Yeah, you do have to pick your cafe if you want to stay long enough to use computer / surf youtube / make music.
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This!
I struggle to even use a laptop in cafés or public spaces.
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this obscure burn will go down in the history of most obscure burns of all time and deserves an engraved plaque that is dedicated to “anonymous internet hero”
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I have no problem using a laptop in public places, people seem to accept those (depending on cafe of course).
I don’t go to the type of cafes where people do stuff like, the one I’ve gone to for the last 25+ years is strictly belly buster breakfasts, builders and bad boys. A proper cafe
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accept them right out of the backseat of your car.
oh lord I just realized I’m turning into fin…
I need coffee and a vitamin, stat.
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I sort of envy those that can comfortably get productive stuff done on laptops in public places. I find it way too overstimulating and much prefer to use external keyboard, mouse and displays which are not very portable. I have made exceptions when working in muddy fields at music festivals. Alcohol usually helped in those situations.
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I can totally relate to this. Not only in cafés… For years now I’ve wanted to walk down a busy beach boardwalk, recording snippets of passing conversation, but even with the anonymity and lack of context, it feels wrong to record strangers without their permission – I’ve never done it.
(This is totally off topic. Sorry)
I’d listen back later and be bothered by pocket noise. would ruin the experience. damn these ears of mine
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Right, I would want to use a real mic.
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Sounds like a genre I could get on board with.
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If I end up traveling more, the M8 will be a good buddy. M:C is my current fave, I also still enjoy the Rytm but even the mk1 can be quite large and visually noisy on a plane
Thankfully my seatmates have been kind and at least curious/interested. Last time I was jamming a kind older couple coming back from Korea chatted and said they should’ve asked to try it out when we landed and were loading out 
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Ricoh GR or Nanoloop.
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Prophet 5, MPC60, and an RE-201 Space Echo. Any more than that and you lose the portability aspect.
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Moleskine paper is getting pretty unreliable with fountain pen ink in my biased small sample. I switched to Rhodia paper/notebook, less charm but that paper can take some ink.
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I was in a coffee shop last weekend and was reading the latest issue of Sound on Sound (Nice review of that polyend play thing). I’ve taken my OP1 in the past but I mostly like reading a book.
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i saw a guy sitting at starbucks with headphones playing vinyl on his portable record player, that time i thought “no, you can’t get more hipster than that”.
I guess starting a dawless jam on a cafeteria table while sipping a cappuccino could be even more extreme
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might end up like that poor guy debating over how to clean caramel frappaccino out of his rytm mk2.
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