Mexican Wrestling and More: "Super Amigos" directed by Arturo Perez Torres

Super Amigos, directed by Arturo Perez Torres

"In Mexico City, five real-life "social wrestlers" have capitalized on the popularity of Mexico's larger than life Lucha Libre wrestlers to fight for social justice rather than trophies. Wearing custom masks, costumes and capes like the wrestlers who inspired them, these anonymous grassroots superheroes protect their metropolis against injustice. Super Animal challenges bullfighters to leave the bulls alone and fight him instead. After a savage beating kills his boyfriend, Super Gay becomes a champion of gay rights, fighting rampant homophobia. Ecologista Universal battles environmental destruction of every kind, all on foot. Super Barrio is the defender of poor tenants, helping them resist evictions by slumlords cashing in on gentrification. With a mixture of live action, comic book-style animation and a surf guitar soundtrack inspired equally by mariachi music and Batman, Super Amigos shows that with a little imagination, a good heart and the right mask, anyone can activate their communities to triumph over evil."

Lucha Libre Xicanosmosis: Warrior Official Video - Mark Foster, A-Trak, and Kimbra | Mexican Wrestling as Part of the Renaissance of Latina/o Semiotic Figuration

Thanks to Carlos Avila, for the linkazo! More info on the video here.

easter island luchadores

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http://eyegiene.tumblr.com/post/20233871338/casi-pero-no-el-club-de-la-lucha-by-la-tete

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...

Blue Demon Poster | Wrong Side of the Art

...a new cine luchador classic at Wrong Side of the Art:

Classic Mexican Cinema Poster Featuring: THE BLUE DEMON

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Flat Out Cool OBEDECE Shepher

Rolling Jesus y los Apóstoles! The Last Lucha!

Dan Brown can call of the Opus Dei and the crazy-eyed albino dude. The Last Supper painting mystery has been revealed. Here's the real truth landscaped in skateboards. Click for images of The Last Fiesta by artist Chris Parks.

This is gorgeous. Thanks to our friends at Boingboing for the tip.

Mextasy: Classic Santo Mexican Wrestling Poster! Lucha Libr...

Mextasy: Classic Santo Mexican Wrestling Poster!

Luchador Ubiquity: Paris Edition via BoingBoing.net

Tonight! Thurs. May 20th @ 7pm at theFRONT in San Ysidro, CA! Forget El Santo VERSUS the Blue Demon! It's Gustavo Arellano vs. Memo Nericcio REMATCH

First there was the thriller in Fullerton! Then, the memorable battle royale in Barrio Logan! Now, the action comes to SAN YSIDRO! Click the image on the right to peruse a a somewhat vulgar Luchadora-meets-Nostradamus' prediction of the outcome!

What's going down? Gustavo Arellano, reading from ASK A MEXICAN & ORANGE COUNTY: A PERSONAL MEMOIR; and Bill Nericcio, reading from TEX{T}-MEX and EYEGIENE

When? Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 7pm

WHERE? theFRONT in San Ysidro {map}

How much? FREE

Why? Rasquache Subterranean Cultural Play!

Who? YOU! You HAVE to come.....

Click the poster--it grows! {more below}

Here's the press release from theFRONT @ casa familiar en San Ysidro:

Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 13:58:45 -0700
Subject: Arellano vs Nericcio
From: monica hernandez

Join us for a night of laughter, discussion, contemplation, beers and action-packed punchlines as we host the very funny and talented Gustavo Arellano and Bill Nericcio. This is a book reading you do not want to miss!

In one corner we have Gustavo Arellano - anaheim native and staff writer for the OC weekly - an alternative newspaper in Orange County and contributing editor to the LA Times Op/Ed pages. You may know him better as "that one mexican" from the ¡Ask A Mexican! column that won the 2006 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for the best column in a largecirculation weekly or you may have seen him throw down on the Today show, Nightline, NPR's On the Media, The Situation with Tucker Carlson or in The Colbert Report. Word on the street is that he also mows lawns.

And in the other corner we have William Anthony Nericcio, aka "Memo," aka "Bill", aka "El Post-Movimiento Chicano" aka "El Profe" de SDSU Department of English & Comp Lit, Chicana/o Studies & Center for Latin American Studies & Director of MALAS program (Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Science). He infamous trajectory includes earlier postings at the University of Connecticut and Cornell where he underwent jedi training with mentors Carlos Fuentes, Gayatri Spivak and Henry Louis Gates Jr. among other ninjas.

For more info on these two contendors you can check out their sites at http://www.askamexican.net and http://textmex.blogspot.com/


cool! thanks to the mod/rad web 2.0 dexterity of the wizards at theFRONT, you can now RSVP for thursday's gig.... go ahead, hit the panic button and RSVP!

more info FACEBOOK LINK.

Breaking News... Cantua will be there with the music!
Hit the image below and have a listen...

here's a variation of the poster:


nota bene: the event is also the opening night party for XICANOHOLIC: DREAMS, NIGHTMARES, and HALLUCINATIONS, a mixed-media art show featuring the work of Guillermo Nericcio García.

Xicanosmotic Typeface! Lucha Libre HELVETICA

More Luchador Fun!

Xicanosmosis: Jazzercise Meets Lucha Libre

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!

More Luchador/Mexican Wrestling Goodness from Carlos Avila | LUCHA LORDS EDITION

For the rad LUCHA LORDS site, hit the image above; and also be sure to check out Scarlett Johansson (as BLACK WIDOW) rip-off Mexican Wrestling moves in Iron Man II in this HDclip:

Lucha Libre Hits the US Mainstream

Gracias to Carlos Avila for the story--hit the image for the luchador skinny.

Bear-Wrestling Raza!!!! A Cool Lucha Libre, Mexican Wrestling Featurette on Vimeo.com

Gracias and a huge tip of the sombrero to Carlos Avila, of Foto-Novelas and Cold Case fame, for zapping me this piece! Hit the image above for the video...

BoingBoing.net on VICTOR GASTELUM

Heather Levi's THE WORLD OF LUCHA LIBRE

...Just time for a quick link, hit it opposite, to a 2008 Duke University Press volume called The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity; I am in debt to pulpCINEmaven Carlos Avila for bringing this volume to my attention. More on Levi's study shortly.

Lucha Libre SANTO Poster Exhibit AND Teatro Chicano Invade Laredo, Texas!

A big tip of the somebrero to Debbie Jacaman, our new Laredo-based correspondent, for sending in updates on the cultural scene en Laredo, Tejas, USA. Hit the images above for the lowdown.