Welcome
Some of you may be asking: "Why cafe rock? I mean, aren't you guys Mormons and doesn't the word café come from the French word for for coffee? Isn't that a tad specious?" Well, to answer your question, we chose café rock because cafés are bustling, vibrant, democratic spaces in which people talk, share, and create. That's the kind of atmosphere in which we ideally envision ourselves---and we wanted our personal website to reflect that.
Cafés have always been at the center of intellectual and artistic reform. A Parisian cafe called the Café Le Procope was the focal point of the French Enlightenment. Intellectuals such as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot were among its frequent patrons. It is also believed that it was in this café in where the concept of the Encylopedié (the forerunner to the modern encyclopedia) was first conceived. That's not to mention the fact that it was in cafés that the so-called "Lost Generation" (writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Sherwood Anderson) revolutionized modern literature. Is it any wonder, then, that in the 1700s the British Parliament banned coffeehouses as hotbeds of revolution?
It's that same spirit of revolution, intellecutalism and artistry---free from traditional institutional contexts---that we hope to capture here at caferock.org. Your choice of beverage is incidental.