A walk

About noon, I'm walking down the hill to top pot to get a coffee. It's in the low 70s, warm, and raining in that way that you can almost walk in between the rain drops. I'm listening to the new Bebel Gilberto (it's excellent! Go buy it). Basically a good day.

And then I come around the corner to large men, gesticulating wildly, in front of their landscaping truck. They appear to be arguing about weather the rose bush in front of them was perfect for this spot - or if it went beyond that to being perfect for Seattle. In any case we had to very large men covered in dirt, arguing about plantings, flowers and perfection. And clearly loving their job. This is not something you see every day.

I was smiling all the way down the hill.

Cafe Presse == Awesome

I just got finished with a light lunch at Café Presse, which was excellent. The space was perfect: light, and airy - with the skylights 2 stories up offering niche views of some pines on the Seattle U Campus.

I had the Tomates tapenade, white from Nimes, and an americano (Cafe Vita - who had a trainer on site today) which totaled out to 10$. A pretty amazing deal.

Today the space was filled with local celebs - I ended up talking with Mike of the Seattlest, while stranger folk, robot coop folk, and Linda came and went.

I can definitely see this place becoming a regular stop, probably in combination with Licorous - which is just down the street and was actaully how I'd heard of Pressé, by talking with Tim the bartender. As they both serve both food and liquor and are open till 2am they'll clearly compete a bit - but the vibes are very different, so I suspect they will actually help each other out - getting more traffic into the area.

Definitely 2 thumbs up

Wax Taylor

Last night I went to the Wax Taylor [wikipedia] show at Chop Suey, which was excellent. The best show I've seen in a while. And I've seen a lot of good shows in the last month.

It was pretty much the standard DJ thing a mac and 2 PCs (peripherals, video ), a singer, a cello and a kick ass flutist. The flutist, was completely awesome - not only did she play the thing like a rockstar - I had no clue you could do that with a flute. She also danced every measure that she was not playing, talk about high energy.

The music was pretty much what I expected -which as a good thing. Much of I'd not heard as I don't have the new disc. It was a bit more political (onIP) than I'd thought and a bit less french - although he was very french, in between the songs.

On the whole a great night.