May's Songs of the Day

5/1/2013	Natalie Walker	Waking Dream
5/2/2013	Tori Amos	Silent All These Years
5/3/2013	Jerry Douglas	TV Doctor
5/4/2013	Jars of Clay	This Road
5/5/2013	Kris Kristofferson	Help Me Make It Through the Night
5/6/2013	Yes	The Clap
5/7/2013	Frank Zappa	Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
5/8/2013	Jewel	Have a Little Faith in Me
5/9/2013	Ulali	All my Relations
5/10/2013	Boy	This is the Beginning
5/11/2013	Cry! Cry! Cry!	Cold Missouri Waters
5/12/2013	Dust	Pull Away/So Many Times
5/13/2013	Porter Wagner	Rubber Room
5/14/2013	Less Than Jake feat. Billy Bragg	The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out
5/15/2013	Glambilly	Bite the Bed
5/15/2013	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Hiding All Away
5/16/2013	The Flaming Lips	Thank You Jack White (for That Fiber Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)
5/17/2013	The Steve Miller Band	Babes in the Wood
5/18/2013	Bottle Rockets	Radar Gun
5/19/2013	Styx	Miss America
5/20/2013	Howlin' Wolf	Spoonful
5/21/2013	Kronos Quartet and Foday Musa Suso	Tillimoyo (Sunset)
5/22/2013	Monty Python	Bruce's Philosophers Song
5/23/2013	Benny Benassi/The Biz	Satisfaction
5/24/2013	The Moondoggies	Keep Her on the Line
5/25/2013	Crosby Stills and Nash	49 Bye-Byes
5/26/2013	Jefferson Airplane	Lather
5/27/2013	David Bowie	Kooks
5/28/2013	Primitive Radio Gods	Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand
5/28/2013	Dave Matthews Band	Where Are You Going?
5/29/2013	Dum Dum Girls	Rest of Our Lives
5/30/2013	Grand Funk Railroad	I'm Your Captain
5/31/2013	Indigo Girls	Closer to Fine

Overheard at the Counter: The Weepies "All That I Want"

Verble says, you know, it's never too early for Christmas Carols!   I've been listening to these guys for years and I can't believe I never realised that this is a Christmas Carol.

It goes on this year's compilation.   In fact, I'm gonna go to Cali and beg these two to play the Z&T this year


All That I Want

Out in the harbor
The ships come in, it's Christmastime
The kids all holler carols 'cross the water
Stars that shine

All that I want, all that I want

Above the rooftops
The full moon dips its golden spoon
I wait on clip-clops, deer might fly
Why not? I met you

All that I want, all that I want

And when the night is falling
Down the sky at midnight
Another year is stalling
Far away a good bye, good night

All that I want., all that I want, all that I want

So small a turning
The world grows older every day
An ache, a yearning
Soften when I hear you say

All that I want, all that I want

And when the cold wind's blowing
Snow drifts through the pine trees
In houses lights are glowing
Likewise in your eyes that find me here

With all that I want.

Out in the harbor
The ships come in, it's Christmastime
It's Christmastime
It's Christmastime.

Overheard at Table 4: Movie Stars

We are so desirous of being the stars in the movie of our own lives that we refuse to see that, most of the time, we are only minor characters in the badly-plotted novels of the lives of others.

 

 

Overread at Booth One:

a poem doesn't grow legs,
take up arms,
march off to war.

a poem doesn build a table,
cook a meal,
invite enemies to dine with enemies
until all become friends, but

a poem can breath this energy
into those who read it.

to achieve this, a poem must be read,

thus, it is our eyes
that give a poem its breath.

Overread at Table 4: Muffin of Sunsets by Elaine Equi

Muffin of Sunsets by Elaine Equi   The sky is melting. Me too. Who hasn't seen it this way? Pink between the castlework of buildings. Pensive syrup drizzled over clouds. It is almost catastrophic how heavenly. A million poets, at least, have stood in this very spot, groceries in hand, wondering: "Can I witness the Rapture and still make it home in time for dinner?"

 

Copyright © 2013 by Elaine Equi. Used with permission of the author.

(actually this was cut and pasted from a daily email sent by the American Academy of Poets, so they technically were using it by permission of the author.   It's here just because it made it into the café, and whatever is in the café, is for all to appreciate and enjoy!)

Overheard at Table 3: Baby You

"Baby, when I first met you I knew you were either gonna rock my world or kick my ass.   I so thank you for not kicking my ass!"

Overheard at Table Two: So-called Scandals

What's up with these so called "scandals"?   Seriously, Benghazi is about a load of BS as Fast and furious, the IRS was just doing their job, and the AP was pretty much business as usual.

The only scandal here is that we the public aren't demanding these guys get real and focus their attention on serious shit, like fracking our water supply and droning more terrorists into existence.