El Santo, the Vimeo description says, is a “Real New-Mexican Story for Real Lovers.” We’ve watched it a buncha times and were not sure what it means or if we are one of those “real lovers” in the intended audience, but we like what we see. [Video by K48 PRODUCTIONS … in Milano of all places.] Also, be careful of strangely glowing cocktails with with bugs inside.
Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
NAFTA? It sounds something like this … (video)
What’s this? A long shot of a factory with three banderas? Videographer No Cinema explains:
Paco Estrada, Brandon Callies as The Heart of the City: ‘The River’ (video)
The River is new video from Brandon Callies (Black Tie Vendetta, Brandon Callies and The American Revival) of Austin and Paco Estrada (SouthFM, Paco Estrada and One Love) of Dallas.
But The Heart of the City — as these Texans call themselves — won’t let life get them down.
Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)
Crickets are very efficient in turning dirt and air and water and other critters into big fat delicious grillos, much more efficient than cattle who drink water like it falls from the sky and fart like they’re not breathing the same damn air as ustedes and me. And grillos are traditional, indigenous, and delicious! Bay Area bug maven Monica Martinez of DON BUGITO explains.
PREVIOUSLY ON CRICKETS:
Mas…Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)
In the Great White North, fish tacos are good FUUD (video)
Canadian meal kit delivery company FUUD wants you to cook up six Chilli Lime Fish Tacos with spicy kimchi and cabbage and cilantro and (flour) tortillas and even the soda water to make the tempura batter.
The Vancouver FUUD thang looks way better than this “authentic” Canadian taco kit:
Mas…In the Great White North, fish tacos are good FUUD (video)
Samantha Bee: Undocumented immigrants make your food (video)
Samantha Bee stops by the City of Brotherly Love’s South Philly Barbacoa and learns about the vital roles immigrants (undocumented and documented) play in making the food we eat.
The Legend of The Wolf Woman/La Loba, The Bone Woman/La Huesera (video)
La Loba, from film student Margarete Laue re-imagines the traditional Mexican folk tale popularized by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves:
She creeps and crawls and sifts through the mountains and dry riverbeds, looking for wolf bones.
Hot enough for you? In CDMX you can get tacos de helado! (video)
Hot under the collar in Mexico City? Tizne Tacomotora has ice cream tacos!
‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
In the brand new music video I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew, Dave draws the first page of his comic book and excitedly shows it to his friend Lei Lei. Lei Lei, however, is not impressed.
Hollywood comic hero Mel Brooks was not impressed either. Here’s Oscar-winning The Critic from 1963:
Mas…‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
The U.S. was once known as ‘a nation of immigrants’ — now, not so much (video)
A Mexican cleaning lady in New York Ctiy learns that the “nation of immigrants” is not so friendly these days. Based on a true story, Let My People Stay is by Olivia G. Jimenez.
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe teach modern discipline
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe teach modern discipline
La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
‘Carmelita’ by Warren Zevon: Life, death, mariachis, and heroin in Echo Park (live video, lyrics)
The late musical genius Warren Zevon was in Ensendada, no maybe he was in Echo Park. And maybe he OD’d on heroin, or not. He did hear “mariachi static on his radio,” however. The live video is from 1977.
Mira los lyrics:
We used to have a man in the White House we could be proud of; Joan Baez explains in ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace’ (video)
At the memorial service in Charleston, S.C. for the victims of a white wing racist terrorist, Barack Obama, the last real President of the United States, joined the congregation of mourners. What he did on that day became a song by Zoe Mulford, performed here by Xicana OG activist Joan Baez and animated in pastel watercolors by Jeff Scher. [EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s OK to cry.]
Video via The Atlantic.