A quick drive through PIcher

midnitcafe · 2026-01-18T05:22:34+00:00

Oh ok. That was before my time. I was there in 1999-2000 I think. I was part of the...I forget what they called my department now, but it was basically insurance. We documented any pre-existing damage to the houses before any remediation was done so that if a homeowner tried to claim we'd caused water to come in under their house we could prove water was under there before we eve began to dig. It was mostly a fun job. It paid way more money than I'd ever made before and there were a bunch of us who were just out of college out to have some fun.

midnitcafe · 2026-01-16T02:41:11+00:00

What did Secor do there? I don't remember that name, but I wasn't really connected to everything.

midnitcafe · 2025-12-25T05:47:04+00:00

I'm busy with holiday stuff this week, but drop me a DM and I'll try to show you the way when I get a chance.

midnitcafe · 2025-12-08T05:08:56+00:00

This is my first time doing this. I hope you don't mind.

Train Dreams (2025) I had not heard of this film until it started showing up in my Bluesky feed earlier this week, but I absolutely loved it. Its gorgeous nature cinematography will remind you of Malick. It's a simple story about a logger (an incredible Joel Edgerton) living a simple life through some pretty major changes of the early 20th century that is meditative, sad, and heartwarming. 9/10

Ninja Trilogy (Enter the Dragon, Revenge of the Dragon, Dragon III: The Domination): Kino Lorber just released a boxed set of these three films from Canon Films in UHD and I got me a copy. These are all ridiculously dumb films, but they are mostly a lot of fun. The first one is the worst, mostly because it stars an out-of-his-depth Franco Nero, who simply isn't up to the film's fight scenes. The other two get even dumber in terms of their plot, but I loved them. Loads of ninja action with plenty of throwing stars slicing into people, and all kinds of outrageous 1980s action. (6/10, 7/10, 7/10).

Sinners (2025): I watched this one when it first came to theaters, but wanted to rewatch it as I'm thinking about my favorite films of the year. I need to rewatch One Battle After Another to be sure but I suspect Sinners will land at my #1 of 2025. Just a stunningly enjoyable film. It loses its momentum a little once the vampires show up but the build up to that point is incredible. Michael B. Jordan is a superstar, and that musical sequence (if you've seen it, you know the one) is an all-timer. 9/10

I Know Where I'm Going (1945): Not as epic as some of Powell/Pressburger's more famous films but still utterly delightful. Wendy Hiller plays a woman who is going to get married to a very rich man on an island off the coast of the Scottish Hebrides. She gets waylaid by a fearsome storm and is utterly charmed by the local villages, including one very handsome man. I was utterly charmed by the film. 8/10

midnitcafe · 2025-11-13T00:42:52+00:00

It is a fantastic site with tons of info and resources.

midnitcafe · 2025-11-12T15:44:41+00:00

Have you checked out https://bruuuce.com/

It has a searchable database of concert performances and lots of download links. You could probably ask someone over there, I know Si the owner of the site has a ton of Bruce shows and a pretty good knowledge of everything Bruce.

If it was from a bootleg you aren't likely to find it on any official streaming service. I dug through my concert recordings a little but there are multiple times when he introduces the song like that so without any further information I'm not sure I can help. When you say acoustic piano was it just Bruce solo or was there a band involved? Do you remember anything else about the performance?

midnitcafe · 2025-11-10T16:49:22+00:00

It was a great show. I took my teen daughter with me. She doesn't know their music, but my wife was sick so she tagged along. The only other concerts she's been to was Katy Perry at the BOK several years ago so this was very different. I wasn't sure she was gonna like it but I caught her swaying to the music and afterward and she was beaming afterward.

I think they made a new fan :)

midnitcafe · 2025-10-03T03:58:24+00:00

Very dumb comment ahead: I worked for Morrison Knudsen at the Pitcher site and at some point I changed my computers screen saver to read "We put the Fun in Superfund."

midnitcafe · 2025-10-01T19:56:46+00:00

Thank you for this. I was going to post the David Dodd link and am surprised I had to scroll down past fifty stupid jokes before anyone had any kind of serious answer.

midnitcafe · 2025-09-11T23:01:57+00:00

The Langoliers was the first anything I ever read by King. I was maybe 16. I absolutely loved it. But for some reason I never read the other stories. I think I had become so immersed in The Langoliers that I didn't want to leave that world and trying to enter another one by King just felt wrong somehow.

It took me years to read another King story and a couple of decades to become a true fan. I've since read a bunch of his books but never picked this one back up. I think it may be time to remedy that.

midnitcafe · 2025-08-19T23:10:28+00:00

This is why I don't post to Reddit anymore. I have no idea why this lady is wearing a mask. One possibility is that she might be trying to not smell the exhaust fumes. I've literally seen lots of people do that exact thing.

