🙃 Taxi strike continues to cause blockages on one side of the highway, and on the other... there's a vallenato band hired for a party in my building.
The following is just a clip of the music, not the horn tooting that comes and goes in waves. Wish me luck for writing tonight!
@MLClark I like the music!
This song shows up at *every* party here, precisely because its lyrics emphasize loving the party life. (And more: the singer boasts about being a womanizer/casanova ["mujeriego"] at length.) Everyone knows how to sing at least the chorus!
@MLClark LOL It was best left in my memory a snippet echoing from the street. And the video plays like an extended version of low-end casino commercials that stream in Southern California. Hope you managed to get some writing done.
Yes! You've caught the vibe perfectly for that video, thank you.
I also have those moments, when learning what something actually means in Spanish leaves me wishing I could go back to before I knew, and the phrase or cultural touchstone was still filled with mystery.
There's something beautiful about liminal spaces in language and culture.
The reality? Never quite as charming.
@MLClark "wishing I could go back to before I knew, and the phrase or cultural touchstone was still filled with mystery.
There's something beautiful about liminal spaces in language and culture.
The reality? Never quite as charming."
Absolutely. Many themes of history and memory, particularly childhood and innocence in that.