Posts Tagged ‘Miles Davis’

  • Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail: It Never Entered My Mind

    April 22nd, 2015 | Bartending | journalpulp | 20 Comments

    Here’s the latest in our Putting-the-Cock-Back-in-Cocktail series. A special thank you to Sarah, who turned me onto this beautiful Miles Davis song. Thank you for watching. And to all the graduates of 2017:

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  • Putting the Cock Back in Cocktail with Rum

    April 22nd, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 12 Comments

    Nothing says springtime like a refreshing rum cocktail — refreshing, with its remoter connotations of freshets and bursting water. Come and have a drink with the unwashed: Rum, like the hangovers it can create, is a side-effect, a by-product: a by-product of the juice that comes from sugarcane. And that, really, is one of the […]

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  • More Musical Pulp

    More Musical Pulp

    March 19th, 2012 | Artists and Musicians | journalpulp | 5 Comments

    Goethe at fourteen-years-old once heard Wolfgang Mozart (aged six) play the harpsichord: “The little man, with powdered wig and sword,” Goethe described him as. Luciano Pavarotti could not read music. David Bowie has a tattoo of a lizard on his ankle. Haydn and Beethoven each nominated Handel as the greatest of composers. Whereas Berlioz called […]

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