They’re back y’all! Not that the dynamic duo had gone anywhere to begin with. Pero, fijense nada más… as a diehard Jenny from the Block fan (y’all already knew that right) I have to say this is probably my favorite music video from La Diva Del Bronx so far. JLO and Pitbull should just keep making music together forever. As a bonus I’m also sharing their live performance at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.
http://youtu.be/CHgJ6SM8dEA
What do you say – Hit or Miss?
What’s the point of getting nice things if you can’t share them? So remember the other day I told you about Pepsi Next and their new spokesman – the one and only Mr. William Levy? Yes, that William Levy. The telenovela star, the JLO music video star, the Dancing With The Stars contestant, and probably most memorable for many of you… the uh, Cuban heartthrob that’s been taking your breath away for years now. Well anyway, as part of their campaign together Pepsi Next and William Levy have come up with a kind of new twist to an old game.
Twister. Think of it as “William Levy Twister” or “Spin The Wheel on The William.” Pos actually the real name of the game is Wheel of Levy, but the point is the folks at Pepsi Next sent it to me yesterday. Anjelica was quite giddy with the packaging for most of the evening. Still, she’s making the sacrifice and we’ve decided we want one of you to have it!
That’s right. We’re giving it away! If you want a chance at winning this William Levy prize pack leave a comment on this blog post before Monday, May 20, 2013. I will announce the winner next week and send you the game in the mail. Best of luck Levy fans!
Pos for me they’re anything but useless, but for some they might as well be trash. Thrown right in there with all of the other undesirables that we find no use for anymore right before we send them off to massive landfills. It’s funny actually. The irony of life is such that when I first moved into my current neighborhood I kept hearing people say “las ragas, las ragas.”
I didn’t know exactly what they were talking about, but my Spanglish was good enough to decipher that it had something to do with rags… tiliches, if you will. You see just a couple of streets from where I live, a couple of blocks from one of the elementary schools in the barrio, people actually work all day sorting and packing old ugly rags that nobody wanted anymore. Some of them end up in thrift stores. Probably at one near you. The better clothes that is. The rest are sold across the globe as precisely that – rags. Tiliches that can be used to clean, to soak, or to do all kinds of other stuff.
It sounds kind of crazy, it’s true. Pero, you know, for someone who grew up with a mother that used to make quilts out of old shirts, jeans and shorts, this all seems quite logical también. ¿Apoco no? For an alternate definition, of course, I consulted the old Urban Dictionary to see what they had to say.
Specially used in Costa Rica (or Central America): an all purpose word which means “unuseful thing.”
Well… that’s another way to look at it. What’s your definition of Tiliches?
I’m always on the hunt for new mexi-vocabulario.
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Se los prometo that he made the selection entirely on his own! En serio. For reals. No, but like for reals. Yesterday when I got home the first thing Edgar told me when I got off the truck was “guess who I picked for my social studies project?” I was a little confused and wasn’t entirely sure what he was talking about. ”Selena. Selena Perez! I picked Selena Perez,” he shouted excitedly smiling and looking directly at me to evaluate my reaction.
“You mean Selena Quintanilla Perez,” I responded slyly.
“I know… I forgot the Quintanilla part when I put her name down on the sheet,” he responded.
I’m not even gonna try to front. My immediate reaction – ya saben in my panzota - was excitement! Immediately I thought about how relieved I was that he had not said Selena Gomez instead. Y’all know what I’m talking about. There are actually kiddos walking around right now thinking that Selena Gomez is the biggest Selena there ever was. That’s just wrong!
“Selena was named after Selena Quintanilla Perez, mijito!” That’s always my reaction to such an offense. The kids just kind of stare at me blankly like “what?…”
My brain started working, and churning, y dando vueltas y vueltas. ”I interviewed her widower last year,” I bragged to Edgar. He didn’t really understand the significance of that. Later on Anjelica told me too who Edgar had selected for his school project.
“You have that Selena doll,” she says to me. It’s true I do. It’s a collector’s item. Don’t laugh at me! ”He can take it to school…”
“NOOOOOOO!!!!! Not my Selena doll,” I yell. Then I kind of embarrassingly retract and explain more calmly and “logically” why there ain’t no chance in hell my Selena doll is walking out of the house and into a school full of curious and careless huercos! Who knows what those kids would do to my 17 year old Selena doll that’s still neatly stored away in her original box. I also have tons of magazines from when she first passed away that I collected.
ADM! I am ridiculous!
Oh well, at least Edgar knows Bidi Bidi Bom Bom has absolutely nothing to do with Selena Gomez!
Now to make his social studies project Reina del Tex-Mex worthy!
Un chorro de dulce.
As in a lot. No, not just a little bit of a lot. But a lot of a lot. ¡Un chingo! Some might say. ¡Un chorro! To be more color de rosa with our choice of words. Not that you have to be of course.
It had been a long while since I had heard anyone say this word anymore, but just the other day someone uttered it to me in a very matter of fact way. Immediately I was jotting it down on my notes. “Now there’s a great Mexi-Vocabulario word,” I thought as I profusely jotted down chorro between the words chapeada and mandilon on my ever growing list!
My trusty friends over at the Urban Dictionary (being sarcastic there) define chorro as:
juaSpanish for the “ishts” or diareah; aka hershey squirts.
Uhm… Ewww! ¿Cómo la ven? What’s your definition of the word?
¡Ya me dieron un chorro de ganas de saber!
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So besides Filly Brown, this year, Hispanicize 2013 featured a slew of Latino films that dealt with everything from immigration to brujeria, even a little rockabilly and technological singularity. There were so many films premiering as part of the official Hispanicize Film Festival portion of the event that I wasn’t able to attend all of the screenings. I was, however, able to make a few of the sessions on the filmmaking track, and what I learned there was truly an eye opening experience. Seasoned actors, directors and producers shared their insights on why there just aren’t as many Latino films being made right now. According to the sessions I attended, it boils down to a very competitive industry and more importantly, an overall LACK of GOOD WRITERS.
That message was repeated across the board in many of the sessions over and over again. It definitely left a lasting impression for many of us. The other message I walked away with from these sessions was this one: We have to support Latino films. We have to go out and watch them in the theaters. We have to motivate new writers and filmmakers to tell our stories in an honest and respectful way. We have to put ourselves out there!
Having said that, ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce the films of Hispanicize 2013!
Blaze You Out
Dreamer
Los Wild Ones
Aftershock
Mission Park
#PostModem
Fireworks
Clara Como El Agua
Echo Bear
For a full listing of all the Hispanicize 2013 films Click Here.
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