WHICH COCKTAIL ARE YOU?

""Which cocktail are you?""
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For more on Gimlet, check out Rose's site.

Related: My post, ULTRA-LOUNGE.

NEW MUSIC ADDED TO MY WISH LIST

After reading this review of Chiara Civello's album, Last quarter moon, I added it to my wish list at Amazon. Have you heard about Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band? I heard about this band from Robert Tracinski's TIA Daily.

Here is a good sign for the culture: a small but growing trend among young people is an interest in Big Band music--which is an esthetic universe away from the unmusical shouting of "rap" thugs. Could this be the beginning of a cultural trend away from the nihilistic "grunge" and violent "hip-hop" trends of the past few decades? (TIADaily.com, Big Band Is Back?, 03/10/05.)

Read Mireya Navarro's article, The Definition of 'Phat': Big Band With Young Fans. I have added their album, Property Of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band XXL to my wish list.

ASSEMBLY OF THE WONDROUS HEAD

Today I added a new music album to my media list.

WINE-PENTAGON.COM

I went to a great wine tasting on January 21. I tested eight different wines (White Pepper 2003, Újra Együtt Kékfrankos 2003, Kékfrankos Barique 2002, Zweigelt 2003, Merlot 2002, Cabernet Sauvignon 2002, Shiraz 2002, and Pentagon 2002) by Pfneiszl - United Vineyards. For more on Pfneiszl, read Lysann Heller's article, Success along a fine line.


Wines from Hungary
Originally uploaded by Lyceum.

LAKE BALATON

Lake Balaton
Originally uploaded by Lyceum.

Lake Balaton - The Hungarian Sea.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

My New Year's resolution is to achieve values in the following areas:

• Career

Finish my education in project management (international project coordinator) in May 2005. Find a new job somewhere in Europe, and eventually achieving the long-range goal: my return to the Land of Opportunity.

• Hobbies

Read plenty of books and improve my thinking skills. Intensify the work-out and training schedule.

• Relationships

Continue to search for a romantic partner. Maybe I will find the right one during my future trip to the United States of America?

BOOKS BY P. G. WODEHOUSE

I got plenty of nice X-mas gifts. For example, I got two books (The Adventures of Sally and Piccadilly Jim) by P. G. Wodehouse. The books are from an antiquarian bookshop. I have added the titles to my media list.

PAPA JOE'S

Papa Joe's is a steak house in Sopron.

SOPRONI CABERNET SAUVIGNON

Soproni Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 by Iváncsics-Roll Pince won a bronze medal at the international wine competition (Challenge International du Vin) in France. I purchased the bottle for HUF 2000.

KADARKA

Here is an interesting combination of "east meeting west":

Kadarka wine together with salami sausage and tortilla chips and salsa dip!