From: exotica-owner@xmission.com To: exotica-digest@xmission.com Subject: exotica Digest V2 #18 Reply-To: exotica@xmission.com Errors-To: exotica-owner@xmission.com Precedence: exotica Digest Friday, 19 July 1996 Volume 02 : Number 018 In this issue: 78s / Diesel /Studio Two exotica Digest V2 #16 misanthropy 511 playlist Re: Boston lounge scene? (was exotica Digest V2 #10) Re: Boston lounge scene? (was exotica Digest V2 #10) 78's Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: The Next Collecting Trend [real easy] BW & Savages Vik's Newsletter Returns Re: The Next Collecting Trend [real easy] MJQ update Cocktail Conflict Re: Cocktail Conflict Re: Cocktail Conflict Re: Cocktail Conflict magazine articles Re: Cocktail Conflict See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the exotica or exotica-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Phil Clark Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:28:10 +0100 Subject: 78s / Diesel /Studio Two hey exoticats My turn to followup a couple of points from recent postings! In message <199607151709.LAA12573@mail.xmission.com>, exotica- owner@xmission.com writes >The most recent 78 release I know of was about four or five years >ago when Rhino released a big box of 78's of '60's pop classics (stuff like >Frankie Valli and the like) for owners of 78 jukeboxes so they could play >something that came out after 1959 on their jukes. I saw one of the boxes at >Tower once and picking it up was like picking up three cinderblocks. yep I'll bet! Minor factoid re 78s: EMI UK released 10" 78rpm promos of at least four Morrissey singles a few yrs ago. They came in neat repro HMV bags. I passed on a chance to acquire them, shoulda jumped at it. Studio Two: s0meone was asking what was released on this EMI label? well that's a major discography you're wanting, there were I think approx 400 maybe more albums released between 1966 and 74 or so, maybe later. I don't know if they all got US releases (thru Capitol) but some surely did. Material ranged widely as might be expected ,lots of what I might call fairly mundane orchestral stuff (Joe Loss, Frank Pourcel etc) lots of Latin (Pepe jaramillo etc) and some goodies (Mandingo, Johnny Keating etc). And BTW there are some good Studio Two cuts on the two SOund Gallery CDs. Finally someone mentioned the Diesel Store in Covent Garden? Sure I've been there. it's real colourful. Hope this is of interest! keep on groovin Phil phil@stimpy.demon.co.uk - -- Phil Clark ------------------------------ From: grrrl@clubhouse.email.net Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:55:12 CDT Subject: exotica Digest V2 #16 Can't help to notice Laura had a pretty good thing going there with getting us hip to who and why she is. Would be nice to see more of that. Me Next! Name: Karen aka: Molly-A-Go-GO and Grrrl D.O.B:1/7/72 that would make me 24 Sign: Capricornius Likes: Jazzy styles in dress music and personality. Dislikes: People that have made fun of the things we dig and are flairing that same style next week. Occupation: Art History student future Curator. Avocation: Making this Boston thing work for me and my Chihuahua "Thelonious" ------------------------------ From: misant@ic.net Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:36:28 -0500 Subject: misanthropy 511 playlist MISANTHROPY 511 p.o.box 23093 detroit, mi 48223 e-mail: misant@ic.net Welcome to another misanthropy 511 playlist. Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5 fm Windsor, Ontario Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/ Detroit Michigan area. Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Noises of the modern world in living stereo. We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 511 is now being broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13 different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166, 49187, Belm Germany e-mail: marabu@srs.joy.se The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet,continues hard at work. We have several self-released cassettes available. The Hearing Trumpet has been described by others as Œradio concret¹, Œambient noise¹, & Œdistant rumblings¹.Write for more info or ordering. ARTIST---------TITLE--------------------CD/CASS/LP--------LABEL JULY 8,1996 LAS DILLY SIS--sometimes good guys------v.a. east side so-DIONYSUS S.GAINSBOURG---69 annee erotique--------vol.5-------------PHONOGRAM MUSLIMGAUZE----saladin mercy------------gun aramaic-------SOLEILMOON FORK-----------quarantine---------------v.a. earth, vol.2-DOR INFINITY THE HATERS-----drop ascending 2---------drop ascending----VINYL COMM. ???