TEXTMEX/MEXTASY/EYEGIENE Invading the University of Colorado, Boulder | Between the Textmex Agony and the Xicanorgasmic Mextasy: 21st Century Latina/o Photography, Film, Art, and Literature OCCUPY Stereotypes, Now! from 5-7:00pm in Humanities 250 | Feb 23, 2012

The details are still in the works but it looks like this traveling cavalcade of stereotypes, art, resistance, comedy, and more will be landing in Boulder, Colorado at the University of Colorado on Thursday, February 23, 2011.

Look out Boulder (and Denver?), Mextasy is on the way...


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Between the Textmex Agony and the Xicanorgasmic Mextasy: 21st Century Latina/o Photography, Film, Art, and Literature OCCUPY Stereotypes, Now!



5-7:00pm, Humanities 250 Feb 23, 2012

A Wayward Path to the Ivory Tower...

gracias to alexandro jose gradilla, rey/grand poobah of chicana/o studies, fullerton, for pushing this story my way via zuckerberg's social media machine!

Una Hora Por Favora | via the huffington post...

here's the trailer:

Una Hora Por Favora - Official Trailer from Jean-Paul Leonard on Vimeo.

Scandal! Chicano-less Downton Abbey! via POCHO.com

Junot Diaz, Sherman Alexie, and Others React Against Arizona Censorship Moves: Another Chapter in the History of Anti-Mexican Neo-Fascism

thanx to marla laguardia, ace malas grad student, for bringing this to my ojos!

MIL MASCARAS Lucha Libre Cine Classic: Las Vampiras

Another wonderful piece from the lurid semiotic history of the Americas! If anyone knows the name of the artist who did this poster, I would be in your debt if you forwarded me word here in the comments below....

source: http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/2011/09/the-vampire-girls-las-vampiras-1969-mexico/

John Carradine co-stars in this 1969 film. More here. Nice review here.

Here's a seen from the film--do beware, it moves at a glacial pace...

Sofia Vergara in DETAILS | The Past is the Future is the Present: Ruminations on the Latest Latina Femme Fatale

Sofia Vergara is a collage--there lurking in her performative DNA lurk Lupe Velez, Raquel Welch, Tina Louise, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and a handful of other successful femme fatales.  She has her own style, to be sure, but she moves with a familiar rhythm--much of what I had to say about Latina/o figuration in Tex{t}-Mex had to with a lurid metonymification where "Mexican" or "Latina/o" evolved as a shorthand for a velvety sexuality--on the brink of being always/already pejorative (for some), a possibility (for pleasure) for others.

In any event, this photo/story from the December/January 11/12 DETAILS magazine needs to be archived here for the 2nd edition of Tex{t}-Mex.  The photo is by Norman Jean Roy; the story by David Walters.

New Annotated Image for the Amazon.com TEXTMEX Page...

Surrealists Latinas @ LACMA

Slavoj Žižek on Alfonso Cuarón's CHILDREN OF MEN and Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIEN

Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, y Edward James Olmos

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Gael García Bernal: Tex[t]-Mex Hunk of the Month January 2012

Prehistoric Chicana Doings! One Million Years B.C. with Jo Raquel Tejada

imbd link

Tex{t}-Mex Galleryblogger INVADES Laredo, Texas and Photobombs KGNS Story on Webb County Bar Association Tequila Tasting Fiesta, part of the WORLD FAMOUS Washington's Birthday Celebration

Click opposite to see my "toasting" cameo and below to see the video!

The Good, the Bad and the Hipster

This music video is a tip of the sombrero to spaghetti western director, Sergio Leone, recreating that famous scene in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" as Toy Selectah, Rey Pila and a mariachi go at it in a dance-off in the middle of the desert.

Toy Selectah is a Mexican DJ and major figure in the Latin American music scene, infusing cumbia and urban beats into his remixes for artists such Vampire Weekend, Devendra Banhart, just to name a few.

Rey Pila is a Mexico City indie rocker, who combines different genres such as shoegaze, funk, with psychedelic distortions and some haunting, high pitched vocals, both in English and Spanish.

A taste of Rey Pila's music here.

Emmanuel Lubezki: the other Mexican contender at this year's Oscars.

Congratulations and felicidades to Emmanuel Lubezki, nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography for the stunning, breathtaking visuals in Terrence Malick’s cinematic masterpiece "The Tree of Life." This Mexican cinematographer is no stranger to the Oscars, as this is his fifth Oscar nomination, having worked with some big name directors such as the Coen Brothers, Michael Mann, Tim Burton, and Martin Scorsese. Emmanuel Lubezki, also known as "El Chivo," is best known as a frequent collaborator on most of Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron’s films, including “Y tu mama tambien” and “Children of Men."

Congratulations to Demián Bichir, Nominated for BEST ACTOR by the Oscars for A BETTER LIFE

...more on Demián Bichir...

An Oldie but a Goodie: An Essay on Gilbert Hernandez's Picto-biography of Frida Kahlo

Hit the image for the rest of the essay...

Rob Schneider meets the suegros.

Watch out for Rob Schneider’s new sitcom, “¡Rob!” where Schneider's character, marries a young Mexican-American woman (played by a Spanish actress, by the way)  and tries to fit in with her large close knit Mexican family. “Rob” also stars Cheech Marin, Lupe Ontiveros, and introducing Mexican comedic actor, Eugenio Derbez. Tune in to CBS Thursday’s at 8:30 pm and decide if it’s funny or not. 

Mexican Mitt Romney on Twitter

Accompanying the "Mitt Romney being Mexican" story, check out this parody Twitter account @MexicanMitt " the Most Mexican Man in the World" and his profile picture revealing Mitt Romney's face superimposed to a picture of a charro.


update: I just found the original picture Mitt Romney's face was photoshopped on. None other that than the real "Most Mexican man in the World" Vicente Fernandez.