I went to an OLD TOWN once and they put on the Cowboy Show. Those 'smokewagons' were freakin loud.

I read also where they fixed the skies in POST.

Yup, the skies were fixed in the opening scenes, amongst others. One very good reason for this was that on the budget of the film, there was no waiting around to get the right skies. Digital intermediate is becoming more and more affordable and acceptable for medium budget filmmaking. My fellow (and now-former) Steadicam operator Jimmy Muro was the DP on that show and I'm very happy that he has gotten as much recognition and career boost as he has.

I purchased Once Upon a time in Mexico and watched it over the weekend. Basically a homage to Clint Eastwood movies. I enjoyed it.
In spite of what people say, Rodriguez has a gift for high camp like few others. (I pretty sure he doesn't expect his movies to taken seriously, at least by the comments he makes).

I guess the best part is the recipe for slow cooked pork in the ten minute cooking school extra.

Plus he brings you into his personal studio, Pretty frikin cool.

I just received my OUATIM DVD and must say I like it very much.
The only "downside" is that it isn't a 2 disc release (with more
and longer exta's) with dts sound. Oh well, you can't have
everything.

I thought the picture looked superb on DVD. As usual with
his DVD releases there are some very interesting extra's on
the disc. I loved the piece where we got to visit his house/
garage which was even more hilarious with his cooking flick.
I've never ever seen that on a DVD before. Some of the pieces
(like the cooking) had me laughing pretty hard and I was
pretty shocked with how one extra ended without spoiling
it for anyone.

10 minute flick school was great again and you eve get two
commentaries (one for the sound with mainly the music score).
Great stuff!

I watched all of the extra's and have seen the first half hour
of the director's commentary track. He actually gives some
insight into how and why which helped to raise the movie a
bit for me.

Good stuff, that's the only reason why I bought that DVD--didn't care for the movie, though. Oh, I don't get why everyone says his movies are like a Sergio Leone film? I dont see too many parallels, other than the "El" playing the guitar like the Branson and his harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West.

If anything, I think OUATIM is more like a Peckinpah film.