The Spotify Tumbl(r) Shuffle

1. Let It Fall—Lykke Li (Norway)
2. Do You Realize??—The Flaming Lips (U.S.)
3. Roller Coaster—The Rapture (U.S.)
4. Windowsill—Arcade Fire (Canada)
5. Boom—Wild Flag (U.S.)
6. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid—The Decemberists (U.S.)
7. Golden Ticket—Manchester Orchestra (U.S.)
8. ¿Por Qué Se Nos Murió?—Moderatto (México)
9. Night-Time Intermission—Charlotte Gainsbourg (France)
10. La Playa—Los Planetas (España)
11. La Cruzada Nacional—El Experimento de Cuca (México)
12. El Elefante del Safari—Los Esquizitos (México)
13. Swallow It—Brandon Flowers (U.S.)
14. Low Rider—War (U.S.)
15. ¿Quién Lo Sabia?—Cetu Javu (Deutschland/España)
16. In My Town—The Afghan Whigs (U.S.)
17. Crazy—The Afghan Whigs (U.S.)
18. Doubt—The Cure (England)
19. All These Things That I’ve Done—The Killers (U.S.)
20. Richest Man in the World—Frank Ocean (U.S.)
21. For What It’s Worth—The Cardigans (Sweden)
22. Gonna Get Along without You—She & Him (U.S.)
23. Showroom Dummies—Kraftwerk (Deutschland)
24. Me and the Moon—The Drums (U.S.)
25. Pedro y María—Ama (España)

And that came with a stellar performance by Corona between the pipes, and chokeslam on Neymar for free. Great game. 

#NowPlaying: Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home by Editors. #IndieRock

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”—Roberto Bolaño (Last Evenings on Earth)

The Queen’s English, motherfucker!! Do you speak it!?!?!?!

Rodolfo Acuña—El hombre de las letras, and the main reason why I attended Cal State Northridge. 

aztlanreads:

“Since the trailers appeared “For Greater Glory” – a movie about the Mexican Cristero Movement of the 1920s – I have been receiving emails urging me to take a stand because one of the actors is my student. I have not seen the film and I don’t intend to see it because I don’t like the Cristeros. Also Andy García is not my favorite actor especially since he fanned the hysteria surrounding Elián González in 2000.

With that said I respect Eva Longoria who wants to do something with her celebrity status and has done more for social justice than most professionals I know. Ruben Blades also appears in the movie, and I have long been a fan of his music and respect his politics.

But the real reason I don’t go see the movie is because it is ahistorical. I heard García’s interview on Univision’s  “Al Punto” with Jorge Ramos where he tried to inject his Anti-Castro politics into the discussion portraying the Cristeros as martyrs in the struggle for religious freedom.”

Grampa: “Is your name ‘Bart’?”

Old Man Yells at Cloud.

Gotye has been meme’d.