So I'm in the middle of making some TV reality/doc shows, twelve total, an all-consuming activity which not only results in a admittedly lazy dependence on YouTube blog posts for loyal KenBurnsHatesMexicans readers -- apologies -- but also a serious back up of programs on my TiVo. But one show I never miss is Dancing With the Stars. Not only because the ABC series features the dancing talents of Cheryl Burke (be still my heart), but I'm a sucker for the Pas0 Doble. Imagine the irony, then, of getting offered two free tickets to this Monday's taping of Dancing With the Stars -- and having to turn them down. Like I said, I'm in the middle of production. We'll be flying to San Antonio that day. Oh well...
The upside, of course, is I'm going back home: breakfast tacos 2 for 99 cents; "G-o S-p-u-r-s G-o" spelled out with white styrofoam cups stuck into people's chain link fences (talk about the art of Phantom Sightings); Esteban Jordan live at Salute on Friday nights (the "Jimi Hendrix of the Accordion" -- video proof here); Henry's puffy tacos (over eight million sold); Bill Miller iced tea; the big wide aisles of HEB; plus I can finally figure out why my fellow Tejanos went for Hillary. I mean, what's up with that?
Will be shooting four episodes of the TV show during San Antonio's Fiesta Week. For those non-Texans out there blissfully unaware of the cultural and political dynamics of Fiesta Week -- beyond its apt description of as Mardi Gras, but with Mexicans -- I leave you with this clip from my movie Speeder Kills. And for those of you sadly unaware of the delights of the Paso Doble, I leave you with this clip from last season of Dancing With the Stars, where Mario Lopez introduces America to his Chicano family before dazzling us with his version of the Latin ballroom dance. Have a good weekend.
I'll be in SA next month; while you're there, you gotta check out Chris Madrid's on Blanco!!!!
Posted by: Chino | 19 April 2008 at 02:43 PM
Hey, you're a fan of "Go Spurs Go" on chain-link fences, too?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dedonna/158392248/
Posted by: Donnatella | 29 April 2008 at 08:45 PM