This is a party and we have to dance

Y esto dice así: Cumbia!



El Instituto Mexicano del Sonido (IMS), or Mexican Institute of Sound, played small show at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the opening of their Wallworks exhibition the weekend I was visting. A friend of mine was invited and so there I was. I can't even seem to remember if a lot of people showed up to the museum party. But there was definitely less than 100 people watching the show.

None of the people I was hanging out with seemed very enthused about checking out the band, so after missing the first 10 minutes, I ran off on my own to the front of the stage in usual tils style. The venue, whatever open space of the YBCA I was in, was rather large, and I was surrounded by a few dozen people while the rest hung around at the back. I don't quite feel like writing about the actual performance, but it was rather fun. They were all wearing mariachi pants, which added quite well to the music's comedic element. Camilo Lara, lead singer and IMS mastermind, kept inciting the crowd to dance and joking that the band was from a tiny, unknown town in Mexico. They're from Mexico City.

IMS is one part Pastilina Mosh, one part Nortec Collective and a splash of LCD Soundsystem. I know this might sound totally horrendous, but I love it when I get to hang out with Mexicans, and there was a few watching the show next to me. And that's all I have to say for now.

Oh yeah, and I love San Francisco and it melts my tin heart.

DJ & producer Camilo Lara.

Y otra vez el mismo.

The DJ dude?

The rest of the band sat out while Lara sang "Te Quiero Mucho" on stage. The title gives it away. Lara said it was about his ex-girlfriend. He repeated TQM at least 60 times. Ha. Way creative.

Pants! Fancy Pants!


& of course: my lame video



Also, I found this video on the YouTube. It's pretty cool, and it's where the title of this blog entry comes from.



Sorry about the different sizes. I'm not that good with the Youtube, or the internets or the HTML codes.

Pupusa Heaven

B:

1:38 AM Man, i want some pupusas now

Did you have them in San Fran?

are they plentiful there?

1:39 AM There are a total of two restaurants that serve pupusas in Austin

And only one is truly a Salvadoran restaurant

1:40 AM the other sells them on some blended-cuisine menu or something.

me:

yes

pupusas are plentiful!

Beverly: nice! I thought it was only LA. I should move to California

1:43 AM me:

apparently there are
327,000

in sf.

Beverly:

NO!

really?

me: according to some data from 05

lol

i think so

Beverly: Wait, Salvadorans?

1:44 AM me: yes

lol

i think so

Beverly: or pupuserias?

me: LOL!

no!

human beings
me: from el salvador!Beverly: lol, that's what I thought you meant

lol

Beverly: too funny

me: lol

1:45 AM that would be an intense amount of pupuserias!

lol

me: for god's sake beverly!
Beverly: It'd be Pupusa heaven.

El Paraíso

T: I'm sorry I was jealous.
A: It's not like I noticed or cared.

(Laughter ensues for a minute)

T: Wow, you really are a dick.

(Laughter ensues for 5 minutes)