#angel del villar

[astoldbychae]

Messiah "Dino" Villareal (Adult, 30-somethingish Grown Ass Man)

Yup, you most certainly read that correctly...Meet Jacques Villareal's eldest son. During one of Jacques' business ventures in Selvadorada 30-something years ago, he met a Selvadoradian young woman by the name of Maríelle. She was beautiful, intelligent, witty, charismatic, and she didn't shy away from his life of crime; a combination that made Jacques weak in the knees. Their connection was magnetic. Although he was currently married to his first wife, things were moving fast between the two & he couldn't let Marielle slip away. She began to assist Jacques as a runner for his "business"...until she became pregnant with Dino.

Not wanting to be apart from one another, Jacques moved his secret family back to Windenburg, literally 15 minutes away from the house he shared with his first wife. Enrolling Dino in the most prestigious private daycare. Everything was going great...until it was time for Dino to enroll in Preschool, Maríelle had found out about Jacques' marriage and arguments ensued. After failing to convince him to leave his wife, she broke the golden rule (don't get high off your own supply)...and became addicted to the powder. Honestly, she was using here-and-there beforehand but nothing too heavily, it worsened when she couldn't convince him to leave his wife.

At that point life took a turn for the worse. Jacques disowned them and left Maríelle to raise their child on her own. Addiction and all. Growing up Dino was a problem child, he stayed in trouble. Which essentially led to him getting involved with the wrong crowd & landed him in prison at the age of 19. After serving his [redacted] year sentence, he was released on good behavior. After his release he moved to Del Sol Valley and attempted to settle down with his on-again-off-again girlfriend (Chana) and they had a daughter together. Things were looking up for these two, he managed to open a few clubs and even proposed to his girl. She said yes! They were engaged for 6 months...until she broke off the engagement. She found out that he fathered another child with Prue (one of the girls at his club)...Honey, I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree...

However, one thing that he gets right is being an active/present father. He has two daughters; Amiri (child) and Carina (infant) and two Rottie's (Dinero and Mija). Although he's got a lot on his plate, He's also got his eye on a special someone at the club...I- 😑

Born/Raised: Selvadorada/Windenburg

Aspiration: Villainous Valentine

Ambition(s): Own a Club or Lounge in every major city across Simerica

Traits: Erratic, Romantic, Jealous

Lifestyle(s) in progress: Adrenaline Seeker

Degrees: Graduated from the School of Hard Knocks (IYKYK)

Occupation: Strip Club Owner (The Blue Velvet in Willow Creek, Onyx Del Sol Valley), Co-Owner of Bella's Lounge in Windenburg, Also currently in the process of opening a dispensary in Evergreen Harbor (with his brotha-from-anotha-motha, Knox Greenburg).

If you're wondering, Dino hasn't had contact with his father since he was about 4 (maybe 5ish) and he hasn't met any of Jacques' other children (since they weren't born until years after he was born). Dino is like 6 years older than Hugo, since Hugo's a Young Adult. As for his mother, unfortunately, she passed away while he was in prison. He makes sure to find his way back to Windenburg every year on Mother's Day and her Birthday, just to put fresh flowers on her grave.

📌 consider him a minorish character in angel's interlude

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Artist Talk: Miguel Arzabe and Daniela Rivera from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 6:30pm SFAC Main Gallery

Join exhibiting artists Miguel Arzabe and Daniela Rivera for a conversation about their work and process. Moderated by Matthew Villar Miranda, curatorial associate at Berkeley Art Museum.

This program is planned in conjunction with the exhibition Praxis of Local Knowledge on view at the SFAC Main Gallery through August 17, 2024.

About the Panelists Miguel Arzabe is a visual artist who lives and works in Oakland. He had recent solo shows at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA). Arzabe’s work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, the CCA Wattis Institute, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Arzabe’s work is held in public collections such as the Harn Museum in Gainesville, Florida, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, the State of California, as well as numerous private collections. He has attended many residencies including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Millay Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2022 Arzabe was awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award. In 2023 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and and a Golden Foundation Residency. In 2024 he was a SECA award finalist.

Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontifcia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including Santiago, Chile, as well as in the United States. She has been awarded residencies at Loghaven, Headland Center for the Arts, Surf Point, Proyecto ACE in Buenos Aires, Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the Skowhegan School of Paintings and Sculpture. And she has been the recipient of notable fellowships and grants including from The Chiaro Award, The Rappaport Prize, Now + There, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, VSC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, The FONDART in Chile, and the Saint Botolph Club foundation Distinguish Artist Award. Recent or upcoming exhibitions include: New Worlds, NMWA, Washington DC, 2024, Donde el Cielo Toca la Tierra, Matucana 100, Santiago Chile, 2024, Praxis of Local Knowledge, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, Labored Landscapes; Where The Sky Touches the Earth, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fragmentos para una Historia del Olvido/ Fragments for a History of Displacement, The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (2018–2019); En Busca de los Andes, solo exhibition with Proyecto ACE, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2019); Sobremesa (Karaoke Politics), a public art project developed as her Now + There Accelerator Fellowship.

Matthew Villar Miranda (he/they/siya) is Curatorial Associate at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In their former position as Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center, they worked on exhibitions by Julie Mehretu, Pao Houa Her, Paul Chan, and Pacita Abad. They serve on the Board of Stakeholders Museums Moving Forward (MMF), a Ford and Mellon Foundation-funded initiative of an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. In 2021, they co-curated the Art for Justice Fund-supported exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration at the Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM). They received their BA in History of Art from UC Berkeley (2013) and graduated among the inaugural class of ASU-Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master's Fellowship in Art History (2021).

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

He estrenado el CHROME BOOK PLUS viendo un video de SENSACION DE VIVIR donde salen los malogrados MATTHEW "PERRY" [52] y LUKE "PERRY" [54] con la malograda SHANNEN DOHERTY [53] y el único vivo Jason PRIEST_LEY [CURA_LAW]..parece que QUIERE IMPRESIONAR a SHANNEN conduciendo su PORSCHE como LOCO [Dylan dice que lo que tiene es un DESEO DE MUERTE]..y llega a su casa con sus raquetas de TENIS cuando el padre habla de acciones del OPEN de NEW YORK y que no le importa lo que piensen en TOKYO..y tiene la carta por el que le van a negar a su hijo ir a STANFORD donde Steve JOBS de APPLE dio un discurso bajo un SOL DE justicia ..diciendo que solo se pueden conectar los puntos o hechos hacia atrás.. y decía haber superado su cáncer entonces con 50 años

He puesto de fondo de pantalla las 4 torres de Madrid con la LUNA ROJA [cancion de SODA STEREO de la que donaron sus regalias o derechos]..sobre la TORRE Cepsa [diseñada por Norman FOSTER casado con la SEXOLOGA Elena OCHOA famosa porque tuvo un programa sobre SEXO en la TV ESPAÑOLA] o la opuesta a TORRE EMPERADOR [antes ESPACIO cuando su dueño era VILLAR MIR que ha muerto hace unos dias y que vendió para pagar su ruina] que tiene una capilla en la planta 33..foto de un tal José ANGEL Izquierdo

[presentecronologia]

1999 – El periodista y escritor Rogelio Villareal publica un articulo sobre fanzines en la edición de contracultura de la revista Complot Internacional, donde citando a Rafa Saavedra, se habla de Tijuana y de fanzines como El Centro de la Rabia, Velocet, El Olor del Silencio, El Kolibry, Sueño de Venus, Los Terceros, Laiko, La Red de Dialogo y Distribución, Matuz, Acamonchi, Perdidos en la Línea (este de Los Angeles) y La Pecera de los Ahogados.

[agendaculturaldelima]

🗣 “De acuerdo al Ministerio de la Mujer, solo en el 2023, se reportaron 18,339 casos de violencia sexual contra niñas y adolescentes. ¿Hasta cuándo dejaremos de ser solo una cifra más?”😱

#ElEscenarioDelMundo

📣 X Festival Escena Sur, presenta:

🎭 “UN VIAJE A CHERNOBYL” 🚀👧😭

✍️ Dramaturgia: Alexandra Reyes, Nata Niño de Guzmán y Alexandra Sotelo

🗯 Argumento: Alelí se embarca hacia un destino que promete cambiar su vida. A medida que desentrañamos su historia, descubrimos que ella se encuentra huyendo, pero ¿de qué? Del monstruo que vive dentro de su propia casa, un monstruo que representa el oscuro y doloroso flagelo del abuso sexual intrafamiliar.👪🍄

👩 Actuación: Alexandra Sotelo Villareal

📢 Dirección: Úrsula Natalie Niño de Guzmán

🔎 Productora: Ariana Angeles Mallqui

© Producción: Ficticia Creaciones Escénicas.

