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Is two parts gin, one part sweet vermouth, one part dry vermouth, and a whole strawberry.
My take on the drink, which doesn’t involve strawberries but does involve a splash of bitters, is currently nameless. Although I’m generally good at naming cocktails, I’m sort of at a loss for this one, despite the fact that it’s the drink I’ve made myself to take to bed every night this week.
It’s not quite a Palm Desert Boulevard, and I don’t think it’s exactly a Romp In The Hay. It tastes sort of like a Maud Gonne, maybe, but I feel like a Maud Gonne would involve Bailey’s. If I were naming it after a Saint Etienne song it would be a 4:35 In the Morning, but that seems sort of clunky for a drink name. It could also be a Panopticon, but I don’t think that conveys the deliciousness of this drink…
Ideas, anyone?
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Back when Heath Ledger was Not Yet Dead, I used to have a theory that he and Charlotte Rampling were the same person. So stony, so inexplicably popular, with dark eyes set way back in their sockets like they were both wearing very heavy, very pale masks.
Anyway, I don’t know if you heard or not, but Heath Ledger is No Longer With The Living, so it’s probably tacky to claim that he and Charlotte Rampling are in fact the same person. Especially when he’s getting all sorts of post-death buzz about his performance in The Dark Knight (which I still haven’t seen, since I only ever go to movies in the winter.) And now she’s in Babylon AD, alongside Gerard Depardieu and sorta-hot-in-a-Bulldog-face-way Jerome Le Banner and Michelle Yeoh and lovably hunky Vin Diesel. It’s directed by Mathieu Kassovitz of La haine and Gothika fame and based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec. Here’s the trailer and the poster, which looks like the poster for every movie ever.
I should mention that the only reason I know about this movie is because the book it’s based on was put out by Semiotext(e). I haven’t seen any trailers or anything, because the few things I watch on TV (lately limited exclusively to the Olympics and Days of Our Lives) don’t ever show any, and I never think to watch them online.
[PS--I'm sorry that my French has deteriorated to the point that I couldn't come up with a clever or particularly grammatical title for this post.]
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Karina Pasian, too. Sadly I’ll be in the backseat for the upcoming New York trip and doubt I’ll have any control over the music selection. So it won’t be like the last time I went to the big city, right after the Lil Mama CD dropped. It’ll be more like the previously non-existent time that I sat in the back seat and probably got car sick and leg cramps while the high-powered people around me all talk on their cell phones.
We’re also allegedly leaving at 3 PM, which I think means we’ll hit the worst of all possible traffic in Providence, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, and, of course, New York itself.
Yay.
