Sharing a nugget of mexican culture
Or should I say a "taco" of mexican culture, just to perpetuate the hard earned stereotype we as a country have manage to succesfully project worldwide?
Anyway, I'm at the office right now and was listening to some music when a song, by this awesome group called "Cafe Tacvba" came on. Is a song that always makes me laugh and I though I'd share this because it's highly unusual, being both by the style of music -which was quite on like...some 50 years ago- and the very special, very truthful lyrics which could fit no where else but the beautiful, chaotic Mexico City. Here it is, with a rough translation effort:
Madrugal by Cafe Tacvba
La ciudad de los palacios va dejando paso al alba The city of palaces leaves way to the dawn
Se va perdiendo la calma The stillness is going away
Para cuando el sol asoma By the time the sun peeks out
Todo el esplendor decrece All the greatness fades away
La gente las calles toma The people the streets take
Catedral desaparece entre smog Cathedral disappears between smog
Y caca de paloma And pigeon's shit.
Gotta admit I cackled horribly, like a 4 year old child, the first time I listened to that "pigeon's shit" part; so unexpected.
In other news I'm almost one week away from flying to London, Edinburgh and the Dubling and I feel like I've planned nothing, which is quite quite true. Still, the anxiety and happiness is beggining to grow, so I guess that's good.
Cheers!
Anyway, I'm at the office right now and was listening to some music when a song, by this awesome group called "Cafe Tacvba" came on. Is a song that always makes me laugh and I though I'd share this because it's highly unusual, being both by the style of music -which was quite on like...some 50 years ago- and the very special, very truthful lyrics which could fit no where else but the beautiful, chaotic Mexico City. Here it is, with a rough translation effort:
Madrugal by Cafe Tacvba
La ciudad de los palacios va dejando paso al alba The city of palaces leaves way to the dawn
Se va perdiendo la calma The stillness is going away
Para cuando el sol asoma By the time the sun peeks out
Todo el esplendor decrece All the greatness fades away
La gente las calles toma The people the streets take
Catedral desaparece entre smog Cathedral disappears between smog
Y caca de paloma And pigeon's shit.
Gotta admit I cackled horribly, like a 4 year old child, the first time I listened to that "pigeon's shit" part; so unexpected.
In other news I'm almost one week away from flying to London, Edinburgh and the Dubling and I feel like I've planned nothing, which is quite quite true. Still, the anxiety and happiness is beggining to grow, so I guess that's good.
Cheers!