{ Main Street Cafe in Waltham | Reflections }
February 5th, 2009{ Starbucks @ The DMI tonight }
February 5th, 2009months + months + months have gone by … completely coffeeless … sans coffee, you know? + so tonight … at the class break midway through our evening discussion of Giu Bonsiepe’s ‘Some Virtues of Design’ … Dennis and Kent run off to grab the class some Starbucks Coffee-on-the-Go with a random variety of pastry snacks … as much as Jan expressed the expansion of discourse following Dennis’ mini-essay on ‘Interest in Theory,’ i still tend to think the coffee might have had something to do w/ the sudden flourish of interesting conversational back + forth …
the entire ride home my mind is racing, thinking about design, dynamic media, the relationship of one artform to the other … i keep the radio off … i realize more than ever tonight just how much i miss coffee … i miss going to The Javaroom and seeing Candy, Dawn and Jess … on occasion I used to bump into Jack if I stopped in early enough on my commute into work … a more innocent time perhaps … coffee seemed to open my mind, let my blood flow a bit more freely … a slight imbalance in coffee chemistry can inspire + help manage the day-to-day … a bit of a hot liquid of survival
equally inspiring to design, poetry, thought + flow … the cafe, the coffeehouse, the tearoom … spaces devoted to the consumption of coffee … sitting for an hour or 2 while writing, surfing, sitting + talking … i certainly miss this … not just the architectural space, filled with the aroma of of the bean, the sound of the grinding + steaming … machines + people + cups + conversation, discussion over a large latte + a cinnamon chip scone … i miss the space that surrounds the time spent enjoying coffee … a bit of downtime … time to breathe + enjoy
and now … its off to bed … good night
Brew’d Awakening Commuter Stop
August 18th, 2008new haircut, slightly new coffee venue for this morning … sitting in the Brew’d Awakening aka The Red Room in beautiful downtown Lowell … I went to The University of Massachusetts at Lowell, so I have special feelings for the city, for the people, for the places of Lowell …
open conversations extending across from table to table here this morning … ‘you see, that’s the trick … you throw 5 or 6 answers out there, people forget the message’ … must be talking politics …
today its a large caramel latte … hot + frothy … swirl of caramel + foam sitting at the mouth of the deep blue mug … cool older alternative music playing, I don’t know who it is even though its from the era I grew up in, but I am getting into the jangly noise of the guitar + the occasional double hit of some sort of electronic snare + the semi-spoken vocals …
Brew’d Awakening is live, raw art … checkered pants + a perm … skull + crossbones on the bottle of life … suede cowboy jacket w/ the fringe nicely complimenting the goatee, the dark eyebrows that punctuate the eyes, that accentuate creativity + persecution … nice chime coming in on the next song, accentuating the next sip of dehydrating happiness … I need a lift + Brew’d Awakening is putting me in that mood, in that place where I can just become my thoughts + forget about the day that is about to happen, forget about the night before + just concentrate on what I want, on who I remember being …
so, that’s my drink … + now I know that the group is Joy Division … the next song that opens up w/ a triumphant depressive quality is ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ … a song that I first heard on Paul Young’s first album in a much more pop-refined format … Joy Divisions is very Frankenstein-gloomalicious … very much a wake up song, a post-punk reflection of a certain sad truth in the universe, the sad truth that the more you love, the more you fall apart … the closer you think you are to true love, to finding your soul mate, the closer you are to self-destructive madness
that’s joy … another sip of coffee now please
Coffee Thirsty | Refill on BlogCatalog
July 30th, 2008taking a little time this morning to add Coffee Thirsty | Refill to the BlogCatalog … i just heard about it through Boston-area social media guru Chris Brogan + thought it would be a good idea to add a bit of Fair Trade fun into the mix … here’s a little link …
… + so, just so you know, BlogCatalog is a place where bloggers interact + network, talking about their blogs … gettin’ all bloggy …
i’m hoping adding Coffee Thirsty into the mix gets us a little more in the way of readership … real readership … less spammish commenting + more of the real deal … gotta get me a cup + start rollin’ into work now … have a good one, aight?
{ hit + run }
July 24th, 2008aight … just a quick one … over the last bunch of weeks its been tough to actually stop off + stay at a coffeeshop or cafe … its all ‘on the run’ … The American Way … commuter lifestyle supreme …
so, escpecially w/ some of the office politics i’ve encountered recently, there’s no time to sit + get the experience of just being … literally being one w/ the coffee, being part of the coffeeshop environment + atmosphere …
i knew something was lacking … my taste for coffee was still there, that’s for sure … + i have been drinking coffee only a little less often than usual … i just haven’t gotten that happy feeling you get … you know? … that quiet zinging throughout the body … the electric caffeinated pulse + hum …
fast-forward { my last post here was in May or something? [ bandcamp inflections here, aight? ;] } … + here i am @ The Javaroom in Chelmsford putting off the inevitable last miles to the Monster HQ offices in Maynard … large vanilla latte as suggested by Dawn … sort of back to basics for me { i typically try a different drink each + every time i’m out on the coffee circuit, you know? } … but SO good … loving the vanilla latte, sitting + gettin’ a little pre-business business done …
but now, alas, its off to work … more soon …