#John Chicano

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John Chicano wins Powerman Malaysia 2024 elite male duathlon gold medal, teammates win medals for Philippines

Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) multi-medalist John Chicano led the Philippines to the top of the Powerman Malaysia 2024 by winning the gold medal of the Elite Male contest yesterday which was an improvement over last year’s race, according to a Manila Bulletin sports news report. Chicano also has teammates who won medals as well. The official results can be viewed by clicking here. To put…

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John Valadez, Couple Balam, 1978/80

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Meet Cannibal and The Headhunters, a Chicano opener for the Beatles in their second US tour in 1965. This post will just be brief information about their presence on the tour, if you’d like a full fledged post in regards to Cannibal and The Headhunters and their history please feel free to know.

Cannibal and The Headhunters had gained popularity due to their remake of Christophe Kenner’s “Land of a 1000 Dances”, which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. This was huge for a young Chicano group. from East L.A. They had the iconic “na,na, na” which is still referenced to this day.

In 1965, The Beatles embarked on their second US tour. At the time, Paul had had asked the east Los Angeles group to join them on their tour throughout August 15 to August 31st— he saw them on a Hullabaloo episode and requested them which tracks because Paul loved TV.

As of today, there is no available footage of their performance online especially their Hollywood Bowl performance, as fans were cheering “We want The Beatles!” throughout opening acts.

May Frankie Garcia RIP.

Image above to the top left: Paul Mccartney with Frankie “Cannibal” Garcia.

Image to the top right: Cannibal and The Headhunters band image.

Bottom: Promotional poster for the The Beatles US 1965 tour.

Listen to their cover of Land of 1000 Dances here:

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John Valadez (Mexican-American b. 1951, lives and works in Los Angeles), Car Show, 2001. Oil on canvas, 76 x 96¼ x 4 in. | 193 x 244.4 x 10.2 cm. 

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This sounds dumb but during my first hours of playing Red dead redemption 2

I actually thought The Marston family were Mexicans (More like Chicano coded ) before learning they were white Americans

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have you ever read aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe? its quite cool :)

I have! I haven't read the sequel yet, but I intend to at some point. I'll have to borrow it from my sister; I own the first book and she owns the second.

I thought it quaint and enjoyable, a sweet quick read. Of course I loved having queer mexican american main characters, as I'm a queer mexican american. Though I grew up a little to the left geographically, so some differences there--the decade as well. Ari had an amusing internal voice and narration given how dry and morose he was.

Not what I usually read, but pleasant nonetheless! I think I'll have fun with the sequel too :)

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Triste and Dreamer, CA. 2022

John Valadez

Edition of 100 + 10AP

Copyright ©️ Eastern Projects Gallery

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Hey happy WBW! I'm invading your inbox with a music ask! Is there a particular artist or genre or even song that gets you really in the zone for writing/your world/your story?

Taking a break from studying to finally answer this!

I would call myself a lover of music, generally. I have playlists for all my characters with various instrumental songs that fit their vibe, since I can't do lyrics when I write. These are all quite the hodgepoge of video game and movie soundtracks, classical music, jazz, and other weird stuff I find.

Besides that, I have a few songs with lyrics that I think fit my characters quite well! Let's go through the list :)

Izjik: The Invasion From Within by Tsunami Bomb, Bet my Brains by Starcrawler

Sepo: Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, Soup is Good Food by the Dead Kennedys

Twenari: Idea/Intent by The Beths, Oh! by the Linda Lindas

Djek: You Are Going To Hate This by The Frights, around the world by m.o.v.e

(Growing Up by the Linda Lindas is a bonus Djek and Twenari song because they really are siblings)

Astra: Night of the Living Ted by The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Supersonic by Bad Religion

Mashal: My Name by Noah Floersch, Call Me, Call Me by Steve Conte

Ivander: Dear John by I Monster, Black Lipstick by Chicano Batman

Elsind: Little Sister Song by Kid Sistr, On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz

Avymere: Alone in Miami by Remi Wolf, I Kill Spies by Agent Orange

(Bonus Astra/Mashal songs with credit to @mk-writes-stuff and @sableglass for the suggestions: The Reckoming by Dom Fera, Punk Rock Girl by Streetlight Manifesto)

Faalgun: Dead Man Walking by Brent Faiyaz

Nyda: superiority complex (big noise) by illuminati hotties

Kaulakri: Horseradish by Small Fools

Pash: Kim by POM

Anarac: The Night has a Thousand Eyes by Paul Desmond, Private Life by Oingo Boingo

As an aside, all of the choices were purely vibes based. Lyrics play a minor role - it's mostly how the song makes me feel.

