A Fistful of Mariachi's with a 0.65 Introduction @ The "Los Bar" (August 14, 2015, Los Angeles)

A 0.65 Introdcution

I will try to make this short and sweet hopefully...

First, I want to happily steal a line or two from the late great Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean writer who lived in Mexico in his youth

-This is from one of his poems... 

    " Like a Mexican charro with a fine black mustache

       And a cloth suit with silver stiching, I imposed..."

So with this line of thought and in it's spirit 

I will impose upon you here tonight a set of Mariachi songs --for you...

There are some things I have learned along the way in my 0.65 "Mexicaness"...

And these songs are some of that... I want to share these, this knowledge, with you tonight-

And tonight I implore you - To go beyond trivialities-

To go beyond trivial songs in a touristy restaurant

To go beyond the trivialness of makeshift art projects in a garage

To go beyond a trivial art scene... and so on..

And that we get to the core of it --

The core of this project

The core of these songs

The core of being....

To get down to it ...as it were -

To the stomach of it 

To the bone of it...

So as we drink our tequilas tonight

Our cervezas, our beers

and later when we eat our tacos and burritos...

Think about where you stand...

below the cement and pavement

This dirt, this earth

This dust -- We cal California, Califas...

What was once New Spain which is now Old Mexico

Or for some an Occupied Mexico...

So when we listen to these songs-

Let it sink in...

Let it cut to the bone

or cut to the heart of being..

of a life to be lived...

Because tonight -at least 

We are all Mexican -

whether you know it or not

where ever you're from

You may only understand few words

or none at all -- doesn't matter

It's all about attitude and feeling

Tomorrow think...

If you can...

So in the spirit of Adolf Loos

In the spirit of Rudolf Schindler

In the spirit of the Charro...

in the spirit of collaboration

In the spirit of cross cultural crossfire

Let's have a drink 

and let it sink in

Let it cut to the bone

and cut your heart...

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