The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Monday, April 23, 2018

What's in a name?

"That's the name of your band?.... aw, dude." Band names are a source of wonder around the world.   Yes, there was once a band called The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.  Anyhow, the sign painters of Oaxaca regularly display their art announcing upcoming concerts. 
"Pegasuses of Oaxaca?" Hmmm...   One can see these announcements everywhere and they are actually quite cool and well done and obviously, they only paint what they are told to paint.  They don't make up the names.  OK, they may suffer from translation.... Rococo Cemetery....
You can put Rancho in front of anything and it will work.... "Rancho Fulminantes"... fulminate has so many definitions.... could be "Rancho Devastation"....
"Birds of Iron".... not to be confused with Mariposa de Hierro... that's a joke....
And there should be no doubt as to who's the for real decadents.
Party on, Garth....

3 comments:

Lani said...

I'm guessing "pegasos" here probably relates to hard hits or blows, as in "le dio un pegaso" - He hit him hard.

Christopher Stowens said...
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Christopher Stowens said...

Gracias! There so many Spanish terms I do not know. I guess that makes it a better name ;-)