📌 FUNCIONES:

📆 Sábado 08 de Junio 🕗 8:00pm. / Domingo 09 de Junio 🕟 4:00pm.

🏛 Auditorio del MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima (av. Paseo Colón 125, ex 9 de diciembre, Parque de la Exposición – Centro de Lima)

🎯 Entradas:

🎫 Adultos: S/.30

🎟 Estudiantes y Jubilados: S/.20

🏷️ Comunidad UCSUR: S/.15

🖱 Reservas: https://www.joinnus.com/events/theater/lima-un-viaje-a-chernobyl-61828

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Selena and Ariel Camacho: coming to MoPOP 2019

Selena and Ariel Camacho: coming to MoPOP 2019

Year after year, Seattle’s MoPOP Pop Conference is a great weekend to learn a ton of musical ideas you never imagined you’d need to know, and to meet and befriend a ton of very smart music geeks. This year the conference runs from April 11-14; the theme is death. See you there!

Here’s the abstract I’ll be expanding:

SELENA, ARIEL CAMACHO, AND TWO TRAGEDIES THAT RESHAPED REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC

In…

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to rapper Homeboy Sandman. Originally from Elmhurst, Queens, Angel Del Villar II AKA Homeboy Sandman started making albums while he was in law school. This led him to leave the judicial path he was on to focus on music, and since 2007, he has recorded over two dozen albums, EPs and mixtapes, including a number of incredible EPs with Aesop Rock. His latest, Still Champion, was just released today - Deca produced it, and it is wonderful!

(Photo by Monifa Skerrit Perry)

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 hola bellezas, por acá ailin con sus dos bebés: yuri y wyatt.  para no dejar un choclo de texto en el dash, bajo el readmore les cuento más sobre cada uno y sus respectivos links. tenemos ganas de armar muchas conexiones lindas así que si pinchan el like voy a molestarlos a sus im’s o pueden hablarme a telegram directamente (@/peperinas) <3. gracias por su atención les tqm. [@atlantaconex]

⟡ sʜɪɴ ʏᴜʀɪ ⟡ biografía / conexiones / tablero

⟡ nació y se crió en seúl en una familia con mucha mucha plata hasta que la nación del fuego atacó (el hecho de que su padre había conseguido toda esa plata estafando) y quedaron en bancarrota

⟡ así que para no quedarse en medio del lío, su madre agarró a sus dos hijitos y la plata que le quedaba para mudarse a atlanta

⟡ ni siquiera un lugar chic como nueva york o los angeles :// seguro yuri pensó eso cuando llegó pendeja malcriada !! ahre pero realmente le costó mucho adaptarse a este nuevo estilo de vida donde no podía darse los mismos lujos

⟡ estaba en medio de la adolescencia al mismo tiempo así que fue todo un lío para su cabecita lol hizo desastre y ella era uno también - gastaba plata de los ahorros que no debería en ropa y joyas, y mentía y aparentaba mucho para estar con la gente que sentía era  ~ como ella ~ 

⟡ claramente ya no era de ese status pero costó mucho que le entre esa idea en la cabeza - ya no es tan estúpida por suerte adkjasd  así que alguna que otra relación podría tener en base a eso!! 

⟡ ya no miente respecto a su vida (aunque no le gusta hablar mucho de su pasado) pero definitivamente le gusta mostrarse toda delicada y what not

⟡ a pesar de sus delirios es pretty nice, bastante joyful y le gusta (y logra) salirse con la suya almost every time! 

⟡ consiguió un laburito como vendedora en una tienda vintage / feria americana donde aparte de trabajar aprovecha para llevarse ropa que deja la gente rica y también mejorar las prendas que tienen potencial para venderlas en su sitio web!! gotta get that side hussle 

⟡ comprenle ropa pls tiene que alimentar a su familia ahre

⟡ es novia de minjun  😳 😳  hace como dos años y lo ama mucho !! 

