Never Know

When I retire and can just have a business for fun and stand to lose
a few 10 large but have a good time doing it... that is when I start
the Never Know Cafe. A 24 hour joint, known for it's 3 options on
the breakfast menu, and it's fresh daily Gyro-Rack-omeat (rotated
every day and the left-overs donated to the Union Gospel mission
daily or something). We serve liquor at every legal hour. Priced a tad higher to
keep out the riff-raff- but delivering the best in town of only two food
options, amazing drinks and perfect background music.

Massive collection of books line most of the walls. Cards are being played here and there. A few ratty instruments are scattered around where patrons left them. There is a fly-ting bench that one patron can bring to their lap, but hardly anyone knows about it. There are
couches galore, and booths, and fat chairs with a small stage in the corner. If no one is playing then the perfect
playlist rolls from whomever, I can personally veto gigs and
playlists, but that's about the extent of any real formal rules about
what kind of place it will be at any given hour. Electronic
ambient, country (Pre-90's or Hank III), feedback-infested shoegazer..etc. You never know
what you're gonna get. But it will be perfect.

1st gaurantee: You never know what mood the place will be in as people come and go and the day turns to night. Might
be dark, might be light but the mood will be surprisingly comfortable
both ways. The people that are wanted will gravitate and it grows
only by word of mouth. We might get known for a certain atmosphere at certain times of the week, but you just can't be sure.

2nd Guarantee: Stevie Nicks videos play silently on one big screen on a side wall in the back. well okay, maybe not just Stevie nicks since there just isn't enough footage. We'll mix it up with Debbie Harry, etc. but you get the gist. Hottest chicks of rock, media etc. in color or black and white or digitally-twisted personally by the staff.

Once in a while, at a perfect time we let Stevie's sultry vocals fill the
place. Rare special occasions, which may happen several times per
week if the place goes well. And rumors will spread about the guy
they know who's brother worked at some other joint but this guy's
brother said that he stayed so long on one day that he heard Stevie
sing twice. But nobody can really believe the story- hard to imagine
what a perfect day that would be.

Of course this is the place in the basement or first level of my residential apartments downtown. Small studios to large penthouses as you go up. And all residents have access to the Workshop. The Workshop is a membership driven, open to the public, collection of spaces consisting of painting, pottery, welding, woodsmithing, video production, recording studio areas, etc.. Classes are sometimes held but it is more of a figure-it-out-yourself and work together type of Bohemia.