http://stormgrass.com the excitement of boredom Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:28:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And here it is, the 14th instalment of your most favourite series. Let's get down to business: This, Ladies and Gentleman, is the perfect Martini. At least when it comes to being true to what creating a Martini is all about. Which would be to create the perfect Martini, of ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/08/27/the-martini-chronicles-pt14/ Stumbled upon this via MetaFilter. According to a study men who were most open to casual sex were generally perceived as being more masculine-looking, with facial features that generally included squarer jaws, larger nose and smaller eyes. This finding confirms that women see masculine men as more likely to be unfaithful. The ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/08/12/in-your-face/ The Jazzfest Wien is very generous. They invite artists to play and people don't even have to pay to see them. Like yesterday, when we went and saw Melody Gardot, a 23 year old singer with quite a past. The bluesy jazz she sang was betrayed by her rather witty, self-deprecating ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/07/17/jazz/ It's been awfully quiet round here lately, which fortunately is not due to me losing my limbs in a horrible freak-accident, but mainly due to my preoccupation with things not more important, but certainly more pressing. Nevertheless, here's another installment of my 'tini Chronicles ('tini, as compared to Martini, is the ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/07/08/the-martini-chronicles-p13/ Yes, it's a photo of a pink bike stencil. And it's being sold in scores all over the world RIGHT NOW! Liz-Books, a publishing company in France that creates all sorts of coffee-table photo-books centered around various themes wanted to include this picture in their book Pink Attitude, and being ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/06/18/pink/ I finished reading Charlotte Roche's "Feuchtgebiete" last weekend, a book that has not only sold a whopping 700,000 copies, but has also attracted attention worldwide and sold translation-rights to a whole bunch of countries. Now, the whole premise of the novel, according to widespread opinion, is to gross out as many ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/06/10/wetlands/ Living directly under the roof has its perks. Like knowing when it's time get up, which would be the time the pigeons start sliding down your windows and are making a whole lot of that fucking early-bird-catches-the-worm noise. Or in winter, when it gets really cold, forcing you to turn up ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/06/01/25-seconds-of-hail/ Equipped with Bombay Gin, Noillit Noilly Prat (edit: did I actually misspell that? I'm such a chump!) did I and a solid Single Malt, I yesterday added another chapter to my glorious Martini Chronicles. Have a look: What you see is a variant of the Dusty Martini. While the original Dusty ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/05/29/the-martini-chronicles-pt12-dusty/ So we went on a weekend trip to Bratislava for my sweetheart's birthday. As always, I couldn't refrain from thoroughly documenting our endeavours. I will post a few updates in the coming week about the trip, until then, have a look at the Bratislava set I uploaded to Flickr (including ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/05/27/bratislava-beauty-on-the-danube-official-nickname/ With the advent of the Bombay Sapphire Gin, I also introduced a new way of chilling the Martini glasses to perfection: I looked up that technique from a pro barkeeper demonstrating the preparation of a Martini Dry on the Bombay Sapphire website itself. Unfortunately I can't link to the exact ... http://stormgrass.com/archives/2008/05/08/the-martini-chronicles-p11-ice-age/