

Pambo [DF]:

Maria Daniela y su sonido lasser [DF]:

Jesse Y Joy [DF]:

& from Chile:

Francisca Valenzuela [Santiago]:

Kudai [Santiago]:

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After writing the "Música: Empowerment"...I felt that I needed to revisit this post...while, I enjoy all the aforementioned artists [& I own/sing out loud to them], they're very much mainstreamed and Myspace-able [I mean, they have actual, physical CDs out, purchaseable]. Check 'em out, but also check out the independents out there...

Don't blame us. part II.

It's pretty easy to tell that I am a fan of the los tiempos de nueva york y los angles and the el chronicle de san pancho...! Gooooo liberal media! [uh huh, sure; I will not try to operationalize liberal here]. Operationalize! That's a fun grad student word. Use it.

Anyguey, the folks o'er at San Pancho keep bringing up "El Ocho" [which I am so 8ver, I mean over]. Today, they posted this interesting articulo sobre Blacks, gays, and the "fallout" [gotta love the word usage! & their operationalizing].

Don't blame us.

So, I'm a lil' bitter towards the queer community, I mean the queer white male community. So, after getting visibly emotional after an Obama victory [I cried thrice in the evening and, then, thrice in the morning], I was disappointed with Prop. 8's passing [though I knew it was going to pass, esp. thanks to the Central Valley and all those posters I saw around the area' clear sign it was going to pass, in mon point de vue]. But, then 'em [white male] queers started to blame Blacks and Latin@s for the passing of the[ir] proposition. Umm, no. Wait a minute. Stop. Don't blame us for its passing. After hearing and reading QPOC's opinions and thoughts on the issue, I'm tired of it. Ok, Prop. 8 pass. It was "unconstitutional" from the beginning. But when the media started covering anti-8 rallies post-last Tuesday's results and then I realized [again] that immigration has been very much absent in this never-ending, but thankfully fini, election season, it makes me irksome. Where was the media when mis herman@s were out there speaking against the inhumane treatment towards immigrants? Where was the colloboration between the queer community(ies) and immigrant/POC communitIES? Why isn't there dialogue happening between our causes? Why is everything rest in isolation?

In any case, I'm still a lil' bitter...well, it's added bitterness that I have towards that/my community(ies). Irksome, indeed. Damn the rhetoric! I suggest however the read this article about the myths and truths exposed about who voted for/against the aforementioned proposition.

Don't blame us. White people voted for it to pass, tambien. Let's dialogue across/between causes. & work proactively together.

Vote!

....that is all.

A Night of Comedy Chicano Theatre: Fall Performance

TEATRO LOS HIJOS DEL CAMPO
PRESENTS
"A NIGHT OF COMEDY CHICANO THEATRE"
FEATURING
"LOS VENDIDOS & SOLDADO RAZO" BY LUIS VALDEZ
&
OTHER COMEDY ACTOS

NOVEMBER 6th, 7th & 8TH

CSUS, CAROL BURKE LOUNGE.

8PM (DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM)

$6 General Admission
$3 Under 10
TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR
OR TO RESERVE TICKETS,
CALL (209) 485-6243

visit: teatrolhdc@blogspot.com

1968 v 2008

In a recent SF Chronicle article, which deals with generational shifts among voter trends and the buzzword "historical" weight of this election, among other things, a Boston Univeristy professor states:

"A conservative in 1968 was far more liberal than a liberal is in 2008."

It's v true.