February 2011
46 posts
It's snowing outside? Better have a slushie.
Amaretto Sunrise Crush
1 part grenadine 2 parts amaretto 5 dashes lemon juice ~1 glass orange juice Blend with ice.
Yes, I realize the seeming inconsistency with the measurements there. Deal with it? I give myself a C+ on execution here because although I made the drink well enough, I didn’t think ahead and purchase straws, so I’m trying to sip it. It keeps coming down all at once,...
January 2011
32 posts
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10 of ‘10 (6/10)
The-Dream - “Florida...
Something about a drink or something
Amaretto Shake
[Picture of a shake weight or something clever like that. Don’t you hate these clever people and all their clever parties?]
2 oz. brandy 4 oz. amaretto 4 scoops chocolate ice cream Blend.
If you’re as horrible at estimating as I am, you probably started sweating when I mentioned ounces. Sorry, I had to in this case. The ice cream was a very specific amount, so I...
‘10 of 10 (4/10)
Deer Tick - “Twenty...
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Martini
A drink, not a category of drinks.
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My favorite color is mondegreen
I can never tell what the first line of “The Infanta” by The Decemberists is, but it sounds like, “Here she comes, in her Colin Quinn.”
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Jesse Malin & St. Mark’s Social -...
WHY LONDON WHY →
Because I have a wholly unnecessary affinity for lists and a mild addiction to comprehensiveness, I’m gonna make a “best 10 songs of 2010” tonight, except I’ll actually post the songs. I don’t know why I’m posting this, rather than just doing it. No worry, I’ll post them individually. Appreciating the medium. The medium, after all, is the massage.
Top 10 Albums of 2010
Been doing this for a few years now and it indeed always this belated. I buy all my music (though I have other methods for at least hearing it), so it takes me longer to do an in-depth list, since I don’t want to sacrifice buying music nor being comprehensive. Anyway, here it is.
10. Fake Problems – Real Ghosts Caught on Tape
The second year in a row this band has cracked my Top 10. Many...
The value of experimenting
[Working title]
1 part blue curaçao
Fill with Mountain Dew White Out
I saw White Out at the convenience store and, despite my general aversion to Mountain Dew, I figured this might be different enough and, let’s not shit ourselves, I knew I was going to mix it with alcohol. I tried a sip and figured it would work best with blue curaçao. I’m not always the biggest fan of blue...
http://www.avclub.com/articles/colin-meloy-of-the-d... →
“English-major rock?” I’ll take a dozen, please.
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Wait just a goddamn minute
Toy Story. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen). Woody, (Tim Allen). Woody Allen. This movie has so many layers, you guys.
Finding good new bars
Captain Morgan Private Stock is wonderful
I hate it when I can’t recognize songs and don’t have enough information to research it.
Feeling largely irrelevant on Tumblr today, since the only experience with red carpets is cleaning them.
The Radio Dept. - "Clinging to a Scheme"
I’m still trying to scrounge up a few last-minute (or barely late, as it were) albums to compile a “Best of 2010” list, so in the meantime, I figured I’d review one I knew wasn’t going to get on there.
The Radio Dept. - “Clinging to a Scheme” (2010)
I realize I may have given the wrong impression with that lead-in. This isn’t a bad album....
Bought this last night for something like $22 at Wal-Mart. I take back .48% of the awful things I’ve said about Wal-Mart over the years.
Sometimes, when I’m in my school’s student center and on the Internet, I like to look at other people’s iTunes libraries that show up in the Shared section. By the number of times I’ve seen libraries with multiple albums of A*Teens, you’d think this was a middle school.
Like the novel, but without all that pesky...
Frankenstein
This is a shot I thought up, but it has no actual, specific recipe. Not that it has variations. It can be completely different, even if you have it twice in a row. But how can that be?
Well, Frankenstein isn’t so much a shot as a method for making up your own. It’s simple; just take the three bottles (this can include non-alcoholic mixers, too, if you feel so inclined)...
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Considering creating a drink called “Blood Libel,” involving Irish cream, grenadine, and lime juice that would curdle in your mouth to replicate the experience of listening to Sarah Palin talk.
Side note: right before she said “blood libel,” she used the word “pundint.” What do you think, dictionary.com? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pundint Ah,...
Once upon a time, beer(!)
Summit Hefeweizen
Prior to last night, I’d had some Summit beers before and thought they were okay, but really not anything special. I decided to get this anyway, since hefeweizens are usually solid. I was pleasantly surprised and sold on Summit. Light and flavorful like any self-respecting wheat beer should beer with a light finish. What’s more, I bought it at Beertopia, a local...
Following so many more people now.
I can practically smell the barely-relevant reblogs from here.
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I usually use a book of shots to make the shots I post here. I’m in Omaha, it’s in Chicago. I don’t know what to do.
Looks like I’ll be focusing on cocktails for a while. And never (?) recapping the shots I tried when I wasn’t blogging. Whoops.
Them little bits of colored water what you pour in...
Astropop
1 part grenadine 1 part amaretto 1 part 100-proof peppermint schnapps Layer in a shot glass.
Kind of a flavor mess. The flavors don’t clash, compliment each other, or even come one after the other. You taste some, then others, then maybe the first ones again. It’s really all over the place, not all that interesting. I think “Astropop” may be a reference to those...
Year-end music list coming once I get all the music I need to consider. It gets pretty exhausting when you insist on not stealing music. Damn my moral compass. Blaaaaaaaaarrrrggggggggh.
Continuing my summary of the drinks I’ve had during my hiatus, here’s the shots I’ve had since then. I’ll follow the same pattern I did with the beers, except I’ll include its recipe as well. Here we go.
Agent Orange
[Google image results too depressing to post]
1 part Southern Comfort 1 part Jack Daniel’s Splash orange juice Shake with ice. Strain into a...
So this is the new year. And I feel a little...
Continuing my tradition of procrastinating that drink summary I talked about…
New Year’s Eve is not always as good as it’s built up to be, but it’s never all that horrible. At the very least, you can get drunk and go out of your way to find a way to do so. The world will cooperate. Drinking heavily is not only accepted, but encouraged.
I spent the evening with my...