D Note love letter 7/19/12

D finitives,

We have been writing these d-mails for a long time now. And wow, a few of you have been reading every week. Some every week or three. A few when you have a chance.

Many of you we know well. A few of you we don't. But it is certainly wonderful to halfway meet you here in this virtual place, which is connected to a real place, where we like to meet you even better. Please respond in kind. We invite conversation. Traverse the trecipice.

This weekend, starting tonight, July 19, 2012.

[6:30p] Geeks Who Drink trivia quiz. [9:00p] SIN night w/ deejays. Free.

20 [5:00p] Kelly Freely. Free [7:00p] Danny Bastos Collective [8:30p] G.A.M.B. [10:00p] Little Goose

21 [10:30a] Zumba $8 [12:30p] Synergy, Reason for Madness, Kate Thomas, Micheala Murphey. FREE [7:00p] Birds Of A Feather (bluegrass) $5 [8:30p] Bret Sloan with RoscoeÕs Dusty Bottle Boxcar Band $5 [10:00p] The Arvada Dubstep DJ Showcase. $5

That is a killer weekend of music.

First off, here's some scoop on G.A.M.B. From their website "Formed from the ashes of a band called Askimbo, this band has a funky fresh sound that gives their audience exactly what they crave. The main man Medicine plays a mean harmonica and sings like a soul in flight, the rhythm section keeps any crowd moving their feet, and the horns play melodies that would mesmerize the muses. The members have played in diverse musical settings around Colorado for many years, including extended projects with renowned Colorado artists Ron Miles, Yo, Flaco!, and Beats Noir. The band brings an eclectic mix of both upbeat and bluesy originals, as well as classic covers by artists like Muddy Waters, Bill Withers, Johnny Cash, and Marvin Gaye. The blend of blues, funk, and jazz that this band conjures is sure to please people of all ages. Medicine has been seen playing with the likes of Michael Franti, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, as well as gracing the stage at Red Rocks on a number of occasions. Dues have been payed!" Well, Okay!

The band playing after G.A.M.B is Little Goose and we gotta say they slayed last time at the D Note. They've got a stripped down dirty Zeppelin blues sound and its great. $5 for the night. AND JUST FOR YOU, FAITHFUL D-MAIL READERS, we will cover your cover at the door this Friday night. It's FREEEE. The password at the door is "Scooby Dooby Doo".

Saturday night we got one of those nights that just twists and turns like a rollercoaster. HS rock and roll during the day care of the excellent SYNERGY and friends, then brilliant indie bluegrass with Birds Of A Feather followed by a JUG BAND called Roscoe's Dusty Bottle Boxcar band. We LOVE those guys. Then the rest of the night is a collection of Arvada Dubstep DJ's. $5 all night.

A reminder, kids EAT FREE on Monday nights, (one kid per adult).

Killer music and dance on Sun and Wed nights, with lessons in Salsa and Swing respectively.

Best happy hour east of the Rockies.

Also at 6:30p next Tuesday night Henrikson Amp presents Jazz guitar night. Free.

There is more, but we'll stop for now and take a breath,

Yours,

D version


Extra Credit: Our friend Hoa Nguyen has a book out on Subpress called "Your Ancient See Through". It has many gems, but we like the summation of DNA theory in the following poem, plus the way she lays out the imagery of the star.

[A night at the beach what is left]

A night at the beach what is left
conch shell shimmer marks
where feet trail across sand dense
as stars Humans like me
can't hear beneath the trillionth
day of DNA sung meaning
of sea waves Sting nettle
having waves to paddle

D Note love letter 7/12/12

D Notables,

We have more exciting news to share. First of all the $5 cover for Friday night's show will be waved just for those of you on this D Mail list! The password is "Sparkly Rainbows". (We should mention that that password was Diandra's idea.) FREE show Friday night just for you!!

Also we are starting a Kids Eat Free Night on Monday nights. With the purchase of an adult meal one child (12 and under) eats free. So bring in the family Monday nights to the family friendly D Note!