Thanks for the ask!

(I will be putting my taglist with this because it is my sworn duty to indoctrinate people with my music taste)

@amandacanwrite @elsie-writes @riveriafalll @kosmic-kore @kaylinalexanderbooks

@bard-coded @carrotsinnovember @patternwelded-quill @somethingclevermahogony @whatwewrotepodcast

@the-angriest-author @mk-writes-stuff @frostedlemonwriter @vyuntspakhkite-l-darling @watermeezer

@leahnardo-da-veggie @mr-orion @televisionjester @ray-writes-n-shit @evilgabe29

@trippingpossum @tragedycoded @halfbakedspuds @ominous-feychild @cain-e-brookman

@wyked-ao3 @thecomfywriter @mysticstarlightduck @rumeysawrites @the-golden-comet

@cowboybrunch @gioiaalbanoart @theink-stainedfolk @sableglass @thelaughingstag

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Scared Shitless in Seattle didn’t know how to cope. In 2022, consumed by the dread of climate change and the shame of their sexuality, they wrote into ¡Hola Papi!, the popular online advice column. “Ultimately, you’re right to be afraid. I’m afraid,” Papi responded, lovingly and precise. “But fear isn’t the only thing.”

Like every ¡Hola Papi! column, it was unflinchingly candid, incorporating all the hallmarks readers have come to enjoy: humor and pathos, love and sincerity, the occasional food reference. If you’ve ever read one of his columns, you know that nothing is off limits for Papi: threesomes, friendship drama, what to do when you are the weekend boyfriend, energy vampires, even, yes, our sometimes shared existential doom.

Papi was born John Paul Brammer, and grew up a closeted Catholic school kid in rural Oklahoma, a town so small Brammer’s mother was his ninth-grade English teacher. He was, he confesses, “always a little bit desperate to get out” of his hometown. After college he landed in DC, where he picked up work as a blogger for “one of those content mills,” he says. “I did a lot of clickbait articles, like, ‘With One Tweet Nancy Pelosi Just Slayed Republicans’—that kind of thing. I was responsible for a lot of the junk that you saw on the internet.”

But the job had hidden benefits. “I learned what makes people click on things and how to snag people’s attention in the blurry digital sea of the internet,” Brammer says. “I figured out what a unique voice looks like.”

It eventually paid off. When an opportunity arose, in 2017, to author a column, he unleashed ¡Hola Papi! into the world. It couldn’t have happened at a better time, Brammer tells me. He was trapped in freelance purgatory, writing for half a dozen outlets but not really making a splash like he’d wanted.

“My clearest distillation of that timeline was, I'm on the M train going from Ridgewood to 30 Rock, and I am exhausted because I didn't sleep the night before because I was up talking to some Russian source over the phone about the gay purge in Chechnya and I could barely understand what they were saying through their accent, and I'm on train composing a Teen Vogue puff piece in the Notes app on my iPhone about how Kylie Jenner matched her dress with her fidget spinner, and I just want to die.”

It was during that period that a friend, who just so happened to work at Grindr, suggested he contribute to their just-launched LGBTQ+ editorial website, called Into, a cheeky reference to gay hookup app parlance. Before long, Brammer’s column established him as the Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.

Today, in addition to his column, Brammer is also an author, illustrator, and essayist. From his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, he opened up about navigating doubt, living with cynicism, and why he’s never quitting Twitter, er, X.

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ON THIS DATE (54 YEARS AGO)

September 23, 1970 - Santana: Abraxas is released.

# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 5/5 (MUST HAVE)

# Allmusic 5/5

# Rolling Stone (see original review below)

Abraxas is the second studio album by Santana, released on September 23, 1970. It reached #1 on the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart and #3 on the R&B Albums chart. The single "Oye Como Va" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #32 on the R&B singles charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 205 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Abraxas was deemed "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in their National Recording Registry in 2016.

Consolidating their live success at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and the interest generated by their first album the band took some time to issue a follow-up. Abraxas mix of rock, blues, jazz, salsa and other influences made it a classic that defined Santana's early sound, and showed a musical maturation from their first album.

Abraxas features a mixture of Latin influences with familiar rock themes such as overdriven electric guitar, organ and heavy drums. The album also demonstrates Santana's stylistic versatility, including tracks such as "Samba Pa Ti" (a classic slow-burning piece) and "Incident at Neshabur", both being instrumentals. The latter has several rhythm and time signature changes consistent with its jazz feel. Latin percussion — congas, bongos and timbales, as well as a conventional rock drum setup, make this Santana's first foray into true Latin rhythm.

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COVER

The album cover features the 1961 painting Annunciation by German-French painter Mati Klarwein. According to the artist, it was one of the first paintings he did after relocating to New York City. Carlos Santana reportedly noticed it in a magazine and asked that it be on the cover of the band's upcoming album. The cover is now considered a classic of rock album covers.

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RECORD WORLD, October 3, 1970 – PICK HITS

ABRAXAS SANTANA—Columbia KC 30130. Santana's second album will break them up all over the place. These first truly successful exponents of Latinrock (plus extra secret ingredient) interpret the work of Tito Puente, Gabor Szabo and themselves on this sizzling, cooking handsome package.

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ORIGINAL ROLLING STONE REVIEW

Carlos Santana is one of the three new guitarists who border on B. B. King's cleanliness. His only two contemporaries are Eric Clapton and Michael Bloomfield, but Santana is playing Latin music and there are no other Latin bands using lead guitars. The paradoxical thing about Santana has been their acceptance by a teenybop audience that digs Grand Funk and Ten Years After when they should be enjoyed by people who are into Chicago and John Mayall.

The heart of Santana is organist Gregg Rolie and bassist Dave Brown, who hold the rhythm together over which the percussion unit can jam and bounce. Timbales, congas (Puerto Rican) and drums take off on Brown's rhythm and then Santana himself comes in to make his statements on lead guitar.

Carlos Santana is a Chicano and he loves the guitar, which has always been used heavily in Mexican music. He has perfected a style associated with blues and cool jazz and crossed it with Latin music. It works well, because the band is one of the tightest units ever to walk into a recording studio. Of white bands, only Chicago can equal their percussion, but Chicago is held together by horns, while Santana is held together by timbales and congas.

"Oye Como Va" is the highlight of the album. It's only weakness is that Roli's fine organ has been mixed too low. This is a different trip for Santana, much more into the styles of the younger Puerto Rican musicians in New York, like Orchestra DJ and Ray Olan, and farther from the Sly trip that dominated their first album. Unless you really dig Latin music or some of the middle period work of Herbie Mann and the Jazz Messengers, you may not enjoy this cut or the album at all.

Abraxas is one of the new independent productions for Columbia done at Wally Heider's studio, and bass player Dave Brown did much of the engineering. The album he has helped to come up with may lose Santana some of their younger audience, but is bound to win them respect from people interested in Latin jazz music. On Abraxas, Santana is a popularized Mono Santamaria and they might do for Latin music what Chuck Berry did for the blues.

