Is Cinco de Mayo a sacred, Mexican, historical holiday? Or is it more an excuse to get wasted at various Dreenko de Mayo, cantina celebrations. That's what's on tap (pardon the pun!) in this 40 minute, rambling radio dialogue between me, Bill Nericcio, and Gustavo Arellano, the OCs amazing Mexican mouthpiece.
Here are three flavors of the show (I come on at the 20 minute mark): podcast flavor; streaming flavor; and, last but not least, download.
Here's a related posting at the LA Times by Daniel Hernandez--with a link back to piece by Arellano! Shades of the Borgesian labyrinth!
(Just stop. Please. Just let me go. Alejandro. Just let me go.)
She's not broken, She's just a baby. But her boyfriend's like a dad, just like a dad. and all those flames that burned before him. Now he's gonna find a fight, gonna cool the bad.
You know that I love you boy. Hot like Mexico, rejoice. At this point I gotta choose, nothing to loose
Don't call my name. Don't call my name, Alejandro. I'm not your babe. I'm not your babe, Fernando.
Don't wanna kiss, don't wanna touch. Just smoke one cigarette and hush. Don't call my name. Don't call my name, Roberto.
10 years ago I gave a lecture at MOPA in San Diego on the cinematic experimentation of Robert Frank, with Jack Kerouac and others, in a film entitled PULL MY DAISY; when I stepped down as Chair of Lit @ SDSU in October of 2009, the sad bastards there yanked 12 years of my work on the web offline in a mad frenzy. I am starting to try to restore some of these pieces. Here's a test page with a restored version of the Pull My Daisy piece. Hit the image for the link or cut and paste this into the browser of your choice:
For more information, contact: Jesse Franzblau - jblau@gwu.edu or Emily Willard - eawillard@gmail.com
http://www.nsarchive.org
Washington, DC, May 7, 2010 - Following this week's arrest of a former Guatemalan special forces soldier, the National Security Archive is posting a set of declassified documents on one of Guatemala's most shocking and unresolved human rights crimes, the Dos Erres massacre.
On May 5, 2010, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Gilberto Jordan, 54, in Palm Beach County, Florida, based on a criminal complaint charging Jordan with lying to U.S. authorities about his service in the Guatemalan Army and his role in the 1982 Dos Erres massacre. The complaint alleges that Jordan, a naturalized American citizen, was part of the special counterinsurgency Kaibiles unit that carried out the massacre of hundreds of residents of the Dos Erres village located in the northwest Petén region. Jordan allegedly helped kill unarmed villagers with his own hands, including a baby he allegedly threw into the village well.
The documents include U.S. Embassy cables that describe first-hand accounts by U.S. officials who traveled to the area of Dos Erres and witnessed the devastation left behind by the Kaibiles. Based on their observations and information obtained from sources during their trip, the American officials concluded "that the party most likely responsible for this incident is the Guatemalan Army."
Gracias, gracias to my new carnal Evan Rubin, of SDSU's LARC and beyond for the headsup about this link. Hit the link opposite if violence doesn't freak you out!
I don't know if this video teaches us more about Jazzercise fusing with Mexican Wrestling or, perhaps, more likely, something about the cinematically-inclined vato, director, Carlos Avila, who zapped it to me, but it undoubtedly fuses Xicanosmotically domains heretofore left asunder. Tune in! Let me know what you think in the comments!
Let the US have Andy Warhol, Mexico has Chespirito! or, to think of this singular acting metamorphosis in another way--Gómez Bolaños delivered on the promises of Walter Benjamin's "The Work Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and augured the simulation/simulcara-wet theories of Baudrillard! Either way, the shapeshifting thespian of Mexican TV rocks! More, en Ingles, aqui. or hit the image above to visit Chespirito's main site.
Gustavo "Ask A Mexican" Arellano's 3pm show tomorrow is a ONE DAY LATE CINCO DE MAYO tour de force/tour de farce; I will be on from around 3:20pm to 4:00 on LA's rad indy station, KPFK--call in and say that you are a TEXTMEXgalleryblog reader and we will try to get you on air quick!
Gracias, gracias, to Pablo Jaime Saínz, ace correspondent, writer, and reporter, for the video! More on the band that made the video/song, LOS CEZONTLES, here.
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