IVIV: Let's race

[Joe Allonby]

Love reading the gearhead jargon. I had Holley's on my Shelby.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Fwiw,  Leo Carillo is the name of the State Beach at Malibu -  about an hour
> up the road from Manhattan Beach.  So if,  according to the song, these two
>  are racing up Highway 1,  north starting at the corner of Topanga Canyon
> Blvd
>
> "took off north from the light at Topanga..."    (where Topanga Canyon Road
> meets the Pacific Coast Highway/ Hiway 1)
>
> *** And they're speeding up Highway 1 ***
>
> "... Grille to grille by the time we hit Leo Carillo..."   (the
> aforementioned beach)
>
> "... And it still wasn't over by Point Mogu..."  (another 5 miles north on
> Hwy 1)
>
> "... Shoulda filled-up when I got-off the San Diego..."  (the freeway about
> 5 miles prior to Topanga Canyon)
>
> Then the singer runs out of gas and the cutie goes back  and gets him some -
> much to his surprise.
>
> Just so's y'all can hear these babies:
>
> Here's a  1969 Ram Air "IV"  GTO - what she's driving.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j_5c-tubQ
>
> 1969 Ford Mustang 427
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtatkjDyDz8
>
> And I cannot place the song but I'll get it yet.
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:44 AM, John Bailey wrote:
>
>> As I've already mentioned, I find it a bit mysterious that Tariq's
>> ethnicity is such a point in chapter One - explicitly bringing
>> together the displacement of African-American, Japanese, Mexican and
>> American Indian families in the history of LA land use - when other
>> characters are treated differently. This chapter drops a number of
>> markers suggesting Lourdes and Motella's ethnic background, along with
>> those of their beaux - all except Motella use non-English phrases, and
>> Motella's afro (and "what it be, girl!") sound pretty black to me. But
>> Doc's got an afro too, which complicates things, and in this chapter
>> the narratorial voice doesn't do any racial profiling at all. Which I
>> like (as an aside, one of the things for which the recently mentioned
>> Disgrace by Coetzee is so interesting is in the way race is implied by
>> the power relations it offers while rarely being made explicit).
>>
>> Anyway, just before Doc is off to hook up with Lourdes and Motella he
>> has a brief glimpse of the Chick Planet girls. We know he has trouble
>> telling one Californian blonde (Bambi) from another (as noted during
>> his meeting with Hope) and when he spots Jade she's an oddly
>> italicised *oriental cutie*.
>>
>> Orientalism. Hmmm. Paging Edward Said.
>>
>> Where's Jade from? I'm guessing California, the way she speaks. But in
>> 1970 LA she's just a "bubbly young Asian lady" or an "oriental cutie".
>>
>> They tell him to meet them at 'Club Asiatique'.
>>
>> Another orientalist name that glosses over massive regional difference
>> in the name of commercial good times. Kitsch.
>>
>> The French aspect of the name might hint at Indo-China, which, given
>> the time setting, ties in nicely to both the war in Vietnam and the SE
>> Asian heroin cartel connection to the Golden Fang.
>>
>> So Doc hooks up with those pan-continental stewardii, and hits those
>> metaphysical freeways at an "unnecessarily suicidal velocity" and to
>> the tune of a race-song by the Boards...
>>
>> (Note: the song puts a particular emphasis - twice - on Leo Carillo,
>> an actor: his wikipedia site states: "Although he played stereotypical
>> Latins, Leo Carrillo was part of an old and respected Californio
>> family who could trace their roots back to the conquistadores." He
>> also played the sidekick Pancho in the TV series The Cisco Kid.)
>
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