------------america patrol-----------v.a. stereo cockt-PLATTENMEIST FIBULATOR------you, yes,yes,yes,yes,you-v.a. eyesore------VACCINATION THE RESIDENTS--from the plains mexico---daydream b liver--RALPH BORGIA POPES---constantinople-----------v.a. eyesore------VACCINATION CRAWLING W/TARTS--side 3----------------motorini elettriciGYTTJA LONGMONT P. CASTLE--tracks 1-4----------the best of..-----VINYL COMM. O YUKI CONJUGATE--niobium---------------sunchemical-------STAALPLAAT MADELYN BYRNE--into the cold night------cassette----------M.BYRNE HISS-----------ameliak------------------alien bass sounds-AGROCALM VIOLENT ONSEN--what¹s a day-------------v.a. entert. pain-RRR GOVERNMENT ALPHA--hesitation------------7²----------------VINYL COMM. SERGE GAINSBOURG--cannabis--------------vol.5-------------PHONOGRAM OVAL-----------ton regie----------------systemisch--------THRILL JOCKEY SCHLOSS TEGAL--beyond the wall of sleep-oranur 3----------INTERZONE ZOVIET FRANCE--sucking the instrument---v.a. earth--------DOR INFINITY HAL MC GEE-----side 2-------------------b12---------------HAL TAPES RUNZEL & GURGELexcerpt------------------ho----------------IMLUSS MACRONYMPHA----cold fusion--------------can man modified--MOTHER SAVAG VOICE OF EYE---sirens-------------------transmigration----CYCLOTRON JULY 15, 1996 STRAW ALARM CL-rainy day mushroom pill--best of..---------MCA RAPOON---------winter¹s edge------------darker by light---SOLEILMOON RALF WEHOWSKY--track 2------------------nameless victims--METAMKINE STRATVM TERROR-expulsion----------------only true se whoreSLAUGHTER PR CAUL-----------behold-------------------crucible----------MALIGNANT BOMBORAS-------spanish fly--------------savage island-----DIONYSUS BIGG CITIE ORCK--artistlite waltz-------verstimmt---------ECTO TAPES AUBE-----------awakening in the pool----v.a. shiroseasons-SHIROCOAL ELIANE RADIGUE-biogenesis---------------biogenesis--------METAMKINE CLARA ROCKMORE-berceuse-----------------art of theremin---DELOS CRANIOCLAST----somnii palus-------------somnii palus------FLABBERGAST YEN POX--------descent------------------blood music-------MALIGNANT PHAUSS---------nothing but the truth----nothing but the t-ANCKARSTROM THESE ARE GREAT TIMES TO BE A MISANTHROPIST !! ------------------------------ From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:01:31 -0900 (PDT) Subject: Re: Boston lounge scene? (was exotica Digest V2 #10) On Sun, 14 Jul 1996 grrrl@clubhouse.email.net wrote: > Just out of curiosity is anyone on the list from the Boston or Cambridge area > and if so could you update me on the Exotica/Lounge/Mod scene there. I'm a > future Boss-Tone-Nite! DON'T DO IT!!! Oh well, if you're already packed... There's nuttin' honey, as far as a lounge "scene" in Boston. I went to the Ultra-Lounge soiree at the Man-Ray in Cambridge a few months ago, and I could count the martini glasses on one hand, and the fez wearers on one finger. I've a hunch that the E/L/M scene, as you put it, is a more disorganized lot than many. However, Valerie & Peter's weekly "Music for Better Living" show on W?BC radio is a must listen every Wednesday happy hour from 6-7 p.m. There are a coupla good record stores worth browzing every week or so, namely Mystery Train (the Boston store) and Cheapo Records in Central Square. And while I used to recommend Looney Tunes on Boylston, they've unfortunately gone the way of the dodobird and started putting everything in slick new polyprop bags and charging double, yes DOUBLE what they used to. I mean, $24.99 for "The Best of the Ames"? Sure, it's got R-A-G-G Rag Mop, but that gets old pretty quick... I digress. I hope I'm wrong about the scene here, maybe everybody but me meets every Friday night at 10:30 for big-band dancing at the top of the Ritz Carlton ($10 if there are tables free) and persuades the bandleader to bring out the Esquivel and Baxter fake books, and I'm the only one sittin' home twiddling my thumbs to the happy beat of Ray Conniff...if so, you other exotic Brahmins will let me know, right? Right? Hello? EZ does it (but not very much in Boston), Jeff Phillips eaganca@cleo.bc.edu ------------------------------ From: