Monday blues…

About two weeks ago, Jose told his Mom, “Le doy quince dias Ma.  Quince dias para que Lupe las tiene todas enredadas en sus chismes.”  (15 days, Mom, 15 days until Lupe has you all tangled in her gossip)

Well…

He was right.  Today I received no less than 15 calls regarding yesterday’s blog.  Nice, huh?  According to her, I’m the liar.  Because I told Karina that Lupe said that…

LoL, I won’t even bore you will the details.  Let’s just say its a bunch of he said she said and there are MANY unhappy people at my suegra’s house right now!  I got the “you should no better than to gossip” lecture from Jose but whatever.  I repeated one thing to Karina…  One thing.  Lupe is making this all into some huge everyone hates Lupe fest.

Anyways.

We got out stimulus check!  Whoo-hoo.  I told Jose that Wal-Mart cashes them for free (he doesn’t trust banks very much; don’t ask) so off we went to Wal-Mart.  He looked at the flat screen TVs, but the only stuff we bought was some groceries and some Color Wonder stuff for the girls. 

Ooo… I did check out the bounce houses, though!  $199 for a VERY nice one!  He said he’ll go get it the week before the party.  And we talked about food.  I think I’ve gotten him talked into the hamburgers and hot dogs.  I really don’t feel like heating up tortillas and serving mole all afternoo, you know what I mean??  Me and Diana talked about this and we saying how we could have mayo, chopped onion, tomatoes, etc. so that people could add to the hot dogs. 

We’ll see… 

Bye!

This white girl educates you on corridos…

When I first met Jose, all music on La Maquina Musical could fit under one category:  annoying.

Be it Banda, Grupera, Nortena, Ranchera, etc.  I didn’t discriminate; I hated all of it equally for the first couple of months. 

Once I started getting a little more used to Mexican music, one particular style just didn’t mesh well with my ears.  I’m speaking of the corrido, or even more specifically, the narco corrido. 

This is what Wikipedia has to say about the narco corrido:

“A narcocorrido is a kind of Mexican music which evolved out of the norteño folk corrido tradition, using a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. Corridos have long described the poor and destitute, bandits and other criminals, as well as illegal immigrants to the United States, but the focus on drug smugglers — the “narco” in the name narcocorrido is short for narcotics — is a relatively recent phenomenon of the past 50 years. Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events, and even include real dates and places ^[1]. The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of the criminal activities.”

Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it?  Some very famous Mexican artists are famous for their narco corridos. Los Tigres Del Norte (Tigres from the North), Los Tucanes De Tijuana (Tucans from Tijuana), el Halcon De La Sierra (The Hawk from the Mountains), and El Exterminador (with all these animals up in here this guy is the Exterminator ).

Anyways…

These songs have grown on me.  I’ve actually purchased CDs from the above artists!!  Crazy, isn’t it?!  My white self grooving to Mexican guys singing in Spanish about the smuggling of drugs and other crazy illegal stuff. 

Who’d have thought…