⟡  su madre trabaja en lo de los villareal así que !! maybe alguna conex de por ahí ~ pero queremos de todo, enemistades de cuando estaba bobita o amistades que la bancaron y la apoyaron en su dumbness ah. malas o buenas influencias también!! de cualquier lado!! <33  

⟡ ᴡʏᴀᴛᴛ ᴅᴏɴᴀʜᴜᴇ ⟡ biografía / conexiones / tablero

⟡ local emo boy

⟡ volvió a vivir en atlanta hace unos meses después de estar en nueva york desde sus dieciocho añitos, cuando se mudó para estudiar economía en nyu

⟡ ah, no - a espaldas de su padre cambió su major a música. le salió mal el secretito que alguna vez pensaba revelar por que su padre se terminó enterando antes de lo planeado por algún compañero de trabajo que vio a su hijo tocando el piano por ahí 

⟡ esto le hizo un daño gigante a su relación que, en sí, no era muy buena. toda su vida había sido un tira y afloja de cosas que el hombre le imponía a wyatt - quien debía dar el ejemplo para la familia siendo no solo muy bueno en lo académico si no también en los deportes

⟡ de hecho, él era muy bueno jugando lacrosse - tanto que consiguió una beca parcial en una buena universidad, beca que tiró a la basura para estudiar lo que realmente le gustaba, hobbie que su padre desaprobaba pero sobre el que no tenía mucho voto ya que el pelinegro cumplía con todo lo que le pedía

⟡ el hobbie se convirtió en una profesión, tras tantos años de entrenamiento y estudio, llevándole a grandes lugares y a conocer a importantes artistas

⟡ en ese aspecto de la vida, venía perfecto - en sus relaciones....no tanto. ya la distancia con su familia surtía bastante efecto, y no fue muy bueno para con sus novias/parejas que terminaban más rápido de lo que empezaban. big mess, pero siempre le había costado. quizá alguien me puede dar a una high school sweetheart o relación de esas épocas uwu.

⟡ ahora volvió a atlanta para quedarse  😎 ah, en realidad volvió por que le ofrecieron un buen trabajo como asistente de profesor en la universidad de la ciudad, así que se alquiló un departamento y mudó su vida a este lado para ganar experiencia como maestro ya que le gustaría también desarrollar esa parte de sí mientras estudia para seguir juntando títulos acádemicos

⟡ si alguien necesita clases de piano/música particulares....he’s your man

⟡ todo esto para ser profesor titular en una universidad más tarde pero ... lowkey creo que también es para probar que es muy bueno en lo que hace a su padre, aunque no hablen lol

⟡ también quiere aprovechar para pasar tiempo con sus hermanitos y madre porque los extraña mucho, aunque le cuesta pensar en que tendrá que cruzarse seguido con su papi

⟡ weno básicamente eso, puede parecer un poco esnobbi pero es super chill, un poco retraído con sus sentimientos pero !! well, quiero que me den a amiguitos viejos de sus tiempos en la secundaria o quizá gente con la que mantuvo contacto?? si hay alguna razón por la que lo puedan conocer de afuera también?? todo lo que se les ocurra i’m todo oídos

[enlacedelacosta]

A clases hoy.- Visión Política

>> Francisco Angel Villareal, Director General del Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca (IEEPO), dio a conocer que hoy lunes 20 de abril reinicia la educación a distancia para todos los alumnos del nivel básico de la entidad, de esta manera todo el alumnado podra actualizarse y no perderan el año escolar, pues se trata de apoyar a los estudiantes, tal y como son las instrucciones del ejecutivo estatal, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa.

https://enlacedelacosta.com.mx/2020/04/20/a-clases-hoy-vision-politica/

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“You Devilish Mummy!”: Mexican Horror in America, 1958-1963

Rosa Arenas

For some people, Cinqo de Mayo means a nacho party platter, a cooler full of Corona, plastic sombreros and a pinata filled with stale butterscotch discs. For a few of us, though, Cinqo de Mayo means one thing and one thing only: Aztec mummies. The sad part of it is that it might actually make much more sense than the nachos.