erik@top.monad.net Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:28:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Boston lounge scene? (was exotica Digest V2 #10) Jeff Phillips writes: >There are a coupla good record stores worth browzing every week or so, >namely Mystery Train (the Boston store) and Cheapo Records in Central >Square. And while I used to recommend Looney Tunes on Boylston, they've >unfortunately gone the way of the dodobird and started putting everything >in slick new polyprop bags and charging double, yes DOUBLE what they used >to. I mean, $24.99 for "The Best of the Ames"? Sure, it's got R-A-G-G >Rag Mop, but that gets old pretty quick... Pipeline on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge is pretty good, as is In Your Ear. As for a Boston lounge scene, yeah, I've never gotten the impression that there's much happening, aside from the fact that Combustible Edison are from that area. I know that the stores tend to do well with exotica re-issues there, but it's just never translated into a nitelife for some reason. --Jon Johnson erik@top.monad.net ------------------------------ From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 09:37:19 PDT Subject: 78's Even more recent: Sun City Girls released a 78 about 6 months ago. I saw it here in Berkeley at Amoeba. I don' know what label (nor have I ever listened to the group). Clark ------------------------------ From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:53:55 +0100 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend it might be easy listening... and when i say easy, i mean _real easy_ ; after all, what is happening now has more to do with EXOTICA than with easy, but - who knows - it might prepare our tastes for more suggary stuff? = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis ------------------------------ From: Mark Freitas Date: 17 Jul 96 14:32:37 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend [real easy] >it might be easy listening... and >when i say easy, i mean _real easy_ ; >after all, what is happening now has >more to do with EXOTICA than with >easy, but - who knows - it might prepare >our tastes for more suggary stuff? Well given that most of the people on this list can't stand the music of even such amazingly talented folks such as Morton Gould, I wouldn't be so sure. I guess only if it is *bad* sugary - good sugary seems to mean boring to most folks. That said, I love my Muzak(R) Stimulus Progression(tm) demo records... :-) mark ------------------------------ From: Irwin Chusid Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: BW & Savages Since someone asked about Barrence Whitfield's backing band, The Savages, they recently released an album, READY TO WHERE?, under the name Four-Piece Suit. It's a great collection of sax & guitar-heavy crime-jazz, including covers of Mancini's "A Shot in the Dark" and "Something for Cat," and a bunch of originals. Recommended, if you can find it (label: Ocean Music). ------------------------------ From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:55:38 -0500 Subject: Vik's Newsletter Returns Well, Vik bets you hipsters figured he dropped off the face of this swinging planet. Not true, friends. He simply re-located to the swank borough of Brooklyn, NY and has progressed enough in the establishing of Casa Vik to get back to the lounge. Many changes in the offing. Vik has hired Emilio DePesto (of the exclusive DePesto Studios of Milan) to give the lounge a facelift. Check out the beginning of the re-decoration in Vik's lobby. Also, Vik met recently with that swinging publishing czar, Sam Wick. Sam, Bradley and the crew of lounge magazine will be showing up in Vik's via "lounge magazine in-line"...coming by the end of this long hot summer. Next up, Vik wants articles. One of the suggestions many regulars have had (and Mr. DePesto demanded) was expanded features and interviews. Well, with managing all of the various areas and dealing with Henri, Vik's time gets pretty consumed. He has time for features here and there, but would like to find a few swank pundits to expose on the new cool. In exchange, you will receive swank swag from Vik's giant box of goodies. If you have an idea for an article, feature, or interview...drop Vik a line at viktrola@nai.net. Finally, thanks to all who participated in Vik's June survey. Many kind and wonderful words and suggestions...many of which you will see in Vik's in the