August 27th, 2008
“Son of a bitch, you’re running up the meter!”27 comments
August 20th, 2008
"Hey bro, remember me? You wrote that story about me in the paper."3 comments
August 13th, 2008
“It’s the Californians, man, the Californians are the worst.”15 comments
August 6th, 2008
The middle-aged man I picked up at Vendetta is in a hyperactively verbose lather ...0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
When I step into the obese old woman's apartment5 comments
July 16th, 2008
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...8 comments
July 9th, 2008
“...I need to take a shower first and wash all of this blood off.”6 comments
July 2nd, 2008
“So I’ve got these two women in the back of my cab who just refuse to get out...”8 comments
June 25th, 2008
“My friend’s getting divorced, and he’s really drunk,” says the bartender...8 comments
June 18th, 2008
There’s nothing like a good Friday night, and I’m referring to the money.3 comments
[May 17th, 2006] "Morphine is the best band name ever, because they sound just like morphine feels." My passenger laughs: "Yeah they do."
I was listening to Like Swimming when I pulled up behind a rival cab in front of Embers, where I allegedly had an order. It was the height of the Saturday-night bar rush, so I figured another cab would have already grabbed it. And indeed they had, but the guy got right out of that cab and into mine, as he was getting in: "Call me crazy, but I just prefer riding with you guys—oh my god, it's you, hi!" Sometimes I seem to inspire this reaction in repeat riders.
"How's your night going?" he asks. "Terrible, that's why I needed a hit of Morphine." "You're a Nick Cave fan, aren't you?" he asks. "Oh, hell yeah." "Yeah, I remember you were playing Let Love In the last time I rode with you." We head up North Interstate talking about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, how I saw them play a few years ago. "Nick Cave sweated on me, that's how good our seats were." He's jealous; he's never seen them, and now he never will see the original line-up, as Blixa Bargeld has bailed out.
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We talk about how most songwriters don't have the nerve to go quite as far as Nick Cave does, and how if they do they end up just sounding over the top, for the most part.
"Good to see you again—you always play great music." Thanks.
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