After Tod Browning and his crew left the set at the end of the shooting day while working on 1931’s Dracula, they were replaced by director George Melford and a Mexican cast and crew. Using the same sets, the same cameras, and a translated version of the script, they worked all night to shoot the Spanish-language version of the film. Those who have seen both tend to agree that the Spanish version is the superior of the two. The cinematography is more vibrant and less stage-bound than the Browning version, the atmosphere is richer (possibly because they were shooting at night), and most important of all, the Mexican Dracula (Carlos Villar) smolders with a sexual energy and menace Bela Lugosi, great as he is, lacks.

Prior to the mid-’50s, most American audiences would probably be surprised to learn that Mexico even had its own film industry. That’s when low-budget producers from Sam Arkoff on down recognized the economic advantages of snapping up the US distribution rights to existing foreign genre pictures. It made perfect sense. You didn’t need to hire any directors or cameramen or gaffers. There were no actor hissy fits to smooth over. All you needed to do was dub in some English dialogue that more or less made sense, fit the action on the screen, and approximately matched the actors’ lip movements. Or maybe not, whatever. Sometimes you might want to bring in an editor to try and rearrange a few scenes so the picture and dialogue’ll make more sense to the kids at the drive-in, but even that wasn’t always necessary. Come up with a snappy English title, Americanize some of the actors’ names, and you’re good to go. The important thing is these films could be picked up for a song, and minus a few minor expenses everything they brought in was gravy.

Suddenly US theaters were full of sci-fi, horror, and westerns from Italy, Japan, Spain, and yes indeed, Mexico. Low-budget distributor K. Gordon Murray quickly established himself as the king of marketing Mexican horror cheapies to American audiences, handling films like The Man and the Monster, The Brainiac, Curse of the Doll People, and a whole lotta movies with “Aztec Mummy” in the title.  It would be nice to say these films have complex and thought-provoking storylines, that the acting is strong and subtle, that the cinematography is dazzling and the special effects on a par with any major American studio at the time, but that would really be pushing it. A lot of the films were just slapdash, flat-footed remakes of popular American films but with cheaper sets. A few of them do stand out, though, in that even the dubbed and edited versions remain uniquely Mexican, even if they do seem to tell the same story over and over again. And some of them are just plain nuts.

Genre director Rafael Portillo and screenwriter Alfredo Salazar were best known for their Aztec Mummy and wrestling pictures, and in 1958 topped even Santo Meets Dracula with La momia azteca contra el robot humano, translated as The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot or, more simply, The Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy.

As the opening narration assures us, the film is based on an “actual experiment” conducted by two scientists from “The Los Angeles University” and verified by witnesses who “signed sworn statements with a notary public” so “there is no question about this story’s authenticity.”

Please keep that in mind.

The film is told mostly in flashback and through voiceover, which is generally a sure sign you’re watching a heavy-handed bit of editorial butchery. The same sort of thing was done regularly to the US versions of Toho films, usually with a mind toward simplifying the story.

Okay, a psychiatrist (Ramón Gay) is mocked by his colleagues when he presents a paper about past life regression, so he storms home and hypnotizes his wife Flora (Rosa Arenas). We slip into a low budget flashback within a flashback as we learn Flora was once an Aztec maiden on schedule to be sacrificed when she runs off with a warrior. The village priests find them, bring them back, and bury the warrior alive after placing a curse on him. Then they fit the old Flora with a gold bracelet and breastplate inscribed with directions to the location of “the secret Aztec treasure.” Then they cut out her heart, which may say something about the effectiveness of that breastplate.

Returning to the first flashback, we learn the evil Dr. Krupp had spied on the experiment and now wants in on it. Nevertheless the good doctor decides for some reason that the best way to prove his theory is to find the bracelet and breastplate, so they all go looking. Lucky for them they find a secret passage under the pyramid that I guess is in their backyard. Moments later they find the ancient temple, the skeleton of the old Flora, and the breastplate which they take home with them. The fun doesn’t last long, though, as  the warrior’s mummy shows up at the house, grabs the breastplate, grabs Flora, returns to the temple, and prepares to cut out her heart again. At this point we’re about six minutes into the film.

