Friday, February 8, 2013

Poem for Song of the Day

On January 7, 2013, the song of the day was

Of Monsters and Men
Little Talks

and the poem was this:


I like hearing you, here, having your
most exceptional body exceptionally close to mine:
one beat of your heart pushes all life through my veins.



and the video is as such:

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

the wonderful Iris Dement . . .

This is Iris Dement with Emmylou Harris performing on the small stage of the Zen and Tao Acoustic Cafe . . . we generally have it decorated like a living room to give it a more homey feeling.

If my wife would let me, I'd build what looks like a rickety porch off the side of the cafe . . . but she says that's just TOO darn cheesy.

Anyway, enjoy the song . . . it'll break your heart.   So hold on to your lover.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Overheard at Booth 3: Grounding Daughters

M: I don't even really see the point of grounding her if you're never going to stick with it.

F: It was two months!

M: She pushed her brother through a plate-glass window!

F: She'd been cooped up in the house for a month.

M: That was part of the punishment.  That YOU set down.  If you're not going to follow through with the guidelines that you set down, then what's the point of doing it at all.

F: I think you're going a little overboard.   You wouldn't be so strict if she was really your daughter.

M: Oh, this again.  Listen, how long have I been with you and the kids?   Ten years now?  Ever since they were in first grade.   Yeah.  Yeah.  I think I've put in some time here.

F: Oh!  Great!  YOU've "put in some time"!

M: Enough to have an opinion on how they're going to be raised, yes.   Yes, I really do.

F: Well, I'm going to raise my kids how I want and if that means I say one thing and then change my mind then that's what I'm going to do.

M: OK.   Tell that to the boy next time his sister pushes him through a window.  Next one might be on the second floor!

F: Oh, don't be such a drama queen!


Friday, February 1, 2013

Neil Young "Pocahantas"

Neil Young at the Zen and Tao Acoustic Cafe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0ihBRiHTaMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0ihBRiHTaMQ

Yeah, I know what it says.   It says WTTW from 1992.    But anywhere acoustic music is played, it's played at the Zen and Tao Acoustic Cafe. 

That's the miracle of Acoustic Zen Guitar.



By the way . . . I like to sleep with Pocahantas as well.   In the homeland I've never seen.

Overread at Booth 4: Can't Get Next to You, Babe . . . or, any MORE Next to You!

Poem for the
Song of the Day, January 5, 2013
 
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Song:
Temptations
Can’t Get Next to You

 
Poem:

Strange song to be playing over the speakers as he and his wife wandered
through the antique store; he looked at her and remembered the first time they heard
it: pants around their ankles in the back of his cherryred mustang.




Overheard at Table 3: Jesus said you can't

Woman: I'm sorry but Jesus said you just can't do whatever you want.

Man: Actually He did.   He just said IF you want to follow Him you've got to carry a different burden.

Woman: Well, I don't know what all you mean by that, but He definitely said you'll go to Hell if you're gay.

Man: Sorry, Ma . . . but the only people He ever explicitly said could NOT be saved FROM hell are the greedy and the rich.

Woman:  And the gays.  The gays too.

Man: OK, Ma.   Whatever.   OK.


Overheard at Table 1: Overreaction

Trying to save 11,000 kids from getting asthma apparently translates into trying to destroy America.