30 grudnia 2005
The Pot Calling The Kettle Not Brown
Grey Baloon [sic] put up a fake press release on his website for a Calexico "greatest hits album." Now, he claims that an editor at No Depression took it seriously. Sure they did Luke, now get over yourself.
The fake press release refers to Calexico's music as "Mexploitation." I've heard a few, not many, Latinos in town complain about "those white guys" playing Mexican music. First of all, what they do isn't really Mexican music, it is definitely soaked in border culture, but they are basically a folky rock band that borrows from Mexican (and Portuguese!) music. Guess what? This has been done for well over a generation, you can look back at musicians as diverse as Herb Alpert, Love and Johnny Cash to see it.
The other thing I find funny about this is that we want Anglos to listen to and appreciate Mexican music, don't we think that one will pick up a guitar and try to play it? Imitation is the...never mind.
Granted, Joey Burns and John Convertino did not grow up listening to Latino music. Maybe if they did, this attitude toward them would not exist. Burns was born in Canada, which makes him the anti-Chicano.
Admitedly, this is not a common attitude that I have encountered. And frankly, Luke "I Can't Spell Balloon" Knipe is the last guy that should see himself as the defender of the purity of Latino music. This is a guy that refered to a nationally recognized mariachi group as "Mexicans wearing costumes." Frankly, local Hispanic culture doesn't need him protecting it from "exploitation."
Besides, didn't the guy move away from here because we were all petty? Why the heck is he still writing about us then?
Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.
The fake press release refers to Calexico's music as "Mexploitation." I've heard a few, not many, Latinos in town complain about "those white guys" playing Mexican music. First of all, what they do isn't really Mexican music, it is definitely soaked in border culture, but they are basically a folky rock band that borrows from Mexican (and Portuguese!) music. Guess what? This has been done for well over a generation, you can look back at musicians as diverse as Herb Alpert, Love and Johnny Cash to see it.The other thing I find funny about this is that we want Anglos to listen to and appreciate Mexican music, don't we think that one will pick up a guitar and try to play it? Imitation is the...never mind.
Granted, Joey Burns and John Convertino did not grow up listening to Latino music. Maybe if they did, this attitude toward them would not exist. Burns was born in Canada, which makes him the anti-Chicano.
Admitedly, this is not a common attitude that I have encountered. And frankly, Luke "I Can't Spell Balloon" Knipe is the last guy that should see himself as the defender of the purity of Latino music. This is a guy that refered to a nationally recognized mariachi group as "Mexicans wearing costumes." Frankly, local Hispanic culture doesn't need him protecting it from "exploitation."
Besides, didn't the guy move away from here because we were all petty? Why the heck is he still writing about us then?
Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.
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Joey keeps saying in interviews and in public that he's getting away from the Mariachi thing on the new CD. We'll see. Personally, as an Anglo who sites his favorite band as Mexico City's Cafe Tacuba, I love it. This makes them an easy target. Whatever.
Oh yeah, Calexico is a national...no, wait...INTERnational band, thus wide-open for parody. Maggie Goldstein...not so much. Poor thing.
Seeya at the show tonight (which you didn't bother mentioning for some reason--I guess Cia did--phsyche!) when Calexico plays the Temple. If they let me in...
James
Oh yeah, Calexico is a national...no, wait...INTERnational band, thus wide-open for parody. Maggie Goldstein...not so much. Poor thing.
Seeya at the show tonight (which you didn't bother mentioning for some reason--I guess Cia did--phsyche!) when Calexico plays the Temple. If they let me in...
James
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: piątek, grudnia 30, 2005 3:14:00 PM
: piątek, grudnia 30, 2005 3:14:00 PM 
Excluding an affirmed disgust for David Slutes, I never actually mean much of what I'm saying. It worries me when Grey Baloon gets people all worked up. OF COURSE GB is supposed to be fearlessly ignorant and absurd. That's the point. It's entertainment, get it?
Not entertained? Stop reading it. If everybody else did, then I could stop writing it. (Don't think for a moment that I don't get sick of it sometimes.) But if there's anything stupider than the Grey Baloon, it's some guy engaging in serious commentary about the Grey Baloon. Get a life, Tedsky. Pollock jokes don't deserve the creedence fellas like you lend them.
Not entertained? Stop reading it. If everybody else did, then I could stop writing it. (Don't think for a moment that I don't get sick of it sometimes.) But if there's anything stupider than the Grey Baloon, it's some guy engaging in serious commentary about the Grey Baloon. Get a life, Tedsky. Pollock jokes don't deserve the creedence fellas like you lend them.
# posted by : poniedziałek, stycznia 02, 2006 12:37:00 AM
: poniedziałek, stycznia 02, 2006 12:37:00 AM
I wondered when you'd find me, Luke.
You mispelled Tedski...the name isn't Russian or Ukranian, it's Polish. You've got Neko on the brain.
And you misspelled "polack." A "pollock" is a fish related to the cod.
You mispelled Tedski...the name isn't Russian or Ukranian, it's Polish. You've got Neko on the brain.
And you misspelled "polack." A "pollock" is a fish related to the cod.
GB,
do you want your mothers politcial record as a judge discussed?? lets see what the weekly has to say about Terry Chandler, shall we?
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/currents/Content?oid=oid:54441
---Spanky
do you want your mothers politcial record as a judge discussed?? lets see what the weekly has to say about Terry Chandler, shall we?
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/currents/Content?oid=oid:54441
---Spanky
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