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Marimbero‘s YouTube Riff on Live: Only in Miami… and That’s a Good Thing!

Last week's local YouTube sensation was a marimbero who took it upon himself to reinterpret a couple of choice musical numbers, including a video by '90s alt-rock retreads Live. The lively running commentary features gags on arrebatos, primos who don't shut up, and the headache after a good party --...
By Abel FolgarApril 18, 2011
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Last week’s local YouTube sensation was a marimbero who took it upon himself to reinterpret a couple of choice musical numbers, including a video by ’90s alt-rock retreads Live.

The lively running commentary features gags on arrebatos, primos who don’t shut up, and the headache after a good party — not to mention haircuts, hairdos, and bitches who don’t stop with the cellphone-calling. “Estos pantalones no me sirven!” It kinda sounds like a party I attended five or six years ago, the only difference being we had some juicy Caja China pork to munch on.

Check out the video after the jump.

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Abel Folgar is a contributing writer for the Miami New Times. His collections of poetry, Renault 30 and Odas a futbolistas, are available on Hinchas Press. His translations of Comanche, P.I. and Juego de chicos were published by Jitney Books and are available at local bookstores. He is a long-suffering West Bromwich Albion fan.

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