Saturday, April 14, 2012

I have a "thing" for mariachi bands



I do. They are so mobile and smiling! They are like a time machine embellished in gold braid. Years ago someone hired a mariachi band to follow them around on their birthday and ended up at my place, where it quickly became a giant impromptu neighborhood dance party. The magic of the mariachi brought a couple hundred strangers together and it was so human and so jubilant and so ridiculous. I'll never forget it.

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  1. Mariachi bands eh? I can see that. They have a kind of tender-absurd magic. But I don't think anything beats a marching band in procession. If we ever throw a party together, perhaps we could hire a *mariarching* band.

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  2. Hannah! You know we have to throw a party together now, just for an excuse to make tshirts emblazoned with the word Mariarching. Genius.

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