In Which Stereotypes Run Amok

You work at Mocha Hut?

You work at Mocha Hut?

Well, I'm not employed by Mocha Hut ... I sit there in the morning and work on my book and write the blog.

But who owns the Mocha Hut? Probably whitey.

It would have been a way better story if you were employed by Mocha Hut. The blogosphere levels all social stratification! etc.

This reminds me of my life. I live in a racially mixed neighborhood, near to some majority-black neighborhoods. Whenver I go to the nearby drug store, the music they're playing is always of the Glen Campbell/Johnny Rivers variety (alas, no indie rock where I live). Yet the staff and virtually all of the customers are black. I always feel a little bit like I've stepped into a Spike Lee movie.

I love Dressy Bessy.

Also, an alternate theory to yours is that some black people like indie music. What a weird and wacky world, I know!

Good taste in music. If you like more indie rock, I recommend Wolf Parade and The Most Serene Republic for groups most people haven't heard of. Also, Sondre Lerche (more alternative than indie) is underrated and unheard of.

I heard a Pavement song at TGI Friday's once.

i heard a rap song at tgi friday's once.

hmm

i used to go to the other mocha hut all the time (it ain't in columbia heights, as the website claims, btw, rather in that portion of DC that seems to have no name but which gentrifying real estate agents seem desperate to call "14th St Heights"), and, i don't remember any music at all.

maybe the expansion into U St and the new music means that it's decided to go all corporate?

hopefully the breakfast sandwich on a croissant doesn't suffer...

joshb

Music has no skin color . . . does it?

Mercadito has Coke in glass bottles. How awesome is that.

I don't want to get too crudely reductive here.

Uh, hate to shake up your whole worldview, but Realish is right. My roomate at summer camp 13+ years ago was a black kid from Baltimore whose favorite bands were Queensryche and a local Baltimore hard rock band called Kix.

I (Whitey McWhiteypants from upscale suburban SoCal) was the one who introduced him to NWA. At the time I thought it was bizarre, but as I've gotten to know more black people over the years, it's astonishing to observe that they can appreciate as many varieties and styles of music as white people!

Indie rock isn't so objectively wonderful that we have to be worried if black people don't like it. Kix rocks though.

"Well, I'm not employed by Mocha Hut"

You should at least try to get a free espresso beverage in exchange for the publicity they're receiving from a plug on a highly influential and well-respected blog.

Or perhaps a longer-term "unlimited, hot, caffienated beverages in exchange for consistent plugging" (link or logo/icon in a prominent place) arrangement....

Then you can both do your writing there and be employed by the Mocha Hut.

Everybody wins.

I'm black and I like alt-rock.

My name is Mike and I approve this message.

I often call Mocha Hut the Sim City cafe for its strangely likeness to the Sim City theme music. But besides that their Chicken and Waffles is freeeeking awesome.

Charley Pride, Johnny Mathis, Public Enemy/Anthrax collaboration,Jimi Hendrix, Love, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Ice-T doing metal, Run DMC Covering Aerosmith, Living Color....we do have some precedent, y'know.

"Is it possible that there's some kind of gentrification consultant out there telling the Hut's management team what kind of music will appeal to the neighborhood's newer demographic? If so, can that person tell the owners of the Mercadito Ramos that they should refrigerate their Diet Coke supply?

Sorry Matt, our research tells us that you like it room temperature. However, since you bring it up, we also have decided that you prefer "Coke Zero", and we'll soon have all that "Diet Coke" replaced.

Enjoy.
(That was not a request)

Dude, Kix? My God, in seventh grade they were one of my favorite bands. Air guitar & lipsyncing to Midnight Dynamite....ah good times. I am very proud of my underground hair metal past. If any of you were down with Rough Cutt or Black N Blue, we should be pals.

Also, Matt, you're in DC. Turn off the "indie" rock for a day and celebrate DC's great punk legacy and crank some Void, Black Market Baby, Government Issue, Bad Brains, and of course, Minor Threat. If we're gonna be labeled as "angry" liberals, our musical choices should reflect it. But if you want to keep it light, Shudder To Think and The Dismemberment Plan are perfectly acceptable.

Ah, I see your not familiar with Muzak's adoption of a business model akin to just-in-time inventory. Whereas it used to take years or decades for a song to make the transition from relative obscurity to popular hit to being used to make us want to buy stuff we don't need in Safeway or buy a lousy gas guzzler, nowadays Muzak reps prowl iTunes and other music download sites to pounce on new tunes to rapidly accelerate the transformation from art to commercial crap.

Hey, xjerryx, at our apartment right now we've got the Spitboy/Crudos split LP, the Charles Bronson discography, some Clikitat, NoU, and all sorts of assorted PR/HC treats. Yglesias is way punk rock.

google Car Bomb Opera

The world is a funny place...I lived in Washington this summer, at 1301 U street where that Mocha Hut is. Yet I only started reading this blog AFTER coming back to Canada. For all I know I could have passed you on the street one morning, yet this blog is as abstract to me as any other.

You drink Diet Coke ????

Ok then ! I don't want to hear you complaining about headaches evarrrrr ! And it's full of citric acid (or phosphoric, depends on the plant) and it's bad for your teeth even without the sugar.

[ It's this entry about paternalism ... ]

Built To Spill?

Sounds like the basis for a potential lawsuit. I think the band would get increased play in coffee venues if they changed their name to "Safe Hot-Beverage Container."

Plus, DC is all about wild violations of stereotypes.* In my new neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant, I've seen no small number of Guatemalans buying hamburgers and fries at Chinese restaurants. Is there a law saying that Chinese restaurants have to have a sizable number of non-Chinese items? The other night before the Yo La Tengo show, I was in a Chinese restaurant near the 9:30 that had a poster for "Authentic Gyros."

*It's also about wild violations of decency, but that's just the middle part with the pretty buildings.

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