Then it turns out, see, that Dr. Krupp is really a sinister underworld figure known as The Bat, and...oh screw it. Over the course of the rest of the film we get gangsters, a shootout, hypnotism, a mad scientist, a pit full of rattlesnakes, that mummy again, some Aztec rituals, a few vanishing bodies, a police investigation, a stolen corpse, a stolen brain, and a stolen “machine that uses radium,” together with lines of dialogue like, “oh, you devilish mummy!” and “continuing our search we hurried to the snake pit.” Eventually we even get a robot there near the end (though it’s more of a reanimated corpse wearing a metal suit festooned with some blinking lightbulbs),and it has a brief and slow wrestling match with the mummy.

And all of it, believe it or not, is crammed into a zippy 65 minutes. No, it’s not a particularly good film as the term is traditionally used, but it is a fascinating one. As crazy as it all gets, as big as some of the plot holes and lapses in logic may seem, the craziest thing of all is that you can’t really criticize it for any of that given that it’s, y’know, based on a true story.

Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy is a pretty extreme example of what was coming out of Mexico at the time. Other genre pictures were no less strange, maybe, but a little more sane.

Three years after Bert I. Gordon’s Attack of the Puppet People and 25 years after Tod Browning’s The Devil Doll, Benito Alazraki released his 1961 film Muñecos infernales, better known in the States  as Curse of the Doll People.

An archaeologist interested in ancient rights and such and her physician husband (Ramon Gay again) visit an art collector friend who regales them with the exciting tale of his recent trip to Haiti. While there, see, he and two friends witnessed a secret voodoo ritual that included human sacrifice. For all the crazy goings on though, the art collector couldn’t take his eyes off the idol the voodoo priests were worshipping. He thought it would make a fine addition to his collection, so the next day he went back and stole it.

(Given that the story is not told in flashback, just by some guy sitting in an easy chair, I’m tempted to think the whole Haiti angle was an invention of the screenwriter for the American version. Maybe the producer was a little tired of Aztecs by this point.)

It’s not hard to guess that stealing a revered idol from a voodoo temple is not without its repercussions, and sure enough before you know it the children of all the men on the Haiti trip start receiving new dolls in the mail. Real nice, realistic-looking ones too. None of the parents seem a bit concerned by the arrival of anonymous gifts for their children, merely handing the dolls to the tykes and sending them off to bed. After a few cuts to an oddly Mexican-looking Haitian voodoo priest, well you guessed it. the dolls start coming to life and knocking off the parents in ways that can’t easily be traced back as the work of an evil dolly.

The one surprise here is given the budget, the special effects (midgets in doll clothes on oversized sets) are really, really good. Better than Bert Gordon’s, even. It’s just too bad the story around them doesn’t have a bit more zing to it. It’s a little flabby and obvious. Still, you start to get the sense a pattern is developing.

El baron del terror (released in the States as The Brainiac in 1962), directed by Chano Urueta, marked a bit of a break from the simple revenge plot. Oh wait, no it didn’t. But it was still a break from the standard storyline.

As the film opens it’s 1661, a comet has appeared in the sky, and  an evil baron  (Abel Salazar) is being burned at the stake by Inquisitors for practicing black magic. As evil barons are so wont to do when finding themselves in circumstances like that, he places a curse on all those who condemned him, vowing he would return in 300 years when the comet reappears and kill off all their descendants. The Inquisitors, for some reason, don’t seem terribly concerned by all this and go ahead and burn him anyway.

Cut to three hundred years in the future and true to his word the comet has reappeared and so has the baron, who  starts snuffing people who didn’t even know they were related to Inquisitors. Yes, it’s a plot we’ve seen how many times already? But the Brainiac, as the title might hint, does offer a twist or two. First, before he kills his victims the Baron transforms into a kind of hideous horned demon monster (the doll special effects were better). Then during the murders he sucks out his victims’ brains, which he keeps in a big salad bowl in the kitchen. When he lures someone over to his apartment and confirms their identity, all he needs to do is excuse himself to the kitchen for a moment, have a spoonful of brains, and shazam. No more descendant and more brains for the baron.

A year later  Ueueta returned to more standard form with La cabeza viviente, aka The Living Head. Here again he opens with a long prologue in which he went to some pains to at least give the illusion of historical accuracy. When a great Aztec general dies, not only is he buried, but so are a few of his servants and a high priestess to help him on his way in the afterlife. That those others weren’t quite dead yet doesn’t seem to matter much. It’s all quite a big to-do.

