Arithmatic, Arithmatoc - The Results of the Top 10 Waits Songs
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Raindog Harry
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08.11.2004 12:32
Do you mean the Nighthawks at the diner album?
I so much love the song title "Warm Beer and Cold
Women".
In four words all the frustrations of us, poor men,
are summed up. Also notice, that the most important
of the two frustrations is mentioned first, the "Warm
Beer" ;-)) - Thinking about beer, and about the dates
of the concerts approaching, and about the promise,
as a local (although I left Amsterdam about 11 years
ago now) to propose a possible meeting place:
Yesterday with a friend of mine I went to a concert
in Amsterdam of Nick Lowe ("I Love The Sound Of
Breaking Glass", "Half a Boy and Half a Man"), and we
ended up in a pub in the oldest part of Amsterdam,
called "Zeedijk" - At number 17 there is a (small)
real Amsterdam pub called De Roode Baron (I will
doublecheck this name and the address later). Just
now I was thinking that this area would be quite
appropriate, as this is the area where sailors used
to go for drinks, girls, fightings. Before you back
off, this area used to be tough, but has been
renovated some years ago, it is pretty much
controlled now by surveilling cops I think. Maybe the
safest place in Amsterdam to go nowadays ;-)) Anyway,
it is just a proposition. The advantage of this area
is that there are a lot of pubs in this street, plus
a lot of places to have something to eat, a lot of
Asian small restaurants, Chinese, Thai, etc. Again,
fully fitting the Tom Waits atmosphere. As everywhere
in Amsterdam, one should of course not let one's
purse hang out of one's pockets for everyone to see,
but that goes for other places too all over the
world. Another thing I was thinking of is that "De
Roode Baron" in English would be "The Red Baron", and
that, if pronounced without teeth, sounds like "The
Red Barn" - hope we will be able to leave the place
with the same number of people that entered it ;-))) -
So: anybody interested to meet there?? It is not too
far from Carre, I can sort out the time needed to
walk there, I would say 15 to 20 minutes at most??.
In the direct area of Carre there are not really nice
pubs (as far as I know). Apart from de "Zeedijk"
area, there are of course our two famous
squares "Leidseplein" and "Rembrandt-plein", also
with many pubs, but these are more a tourist area,
although some good places can be found there as well.
Personally I think I would prefer the Zeedijk area
for the reasons mentioned. But I find it difficult to
decide for a different group of people with possibly
different tastes, ages, etc. One thing that unites us
though!!
P.S.: The place mentioned is rather small, would be
filled up with 20, 25 people ;-), but like I said,
more pubs next door...
