The Monster Has Awaken: MtyMx - Festival de Musica y Arte Para Todas Las Edades

By: LucyRock

            A musical monster has awaken in the city of Monterrey, N. L.; Mexico, and it's set to awake from March 20 - 22 of 2010 bringing with it sounds not only from United States and other places around the world. This new monster is called “MtyMx” a festival of not only music but art of 30 different visual artists that will show their art just like the musicians, outside in the free air. This festival is the something fresh that we have been looking for, among our favorite bands that will attend are Los Planetas, White Ninja, Los Llamarada. Mockinpott, DD/MM/YYYY, Bam Bam, Los Fancy Free, Chikita Violenta, Ratas Del Vaticano and Quiero Club.

     

  from left to right:   top - Bam Bam, Chikita Violenta

bottom - Los Planetas, Quiero Club      

            The tickets range $200.00 pesos per day and $400.00 for the three days, you can purchase them online through paypal. If you have no place to stay, you can do hotel reservation in Hotel Fundador, they have different rates for the different rooms and beds that are needed, just email mtymxhotel@gmail.com so they can reserve the room for you.

            We are so excited for this new event organized by Yo Garage and Todd P. we have actually gone to events organized previously be Yo Garage and they are always fun and have something new and exciting to show we really cannot wait to go to this event and hope that you do as well, you don’t want to miss the awakening of this amazing monster of music and art and unlike other festivals is open to all ages; so you can experience new music new art in the outdoors of Monterrey.

from left to right:   top - The Coathangers, White Ninja

bottom - Ratas del Vaticano, Das Racist

            For more information about the bands and more updates make sure to check out their official website MtyMx.

 

My Broken Embraces.

                                                        

By Daniel Salazar

“I’ve seen other films by Almodovar which were more meaningful in less amount of time”

Harry Caine, is a blind writer, who works with Judit and her son Diego, Caine is actually Mateo Blanco. He begins using Harry Caine as an alias after losing his sight in a car accident. News arrive of the death of corrupt stockbroker Ernesto Martel, who once produced a movie Mateo directed called “Girls and suitcases”

A pretentious man named Ray X, who is actually Ernesto Martel’s son, asks Harry to work with him on a story which Ray wants to direct. The story of a young man, son of a millionaire lady with no scruples, a son which was worried about art and had talent to be an artist, never accepted by his father. When his father died, his son wished upon burning his name so he could have his vengeance and get rid of his father’s memories.

The film now goes back to 1992 where Martel falls in love with his secretary, a wanna-be actress turned into a prostitute. He and Lena become a couple in 1994. However, when Lena auditions for “Girls and Suitcases” Blanco also falls in love with her.

It is very noticeable how Almodovar links films inside films, his stories have always had a close relationship to theatre or films, and the lives of the characters that have that kind of lifestyle, approaching his characters closely in the story of a film, inside another film.

 Tonino Guerra is mentioned in the movie, which to me is one of the greatest writers in the Italian film industry, especially in Italian Neorealism of 1940s and 50s, which I really liked.

Broken Embraces to me is similar to Federico Fellini’s 8 ½, Elevator to the Gallows of Louis Malle, personally to me because of the settings, scenery and takes but keeping it at the same fun level. Timing barely changes but it takes us away, this could’ve been hard to the expectation.

At last, in my opinion Broken Embraces is about loves of the cinema world of Almodovar the blending of the 7^th art with average lives, the reflexion of society shows us the difference of good and bad films in a film itself in their own version of other films. It’s also about a man who neglected his past or tried to and took more than 14 years to face it and make it right. Mateo ends up being a better character.  I think it’s explainable why not to ignore Fascist dictatorships and make it right.

 It seems to tell us no to ignore but to become better characters, everyone has had embraces wishing they would be forever when I the end these are broken. Broken Embraces is not only about troubled love affairs but about the responsibility to finish everything we get started everything, every new journey even in the blind.

Toy Selectah in Houston, Texas!

By: LucyRock

Next weekend, one of the best DJ’s in Mexico, member of Sonidero Nacional and Mad Decent; DJ Toy Selectah is coming to spin and show us his latest work in Houston’s own club The Mink Backroom. He will be performing only with Houston’s best DJ’s Ceeplus Bad Knives, Grrrl Parts and Damond Allen. Not only that but alongside to them, Larry Tee and POSR will be performing! You do not, and I mean you do not want to miss this show! Peace!