Cut to 450 years in the future, as an incredibly bad archaeologist and two assistants stumble upon the tomb. First they completely destroy the mummy of the high priestess and shrug it off. Then when he finds the invaluable Ring of Death, the archaeologist immediately announces that he’s going to give it to his daughter, “who likes ugly things like that.” Then after reading aloud the very clear curse that will befall anyone who desecrates the tomb, the trio scurry’s off with the general’s mummified head and the mummy of his servant (the one still clutching the knife). Do they then deliver them to the museum where they can be properly cared for and kept in carefully climate-controlled environments? Well, almost: he brings them back to his apartment and keeps them in the living room.

Yeah, it’s not really hard to see where this is headed. The daughter starts wearing the Ring of Death and gets a little kooky in the head . Then the servant and head come to life and all three of them (the daughter carrying the head) go tracking down the desecrators in order to cut out their hearts.

“I know what you’re thinking,” a police inspector says after the first murder. “But I don’t believe in legends. Or in superstitions either. All I know is that this is a very difficult case.”

That’s the real killer in The Living Head. Even more so than most, the dubbing is miserable, with most of the lines either being non-sequiturs, or so plainly obvious and logical they come out sounding like non-sequiturs. I get the feeling sometimes that the voice actors they brought in were never given scripts, simply shown the film and told to make it up as they went along.

Ah, but this is merely a taste of what’s out there in terms of Mexican horror. We haven’t even considered the Santo pictures yet, and there are hundreds of those. I’m not sure if the likes of Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy would really enrich anyone’s  appreciation or understanding of Mexican independence, but there are doubtless lessons to be learned here. Namely, should you happen to find some neat stuff in a sacred temple next time you’re in Mexico, for godsakes just leave it there, no matter how cool it is. Those Aztecs mean business.

by Jim Knipfel

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Angel Del Villar II AKA Homeboy Sandman

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Polémica tras la decisión del TSJM (considero ILEGAL el convenio x el q AYUNTA-MIENTO de las ROZAS cedio 120.000 mts cuadrados a RFEF x lo q convocaron un concurso y lo dejaron DESIERTO xq la unica oferta q era la de RFEF tenia defectos JURIDICOS)

La Ciudad del Fúbol, descartada y adjudicada en sólo cinco días.. Luego encarcelaron a su presidente x 25 años ANGEL MARIA Villar

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Hasta El final de Los TIEMPOS como titulo EL BARRIO su recopilatorio y luego NUNCA MAS IDOLOS DE ORO o PUTO FUTBOL pues por algo lo fotografie en exterior de EL CORTE INGLES junto al Estadio del SEVILLA FC donde murio con 22 años PUERTA teniendo EMBARAZADA a su novia de 42 años que fue al FUNERAL con CAMISETA de GSUS (=JESUS) o de donde salio malogrado REYES nacido en UTRERA (=grupo LOS MUERTOS DE CRISTO=LA GRAN ESTAFA DEL ROCK N ROLL) en cuya habitacion tenia una VIRGEN pintada en el TECHO (RIP 1-6-19 =el ANTICRISTO en un DESFILE MILITAR en SEVILLA) a cuya VIUDA noelia LOPEZ tambien se le murio el HERMANO pero se pasea en FERRARI=NUNCA MAS NI IDOLOS DE ORO NI PUTAS=ADIOS A EVA Y $ATANA$

MIS COJONES DE VERDAD O LUZ POR ENCIMA DE TODOS PORQUE RAZONES ME SOBRAN

Por cierto..ese 23_10_14 que fotografie a EL BARRIO firmando su cd EL HIJO DEL LEVANTE justo antes pase por el MEDIAMARKT [=yo no soy tonto, no es país para tontos] y fotografie en una pantalla a DANI MARTIN de EL CANTO DEL LOCO a la que se le murio su Hermana y el cual canto con VIRGINIA MAESTRO en SAN SEBASTIAN DE LOS REYES [de donde regresaba tras visitar a su novia OSCAR MOLINA del REAL MADRID cuando se mato en VILLA_MESIAS tras conocerle una NOCHEVIEJA con mi amigo EL ENGLISH]..y justo antes el BAR IBERIA [peninsula ibérica sin CASA REAL NI PONTIFEX o con una TRUE RELIGION Y CRISTO REY] y EL MENTIROSO..empezando el día fotografiando mi W.C. ROCA [=cuyo dueño fue el PRESIDENTE DE LA FEDERACION ESPAÑOLA DE FUTBOL justo antes que ANGEL MARIA VILLAR que lo fue 25 años y acabó en la CARCEL] "VICTORIA".

