Arandinas

I live in an interesting part of town, I'm about 2 miles from Austin's froo-froo shopping center and new Neiman Marcus and Saks, and about 2 miles from one of the most gut-bucket poor part of town. Guess where I go for a $3 burrito? Usually not a big deal, but 9pm last friday I go to arandinas number whatever over by the HEB . Tonight they have a band - accordian, bass, guitar. I listened while I waited for my burrito al pastor. The bass player sang and played the lead line. He had a beat-up white p-bass with a huge green pot-leaf sticker on it. He wore a stetson, white shirt, sky-blue sans-a-belts, and sky-blue custom ostrich boots - with the pointy toe so you kill the roaches in the corners. He was about a 1/4 step flat compared to the accordian, but nobody seemed to notice. It was fun. I was the only anglo in the place, which is actually kind of unusual in austin these days.