The Author’s Cafe is a playlist on Spotify. I just made it. The Author’s Cafe Playlist on Spotify is fantastic! Specifically, it is songs referenced in the books I write. I am The Author and this is my cafe.
Sometime around 2012 I tuned into streaming music via Spotify. Furthermore, I began to make playlists to mark my adventures. Make that Road Trips. At the time I was driving out to SoCal once or twice a year to see my aging father.
The first playlist I named The World Cafe. Because I remembered the NPR program of the same name. That program featured music from around the world – which appealed to me. Subsequently, one thing led to another. As they usually do.
In 2017, after my father died, I moved three miles north. Because, well, that’s a story all it’s own. Briefly, when I arrived I noticed there were magpies! All around! That became my second playlist–The Magpie Cafe. Because I began to feed them on my balcony.
The Cafe Playlists begin on
Spotify
because, like I said, one thing leads to another. Much of which is recorded here on the Great Debate.
Briefly, it’s time to move. Again.
Additionally, I’m leaving Sunday for another adventure. Another road trip to SoCal. Thirteen years after this strange trip began. That of the Spotify Playlist as historical record. Who knew?
Anyway – here’s a list of my Cafe Playlists.
Check them out on Spotify, if you like.
The Cafe Playlists:
The World Cafe
The Magpie Cafe
Cafe Mystery
The Rainfall Cafe
Cafe Crazy
The Gala Cafe
The Baseball Cafe
Cafe Irony
The Christmas Cafe
Last Chance Cafe
The Blue River Cafe
The Wind River Cafe
Cafe Trouble
Surfside Cafe
Dad’s Cafe
The Vision Cafe
The Author’s Cafe
In Conclusion
The Author’s Cafe Playlist on Spotify is fantastic! I’m listening to it now. What happens is: it takes me to the places and the moments when I wrote the words. That process, for me, is better than pictures. It’s the music that evokes the memories. And the memories are sweet!
If you’re a writer? Try it. The books I write are semi-autobiographical. Even if they are fictional and fantasy. The songs take me back in time. To happy times, and sad times. The timeframe is from 2004 right up to the present. It’s the last twenty-one years of my life. And those years have been pretty CRAZY!
My question is: How does music, writing, and memory work for you? Or does it?
PS
Attachment: A Novel of War and Peace was my first novel. It’s an anti-war story that takes place on the Oregon coast in 2004. I just re-read it and WOW! Wow, wow, wow, because it is as relevant to today–what is happening now–as then. With me as well as in the world.
Music of that time plays in the background, as does the ocean. Listening to The Author’s Playlist puts me right back there. Nevertheless, somehow mixes perfectly with today.
I think this calls for a whiskey 🙂