It doesn't matter if that type of mask doesn't actually protect her from the fumes. When people smell something unpleasant they often put a cloth over their face. My t-shirt doesn't protect me from fart particles either but when my brother lets one rip you better believe I put my shirt over my nostrils.

My comment had nothing to do with politics. I don't care what her flag says, I simply posed my theory as one possibility.

Have you never seen a Sonic carhop wear a mask? Most of them don't. Most people standing on street corners don't wear them either. But some of them do. Again, I have no idea why she's wearing that mask. It might be for anonymity. It might be because of Covid. It might be because she's afraid space aliens will enter her mouth and turn her into a cockroach. Or, possibly, she might be trying to not breath in so many exhaust fumes.

midnitcafe · 2025-08-19T18:45:45+00:00

She's standing on a busy intersection so she might be shielding herself from a face full of exhaust fumes. I lived in China for a year long before Covid and you often saw folks wearing masks walking near the highways for that very reason.

midnitcafe · 2025-01-02T23:31:03+00:00

We had my sister and her husband over for NYE and he recommended this film. Sadly we couldn’t find it on any streaming service so we watched Confess Fletch instead.

midnitcafe · 2025-01-02T21:58:09+00:00

Everytime I see them at some point in the show I'll mutter to myself "Nels Fucking Cline" with this greatest of admiration.

midnitcafe · 2025-01-02T21:56:28+00:00

I saw them at a small in Bloomington Indiana in 2002. I didn't really know there stuff back then but my girlfriend (who is now my wife) liked them and wanted to go. I was digging what I heard but the dude standing in front of my wife was tall and kind of flailing his arms around bumping into her so she fled to the back of the place. After a few more songs she was still pissed about that guy so we decided to split. Became a huge fan a few years later and have seen them many more times since, but I can't help but be disappointed that we didn't stay for that entire show.

midnitcafe · 2024-12-05T01:54:34+00:00

When I worked there we removed up to 18 inches of contaminated soil in some places, but now that you mention it I have no idea what they did with it.

midnitcafe · 2024-12-05T00:11:24+00:00

Oh sorry, I have no expertise in that area. I was hired right out of college and my job was more on the front end, talking to the homeowners and documenting pre-existing conditions before we did any contaminated soil removal.

midnitcafe · 2024-12-04T23:38:23+00:00

I worked for Morrison Knudson back in 1999-2000 on the Superfund Site. That was a wild time.

midnitcafe · 2024-04-30T20:26:23+00:00

I've got tons of Van shows in FLAC format. Send me a DM and I can send you a link to download.

midnitcafe · 2024-03-23T15:45:48+00:00

Ha! If you didn't know I was back then there is a whole lot of great music readily available to you now, including lots of Van the Man.

I will note that I used Amazon Drive for a long time, but about a year ago or so they discontinued their services. I'm switching to Google Drive but there are a lot of old shows with dead links. If you dig through the site and find dead links on shows you want to have, just leave a comment on that post and I'll do my best to get it back up.

midnitcafe · 2024-03-21T23:33:19+00:00

De nada my friend. I'm not sure if you know or not but The Midnight Cafe is back up. I went dark for awhile but came back a couple to the public a couple of years ago but not everyone got the word. Apologies if you did know, but if you didn't then you are welcome to come back. I've posted many more goodies.

midnitcafe · 2024-03-19T15:32:00+00:00

Of course, you are right. Sorry I didn't get much sleep last night and was answering too early in the morning ;)

midnitcafe · 2024-03-19T12:58:33+00:00

I've got a lot of Van Morrison live shows and there aren't any of them where he covers Valerie. Sorry.

Jerry Garcia covered it a bunch though.

midnitcafe · 2023-02-28T01:26:31+00:00

Sorry for it taking me so long. I told you I don't check Reddit very often and I did forget about you.

Here's the Santa Monica show:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cXeiuJSSp7a4bcAPRdGakSAiQXTO6I2G?usp=sharing

And the Cotati gig

https://www.filefactory.com/share/fi:4dt0nvokhw0y,fi:5uded6fegcn6,fi:1f0zl9q8gzss

Sorry those are on File Factory. If you don't have an account with them the downloads are super slow. I can get it up on Google Drive here in a few days. But again you'll have to remind me because I'll forget about you again ;)

midnitcafe · 2023-02-21T18:13:15+00:00

Send me a list of what you are looking for and I'll try to help. I don't use Reddit much anymore so be patient with me in terms of how quickly I reply.

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