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Cawfee Tawk
Coffee Shop Culture in Manhattan is surprisingly (and satisfyingly) productive. And I don’t just use that word lightly. To my left, in the little Starbucks I am sitting in in Hell’s Kitchen, are four producers who have been discussing for the last hour the film that they are getting ready to shoot in a few months. ( A cop movie that they feel is going to be like “The Departed”, “not in tone…but in feel.”)
In the last week, I’ve gone to various coffee shops to do some projects of my own, and each and every time, I end up getting sucked into the conversations of those around me. A couple of days ago in Doma (this great cafe in the Village), I sat witness to a couple of journalists discussing all the interviews they’ve done and the trials and tribulations of being a freelance writer in Manhattan. The guy, who was going to do an interview with David Lynch the next day, suggested to his friend that when he really needs to make some money, he’ll do a feature for Maxim. ( Big payout, Huge Boobs, I suppose.)
And just yesterday at Doma, I sat next to a group of girls, all about my age, discussing their new blogging venture: a journalistic investigation of Life After College. ( “Remember Girls, Tell a Story. Tell something specific. Let’s not try to be too big”). Of course, their conversation devolved into an hour-long SATC: The Younger Years discussion of their sexual misadventures ( ” He came in my mouth and then just left. I didn’t even get my orgasm!”). But that just adds to the “charm.”
I used to think these kinds of conversations, in public cafes, where people of artistic value ( or at least, those aiming to achieve some semblance of artistic value) didn’t exist outside of Seattle in the Late 90’s or some sort of candy-coated celluloid vision of the world.
But it exists. It exists here. Which is an oddly gratifying feeling.
As for me, I am seated, blogging and reading a script for a new film that is going into production that I just got hired on yesterday. Which is also gratifying. Yes. Yes, it is.
