Remembering when "Mijo" meant "my son" . . .
It takes a big man to admit to doing something he isn't proud of. Something that people who know me would be shocked by. Something that goes against most people's estimation of me. Last night it was booze, violence, corruption, loose women . . . Yes, I admit it . . . I was up till 2:30AM last night watching the 1989 movie "Roadhouse." Not that I hadn't seen the movie before. (Possibly a few times) But when it came on at 12:30AM, I decided it was time to burn two extra hours of my life watching Patrick Swayze be a bouncer in a small corrupt Missouri town. Of course the one redeeming quality of the movie was Jeff Healey playing some wicked slide guitar and covering some excellent rock classics. An amazing musician. Sam Elliott played Wade Garrett, Swayze's mentor and old friend from previous bar bouncing gigs. He refers to Swayze as "mijo," which I always thought was totally cool and one of the things that stuck with me long after I saw the movie. In Spanish, Mijo (pronounced meehoe) is a conjunction of mi hijo (mee eehoe) meaning "my son."
Of course I got to thinking about how the term "mijo" has evolved since the movie. Now days it is still pronounced the same, but the spelling and definition have changed considerably. This is true with so many things now days. When somebody refers to Me Ho, they are now referring to the bitch that gets them their 40's and lottery tickets on her way home from the last trick (or job, depending on how evolved they are as a couple) . . . (Still prounced meehoe, but meaning something completely different)
This lead me to contemplate all the things that have changed since 1989 when that movie was mad, and how fun it would be to see an updated version . . .
Anyway, admit it. You would have stayed up too if you knew it was on . . . And you have seen it more than once. And you too thought Sam Elliott was a badass . . . Maybe even wanted to be like him . . . Admit it!!!!
Of course I got to thinking about how the term "mijo" has evolved since the movie. Now days it is still pronounced the same, but the spelling and definition have changed considerably. This is true with so many things now days. When somebody refers to Me Ho, they are now referring to the bitch that gets them their 40's and lottery tickets on her way home from the last trick (or job, depending on how evolved they are as a couple) . . . (Still prounced meehoe, but meaning something completely different)
This lead me to contemplate all the things that have changed since 1989 when that movie was mad, and how fun it would be to see an updated version . . .
Anyway, admit it. You would have stayed up too if you knew it was on . . . And you have seen it more than once. And you too thought Sam Elliott was a badass . . . Maybe even wanted to be like him . . . Admit it!!!!
posted by Jim at 12:45 PM
2 Comments:
DAMN STRAIGHT!!! Roadhouse is the greatest Patrick Swayze bouncer movie of the 80's!!!! Ok, so maybe it's the only one, but it is a great movie. I get hooked every time me and "Me Ho" see it on tv.
Love the site man. Keep it up.
Sorry, but I’ve now seen the movie more than thirty times (I know, I know....), and Garrett is NOT saying “mijo” or even “mi hijo”. What he CLEARLY is saying is “amiho”. And he says it TWICE, both times CLEARLY putting the “a” sound before the mijo. Was he trying to say “amigo” in a different, cooler way? Who knows..... but he clearly makes it a three syllable word, with the “a” sound before the mijo part.....TWICE!
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