near future. The drawing will be held this weekend with winners notified by e-mail and immortalized in the Casino. And now...on with the show!!! =========================================================================== The Ultra Lounge Expands (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/ultra.html) The crazy cats and kittens just keep crankin'em out as the nest three in the Ultra-Lounge series hit the streets. "The Crime Scene", "Cocktail Capers" and "Cha Cha De Amor" continue to plunder the wonderful and wacky world of the Capitol/Liberty vaults going even deeper than the first six. In addition, Hollywoodandvine's Pink Pussycat (http://hollywoodandvine.com/Pinkpussycat/) has a swinging cocktail contest running for the Ultra-Lounge series. Drop by the contest page at the Pink Pussycat (http://hollywoodandvine.com/Pinkpussycat/martini.html) or The Casino Biscotti (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html) for more details. =========================================================================== Expand your horizons with The Jet Set (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/jet2.html) New destinations for you Jet Setters this week as KANU's Retro Cocktail Hour devotes a show to one of the greats of exotica...Les Baxter. Drop by Jet Set - Destinations for details them jet over to the KANU homepage for more info (connecting flight from the Destinations page). NYC begins to develop its own swank scene and the latest addition...IN HIFI. Thursdays at the Bar d'O, this could be the perfect way to take the edge off the summer. Stop by Destinatios - NYC for more details. =========================================================================== Expand Your Record Collection (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/mnews.html) Have you heard about the Martin Denny collection coming in September? What about the exotica of Karla Pundit? The jazz noir of Lars Vegas? Well, Hot News For Swank Times has this and more... =========================================================================== COMING SOON>>>Bossa Brava...Lounge Primer: Basic Bar...Los Straitjackets...Them Jazzbeards...Subliminal Sounds =========================================================================== "How 'bout a Mambo, Tito?" "Noooo...Cha Cha Cha..." Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html ------------------------------ From: LTepedino@aol.com Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:34:10 -0400 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend [real easy] I belive Johan is partially right - Easy Listening is next, but the way the Euro scene is - the hip sounding, swinging late '60s and early '70s stuff. Let's face it we are running out of the stereo action ping-pong stuff of the late '50s/early '60s and there's a cool treasure trove that has yet to be totally unearthed....as for disdain of Morton Gould, I don't think it's that people on this list hate stuff like that (I mean I'm willing to bet that a good 90% of us got into the lounge/exotica stuff from symphonic/movie soundtrack records)...it's just the way the Gould CD reissues have been shamelessly packaged as "Roots Of Lounge." Had the Gould Cd's just been reissued I think some people would have brought them to our lists attention for the interesting records that they are, instead some of us on the list have been dupped into being sold a bill of goods that they ain't. Ashley ------------------------------ From: Jon Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:46:41 -0400 Subject: MJQ update Paul McKay wrote: > > Jon - > > Well I lived in Atlanta for four years when I was at Tech so maybe I can > help (BTW - I'm moving back but I'm waiting until after the Olympics). > > There is a lounge scene in Atlanta but it isn't really a very big or > dedicated (mostly) one. On wed nights at MJQ (551B Ponce - underneath the > hotel) there is Leisure Night where Mr. Michael Payne spins the best in > fabulous hits from the '50s '60s and '70s (Sergion Mendes, Frank Sinatra, > Tony Bennet, Tom Jones etc.). The Martini club has a swank atmosphere but > also long lines, sky-high prices and a huge collection of junior-trendoids. > On sunday (?) nights Dotties has a lounge thing going on but it is in a > REALLY scary part of town. Downtown there is a Trader Vicks but I never did > manage to get to there. > > On the radio try WRFG and WREK