Seattle music industry legend Barbara Mitchell has been keeping a blog on food, music and booze called Devil’s Apricot: A Spirited Guide to Living. If you haven’t seen it yet, you must do so soon. Here are three spicy excerpts to whet your appetite:
From Mai Tai tell you what’s happening?!? –
“I was managing the Posies at the time and happened to take Mr. Stringfellow to a Listen.com party featuring Oranger, Matt’s [Matt “Hurricane” Harris] primary band, a couple days into the fray. After a Posies tour of Spain that culminated in a disastrous shouting match in a hotel lobby in Mallorca that led me to point out we could find another bass player (not to mention a “do you have any rice” story that is the stuff legend is made of,) I pointed at the stage and said, “That’s your bass player.”
So Matt became a Posie. I also accidentally introduced him to Ian Moore, and now they’ve done an album together. The story of how that all came about is classified, but the result is brilliant – a combination of their shared talents. Pop genius meets soulful, intellectual genius. Genius all around.”
– For more, go here.
From Stew on this, courtesy of Kultur Shock –
“I guess world music is hip and gypsy-influenced music is the new Tom Jones – the way to melt someone’s underpants, or get them to throw them onstage. I missed Kultur Shock’s recent Seattle record release show thanks to a throbbing headache and an enduring hatred of Belltown on weekends, so I’m not sure if anyone tossed their tidy whities or trampy thongs (or, more probably, their SNL sketch-worthy Euro briefs/banana hammocks/budgie-smugglers) onto the Crocodile’s semi-recently renovated non-grunge-y platform. Doesn’t matter – this is not your grandmother’s gypsy music. And I’m pretty sure we’re all grateful that her underpants didn’t make it to the stage…”
– For more, go here.
From Saucy Franks –
“I give you SAUCY FRANKS!
So wrong, and yet so, so right…
A kicky red/orange sauce and hot dogs scored to plump up into corkscrews! Add a soundtrack of at least 90% Barry Manilow with a little Rush or Journey for variety (maybe some U2 if you’re feeling rebellious), Kraft mac n’ cheese, some canned string beans microwaved with bacon bits (alternate serving suggestion: a salad of iceberg lettuce with a variety of Kraft dressings), and a a homemade wine cooler (for the grown-ups, of course, and concocted by mixing Gallo with 7-Up) and you have created a portal into my childhood. Just say “F***NO”!
Enjoy!”
– For the complete recipe, go here.
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