Blockers (Rotten Tomatoes) comes out today, a controversial film about female sexual agency. These crazy girls are trying to get laid...but not if their parents can stop them. Enter, male chicken blockers, the hair pulling parents to these rambunctious youngsters. It's not easy raising kids, and it's not easy dealing with parents. We were all kids, many of us will be parents, so whose side will we take? Let's watch. Will it be a summer blockbuster in the spring or a premature spring break classic coming too soon to get enough adolescents [donkeys] in cinema seats?
Losing my virginity:Blockers teen sex romp movie clips (2018)
C Blockers
Teen sex sells tix.
(Universal Pictures) Blockers arrives in theaters on Friday, April 6, 2018. Website: blockersmovie.com. When three parents stumble upon their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
I directed this $exploitation.
Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, Suicide Squad), John Cena (Trainwreck, Sisters), and Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, This Is 40) star in Blockers, the directorial debut of Kay Cannon (writer of the Pitch Perfect series).
This is a comedy about sexual misconduct, so calm down. It's not like it's killing...unless someone gets pregnant and ends up committing abortion, which is murder (thought the Morning After pill may or may not be, depending on how it really works. Look into that detail, which is not on the label, before use or risk becoming a manslaughterer, which is terrible karma). Blockers (IMDb)
REVIEW: FilmWeek (4/6/18): A Quiet Place, Blockers, Chappaquiddick, 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's [I helped fake the U.S. moon landing] 2001: A Space Odyssey
Produced by [men like] Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, under their Point Grey Pictures banner (Neighbors, This Is the End), alongside Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (Harold & Kumar series) and DMG Entertainment’s Chris Fenton (47 Ronin). Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Joseph Drake (Don’t Breathe, Juno) executive produce with Chris Cowles (Collide)
of DMG and Josh Fagen, Dave Stassen, and Jonathan McCoy. The film is
written by brothers Brian and Jim Kehoe, Hurwitz and Schlossberg, and
Eben Russell. Sex? Maybe. Contraception? YES!
When my parents said, "We want to talk to you about sex," I answered, "Sure, what do you guys want to know?" thinking they had to know that I knew more about the subject than they probably did. They were mad and shamed me. We never talked about it again. :/
Parent-child communication(Advocates for Youth) In a recent study, teens who benefited from perceived from parental guidance and who
reportedly had a “good talk” with parents in the last year about sex,
birth control, and the dangers of STDs were two times more likely to use
condoms at the last time they had sex than teens who did not talk to
their parents as often.
Aztec warriors dance at Aztec/Mayan celebration at Kukulkan in Mexico (ABC.net.au).
This pictographic stone "Mayan Calendar" is actually Aztec (pre-Mexican). Mayans had others.
"Mexika New Year" is the Aztec New Year festival (like Nowruzwhich marks spring).
UPDATE: It was a fabulous day at the festival. We learned much. First, it's only called "East" Los Angeles because it's east of the Los Angeles River, on the "wrong side of the tracks," as it were. One moment it's downtown, cross a bridge and it's suddenly ELA. The real eastern edge of LA is Montclair, 50 miles away. Next to White Memorial Hospital and an extraordinary book haven called Libros Schmibros Lending Library is a square where mariachis-for-hire wander.
Today the drums were beating, and real Aztec dancers were moving in full regalia. We shot video, took workshops to learn about the literature of pre-Colombus America in Nahuatl with CSUN Prof. Sandoval, and really learned about indigenous L.A., a history of a people here lost to nearly everyone, even in the remaining community.
Mexika (tribe)
First Nation Syndicate in collaboration with Northern Southern Winds
Cultural Foundation, Danza Xipe Totec, and the First Street Community
Businesses invites you to this FREE 16th annual event.
It will be held in Boyle Heights' Mariachi Plaza. It celebrates the rich and diverse cultures of the First Nation peoples of the great city of Tenochtitlan also known as "Mexica," the land of the Aztecs.
Mexika New Year, 10:00 am-10:00 pm
Mariachi Plaza (at Boyle and 1st St.)
1817 E. 1st St., Los Angeles 90033
Overview
Native Mexican-American dancer, L.A.
The FREE festival starts off with the building of the annual pre-Columbian flower altar, which symbolically represents the new year cycle. It is followed by a splendid ceremony of Mitotialistli, better known as Aztec dance guided by Kalpulli Xipetotec.
Join this moment in time, an important milestone when ears, bodies, and spirits resonate with the sounds of ancient wisdom. Eyes take in the grandeur and beauty of times nearly forgotten. Following this ceremony, the stage will immediately open for a presentation of knowledge, poetry, music, and much more.
Workshops
There will be a variety of workshops starting with a reading of the Aztec Calendar and the reclaiming of our identity within it by Maestro Mazatzin. This will be followed by workshops on making indigenous musical instruments by Martin Espino. And finally, a workshop on pre-Columbian literature and poetry will be taught by Cal State Univ. Northridge/ELACProf. Sandoval, a poet and Nahuatl (the indigenous pre-Spanish language of the people) scholar.
Live Music
Mitiotialisti cultural dance presentation by Kalpulli Yaocuauhtli (the Aztec Dancers). Music by N.M.E. Rifa, Sick Jacken, Kem the Blaxican, South Central Skankers, Mata Moska, Quinto Sol, Tezozomoc, Azul Quetzal, La Diabla, Krazy Race, Akademex, Salvajes, Rebellion Warfare, Sicko Soldado, Alas, Legion of Slugs, Dazer, Comandante, A.G.O.P., D.O.T.C., The Young Casanovas, DJ FM, DJ Survive, DJ Luman, hosted by Sister Centzi of the Guerrilla Queenz and others.
(Simon Mendoza) Mexica New Year, Aztec dance 2016, Los Angeles, California.
History
Aztec woman, a Los Angeles Latina, a Native Queen of Angels (limitstogrowth.org)
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Quetzalcoatl dancing (like Shiva Nataraj)
This celebration acknowledges ALL
First Nation peoples living across the American continent through art
exhibits, dancing, and singing.
On display will be some of the best
contemporary Native Mexican and urban musical performances that have
come out of the barrios (Latin neighborhoods) of Los Angeles.
There will also be
some of the most talented artists and muralists from the "inner city"
and surrounding areas representing the city's many indigenous
cultures throughout North-, Central-, and South America.
The local
celebration of the Mexika New Year first emerged in 1998 east of the Los Angeles
River. A collective of Chicano artists and pro-indigenous
activists organized an array of cultural events and workshops shared throughout the community with the aim of reconnecting with lost identities in Native indigenous cultures.
Aztec Calendar
The stone calendar has great meaning.
The celebration revolves around the Tonalmachiotl, also known as the Aztec
Calendar (shown above and explained on right), which is one of the greatest collective
accomplishments of the culture's ancestral forebears.
The Aztec Calendar (like the Mayan system that preceded it) is the
most accurate calendar system in existence today -- measuring time, space,
astrological movements, agricultural cycles, and individual human
potential, not to mention a 24-hour clock partition into 20
72-minute fractions.
The celebration includes a sunrise
ceremony with traditional Aztec dance or danza Azteca to honor the Spring Equinox
and the old world's traditional New Year. There will be a concert of mixed musical
genres: hip hop, ska, reggae, and rock.
Also included is a unique Native artisan-style marketplace with vendors from all over North, Central, and
South America and an educational component that includes workshops designed to awaken and inspire a complete
constructive change of the body, mind, and spirit.
The greater
Los Angeles community and the world is warmly welcome to attend. Come see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the magnificent diversity of indigenous Native Mexican-American
culture. It's family fun for everyone! Admission is FREE for
all.
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