especially The DeSoto Hour and RFG's sunday > programing. I can't remember show times but check CL, I think they are > listed there. > > No parties or anything that I know of anytime soon since everybody has fled > for the Olympics but there should (read might) be another Leisure Party > early this fall at MJQ (an all night swinging soiree of cocktails, dancing > and gaming held on occasional (very occasional) sunday nights). > > Let me know if I can be of further help. > > Ciao, > > Paul > jpmckay@cyborganic.net > > Visit Swank-O-Rama: Dedicated to Better Living Through Cocktail Culture > http://www.cyborganic.net/People/jpmckay Jon Milavec down in Georgia here to give you an update on Club MJQ. I went last night on what was supposed to be exotice Weds. nights. BUT, unfortunately, the DJ who spun the hits, Michael Payne, doesn't DJ there anymore. The atmosphere was great. It's a totally cool place. The music started off good with a lot of R'n'R oldies, but as the night progressed the music got worse, because it ended up being techno. Now, I don't have a problem with techno at all, but this wasn't even good stuff. Another thing I was kind of miffed about....they don't serve liquor. Only beer, wine, sodas, and coffee. I was so "in the mood", but alas, the old standby, PBR tallboys did the trick nicely. I don't know what kind of schedule they run for different theme nights, but I do know that they have live shows every Monday. I definitely will be going back to Club MJQ, It Rocks! Keeping you posted on what's happening down south. Jon Milavec ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 18 Jul 1996 13:24:40 -0400 Subject: Cocktail Conflict This may draw a lot of criticism in terms of relevance and shallowness, but I have a problem that I know this decadent and forgiving bunch can help me with here. I love everything about the "cocktail" as a concept, as music, as a motif, as an aesthetic. But, put simply, hard-liquor, with which cocktails are made, gives me unrelenting hang-overs. Therefore, I have long-relegated myself to beer, albiet, GOOD BEER ONLY. So, here' s my question-what is the most cocktail-esque beer, one that you could drink from a martini glass and still be swank? And don't say PABST BLUE RIBBON or I shall cry and feel foolish for writing this, which I guess I do anyway. So f$%&W%cking suave, Lounge Laura laura@wusf.usf.edu ------------------------------ From: LTepedino@aol.com Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:36:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Cocktail Conflict Laura has brought up a vey interesting subject...Despite the drink recipies, this whole movement is about the music. To say you need a to be holding a martini glass with hard liquor while listening to this stuff is like those old johnny-come-lately posers who used to come to clubs in the early '80s with their newly bought skinny ties and "new wave' sunglasses (soon to be relegated to the basement next to that Capuccino maker that was too hard to put together.) It's about the music folks, and the return to socializing under more civilized conditions that this music allows. Ashley ------------------------------ From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 08:35:00 EDT Subject: Re: Cocktail Conflict >simply, hard-liquor, with which cocktails are made, gives me >unrelenting hang-overs. Therefore, I have long-relegated myself to beer, >albiet, GOOD BEER ONLY. >So, here' s my question-what is the most cocktail-esque beer, one that you >could drink from a martini glass and still be swank? And don't say PABST >BLUE RIBBON or I shall cry and feel foolish for writing this, which I guess I >do anyway. - ----- End Included Message ----- Laura, I have the same problem. The solution? HORNSBY'S CIDER! Tastes like apple cider, looks good in any glass, nice buzz, and there's this cool charging rhino on the label. ------------------------------ From: "Anton J. Elmquist" Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:40:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Cocktail Conflict LTepedino@aol.com wrote: > > Laura has brought up a vey interesting subject...Despite the drink recipies, > this whole movement is about the music. To say you need a to be holding a > martini glass with hard liquor while listening to this stuff is like those > old johnny-come-lately posers who used to come to clubs in the early '80s > with their