{"id":124,"date":"2004-02-22T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-02-22T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T21:12:00","slug":"124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Mis sueños<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having sent all the text for the next issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em><\/a> to the copyeditor in England, I thought I could rest for a couple of days–just read books and do mindless work like shoveling snow and restacking the woodpile, partly soaked by melting snow.<\/p>\n

But my Dream Self would have nothing of it. Since I had been reading Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas<\/em>, by the musicologist Elijah Wald<\/a>, I was treated last night to a editor’s nightmare, in which I suddenly remembered that I was also responsible for a second<\/em> journal, one on the literature of the American-Mexican border region–there is Wald’s influence. In the dream, I was struggling to think of someone whom I could ask to edit the second journal, since I obviously was not keeping up with it.<\/p>\n

Put Narcocorrido<\/em> in a boxed set with Charles Bowden’s Down by the River<\/em><\/a>–there would be a useful combination to help you understand all the “War on (some) Drugs” craziness\/locura<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From a corrido recorded by Los Hermanos Gaspar and translated by Wald:<\/p>\n

Un compadre que yo tengo sinaloense
El me trajo la semilla de amapola,
Me dió clases por sembrarla y abonarla,
Que bonito siento andar rayando bolas.<\/p>\n

A compadre<\/em> of mine from Sinaloa,
He brought me poppy seeds,
He gave me classes in planting and fertilizing them:
How good I feel as I go along scoring pods.<\/p>\n

(And ahí en British Colombia<\/em>, what we Americans think of as el norte<\/em>, perhaps someone is tuning his guitar and singing “The Ballad of BC Hydro<\/a>,” how it keeps the indoor grow lights burning brightly and must not be privatized<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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