Matt's Coffee Shop Problem
The only fucking coffee shop I really care to go to in this city is closed! Not only that, but my neighborhood coffee shop is closed! They were the same shop! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. "Oh, come on." you say, "There are SOOO many coffee places around now..tsk.just go somewhere else." Well, I DON'T WANNOO! I like a little punk fucking rock in my coffee thank you very much. So lessee. What are we left with? Constipated euro-sedan driving trianglers and platic smiles get to me in short order, so Heine Bros. is out(yes they have better coffee). Never been to Days. The thought of having to buy that much round stuff scares me. The servings of vapid pretense (not from the staff) at Twice Told are as big and hard to look at as their burittos. (yes they have hipper furniture) pllaayygddptuh. Coffee places ARE their atmospheres. The people who go to them are relaxed by what they find there. I like to plop down on a folding metal chair over my cup of regular coffee, no bullshit, thank you, and see weird guys playing chess and punk kids and comic books and beat up sofas and people smoking cigars and the occasional little combo on stage in the corner. Is that so wrong? Is that too much to ask from this ALL AMERICAN CITY? I don't know exactly why Hemispheres closed. I do know that the prejudices in the Highlands regarding the youth of this city are blatant, moronic, and of EPIDEMIC proportion. Hemispheres has suffered two immediate evictions in its relatively short existance. First, from it's Bardstown Rd. location due to what seemed a conspiracy among the offended Bardstown Rd. Business Assn., the LPD, and the landowner. When they moved to Barret Ave., their current location, they encountered a political war of lies and propaganda from "community" organizations. Hey! I LIVE IN THE HIGHLANDS AND I AM THIRTY YEARS OLD AND I VOTE AND I HAVE A JOB AND I PAY MY TAXES AND I LIKED THE PLACE! So, why all the snarling from the Big Brotherhood? Well, I overheard a conversation of Highlands small business owners a while back when I worked on Frankfort Ave. (Where they must go be stroked and soothed) They seemed to agree that most of the youth in question were "O.K." but they were so UNSIGHTLY! For crying out fucking loud. Leathers with spikes and blue mohawks were shocking...TWENTY YEARS AGO. Assimilate and move on, please. I've lived here for two years now, and there is much I like about L-ville. I feel, however, disgust and utter cotempt for a "community" of "adults"(both families and elected officials) who would love nothing more than to see teens and young adults rounded up promptly at puberty and sent far away, out of sight and mind, until they reach an age or level of banality at which they can be sent back to take up their "proper" yoke of quietly making the adults more money. Great. Make that a double shot of punk and no coffee. Oh, yeah. Louisville's only experimental music series (R.I.G.) needs a new home now, too.
[Matt]