Ice cream, pretzels and DVD's. July 20, 2006
A "well-stocked" freezer containing the essentials for suburban sustenance: Ben and Jerry's. :-) July 20, 2006 10:38pm
It's 9:49am on Friday as I type these words. So much for gettin' to bed early last night. Yeah I got home at 4:00am, surprise, surprise. But I wasn't the instigator in this case. My ride insisted on watching DVD after DVD despite having to be at work at 7:00am and I wasn't the one saying, "Um...like maybe you should take me home now so you can enough sleep."
Anyway, last night after my gig at the Andalucía, got da grand tour of the new house that my dancer friend just moved into yesterday--hence the nearly empty freezer. Beautiful and spacious (the house that is): perfect for a party, perhaps even a flamenco juerga once she gets the wood floors installed.
As we enjoyed our late night ice cream, pretzels and Coke, we talked about what it's like moving into a new neighborhood, walking into the nearest supermarket and thinking to yourself, "Wow, so this is where I'll be getting my groceries the rest of my life."
July 20, 2006 10:44pm
As I slowly savored each spoonful of Ben and Jerry's, I gave my fellow flamencos my theory of what makes gourmet ice cream better than the generic stuff. First off, if you feel little resistance as you dig the scoop into the ice cream, then congrats you've got premium quality. I think it's the fact that there's actually more cream which is soft and, well, creamy. Whereas the cheaper stuff has more water which of course freezes into hard ice and makes digging in a relatively strenous process.
July 21, 2006 1:05am
So we watched a few DVD's including a non-flamenco selection titled "Be Cool" starring John Travolta, Uma Therman etc. Mildly enjoyable. I had seen this before and unfortunately it was the best selection available at the nearest Safeway.
Later, we segued into the flamenco portion of the evening and watched a DVD of José Galvan and friends.
July 21, 2006 2:31am
We closed the evening with the video from the Pastora show which I was at first reluctant to watch. Don't get me wrong. I am very proud of that performance, but I usually don't like to watch videos of my shows--like any artist I would be hypercritical of every tiny little error and I'd end up thinking to myself "I should've done this...or that etc."
I wasn't as hypercritical as I expected myself to be. As you know, I have yet to write about the Pastora show, cuz I wanted to give myself some time to savor the many inspiring moments of that evening without cluttering my mind with self-critiques on the technique or interpretation. Of course as a professional performer I want to learn from my mistakes and improve myself each time. But as a flamenco and a human being, I just want to enjoy the moment. And as I watched each moment unfold throughout the video of my, I mean our, performance, I was very very pleased.
July 21, 2006 3:24am
At 3-something in the morning, it was time for even a vampire like me to go home and get some sleep. I got a pretty exciting weekend ahead. After my show tonight at Cabanas in Georgetown (where I'll be performing with dancers Claudia and Micaela Moreno), I have an early morning train to catch going to Maine. But you already know about that since I've been mentioning it again and again in my blog all week long.
Anywayz, chances are, I won't be logging on again until I come back. Actually I'll be getting back into DC Monday with just enough time to setup my sound system at Citron and start the show. So I won't be able to blog or upload new photos again until late that night. Have a great weekend. Ciao for now!