mexican muzak

you'd think mexican muzak would be gypsy kings-type mellow hits or contemporary spanish interpretive acoustic stylings or perhaps just local folk-type music.

you would be wrong.

well that may apply to what people play in their homes or cars, but when it comes to restaurant or cafe music it seems that folksy acoustic remakes of 90's pop hits rule. last week i heard a cd of an american artist crooning soundgarden's 'black hole sun' whittled down to a natasha beckensale-type ditty at an otherwise edgy little cafe. the same artist also covered oasis' 'wonderwall' and tons of other 90's pop/rock songs that i can't even remember now. and at a trendy sushi spot for dinner tonight i heard a smoothed out version of 'in the air tonight.' how do you smooth down a pretty mellow song to begin with? not still sure how, but everyday i'm confronted with a new and slightly more hilarious examples. if i only had an audio blog you could truly experience it for yourself.

in other news, i'm totally getting into the mexican overuse of cream cheese. i dunno if i'll be able to enjoy my future maki rolls without a little jalepeño and philidelphia rolled in them.

i know i've missed a lot of the LGBT pride activities in the US this month, but from centro guadalajara here are flicks of tacos gay's. rainbow flags representing!!!

kisses,
m.