Open Mic Tonight

Tomorrow is Armistice Day--the anniversary of the end of World War I--an event which led people to see criminality and barbarism of elective war as a dead end (and sparked the beginning of the American Public Relations Industry, in order to reverse such common sense in the mass media). If you study or work in a school or work in a government office, chances are you don't go in on Friday. Consider staying out late tonight to celebrate the progress of humanity towards a better world.

Could coming to a cafe for a gathering of live performers bring about world peace? Consider: When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon, so the theory goes, a hurricane forms somewhere eventually.

The Law of Unforseen Consequences isn't just a good idea--it's the Law.

Example: Unseasonably warm weather preserves foliage on trees late into October.
Then, an early, but heavy, snow in the Northeast
weights the leaves and branches,
which causes limbs and trees to sag and break and fall on powerlines,
which causes more than two million people to be without electric power
giving a lot of song writers extra time in unheated homes to write a bounteous crop of new
songs on acoustic instruments
many which get played at the November 3rd Open Mic:

Noah Schmitt (cello) and Rob Douglas (guitar) play Noah's song "Dish After Dish". An insanely catchy tune written from the perspective of a brilliant rock cellist/dishwasher. Rob later debuted two new songs himself, including "To Think That There is Always Hope," a highlight of the evening which he performed in a characteristically humbly-humorous way, (nearly, but not ultimately) obscuring its (and his) fabulousness.

Felix Harvey plays "Sorry, I Missed the Bus," a song of his so finely made, that once heard, it is that is hard to imagine that there was a time before it existed.

Electric (even during power outages) and talented Laura Titrud, who would headline at the Sofa the next night, unveils a newly-written song, last Thursday.

Your correspondent, and bassist Rob Douglas play a new song Thursday night.


Peace Out
--The Yellow Sofa Open Mic