EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 1

Chacarron Macarron, Chacarron, Chacaron, Chagaron, or whatever you wanna call the darn song by El Chombo (not El Mudo nor Soca Gang), I’ve cut out an interesting 17-second bit of it that you can download for free and use the audio clip / sound clip as a message tone, SMS alert tone, or ringing tone / ringtone for your mobile phone or cellphone.

• Click play to listen to or hear the file:
  
• Right click and “Save Target As…”: Download El_Chombo_-_Chacarron.mp3
• File info: 280 KB, 17-18 seconds, 128 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo.

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On Coherence: Chacarron Macarron [EJ Padero dot Com]

The hit Spanish-language song (usually shortened to Chacarron, Chacaron, or sometimes even bastardized as Chagaron) proves that there is definitely life and career opportunities in the music industry even after a major stroke. I don’t know who the joke is really on. The performer or the audience. In any case, it’s a fun song that just lets go. Erm, it transcends words? How can it be called a Spanish-language song then?

There are two versions. One is by El Chombo (an American-born Panamanian Reggaeton producer and artist.) featuring Andy’s Val Gourmet (also from Panama). The song is sometimes falsely credited to “El Mudo”, an underground Spanish pop group. Wikipedia says in Chacarron, El Chombo mocks the reggaeton style of music – instead of reciting words over the traditional reggaeton style beat and backing, he slurs an incomprehensible stream of noise before breaking into the chorus in which the only two distinguishable “words” are “Chacarron” and “Macarron”. Very catchy.

Another version of the song also found online is by a group called the Soca Gang.

I don’t know which one was released first, but the Soca Gang video on Yahoo! Music says it was released in 2005. The El Chombo video at iflim on the other hand, is dated March 2006. After listening to both versions, I prefer the one by El Chombo. Watch them yourself and decide:

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What do Kill Bill’s The Bride / Beatrice (Uma Thurman) and the Transformers’ Bumblebee have in common?

Adding to the eye candy above, we also have audio! Click the controls below (nifty flash plugin thingie):

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Waiting for the show to start

It seems that my family is currently on a gay entertainment streak of late. We watched Follies de Mwah at Club Mwah last week and then there we were last night, at the final show of the 5th run of Zsazsa Zaturnnah (Ze Muzikal).

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It’s my Dad’s birthday tomorrow, but the party was last night at the fabulous Club Mwah along Boni Avenue in Mandaluyong, amidst the razzle of their Bedazzled 7 production – the latest installment of the series dubbed Follies De Mwah.

The Vegas showgirl (err, showgay?) styled musical production featured campy-sexy numbers from Cats, Madame Butterfly, West Side Story, Victor Victoria (to name a few), a twisted Little Mermaid meets Titanic spoof – and even a special guest appearance by Tina Turner, who teased my Dad with a bit of a lapdance! Haha! Stupid me wasn’t able to catch it on camera. Very entertaining work by Pocholo Malillin and Cris Nicolas. Bravo!

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Don’t let the frown fool you. Last night. Saturday. Driver-mode. My Mom. Tita Mousie. At Pilita’s restaurant bar again. Greenhills, San Juan.

Filling food. Real music, like “Some Enchanted Evening” and “Seventh Dawn”. Broadway. Tito Linc and daughter Francine duet. Master pianist Pros (not Prospero, but Proseso) is a chemical engineer.

Got more acquainted with the bar. Vodka mix. San Miguel Pale Pilsen.

Ever-present are German “Kuya Germs” Moreno and owner Pilita Corrales – “Asia’s Queen of Songs”. Last time I was there, Vina Morales. Surprisingly petite, but very fit. Can probably kick my ass.