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Viva La Lucha Libre.Net, your gateway to the wacky world of mexican wrestling.
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¡Bueno! As the year winds down,
a bunch of lucha related treats are coming down the pipe. First
thing I'd want to mention is the new Campeones de La Lucha Libre project
from Eddie Mort and Lili Chin (Mucha Lucha!, Rudo By Night).
If my brain was a car, lucha cartoons would be the gasoline that fuels
it, and this one looks like it could be Eddie and Lili's best one
yet. I'm especially digging the Rayo-X and his La Parka-esque
getup. Check out thier official MySpace as this update's featured
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Halloween is just around the corner, so it's time to start
picking out a lucha mask to wear this year. I'm leaning towards
'Suit-and-Tye Mil Mascaras' but every year, about a week before the big
day, I remember how much fun I had the previous year dressed up as La
Parka and end up donning the hood and bones. Lucha VaVoom has a special show scheduled for this year's festivities, including an All Mini Battle Royale. I'll go ahead and type that out again...An All Mini Battle Royale. Don't go unless you want your mind completely blown. The show will run thrice on October 24, 25 and 26 in Downtown L.A., and you'd be a fool to miss it. |
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Malcolm Venville just completed his new lucha photography book,
Lucha Loco, and the preview they sent over looks amazing. Lucha
libre's finest are captured in giant photos, with in-depth interviews
with each. There's an obvious love for the sport and luchadores in
each piece that should make this a great book. We'll
have a full review of the book soon, and in the mean time, check
out the ultra classy web site they've set up, including
web-exclusive interviews with some of the featured wrestlers. From the press release: Lucha Loco is the artistic result of Venville’s quest to find and capture the essence of these masked gladiator-like showmen throughout many different trips to Mexico City in 2005. Venville says, “Lucha Loco represents something that is missing from life in the western world since the disappearance of the circus and vaudeville. There is poetry in its vibrant and expressive style that is lacking from wrestling.” As a child of profoundly deaf parents, Venville is fascinated with the unspoken language and still countenance of the luchadore mask. It is through Venville’s tenacity and desire to observe this serious form of expression while revealing the humanity underneath that culminates in the stunning portraiture series Lucha Loco. Detailed color photos introduce the figure, the name reveals the character, but the quote reveals the mind behind the mask – ranging from the emotional – Super Porky who says, “Here in Mexico us wrestlers work every single day. Sorry, do forgive the tears” – to the humorous – Coco Verde, “We don’t mix the character from free wrestling with sex,” – to the simple – Las Momias, “We’re the mummies, here to serve the people.” |
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