Swapmeet Chronicles Features: Bombón

I was excited to finally check out the lovely ladies of Bombón play near my house this past weekend. Bombón (which means marshmallow in Spanish) is a San Pedro based all girl garage/surf style band. The band was started about a year ago, but has been recently doing shows around the LA area. Bombón consists of three members who are: Angela Ramos singer/guitar player, Paloma Banuelos singer/bass player, and Jerico Campbell smashes away on the drums. 

I asked them why the name Bombón? (mostly because I love the word and it is pretty unique)

I was told the name Bombón came about the girls wanting something white and bubbly when written and most importantly in Spanish. 
Their mellow, vintage sound is chill and cool, but can get your head bobbing with it's ruff edges. 
I liked how Bombón incorporated some of  their Mexican heritage with names of instrumental songs like: "Pastel" and  "Rancheritos". Bombón only has one song so far with lyrics sung in Spanish called " Las Playas" but  with more songs in the works this trio is doing it!

 

 

 

If you want more of Bombón and other bands check them out Halloween night in Long Beach. 

1517 W. Esther St Long Beach, Calif.

Bombón on My Space 

Bombón on Flickr

Peace,

Doña Junta

My first batch of Mole and Arroz!!

Believe it or not I have never made Mexican rice. I watched my mom make it all my life yet I was to busy or did not care  to learn. I called my mom last night to ask her how to make it FINALLY and I also asked her how to make chicken mole taste good from a Dona Maria mole jar. To my surprise it actually came out good I was relived because I though it would be not so great. I know next time it will be even better.

The ola got a little messy but I was able to manage.

The final result

This style mole is called Pipian so it  has a spicier taste unlike traditional mole which is a little sweeter.

The side streets

What's up my peep's

I am just posting a random " hello" I am planning on new  posts for the near future, but I been once again busy with school and side projects.The blogging world has gotten super crowded. There is so much to read now, so many blogs about everything. I used to have like a favorites list, but now it's hard to even keep up with that. I have my sidebar with interesting blogs so I most likely click on those if that. How do you blog readers and writers do it? feeds, links etc. I am trying to find a new photo for my header, but I totally forgot how to do it, and I am not sure how to add a graphic or make it look legit so any suggestions please shoot them. 
So with that said I am out the door, but will be back shortly.




Alrato


D.J

The Grimy Streets

I have not posted graffiti flicks in a minute mostly because there are so many blogs posting graff flicks as soon as the spot is painted, but I will post up occasional  shit I run into old or new fuck it represent the calles!

 

Swoe FDS,777

Trak

Besto

Prame ( I guess) 

2006 Tank NBC

Slanguage Re-cap on “Dislexicon” & Walking The Streets of Wilmington

Thank you to those that were able to make it to ” Dislexicon” this past Thursday @ MOCA. Our little video turned out okay despite the fact it was homemade stilo and we only had a two week period.

Raul Vasquez and Karla Diaz appear in our movie as random characters. They came out and performed spoken word on stage immediately after the movie.

The movie is old history of Wilmington California as well as street history with an art twist check it out.

The narrative was old text from a brochure written by Wilmington Chamber of Commerce from around the 1960s’

We thought what they has wrote was awesome because they said some wonderful stuff about Wilmington which today sounds a bit obsolete.

Here are some kind words from the brochure.

Romance and adventure wind through the streets of Wilmington-touching the life of every resident, making Wilmington one of the most interesting and exciting communities on the West Coast (Wolfer)



Bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Wilmington is a sea-loving community…close to all beach and ocean activities. US Highway 101 (Pacific Coast Highway) runs through the city taking residents south to San Diego and north to San Francisco and beyond. (Wolfer)

We still had to keep it real and display some of the down-turns Wilmington took during more recent years.

During the 1980s’ and early 1990s’ Los Angeles experienced some of the toughest times with crime, gangs and drugs. In Wilmington it was no different the rivalries between the east side Wilmas and the west side Wilmas gangs was intense. Many lives were lost to bullets or drugs, a dark time for the “The Heart of the Harbor”

A gang injunction against the east side and west side Wilmas gangs was placed on March 19, 2004 which has worked at dramatically decreasing gang violence. With this and help of caring people in the community Wilmington has started to look up again.

Photos of War and Street Soldiers… death in the 90’s and 1800’s

Wilmington Cemetery
L.A. Historic Cultural Monument 414

 

22 civil soldiers buried here

The Wilmington Historical cemetery is not only a resting place for civil war soldiers who fought a war for freedom, but also for street soldiers who lost a war to violence.

Peace

Doña Junta