newly bought skinny ties and "new wave' sunglasses First - Hello, all! I have been lurking here for a while, I guess it's time to say hello. Hello! Now, as it's 9:30 AM and I have a cold and a hangover... I'm gonna ramble a bit. I gotta agree that it's about the music, but you can't deny that the draw to the music for many people is a romantic attachment to the idea of "civilized" entertainment, part of which included the mixing of cocktails, an art that was almost lost to my generation until this recent burst of enthusiasm... Of course you don't "have" to be sipping a martini while listening (man, it's hard to even think the word martini at 9:30 AM...); but wouldn't you say that the solution to our beer drinker's dilemma has to be to create a clever cocktail based on beer that can be sipped out of a glass? It's about craft, the idea that you put some effort into the aesthetics of your relaxation and don't just pop open a can of swill... (that's reserved for working on my car...) So, I propose as solutions to the beer dilemma: 1. Wisconsin Iced Tea: Pour 1 12-ounce bottle Leinenkugel's into highball glass, garnish with string cheese. 2. Texas Iced Tea As above, but used Slim Jim as garnish. 3. Erdbeerbowle A German drink - pour Altbier over strawberries, serve with spoon and straw. 4. Berliner Weisse A somewhat horrible drink - pour Berliner Weisse (a Berlin wheat beer) into large wineglass, add two dashes of some sort of syrup (I forget which kind - something red and sweet or green and sweet) 5. Ginger beer shandy Can't go wrong here - ginger beer and beer, in equal amounts. Refreshing on a summer day. 6. Beerlinetta (brand new as of this morning) Rub rim of martini glass with beer (preferably a dry-hopped lager, such as Brooklyn Lager), salt. Add beer, garnish with 3 salted peanuts, or small cocktail wieners. > It's about the music folks, **and the return to socializing under more > civilized conditions that this music allows**. Hear hear. And now for a shameless plug - my band, OYABANDO, is playing at the New Music Cafe on the 31st of July, at the Continental on the 14th, and probably at Spiral on the 2nd. That's over across the East River in New York City - the big thing next to Brooklyn... - - Anton - -- *********************************************************** * Check out the The Bed-Stuy Network! * * http://www.spacelab.net/~anton * * * * And the OYABANDO page - pics, clips, giveaways (?!) * * http://www.spacelab.net/~anton/oyabando * * * * "Guitar lines that taste like grape jelly..." * *********************************************************** ------------------------------ From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:33:34 -0400 Subject: magazine articles The new issue of Goldmine (Emmylou Harris cover) has a fine article on 'cheescake' LP covers by Preston Peek, with lots of illustrations. And while you're at the magazine stand, look for the July/August issue of Jazid, a British acid jazz/dance mag, for their article on 'Sleazy Listening', an overview of 60's/70's porno soundtracks (and mini-reviews of the current trio, i.e. "Vampyros Lesbos" , "Super Sounds of Bosworth" and "Schulmaden ..."). There is also a brief feature on Dimitry From Paris. br cleve ------------------------------ From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:45:46 -0400 Subject: Re: Cocktail Conflict >So, here' s my question-what is the most cocktail-esque beer, one that you >could drink from a martini glass and still be swank? A return to the Players era of the 70's would help (as the Millionaire has pointed out, this is where cocktail culture moved to in the wake of the hippie era) : Champale, or a malt liquor like Colt 45, King Cobra, Night Life, etc. (I'd skip the Cold Duck, though) As Rudy Ray would say - I ain't lyin'. On the first Combustible tour, Sudsy Malones in Cincinatti offered up a "Cincinatti Cocktail", which was beer with soda water. None of us found this to be a particularly inviting libation, though. Or you could do like the French - lager beer with a shot of Amer Picon (a bitter aperitif, similar to Campari) in it. C'est si bon! spiritually, br cleve ------------------------------ End of exotica Digest V2 #18 **************************** To subscribe to exotica Digest, send the command: subscribe exotica-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". 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