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Sing to the tune of "Desperado":
Desayuno, ¿por qué no vienes a nuestras mesas?
You've been visiting other places
Son casi diez.
¡Ay, haces tan frio!
You don't have any more pancakes.
Me gustan aquellos tanto.
¿No hacer má¡s puedes?
Con abrazos,
Erin
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Spanglish...
To the tune of Hotel California
En una autopista muy ajetreada un lugar de acogida espera
you can get whatever you want, provided it's precooked and bland
Mal sabor aguado pastelerÃa y alblandar café asÃ
still it's a cheap place to crash just between you and me...
or as the saying goes, pido disculpas profusamente...
Love, Andrea Lena
Rubaiyat
Some years ago, Elektra released the above-named album, which featured hit songs from their back catalogue played by surprising cover bands. There was "Hello, I Love You" by the Cure, "You're so Vain" by Faster Pussycat, and "Hotel California", in Spanish, by the Gipsy Kings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t:_Elektra's_40th_Anniversary
I'm on a Mexican Radio
That Spanish version of HOTEL CALIFORNIA has been receiving heavy play on the local Mexican pop stations around here for several years. I'm always hearing it coming from apartment windows or passing cars. Fitting, I suppose, since Hotel California in the town of Todos Santos, BC (no, the other BC) is supposedly the inspiration for the tune.
~hugs n' huelgas, Veronica
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(Wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V04IBsz-9Wo
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
Bueno!
Love, Andrea Lena
Right on Sister
Although I'm sure it's some famous hollywood actress or maybe Ima Sumac
your picture on the right there brings to mind Sister Juana Inez de La Cruz,
that cool Mexican lesbian feminist genius scholar poet nun back in the 17th century,
who got in trouble with the Inquisition for questioning papal infallability and writing
poetry that in its vague symbolic way was occasionally on the steamy side of Walt Whitman
and dangerously humanistic. Couldn't find a link to any of her works, but there was a cool
spanish language movie made about her back in the nineteenseventies, I forget the title,
recommended if you like Frieda & The Three Amigos. Surprised nobody here has written
a story about her. Maybe from the POV of an especially modest sister with a secret,
or something...
~hugs (I wanna be a cheerleader mermaid nun when I grow up), Ronni
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
Una Otra?
Una otra BC? Oh, yo entiendo, ahora, La otra es CB, Columbia Britannica. Por suspuesto, es en el lugar mas mejor in el mundo, Canada, mi hogar y tierra nativa. Si, es la verdad, que yo soy uno de muchos travestis chica a chico aqui en el gran notre blanco, especialmente en Vancouver. Oh, hablo un poquito de francés tambien. Y, naturalmente, frespañol, una melange à la fois!
Trap
--un chico-tomas/ garçon-tomas
I own that CD!
I love that cover version of Hotel California (imo it was the best thing about Rubaiyat), even though I'm not much of a fan of the original. I used to play the Gypsy Kings version for friends, and see whether they could guess what it was from the first few bars. Almost nobody ever did, although once you've heard it the first time it's so incredibly obvious. I always loved the "aha!" moment when the chorus arrived in English.
And then there was this - one of the finest moments in American Cinema:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/978697/the_big_lebowski_jesus_...
There is a sushi bar in Venice, CA, Hama Sushi, which has a long tradition of playing the song every night around closing time. The sushi chefs pick up their chopping boards and clap them together where the handclaps go in the song. It's not something to choose the restaurant for, but it's an indelible experience.
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