I don't usually like to serve as the Calender Section of your local blog, but here's an interesting event to check out this Sunday if you're in Hollywood:
An afternoon art show, a panel discussing Mexican rock from the 60s featuring a guy who recorded with Frank Zappa and an ASCO performance artist, Girl in a Coma performing Mexican rock covers from the same era (plus a Richie Valens tune), and a night time screening of the muy campy 60s Mexican rock movie A Ritmo del Twist -- at the outdoor Ford Amphitheatre.
I've been to a few of the GIAC shows in and around L.A. the last 10 days and have heard two of the band's ten Mexican rock songs they have planned. To call them mere cover songs is like saying yeah, that Jimi Hendrix, he sure can play the guitar. These sometimes corny 60s pop tunes have been stretched, modernized homaged, and flipped upside down. Like a Kinks song channeled through Sonic Youth as sung by Siouxsie Siou, all in Spanish.
I'll be there. The guy in the Pink Floyd t-shirt and the camera. Stop and say hello.
You already have your outfit planned out? I can barely think ahead to whether I have enough clean underwear. So jealous, that sounds like a great program. Haven't seen Ruben Guevara in many years, saw him do some crazy performances in SF.
Posted by: Caro | 28 September 2007 at 02:56 PM
i pretty much wear my pink floyd t-shirt all the time, not a lot of outfit planning involved unfortunately.
Posted by: jimmy | 28 September 2007 at 03:18 PM
My friend texted me during the Girl in a Coma set just to tell me how chingona they were. His words. Yesterday he sent me this link…
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/10/208003.php
LA Indymedia loves Girl in a Coma!
Posted by: katynka | 03 October 2007 at 11:47 AM