Friday, September 03, 2004

Nachos and cerveza

Today I went to a Mexican restaurant in Sarajevo. I went with a step cousin who is a translator, and a Policewoman from Spain who she works with. It was really interesting; we talked about how south american gang culture is infiltrating Spain, and how it's different from mafia crime. She also told me about this musical gang tradition that the narcotistas have. Apparently to get really big cahones you have to have a mariachi song written about you that immortalizes the glorious terror you've inflicted on the world.

Strangely enough the news today had a story on about a traditional Serbian gusla musician who wrote a song (or maybe a few) glorifying Karedjich. He performed them at a festival in Serbia. The news interviewed an ethnomusicologist and a few festival-goers. My Bosnian isn't good enough to get the whole story, so if anyone has heard about this I'd be interested to know.









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