Here's the lowdown for the weekend

13 6:00p] Dan Polizzi [7:00p] Marlo Acoustic set [8:30p] Dino's Band (rock and roll voo doo) [10:00p] Snake Oil Band (alt country rock) $5	14 [10:30a] Zumba $8 [4:00p] Family Concert w/ Sunday Girl (80's music from Blondie to Yaz). $5 [7:30p] Gipsy Moon (bluegrass featuring kids of Vince Hermann) $7 [9:00p] Terry Quiett Band (pre-party for Blues and BBQ 7/15) $7
15 [10:00a] Free form yoga lead by Nicki Viera w/ live music by Melissa Ivey, Adam DeGraff and friends. Donations accepted for local charities. [12:00p] Big Muddy (blues/acoustic). Free. (no baby boogie due to Blues and BBQ fest) [8:00p] Salsa Dancing (lesson at 8pm, Sabor de la Calle at 9pm) $8

On Saturday we are also co-sponsoring (with Scrumptious and HOTA) an outdoor concert across the street from the D Note from 5pm-9pm, featuring the band "RePlay", food, booths, beer/wine, and kids activities!!

The Blues and BBQ benefit is happening Sunday (benefiting Habitat For Humanity.) They used to do this at the D Note for years, but the last few years they have moved it out onto Grandview and it has blown up. We'll have our own blues band in the D Note too, free, acoustic, so come on down.

There's a bundle of good news for everyone,

D notary

Extra Credit: Here's a poem by Adam D, from back when he was driving cab in S.F., CA. (Lady Day, if you didn't already know, is what some affectionately called Billy Holiday. The D Note has a pizza named Lady Day in her honor.)


Wild Blue Yonda


I took Yonda to Berkeley half-rate.
She told me she was running
from a trick because she didn't
want to "hurt his fillin."

She asked if she could
smoke rock on the bridge.
I told her to be careful.
She told me why she chose crack.
She matter-of-factly said
she was a lifetime addict.

Somewhere in the winding conversation
she came out with her philosophy,

"Life is a like a maze.
Do you know what a maze is?
It's a puzzle.
There's only one way in
and only one way out.
You spend your life
figuring out how to make it
through. Hell's when you're
doing bad. Heaven's when
you're doing good."

She asked me to turn
the radio up. There was
a slow R&B ballad on
KMEL Jams. Yonda sang
along with pitch perfect passion,
like some latter day day Lady Day.
I didn't want to breathe.
And when she left I didn't
want her to leave.

D Note love letter 7/5/12

D nuts,

Some interesting changes are in the works at the D Note. We've already told you about our fantastic new happy hour menu. But we haven't told you that on Thursday nights after Trivia we are starting up SIN night (Service Industry Night), with $2 wells and a late night happy hour for all service industry people after 9pm. We'll have DJs playing great dance music too. No cover. So if you are in the industry come down, or if you know someone that is please pass along the news. We're also going to start giving secret special deals for those of you on this newsletter list. The first secret deal will be for this Friday night. Say the password "Dance Dance Revolution" at the door Friday night and get it for $3 instead of $5.

Stay tuned for other changes coming your way soon.

Here's the weekend lineup.


6 (Friday)

[5:00p]
JD Cordle (free)

[7:00p]
PJ Zahn (blues/dance) $5

[9:00p]
Duke Street Kings (rock and roll covers/dance) $5

7

[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[1:00p]
Music Lessons Of Westminster band recitals

[7:30p]
Author Unknown (Pop/rock) $5 (featuring Mark Sundermeier)

[9:00p]
Zeppephilia- Led Zeppelin Tribute Band. $5 HEY HEY MAMA SAY THE WAY YOU MOVE

Sunday morning we hope you will come down for yoga at 10pm sharp. Keith is doing a great job leading the class and Melissa Ivey and Adam DeGraff play meditation music during the class. $5-$10 suggested donation.

And now you are up to date,

D Naught

Extra Credit: There are a few favorite poets that we know we will return to again and again throughout our lives. Frank O'hara is one of the few. We recently read a fantastic poem of his that we had somehow missed before from his classic book "Lunch Poems".

POEM

I watched an armory combing its bronze bricks
and in the sky there were glistening rails of milk.
Where had the swan gone, the one with the lame back?

Now mounting the steps
I enter my new home full
of grey radiators and glass
ashtrays full of wool.

Against the winter I must get a samovar
embroidered with basil leaves and Ukranian mottos
to the distant sound of wings, painfully anti-wind,

a little bit of the blue
summer air will come back
as the steam chuckles in
the monster’s steamy attack

and I’ll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears. I don’t suppose I’ll ever get
to Italy, but I have the terrible tundra at least.

My new home will be full
of wood, roots and the like,
while I pace in a turtleneck
sweater, repairing my bike.

I watched the palisades shivering in the snow
of my face, which had grown preternaturally pure.
Once I destroyed a man’s idea of himself to have him.

