Thursday, July 28, 2005

Movie to watch

OzoLatin groove act Ozomatli has recorded the song "Casas de Cartén" (cardboard houses) for the U.S. release of the film "Innocent Voices." Considered an anthem of hope amongst the people of El Salvador who struggled to survive civil war and earthquakes, the song was once officially banned by the Salvadoran government.

"Innocent Voices" was directed by Luis Mandoki, who co-wrote the script with Oscar Torres, a Salvadorian who based the story on his own life experience. The film follows an 11-year-old boy in the year leading up to his mandatory enlistment in the army.

Screened over the past 10 months around the world, "Innocent Voices" received best film honors at international film festivals in Seattle, Bangkok and Berlin. Distributed by BB Entertainment Marketing, the film is scheduled to open Oct. 14 in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Dallas and Washington D.C.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

Scrubs

4.05 "Her Story." From MOPNT:

CAFETERIA

J.D.: Half of what rappers say doesn't make any sense. Like that Snoop Dogg-Dr. Dre song? What does "still hittin' them corners and those ho-hos girl" mean?

Turk: Many disadvantaged African-Americans have limited nutritional choices, therefore they must subsist on Ho-Ho snack cakes. It's a black thing, bro.

Molly: Actually, Turk, it's "still hittin' them corners and them 'lo-los' girls." Lo-los, not ho-hos.

Elliot: See, Turk, in the 'hood, a lo-lo is a lowrider, or a car with an adjusted suspension that allows it to bounce up and down.

She and Molly demonstrate the movement with their hands, much to J.D.'s amusement.

Elliot: And Dre and Snoop enjoy driving around together in their lowriders around the corners, or lizzle-rizzles.

Elliot: [rapping] I'm representin' for them gangtas all across the world!

Molly: [rapping] Still hittin' them corners and them lo-los girls!

Elliot: [rapping] Still --

Elliot
& : [rapping] -- taking my time to perfect the beat, and I still got love for the street!
Molly

Carla: Turk! You just got schooled on rap by the two whitest chicks in America!

Turk: None of you can prove it!

J.D.: I got it on tape.

Elliot and Molly make scratch noises.


http://scrubs.mopnt.com/scripts/DRAFT_405_-_her_story.htm

Monday, July 25, 2005

UFW and Labor


Well its happened the UFW is not part of the ALF-CIO. The times are a changing and hopefully this will help the labor movement in the long run but the entrenched people are going to have a very hard time swallowing this type of change.

Que viva la causa!

[Update 6.28.05] - the UFW did not split yet, they just joined the Coalition to Win that has the unions that left in them. I doubt the UFW could afford to leave the AFL-CIO otherwise I'm sure they'd bounce.