{"id":134,"date":"2003-07-14T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T04:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2003-07-14T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T04:13:21","slug":"el-vez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"El Vez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/ElVezAztec.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/ElVezAztec.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/ElVezAztec-thumb.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy friends Michelle and Jaime took me to see <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/elvezco\/\">El Vez<\/a>, the Chicano Elvis impersonator. It was quite wonderful and hilarious; El Vez channels Elvis, but at the same time he alters Elvis, messes with him, &#8220;Mexicanizes&#8221; (or &#8220;Mexican-Americanizes&#8221;) him. The show is quite an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/ElVez.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/archives\/ElVez.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">extravaganza<\/a>, with costume changes, male strip tease, rewriting of Elvis&#8217; lyrics, etc. The picture here shows El Vez in Quetzelcoatl costume; but there was also the black vinyl look, the East LA gang look, even the S&#038;M look with a tall dominatrix. I can&#8217;t say anything about the cultural significance of El Vez&#8217;s act, that hasn&#8217;t already been better said by <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/elvezco\/habell\/habell.html\">Michelle Habell-Pallan<\/a>. But I can testify that the set was a sheer, high-energy delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends Michelle and Jaime took me to see <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/elvezco\/\">El Vez<\/a>, the Chicano Elvis impersonator. It was quite wonderful and hilarious; El Vez channels Elvis, but at the same time he alters Elvis, messes with him, &#8220;Mexicanizes&#8221; (or &#8220;Mexican-Americanizes&#8221;) him. The show is quite an extravaganza, with costume changes, male strip tease, rewriting of Elvis&#8217; lyrics, etc. There&#8217;s the Quetzalcoatl costume; but there was also the black vinyl look, the East LA gang look, even the S&#038;M look with a tall dominatrix. I can&#8217;t say anything about the cultural significance of El Vez&#8217;s act, that hasn&#8217;t already been better said by <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/elvezco\/habell\/habell.html\">Michelle Habell-Pallan<\/a>. But I can testify that the set was a sheer, high-energy delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}