Friday, October 22, 2010

One Night At Starbucks



Sometimes when I have work to do and I'm having trouble working at the house, I head down to the Starbucks in Davis Square to get down to serious business. I feel lame doing this, but I have my reasons. The Starbucks is right across from the wicked awesome Diesel Cafe, but I don't want to go to the Diesel because there is a high likelihood that I will run into someone I know and, even if I don't, that the people hanging out in there will be more interesting than the work I have to do on the computer. (That, and they charge for Wi-Fi last time I checked.) So I go to the lame Starbucks across the street and hang out with the Tufts kids, and we all sit there with our laptops, clacking away, our faces all pale and alien from the light of our screens.

I recorded the above video the other night while I was down there. That's the great thing about the Flip Mino, I just set it on the table and let it roll while this crazy dude stormed around the place ranting and raving. Many of the other patrons were completely freaked out, especially the dude whose table the nutter slammed his fist on when he says "Should I read a book?" But me, I was secretly kind of siding with the deranged man. I felt like a douche for being in the Starbucks in the first place and he was saying things that I was thinking...very loudly and with a foul odor about him. I wanted to whisper to him "I'm not like these other people, I'm just hiding out here, I'm really a lot more like you than you'd ever imagine...and I'm on Facebook, not Myspace by the way. Nobody goes on Myspace anymore except for pedophiles and bands."

9 comments:

dicky said...

He should twitter. That's what the real nutjobs do.

Chris said...

Wow. There's not much I miss about living in The Big City, but times like these are high on the list.

SteveS said...

Reminds me of me of Charlie's... the one in Kenmore Sq. I miss that place.

zencycle said...

the Robey version

or

The Chess version


Starbucks, Davis Square Cambridge
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the Tufts world in a
Show with everything but Thom Parsons
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
Since the Diesel Cafe had all the Thom Fans in it
All change -- don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Porter -- or the Inman Square -- or Medford -- or -- or this place!

One night in Starbucks and the world's your oyster
The bums are angry but the wifi's free
You'll find a tufts kid typing in oblivion
And if you're lucky the barrista's clean
I can feel the mad bum sliding up to me

One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be typing at the board, not riding thru the city

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --

latte, light, warm and sweet
Some are brewed as a as a vanilla treat

Get Chai'd! You're talking to a student
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

One night in Starbucks makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night with Big Bikes and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the mad bum walking next to me

Dicky, gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
custom 29r or parties with IMBA
And thank God I'm only watching the bum -- recording him --
I don't see you guys rating
The kind of post I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the text we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bikes, your helmets, your Single Track Trails --

One night in Starbucks and the world's your oyster
The bums are angry but the wifi's free
You'll find a tufts kid typing in oblivion
A little flesh, a little road rash, please
I can feel a mad bum sliding up to me
One night in Starbucks makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night with Big Bikes and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the mad bum walking next to me

zencycle said...
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Big Bikes said...

Wow Zen...wow.
I will be placing that in the body of my next post to make sure the world (of three BB readers) sees it.

-t

zencycle said...

yo, just kinda rolled out of my coffee haze on saturday morning - could use a bit more polishing and added relevance, you have a much better imagination than me, go for it.

the original big ring said...

i deal with nutters like that EVERYDAY! Fak me.

Agreed with Richard, most of them have twitter accounts . . . TWEET: "just drinking a $3 bottle of cooking sherri under the overpass and talking to Dino about the intricacies of cooking baked beans in a can over a fire - good times. SHOULD I LOOK AT MY LAPTOP!?!?!"

cbmcqueen@gmail.com said...

heh