1. If you owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
I have this cookbook, called th Well-Filled Tortilla. It is based on these two ladies who have a restaurant in Berkely or someplace real California-ish. In this cookbook they offer tons and tons and tons of things to wrap up and smother inside a tortilla. Not your mama’s Mexican joint, this place offers Greek food, Indian food, All American stews. From ground beef to pate. I always thought it would be cool to open up a joint like that near some college town. If not that, a new trend is the cereal buffet parlors creeping up in college towns as well. How hard could an all you can eat breakfast buffet be as a business model?
2. If you owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
A used book store. Man, I would be in hog heavan.
3. If you wrote a book, what genre would it be?
A mystery crime novel. I am tryng, rather painfully to write a non-cliche ridden crime novel as we speak. It shoudl be done when I am about 84-years old.
4. If you ran a school, what would you teach?
English. English grammar, writing and maybe some literature on the side.
5. If you recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Acoustic-steel guitar blues renditions of 1970s and 1980s punk and new-wave hits.
5 Replies to “Friday Fives”
Comments are closed.
1. I’d open up “Ed’s Unagi Schack,” serving attractively-priced eel from sunup to sundown. Actually, if I truly had the desire to open a restaurant, I’d want it to be a lot like Avenue Grill. Nice but not too nice, friendly but not casual, upscale but approachable. Just like me!
2. I would like to have a menÂ’s clothing store, featuring things that suit my taste. Of course IÂ’d be bitter to see so many people adopting my style.
3. I think I’d opt for the well-worn style of a “young man coming of age” story, or a “picking up the pieces after a tragedy” story. Both of those are pretty fertile grounds for story telling, and styles I personally enjoy.
4. Etiquette?
5. A tribute to Yoko Ono. We have very similar singing voices.
See my posts at link below.
1. I’d serve only spicey food. Nachoes mainly.
2. It’d be a sex shop.
3. Science Fiction, or non-fiction. Working on a couple actually, but being lazy i’m slow!
4. I’d teach drinking.
5. My record would be a modern mix of old tyme hymns.
1. Knowing just enough about the restaurant industry to understand how difficult it is to be successful, I’d steer clear of it. A Tiki Lounge of sorts would be as far as I would venture into that realm, serving flaming Polynesian appetizers to my drunken patrons.
2. I’d peddle quality vintage clothing, accessories and furniture, circa 20’s-50’s. This town needs a GOOD vintage store that hasn’t either a) filled its walls with stale & unrotated stock or b) colored in the voids with shit that belongs in Hot Topic.
3. I’d likely do a collection of short stories that range from thrillers to romance to paranormal, as I don’t have the patience to string together a 200-page novel and make it cohesive.
4. I’d teach
5. Either Gothic Ambient (Julee Cruise meets Nick Cave meets DCD meets Cocteau Twins) or traditional Rockabilly (Wanda Jackson meets Janis Martin meets Gene Vincent meets Chet Atkins). Those two genres are about all I can handle these days.