Memories of L.A. August 29, 2006
Waitin' for da train at King St. August 29, 2006 9:56pm (photo by Rocio)
I meet a lot of people at my shows and it turns out probably half of them already know about the dcflamenco website. It's funny how they comment, "Oh, that's your website?" Hehe...I mean yeah, it is my website but it's not like I plaster my pic all over the place.
For those that don't know about it, I give them my biz card with my website address on it and they'll usually say something like, "Cool, I'll go checkout one of your other shows."
Well, days turn into weeks and weeks into months and time passes and it turns out very few of them actually follow through on their promise. Not that my whole life depends on it. So when people like my new friend Rocio actually do show up, my faith is restored in humanity ;-), well not really, but still it is very cool.
Rocio and Miguelito. August 29, 2006 10:00pm
I first met Rocio at Tapeo last Saturday. Gave her my card afterwards and she said something like, yeah, I'll go checkout your show at Las Tapas. Ok, cool, whatever. Well, last Tuesday at Tapas, I got a very nice surprise: I noticed Rocio being seated in the middle of the first show--wow! She actually followed through on her promise. So when I had a second, I briefly looked in her direction, caught her eye and mouthed the word hola and quickly went back to accompanying my dancers.
Naturally, I stopped by her table, sat down and basically thanked her for coming. Turns out she's from Los Angeles like myself and as we talked I realized that although I consider myself more of a Washingtonian now, there are still some things that I miss about LA, like living 20 minutes away from the beautiful California beaches.
I can remember so many times whenever I was having a rough day at school (Cal State Fullerton), I would get in the car and drive down to Costa Mesa and hit Pacific Coast Highway and just cruise with the windows rolled down, breathe in the fresh salty air and let the sound of the crashing waves soothe my stress away. Sometimes when I needed to study, I'd even go to the library at University of California in Irvine (next to Costa Mesa) and the beach was just a few minutes away, nice!
View of Corona del Mar beach in Irvine (Flickr photo by Ting-Bin)
It's 7:57am on Thursday as I type these words. I meeting someone at 9:30am in Arlington and I still need to get dressed and get a doppio before I get on the metro so I better sign off. Tonight, I'll be performing solo guitar at Andalucía (next week we'll have a dancer TBA). Ciao for now!
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Comments
wow miguelito!!! why did u ever move here?? I could never leave that beach without feeling guilty!!!...lol
Posted by: raquel | August 31, 2006 8:32 PM