mysterious and dark

[zyzyly]

the flying_blind & gutbloom coffee meme, which consists of writing something about coffee.

The name of my journal, "One more cup of coffee for the road" come from an old Bob Dylan song. It's one of my favorites, particularly because Emmylou Harris sings backup on it, and I just melt whenever I hear her voice.

I gave up coffee for lent last year, and temporarily changed my journal name to "No more cups of coffee for the road".

I was planning to give coffee up again this past new year--some sort of change my life thing. I received about 12 pounds of coffee as christmas gifts though, and reconsidered. Coffee and pigs--that's what everyone gets me now.

I just cracked open the last pound of the Christmas stuff--vacuum-sealed from Italy. After this I thought I'd actually have to go back to buying beans, but someone gave me a five pound bag of Peets french roast the other day, so I'm set for another couple of months.

I don't actually make a lot of coffee. My coffee maker died late last year, and I never replaced it. I have a simple espresso maker. I make a couple of double espressos every day--one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. Sometimes I will walk to the coffee house while I'm at work and sip an espresso as I write in my journal.

I developed a taste for espresso when I was in Italy a few years ago. There was a little cafe below our hotel--"Cafe John-John". I came downstairs every afternoon, got an espresso, and watched the people go by. Moments like that defined Italy for me.

I have thought about moving to Italy. I'd live in an old villa up the hill with Emmylou Harris. We'd wander down into town every afternoon and sit outside and sip espresso and chat with the locals. Emmylou would sing softly with the windchimes that played in the gentle breeze. The old men would teach me how to play bocce ball. The afternoon light is golden.

One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.

Comments

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

espresso is far superior in taste
(IMO)and actually has less caffeine
per volume than regular coffee. i
gave up making new years resolutions
for Lent 30 years ago, and have never
made one since then!~paul

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i can't remember if i ever knew that you'd lived in italy. bello. i love to imagine being there, traveling in a cinquecento, going from hilltown to hilltown. and drinking lots of cappuccino.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I didn't live there--just visited. but if I ever do move there, you will have to come visit!

[gracegiver]

I just returned from Italy just 8 days ago. I want to move there also. But would rather live with Bob than Emmylou.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Reading your entries and looking at your pictures re-awakened my longing to live there one day.

It's a magical place, isn't it?

[blistermoth.livejournal.com]

Heck, I'd learn to drink coffee if I could hang out with Emmylou.

[pbsage.livejournal.com]

i went to venice last year my first time out of the country, other than a trek between the montreal and toronto airports. i plan to go back for a longer stay.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Your dream about Italy was so lovely that I caught my breath.

Wow, you write well.

music 4 u

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chandra/]

The White Stripes do a great version of One More Cup of Coffee for the Road and you can find it in this directory. I also put Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris performing Long Black Veil. It's beautiful. Enjoy. :)

[rejectomorph]

Coffee has a way of evoking memory, doesn't it? The sense of smell is the sense most closely allied to memory, and coffee is as much admired for its aroma as it is for its flavor. Maybe LJ's servers need to be bathed in the aroma of coffee, so the memory feature will start working again.

[vereorc.livejournal.com]

This made me think of Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast." So lovely.

[busychild424.livejournal.com]

I like this post.

I also like Emmylou.

[kamigirl25.livejournal.com]

My coffee maker died late last year, and I never replaced it.

You know, now that you've written that, everyone is going to stop getting you coffee and pigs and will be dropping of percolators on your doorstep :-)

Italy sounds wonderful.