A thank you to my former surrealism student, Olivia Hayward, now a madrileña, for this link and story!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Mexico Through the Eyes of Luis Buñuel
A thank you to my former surrealism student, Olivia Hayward, now a madrileña, for this link and story!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Witch Hunt
Freud's concept, "overdetermined," was invented for rapturous semiotic bon bons like this one! Where to begin? More soon!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The BBC on Female Mexican Wrestlers
From the story:Arena Coliseo in Mexico City is the oldest venue for lucha libre, dating back to the 1940s.Families, couples and tourists fill the stadium, but female wrestlers only appear occasionally on the bill.
Women’s wrestling lost most of its official support 11 years ago. The main wrestling associations ruled that insurance and benefits were too costly.
For a short time, coverage of the luchadoras was banned from Mexican TV for being too violent, but was quickly reinstated.
update
Gustavo Arellano writes in to tip me to a National Geographic special on Bolivian women wrestlers!!!!If comics and women wrestlers are your thing, a peek at this won't hurt.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tex[t]-Mex Sighting at Powell's Bookstore, Portland
My good friend and partner in crime, Kevin Gossett, of the Ex-Friends, sends me this snapshot of himself thrilling to the "seductive hallucinations" of a certain book by a certain author in Portland's amazing Powell's Books! A big gracias to them for being so well-stocked!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Obama Tex[t]-Mex
Laura Gutiérrez, super-cool Tucson based profe at the University of Arizona, forwarded me the most outrageous video tonight, hosted off the the servers of YouTube via TheNation.com. It seems a couple of good-old-boy entrepreneurs are marketing Obama Waffles--ha ha, get it, waffles?
The stereotyping used to impinge the former Professor of Law is worthy of Mengele's shorts depicting Jews as Rats. This shit has got to stop. What are you going to do to fight this? I am going to war!
I actually find kind of endearing the image of Obama with a pencil and a sombrero/sarape: he is both literate and Mexican at once, an icon of intellectual potentiality. Of course the sad fundamentalists "reading" this image see "pointy-headed intellectual" and "Mexican" simultaneously and tumesce with loathing and frothing. Mexicans and "Mexicans" alike can take heart that for once we are are being lumped in with the smart set! Odd, peculiar, and compelling!
Here's the video:
The stereotyping used to impinge the former Professor of Law is worthy of Mengele's shorts depicting Jews as Rats. This shit has got to stop. What are you going to do to fight this? I am going to war!
I actually find kind of endearing the image of Obama with a pencil and a sombrero/sarape: he is both literate and Mexican at once, an icon of intellectual potentiality. Of course the sad fundamentalists "reading" this image see "pointy-headed intellectual" and "Mexican" simultaneously and tumesce with loathing and frothing. Mexicans and "Mexicans" alike can take heart that for once we are are being lumped in with the smart set! Odd, peculiar, and compelling!
Here's the video:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Rita Hayworth, Charles Vidor, Gilda | When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential
updated
ORIGINALLY POSTED 2/20/07
Tex[t]-Mex's oldest chapter, the one that started it all in a way, features a mouthful of a moniker that goes by the name of "When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her Name at the Tex[t]-Mex Beauty Parlor."
If I had the chapter to write over again, I think I would have spent many more pages teasing out the allegories implicit in the Charles Vidor 1946 Rita-vehicle Gilda. Seen here, in an image whisked away from Dr. Macro's inimitable site, is the face (or is it 'faces'), that launched an existential and follicular crisis in the history of Latina figuration. The electrolysis-assisted odyssey that lead "Mexican" Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino to Hollywood bombshell Rita Hayworth, is one for the ages.
Additionally, in a clip here from via TCM that I wished I could have embedded in my book, I have also included the infamous "Mame" sequence from Gilda.
Don't think for a second that Rita (aka Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino) and Vidor, the director, are not aware of the irony of the song's lyrics.
Here, in a picture from last year, your Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblogger reveals his affections for Margarita Dolores Cansino!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 2/20/07
Tex[t]-Mex's oldest chapter, the one that started it all in a way, features a mouthful of a moniker that goes by the name of "When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her Name at the Tex[t]-Mex Beauty Parlor."
If I had the chapter to write over again, I think I would have spent many more pages teasing out the allegories implicit in the Charles Vidor 1946 Rita-vehicle Gilda. Seen here, in an image whisked away from Dr. Macro's inimitable site, is the face (or is it 'faces'), that launched an existential and follicular crisis in the history of Latina figuration. The electrolysis-assisted odyssey that lead "Mexican" Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino to Hollywood bombshell Rita Hayworth, is one for the ages.
Additionally, in a clip here from via TCM that I wished I could have embedded in my book, I have also included the infamous "Mame" sequence from Gilda.
Don't think for a second that Rita (aka Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino) and Vidor, the director, are not aware of the irony of the song's lyrics.
Here, in a picture from last year, your Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblogger reveals his affections for Margarita Dolores Cansino!
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