#diner coffee

[williammarksommer]

Diner Coffee

Route 66 series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Portra 400iso

#Diner Coffee #Diner #Coffee #Route 66 #66 #the mother road #coffee shop #film #photo #photography #film photography #road trip #on the road #highway #travel #road #photographers on tumblr #hasselblad #original photographers #photographerslife #film is not dead #americana #vintage americana #vintage diner #vintage #color film #william mark sommer #kodak #still life

[ardl0]

#tunes #mamaleek #diner coffee #Bandcamp

[i-read-somewhere-that]

An ode to bad coffee.

I’ve never felt like I’ve succeeded in loving myself, at least not with any consistency, but some mornings I wake up very early and I’ve left a big mug of yesterday’s coffee in the fridge overnight because I knew I would want it in the morning. Maybe it tastes good or maybe it tastes bad but most importantly it tastes cold, and it helps me wake up, and I get to be grateful for it. Imagine being able to give yourself exactly the thing that you need. It doesn’t matter how small the aperture is, or whether this gesture leads to some larger consistency. It usually doesn’t; after all, it’s just coffee. But for maybe ten minutes or maybe a whole hour, love is a fixed point of arrival. Someone left coffee for me to find in the morning; someone loves me.

One of my favourite essays ever. Read it.

#coffee #bad coffee #diner coffee #griefbacon

[dustedmagazine]

Mamaleek — Diner Coffee (The Flenser)

Diner Coffee by Mamaleek

Many bands in contemporary metal are crafting hybrid forms with genres outside of heavy music’s customary ambit. Lately Blood Incantation and Dream Unending have received attention and acclaim for their proggy, pretty soundscapes, and there’s an even more venerable set of explorations of the terrain between black metal and shoegaze (Alcest and Blut Aus Nord have made some interesting music, Deafheaven has made a bunch of money…). The list of bands and genres goes on, at some length. But few of those bands can match the idiosyncratic imagination and spiritual searching that have inspired Mamaleek. The San Francisco-based project has variously engaged trip hop, shamanistic tribal percussion, industrial noise and jazz, always working from a dour, blackened sensibility. With this new LP, Diner Coffee, things have gotten decidedly weirder. Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942) if painted by George Grosz? The early, beatnik version of Tom Waits, jamming with Teitanblood? Sort of, but not really. Nothing else sounds like Diner Coffee.

The new record is in aesthetic and thematic conversation with Mamaleek’s previous LP, Come and See (2020). That record felt less like a project and more like the work of a band, producing an agonized aggregate of doomy skronk and sludgy free jazz. Diner Coffee intensifies the engagement with jazz, but favors the 1950s, with its cooler tones and refinements of the wilds that hard bop had opened. You can hear that in the opening minutes of “Boiler Room” and throughout the title track, which features nightmarish nods to Wes Montgomery’s playing. There’s a dominant musical mood at work, which seems intent on constructing a milieu: murky late night bleeding into bleary early morning, second-shifters mingling with drunks on benders, blue-plate specials and bottomless mugs of joe. 

So far, so good, and fairly scannable. Many artworks that seek to uncover an urban American night world go noirish, romanticizing its darkness and dangers. Characteristically, Mamaleek makes different choices. The record starts with spates of lunatic laughter, contrasted with gritty, doomy crashes of metal volume. Those contrasts continue: the atmospheric, haunted piano runs of “Badtimers” with the song’s hyperbolic, howling vocals; the Mingus-like pulses of bass and fluttering woodwinds in “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage” with slithering, creepy guitar lines. The unpredictable oddness of the compositions undoes any stylized distancing, so essential to noir’s aesthetics, and when the darkness gets deep, it’s too full of nervy risk or addled hilarity to be romantic. 

Like Come and See, Diner Coffee has an American space in mind. Come and See focused on Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, the attendant intensities of closed-in places and the mordant horror of feeling trapped. Diners are transient, you come and go. Even the regular customer may be surprised by who shows up on the next stool at the counter. The restlessness of Diner Coffee’s songs seems to want to dramatize that mobility. The resulting music is interesting and strange, evocative and unsettling. It’s a challenging record — but that’s no surprise, it’s a Mamaleek LP. It’s also very, very good. 

Jonathan Shaw

#mamaleek #diner coffee #the flenser #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #metal #trip hop #industrial noise #jazz #experimental metal #san francisco

[bongmetal]

mamaleek's diner coffee is def year-end list material. it gets more better with more listens.

#mamaleek #diner coffee

[scoutingthetrooper]

#food #delicious #tasty #morning #breakfast #egg #fried egg #bread #toast #diner #restaurant #coffee #drink #mug #toyota #truck #nature #trees #forest #wilderness #green #1k

[kimkimberhelen]

Diner Coffee (2022)

#mamaleek #the flenser #diner coffee #experimental #alternative #noise rock #new music #2022 jams #Youtube

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Tim Ronca

#photography #tim ronca #cars #diners #coffee #street photography #new topographics

[americaisdead]

cindy's restaurant. eagle rock, los angeles. august 2023

© tag christof

#tag christof #america is dead #on the road #diner #coffee #beef and reef #leica m #28mm #voigtlander

[kendallroygf]

btw. if you even care…

#succession scripts #i want to cry so baddd. scripts came as withdrawal was about to start so now i can find cool new ways to want to kill myself. isn’t that fun #kendall roy #roman roy #p #scripts #*this is from 1.06 btw guys. when rome ken gerri frank are planning the vote of no confidence in the diner/coffee shop !!!

[sunnibits]

this has probably been done before but idc I love hot beverage. also I imagine I will be in the minority as far as this poll goes. feel free to elaborate as to what specific variety of drink is ur personal favorite bc there’s no way I’m listing every kind of tea and coffee

#personally I think cocoa is probably my favorite? #it goes between hot cocoa and cider (bc those are the only two hot beverages I drink lmao) but I’m really in my cocoa era en #no idea why I just have a sudden obsession. had some rlly good cocoa at a local diner and now it’s gripped my psyche #anyways. more rights and recognition for people who don’t like tea or coffee #I’m sorry I wanna like it so bad and hopefully I will like them one day #but right now?? still certified Yucky™️ #I have the taste buds of a small child #sunny polls

[williammarksommer]

Silent Conversations

Black Thumb series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

#Silent Conversations #Black Thumb #father #diner #coffee #diner coffee #dad #vintage diner #classic diner #breakfast #travel #photography #photo #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #photographerslife #photographers directory #hasselblad #hasselblad 500c/m #film #film is not dead #film photography #120 #kodak #william mark sommer #family #coffee shop

[darkbluepassion01]

#couple #morning #diner #breakfast #tea #love #cute #sweet #darling #friendship #passion #black and white #touching #hugging #kiss #feeling #friend #coffee #fine #funny

[oldshowbiz]

Caffeinated and Alone

#coffee #vintage #diner #diners

[fieriframes]

[Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the store a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good, hot black coffee.]

#s35e07 hometown inspiration #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #good hot black coffee #new shirt #office chair #two cups #present #store #catnap

[bongmetal]

time to get high as hell and see whether i actually like this album, or just respect it.

#metal #not metal #weirdo #buckle up kiddo #mamaleek #diner coffee