mekkab's Journal: Weekend Netflix redux and Brickskeller is D-Dope

The Deep End: it sucked.
Love is the Devil:I actually enjoyed to artsy-fartsy camera work at first. Wife did not. Ignoring the biographical nature of it, it is a very simple story and there is nothing to make it endearing. We don't care about cruel fags.
Croupier: What is with that gawd-awful stupid hat?! Great flick.

An old chum was in DC and we got together for a bite to eat. Figured we'd wander around Dupont and pick a spot. Somehow wandered in front of the Brickskellar. It had everything we wanted and more. Great "authentic" atmosphere. Ashtrays on the table (my friend still smokes), good beer (big up the Racer X IPA), and good music (smiths, morrissey, pixies, joy division, depeche mode, q and not u, talking heads, clap your hands say yeah, blah blah blah blah blah), and a burger with caraway seeds in it (I've been totally craving caraway seeds. Seriously).

It gets an A++++++++++ and its the new spot.

oh, and on the Home Cider Consumption front: George Hardy's Hard Apple Cider (NOT to be confused with the Draft Cider) tastes like green apples. Highly recommended.

Croupier

[sielwolf]

It's Clive Owen... as U2's own, THE EDGE! That hat was mad retarded. Especially for a movie where he spends most of his time in a tux. Also the girl he finishes with is... I dunno, a downgrade.

Still, I love it.

Re:Croupier

[mekkab]

well you have to understand; with his first girl friend, I spent two different PBS Masterpiece Theatre Forsyte Sagas being told that "Irenie is such an incredible beauty!!!!one1olde timey one" I kinda got sick of her face. That being said, faces aside, Backup-plan Bertha certainly didn't have the body. But she tokes and swings a riding crop, which has merits for our croupier. Additionally, he seems to actually share more of a connection with backup-plan Bella. And a corollary to "Hold tightly; let go li

Re:Croupier

[sielwolf]

I guess. Of course I still am impossibly spun around the finger of Alex Kingston. She's so saucy in that movie.

The Brickskellar... is that a goth bar? DM, Joy Division? It sounded like a morose time. ;p I think I knew a girl who went their a bit. But she was a bit too old (27ish) to be stuck in her HS goth phase (where the blue streaks in her hair just are pitiable. "Poor poor child-"). Of course I'm an elitist.

DESTROY!DESTROY!

Re:Croupier

[mekkab]

Yah know, I guess in many ways it kinda IS a goth bar; the decor is truly...uhm... seedy? Very olde sk00l Pub Verite. And the waiter/waitress were indie kids.

But the beer. The beer!~ Good lord, man! It is the spot. TEH SOPT!!!

however I hear they really don't have all these beers in stock... [thebrickskeller.net]

It doesn't matter. We go there next. NEXT!!!
Bring Cloves. ;)

Re:Croupier

[sielwolf]

I'm always game. I probably gotta bother your ass about more house hunting isht. Charlotte wants me to peg down more specific places. Like vector in and shit, on where I want to live. I know a guy who lives just east of Rt 29 and Sligo Creek in Silver Spring but I'm open to most anything... and that's her problem: I don't have specific needs.

But I'm willing to go *makes pitching beer down throat motion* if *makes blah-blah-blah-house-hunting motion*. Also my buddy was wondering about building a house

Re:Croupier

[mekkab]

Charlotte wants me to peg down more specific places. Like vector in and shit, on where I want to live.

Ohhhh. Charlotte wants. Charlotte wants. Listen. You tell that good-for-nothing Charlotte-Sometimes that *I* have needs and desires too! I'm not just a doctor, I'm a man.

This was why Holly didn't think The Charters Home Team was going to do much for you.

Seriously. This is the long dark night of the house-hunting soul. The only answer involves you, and map, and the HOndarica(a.k.a. Honda-shoots-first).

Re:Croupier

[sielwolf]

G'damn... *sigh* *logs onto craigslist* Craigslist is surprisingly good. I just need to get my ass moving. Time to throw on some LCD SOUNDSYSTEM!!

WHOOOOOO!!!!

James and the boys (The Juan Maclean, etc) are coming into town. Might be worth catching. Spaz out hipsters!

Cider

[Tet]

George Hardy's Hard Apple Cider (NOT to be confused with the Draft Cider) tastes like green apples. Highly recommended.

Is that cider, or apples juice? I.e., is it alcoholic? It confused me no end when I crossed the pond only to find that your cider was in fact just apple juice. Not what I was expecting at all!

Anyway, on that subject, I can recommend Westons Blue (the Oak Conditioned Medium Sweet Cider listed about halfway down the page here [westons-cider.co.uk]).

Re:Cider

[mekkab]

By Cider, I mean approx 4-6% alcohol By Volume. I've also got the other kind in the fridge, too ;) Typically the addition of the adjective "hard" implies that its alcoholic. But then what about the Draft Cider? No "hard" to be found in that name...

So you aren't alone in the confusion. So what do y'all call the apple juice kind of cider? Apple juice?

Re:Cider

[Tet]

So what do y'all call the apple juice kind of cider? Apple juice?

Yep. Obvious really -- c.f. orange juice, pineapple juice, pear juice, cranberry juice etc. Or do you have different names for those too?

4-6% by volume is pretty reasonable IMHO. In the UK, they'd be considered medium to weak, with the stronger ciders going up to around 10%. But I find the stronger ones to be lacking in taste. Usually they're sacrificing the flavour to get the extra alcohol content, and as such are less enjoyable to drink.

Re:Cider

[mekkab]

orange juice, pineapple juice, pear juice, cranberry juice etc. Or do you have different names for those too?

Sometimes, if we're feeling really saucy (and we frequently are) we'll call then nectars .

That Racer X double IPA was something like 9.5%... on an empty stomach two pints of that threw me for a loop. I was quite surprised.
For ciders, I'm much more tuned in for the taste and I find even the 6%'ers to be a bit on the lacking side. (that Woodchuck Pear cider is to be avoided.)

13%abv and tastes good?