If I’d had a samovar then
I’d have made him tea
and as hyacinths grow from
a pot he would love me

and my charming room of tea cosies full of dirt
which is why I must travel, to collect the leaves.
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

though it is cold and you
are made of fire and wood!
I lift your lid and the mountains
return, that I am good.

The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped
on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind
the theater where my play is echoed by dying voices.

I am really a woodcarver
and my words are love
which willfully parades in
its room, refusing to move.

1954

D Note love letter 6/28/12

D #,

We're sitting here writing this with a laptop on our collective legs. What do you call this application of a lap top? Lap Top App? At any rate our collective legs are warmer.

Weekend tableaux,


29
[5:00p]
Bill McKay (free)

[7:00p]
Defy You Stars, Surviving April (emo) $5

[8:30p]
Irie Still (African Reggae) $5 DANCE!!!!!

[10:00p]
Useless Objects (psychedelic bluegrass) $5 CAN'T WAIT

30

[10:30a]
Zumba $8

[5:00p]
The Guests & Tommy Freed and the Trio, The Ghoulies $8

[8:00p]
8th ElemEnt. presents: Kemistry Album Release Party. $5 (includes CD) 8TH ELEMENT SKILLS IT


In other news we just booked Julian Velard for August 10. Heard of him? We hadn't, but we've been listening to his back catalogue and collectively crushing out like a precocious 12 year old girl. Check out julianvelard.com

We sincerely hope you are taking advantage of the super good deal on dance lessons Sunday (salsa includes 12 piece band) and Wednesday (swing includes the superior Farm Jazz.)

Also, our new happy hour rocks, check it out.

Keep sharp y'all,

D b


Extra Credit: Alicia Fall sent us this beautiful Rainer Maria Rilke poem, from the Book Of Hours:

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough

to make every hour holy.

I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough

just to stand before you like a thing,

dark and shrewd.

I want my will, and I want to be with my will

as it moves towards deed;

and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,

when something is approaching,

I want to be with those who are wise

or else alone.

I want always to be a mirror that reflects your whole being,

and never to be too blind or too old

to hold your heavy, swaying image.

I want to unfold.

Nowhere do I want to remain folded,

because where I am bent and folded, there I am lie.

And I want my meaning

true for you. I want to describe myself

like a painting that I studied

closely for a long, long time,

like a word I finally understood,

like the pitcher of water I use every day ,

like the face of my mother,

like a ship

that carried me

through the deadliest storm of all.

D Note love letter 6/21/12

D Face,

Hello friends, it's good to meet you here, figuratively speaking. Hopefully we'll see you soon, literally.

We heard from a few of you that liked the weekend's music laid out in a table. And even though it is less "love letter" like, we're happy to oblige.

21 [6:30p] Geeks Who Drink trivia quiz. [9:00p] Centersphere (indie rock. Free.)

22 [5:00p] Evan Wheeler [7:00p] Drew Schofield Band $5 [8:30p] Blind Child (blues rock) $5 [10:30p] Trust No One (heavy classic rock) $5

23 [10:30a] Zumba $8 [4:00p] Serenade In Blue (big band) $5 [7:30p] In Due Time, Hot Cheeze Soup, Color $5

Schofield and Blind Child are tried and true D Note regulars. Serenade In Blue is just good old fashioned Big Band music. In Due Time is one of our most favorite local bands, super tasty music. Usually they play later at night, so it'll be nice to have them earlier for a change. Hot Cheeze Soup and Color are indie rock bands of the local variety.

A reminder that swing lessons have started back up on Wednesdays at 7:30p. Next Tuesday we have: Henriksen Amps Presents: Sean McGowan's Jazz Guitar Night. Free.

And that's the news. Now for a different kind of news...

Extra Credit: William Carlos Williams is one of the key figures of poetry in the first half of the 20th century. Here's the memorable end of a very long poem of his called "Of asphodel, that greeny flower"...

 Of asphodel, that greeny flower,   I come, my sweet,     to sing to you! My heart rouses   thinking to bring you news     of something that concerns you   and concerns many men.  Look at     what passes for the new. You will not find it there but in   despised poems.     It is difficult to get the news from poems   yet men die miserably every day     for lack of what is found there.   Hear me out     for I too am concerned and every man   who wants to die at peace in his bed     besides.

D Note love letter 6/14/12

D Tractors,

This weekend looks like this...