The major Latin bands in this country gig for $100 a night, and when you see them, you can't sit still. If Santana can reach the pop audience with Abraxas, then perhaps there will be room for the old masters like La Lupe and Puente to work it on out at the ballrooms. But for now, Abraxas is a total boogie and the music is right from start to finish. (RS 73)

~ Jim Nash (December 24, 1970)

TRACKS:

1. "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts" (Carabello) - 4:51

2. "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" (Green/Szabo) - 5:22

3. "Oye Como Va" (Puente) - 4:16

4. "Incident at Neshabur" (Gianquinto, Santana) - 4:57

Side two

1. "Se a Cabo" (Areas) - 2:50

2. "Mother's Daughter" (Rolie) - 4:25

3. "Samba Pa Ti" (Santana) - 4:54

4. "Hope You're Feeling Better" (Rolie) - 4:11

5. "El Nicoya" (Areas) - 1:30

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Philippines wins gold and silver medals across varied categories at the Powerman Malaysia 2023 Duathlon

Welcome back my readers and sports fans! The Philippines achieved victories in specific categories during the recent Powerman Malaysia 2023 Duathlon according to a Manila Bulletin sports news report reflecting the official race results published. The Filipino duathlete who won the silver medal in the Elite Men’s race was John Chicano who previously won medals in the Southeast Asian Games (SEA…

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The workers of Chicano Park.

Barrio Logan, San Diego

John Dishwasher's Zine #20

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Song Review: Los Cenzontles feat. David Hidalgo - “A Rainy Night in SoHo”

Los Cenzontles’ recording of “A Rainy Night in SoHo” is both quite similar to and radically divergent from the Pogues’ original.

This is the brilliance of the track, recorded with Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo on vocals, accordion and percussion, as both a tribute to Shane MacGowan, who died in 2023, and for Los Cenzontles’ forthcoming Covers 3 project.

“It is a glorious song,” Los Cenzontles’ Eugene Rodriguez sid in a statement. “Now we have a Chicano version.”

This “SoHo” remains a languid waltz. But the new version is transplanted from Ireland to the U.S./Mexico boarder, with Hidalgo at the fore and a Mariachi arrangement that marches with Hidalgo’s snare drum on the outro.

Due in June, Covers 3 will feature Los Cenzontles’ interpretations of songs by Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, John Prine, the Rolling Stones and others in what’s described as an album “celebrating cross-cultural connections.” If “A Rainy Night in SoHo” is any indication, it’ll be a joy to hear.

Grade card: Los Cenzontles feat. David Hidalgo - “A Rainy Night in SoHo” - A

4/16/24

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John Valadez (Mexican-American b. 1951, lives and works in Los Angeles), Chaos, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 144 in.

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LEGENDS OF GUITAR: The Man . . The Myth . . The Guitar. Johnny Winter was the first white Texas bluesman to make it on a big scale. In 1968, he released his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment. Soon after Johnny met the Chicago Blues guitarist Michael Bloomfield, who invited Winter to join him and Al Kooper on stage at the Fillmore East during a December 1968 performance. Columbia Records officials at the show were very impressed and signed Johnny to a very large advance, $600,000. Johnny Winter’s first Columbia Records release was logically titled Johnny Winter and included the same personnel as The Progressive Blues Experiment; bassist Tommy Shannon, drummer Uncle John Turner, and Edgar Winter on keyboards and saxophone. It was a major success. Second Winter followed in 1969 plus great success in concerts – and an affair with Janis Joplin – that led to an historic Madison Square Garden concert. Winter went on to play in the Muddy Waters Band and paired with just about every top Blues artist of the 1970s and 80s. Three albums produced by Winter for Muddy Waters, Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1979) have won Grammy Awards. Several of Winter’s own albums were also nominated for Grammy Awards and in 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

Decades on from his death, Stevie Ray Vaughan is still being discovered by new generations. In the decades since his passing, SRV’s impact on the music scene has become more and more pronounced. His influence – his searing guitar style, eloquent songwriting and consummate musicianship – is undeniable on the new generation of blues rockers like Joe Bonamassa, Philip Sayce and John Mayer, while his classic albums such as Texas Flood and Couldn’t Stand The Weather are now justifiable stalwarts of the blues canon. His music seemed to unite everyone: tattooed Chicano bikers, besuited lawyers and crystal-carrying New Agers. The sound of Stevie Ray’s stinging Strat and gritty voice went directly to the hearts of the huddled masses. You see, that old blues adage is true: What goes around comes around . . May their memory endure.

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