Miguelito warming up at the bar at Las Tapas. January 2, 2007 7:55pm (photo by Michael Long)

It's 11:12am on Wednesday as I type these words. Another quick blog entry so I can get out of the house, finish up a few personal errands and catch an early show of Almodovar's Volver.

Last night (Tuesday), I was back at Las Tapas after a three week break. The last two times that I normally would have a show here, the restaurant cancelled on account of the seasonal Christmas slump in the restaurant business. As usual, I didn't know who the dancers for the evening would be. And as usual, I preferred it that way. Hehe. It's always a nice surprise and this time the dancers turned out to be Pam de Ocampo and Carmel Shelly.

Normally we do two sets. We had a decent size audience but the hostess wasn't expecting a lot of people to arrive for the second set, so what we do in this case is just perform only one very long set. The timing varies depending on the length of the dance and guitar solos. But with Pam, Carmel and myself the show started at 8:00pm and ended at 8:55pm!

My friend Michael Long stopped by and of course I got him to take pics of the performance. Here are a few...