11/19/10
Guero Canelo (mescaline and mota VS the Sonoran Hot Dog)
Güero (pron. IPA ['wero]) is a Mexican Spanish slang term for a pale-skinned or blonde-haired person, often used as a slur. Canelo is an ajective, "cinnamony"
Also according to its website, El Guero Canelo was a restaurant started by the Contreras family in 1993 famous for the Sonoran Dog and the staff at El Guero Canelo has perfected it.
When ordering, you can omit certain things from the eight original ingredients that come on the dog. The originals include bacon, beans, grilled onions, fresh onions, tomatoes, mayo, mustard and jalapeno sauce. And you can add as many extra ingredients as you like from their large selection of fresh toppings.
Guero Canelo is also a song made famous in the Michael Mann movie Collateral where Calexico has a part playing the track in a Columbian Cartel bar. It's a freaking brilliant scene, primarily because of the dark & eerie mood set by the song. However, the effect is heightened by the lyrical content - "Güero Canelo" is a hyperbolic recap of the stereotypical inner city Latino lifestyle (sex, drugs, fighting, cars, machismo)
Upon a search these are the listed calexico lyrics:(this is confusing as the band is from Tuscon and could be championing the home town restaurant. (which i doubt)
Anyway, the tune is great and Quite dark for a a hot dog song so basically the band have achieved the perfect art piece in my book, in which the meaning is personal to the
beholder. Open to interpretation or just confusion. It works and more important it rocks.
Hot Dogs, thugs and/or peyote, you decide.
the song rocks.
i would presume that the band are certainly not narcocorridos and are just doing social comment on inner city issues. (if they wrote the song at all)
i know little about the band except for some good music. i could be miles off.
lyrics;
jump, scrape, break the switches
coast low wit da bitches
funky pop, drop 'n hop
here come the cops
güero canelo
gangs, guns, knives, thugs
chumps, chops, chill, chug
drink malt, smoke mota
i like you mucho
dame un beso
soma, valium, oxycontin
reds, whites, speed, vicodin
t's, b's, thorazine
screamers, pleasers
güero canelo
freak, tweek, week 2 week
kneel, feel, seek the geek
pump da bass in yo' face
contrabasso
how low can you go?
belladonna, mescaline
psylocibin, peyote
mda and dnt spells ecstasy
güero canelo
coil spring, bounce, crank
pumps, shocks, struts, tanks
psychoactive electroplade
it's necesito
dame un beso
impala, caddy
el dorado, comet
galaxy, el camino
chevelle, caprice
monte carlo
so low six fo'
how low can you go?
tweezer, teaser, tiger weezer
rusty, crusty, skuzzy skeezer
chuy, chata, cholo, chico
flaco, chucho
only at pueblo
molé y güero canelo
güero canelo
güero canelo