15 [5:00p] The Griffins [7:00p] Words In Flight $5 [8:30p] Quillion and Mechanical Dan $5 [11:30p] Bailout

16 [10:30a] Zumba $8 [1:00p] Synergy, White Flag Raised [4:00p] Avu24evr (rock) [7:00p] Gibson County Crawlers, Liston's Good Intent (blues rock)$5 [10:00p] Little Goose (blues rock) $5

That's 11 bands this weekend, 12 if you count the indie rock band In The Deep playing tonight after Geeks Who Drink, 13 if you count the salsa band Sunday night.

We're always excited to have Quillion and Mechanical Dan in the house, partly because they are good bands, but also because they are good friends.

Next Wednesday we start up our swing dance lessons again with Lark Mervine at 7:30pm, $5, followed by the swing music of Farm Jazz at 8pm (free).

We also have a new happy hour menu that is well worth checking out 3-6pm Mon-Fri.

That's a synopsis of the weekend. Send us a line with any questions or comments. We love to hear from you.

D flower

Extra Credit: One of the classic poems from the great Scottish poet Robbie Burns. John Steinbeck took the title of his novel "Of Mice And Men" from this poem. It takes a minute to suss out the language, but it is worth it.

To A Mouse

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee
Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion,
Has broken nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
What makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request;
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't!

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's winds ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste,
An' weary winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell -
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.

That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld!

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me;
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects dreaer!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!

D Note love letter 6/7/12

D paticos,

We are excited to roll out our new Happy Hour menu.

Here it is, 3p-6pm Mon-Friday, starting TONIGHT, Thurs5/7/12. (And if you want to see it beautifully laid out in Matt Dougherty's award winning design, look here.)

CHIPS & SALSA $2

HUMMUS & FLAT BREAD $3

PESTO & FLAT BREAD SAMPLER PLATTER $5
sun dried tomato pesto, basil pesto,
roasted red pepper pesto

9 INCH CHEESE PIZZA $5
add toppings $1 each

CHEESE QUESADILLA $3
add meat or veggies $1 each

FRESH SEASONAL FRUIT PLATE $3

ASSORTED CHEESE PLATE $3

D-NOTE HOUSE SALAD $4
add meat or tofu for $1 each

½ SANDWICH & CHIPS & SALSA $5

MARINATED OLIVES $1

MARINATED ARTICHOKE HEARTS $1

ROASTED RED PEPPERS $1

**FREE CHEESE PLATE WITH A BOTTLE OF WINE!**

HAPPY HOUR LIBATIONS

$3 DRAFTS!!
$3 WELL DRINKS!!
$3 HOUSE WINE!!
$4 ESPOLON MARGARITAS!!
$5 LONG ISLAND ICED TEA!!
$2 OFF SPECIALTY MARTINIS DURING HAPPY HOUR!!

Best happy hour in the tri-state area. We also have some great music coming up.

Tonight Ventura 66, a killer little blues band from New Orleans. $8. Tomorrow night rock and roll of Cowgirl up and Michaela Rae leads into Eclipse, A JOURNEY tribute band. $5. Saturday afternoon we have the big band music of Sentimental Sounds 4pm, free. Saturday at 7pm we have the rock and roll dance music of Zzyzzyx Band. A really cool indie show at 10pm Saturday night with a couple bands called Abandin Pictures and Green River Vibe. $5. Abandin Pictures impressed us last time they were in and we're glad to have them back. Next Tuesday at 7pm we have the The Spin (dance cover band) $6/$5.oo w/ two Nonperishable food items for the Arvada Food Bank, followed by Garkow at 9pm (indie rock. Free.)

Lots more to be gleaned from www.dnote.us,

D scribe

Extra Credit: Mark Richardson's Pitchfork review of The Beach Boys "Smile" lead me back to look at Van Park Dyke's lyrics for the album once again. Richardson writes, "On side two's "Surf's Up", the level of Parks' writing is astounding. He had the sound-driven jumble of imagery of contemporaneous Dylan, but his words were far tighter and more disciplined. He also understood the power of a good pun. Sounds are slurred together to take on new meaning through clusters that extended beyond the spaces between the words. So, "The music hall, a costly bow," in "Surf's Up" also sounds like, "The music holocaust," and lines like, "canvas the town and brush the backdrop," layer image atop image with breathtaking efficiency." Here's the lyrics for entire song as our poem of the week.


Surf's Up

A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?

Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne

The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die

A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry

Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song

A child is the father of the man
A children's song
Have you listened as they played
Their song is love
And the children know the way
That's why the child is the father to the man