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...Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...
...noise to drown out the script. Perhaps that is part of the reason Hollywood is trying to improve on the genre with Crazy/Beautiful--a romantic drama starring Kirsten Dunst as a rich, white high school senior rebelling against her limousine-liberal father and falling in love with a Latino jock from the wrong side of the tracks. No one eats anything disgusting, and nothing blows up in this refreshingly straightforward tale of adolescent angst and sexual awakening. Of course, it does involve teenagers, so don't expect total honesty...
...there's any musical link among the three, it's an emphasis on melody--at least compared with the testosterone-drenched, jock-rock chants of Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. And that may help lure pop kids. "There's a lot more stuff that everybody can sing along to, that girls can take home and listen and sing to, as well as those guys hitting their heads on the wall," says Elektra A&R associate Jill Katona. But if the three don't make a movement, they may represent the desire for one, and a first taste of things...
...another typical Saturday night. A few blocks farther down Revolucion Avenue from the jock-rock clubs, several hundred young hipsters--mostly locals but with a few gringos mixed in--crowd the anteroom of Tijuana's grand old Jai Alai Palace for a nortec party. Ramon Amezcua signs a few autographs and nods his head rhythmically to the distinctive, trippy sounds of Hiporboreal. Pepe Mogt is stationed behind the soundboard, checking levels and thinking about how he will close the show with a DJ set. Nortec has made Pepe a successful man. He recently quit his $12-an-hour...
...hookers. And drugs. And there's a rumor that if you know the right people, a particularly exotic combination of both can be arranged without too much of a hassle. When the sun goes down, the crowds thicken outside the 80-odd cantinas along the avenue, and pulsing jock-rock mingles with the aroma of stale beer and fresh vomit to form Revolucion's unmistakable atmosphere. "This is what the world knows of Tijuana," says Pepe Mogt, 31, smiling at the drunken humanity sprawled out before him. "It gives us a lot of material...