Hasta LA POLLA DE CIRCO Y PAN O LADRONES o ESTAFADORAS DEL AMOR

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Estate Modenese, il "Viaggio" di Rigo, Robby e Mel

Estate Modenese, il "Viaggio" di Rigo, Robby e Mel   Si intitola “Sarà un viaggio lungo e soddisfacente” l’appuntamento di martedì 23 agosto ai Giardini ducali, uno spettacolo tra parole e musica che coinvolge gli artisti Antonio “Rigo” Righetti, Robby “Sanchez” Pellati e Mel Previte. L’iniziativa costituisce uno degli eventi principali del programma che l’Estate modenese propone per la settimana prossima, in cui sono in cartellone diversi appuntamenti dedicati alla musica. Tutte le iniziative sono a ingresso gratuito. Il programma dei prossimi giorni prende il via, appunto, con “Sarà un viaggio lungo e soddisfacente”, alle 21 di martedì 23. Rigo, Robby e Mel sono tre musicisti emiliani che, insieme, hanno attraversato tre decenni di musica rock senza mai perdere la loro autenticità. La loro collaborazione va dagli esordi “romantici” come membri fondatori del gruppo “The rocking chairs” fino ai fasti e alla popolarità ottenuta affiancando, sia in studio sia dal vivo, il rocker Luciano Ligabue per 15 anni, tra palchi enormi come i concerti al Campovolo fino alle collaborazioni con Luciano Pavarotti e Mick Taylor. Nel corso dello spettacolo, condotto da Claudio Gavioli, “si potrà assistere alle varie manifestazioni della musica – spiegano gli organizzatori –, le attese nei camerini prima di affrontare uno stadio come San Siro gremito fino all’ultimo ordine di posti, il lavoro a un progetto discografico che vedrà la luce dopo mesi o a volte anni di attesa, le domande, le paure e i sogni. Si potranno ascoltare le storie dalle voci di coloro che vi hanno partecipato, ascoltando canzoni leggendarie analizzate su dischi in vinile per carpire ogni sfumatura, e sarà come essere in sala prove a riarrangiare brani straordinari come ‘Certe notti’”. La serata di mercoledì 24 agosto si apre nel nome di Pavarotti. Alle 20.30, infatti, ai Giardini ducali viene trasmessa la diretta streaming della cerimonia di conferimento alla memoria della “stella” sulla Walk of fame di Hollywood: un riconoscimento postumo per il tenore il cui nome, quindi, comparirà anche nella celebre “passeggiata delle stelle” di Los Angeles. A seguire, intorno alle 21.30 sul palco salgono i Bittersweet: con grande verve e personalità artistica, in questo live la band rende omaggio ad alcuni dei nomi più importanti del rock internazionale. Grazie a Cecco Signa, Paolo Zoboli, Lele Morselli e Marcello Borsari si possono ascoltare i successi di Nirvana, Red hot Chili peppers, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica, U2, Rem, Oasis, Verve, Blur, Foo fighters, Offspring e Green day. Alle 21, infine, nel chiostro di San Pietro è in programma il concerto “Giovani talenti estensi”. Nell’occasione il soprano Isabella Gilli e il clarinettista Ivan Villar Sanz sono accompagnati dall’ensemble dell’associazione “Mo-Mus” diretta dal maestro Stefano Seghedoni (informazioni e prenotazioni: mail info@salottoculturalemodena.it, contatto Whatsapp 392 0512219). Online il programma completo dell’Estate modenese (VAI AL LINK).... Read the full article

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Music CEO Allegedly Conspired To Violate Narcotics Kingpin Act – Deadline

Music CEO Allegedly Conspired To Violate Narcotics Kingpin Act – Deadline

Two top executives at an L.A.-based Latin music conglomerate were arrested by FBI agents today on charges that they conspired to violate the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by conducting business with a concert promoter with ties to Mexican drug cartels. Angel del Villar, CEO of Del Records and its subsidiary talent agency Del Entertainment, and Del Entertainment CFO Luca Scalisi, are…