May 17, 2013, Open Mic, Evergreen Coffee Company, San Jose

Captain Bonehead

This was the audience for whom I wrote Captain Bonehead. It went over well. Not as many laughs as what I received the previous Monday night at the Bamboo Lounge. Lesson learned tonight was that I need to change positions at the mic for each character. Left and right for when I have 2 and adding a center position when I have 3 characters. One lady comic did that to great effect. And that is why I hang out too see as many other acts as I can.

Also, there was a young lady there who played guitar and sang: 2 original songs and a cover that I did not recognize. Her name is Layla. The following guitarist, someone in my generation played the first few chords of the unplugged version of Eric Clapton's Layla and everyone cheered. He had not intended to play that song, but he did and we sang along. It occurred to me that I should sing one time for a change. It would another breakthrough for me and frankly, I don't think anyone's going to offer me a record deal, but my singing voice holds its own against most others who are singing each week and playing guitar.

I'm trying to get my trainer, Iram, who writes and performs very effective slam poetry, to come on May 31.

Here are some Google street view images of the site. It is so new that even though these photos weren't taken that long ago, I felt disoriented at first on street view because so much has been built up in this area since these photos were taken.

Evergreen is in Southeast San Jose near the foothills. The map is centered on the San Jose Airport and the Cisco campus is roughly in the area marked, North San Jose.

The white building with the pointed roof houses the Evergreen Village Coffee company on the bottom floor.

A side view. We perform in that patio area in front of the store.

This is as good as I can get from street view. I'll bring my camera along one of these times.

The Friday nights are good for families or those who like family entertainment. For those who like it a little ruder, then come to the Bamboo Lounge on Monday nights.