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I have a thing about having a lot of liquids nearby, it's sort of a vice, but it's comforting and supposedly healthy. Besides a crucial Nalgene, I like to have a fizzy boy at arms length and, if I can find this Spanish brand it makes me feel like finding Jolt Cola at a pizza place in the 90s. Love Topo Chico but craving something saltier? Vichy is your fix. Matthew Dear introduced it to me when I joined him on tour in Ibiza a decade ago so it probably is also a nostalgia thing for me. One sip takes you away to a little fish joint on the beach, water splashing against on the rocks.
Apr 6, 2021
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The taste of Alka Seltzer if my favorite. I always wished for an unmedicated beverage to exist with the same flavor & the closest I've come is Vichy Catalan sparkling water. I love Alka Seltzer for a hangover like I'm in Mad Men. I love keeping it in my purse, offering it to people, & curing ailments from a cold to an upset stomach. It's versatile, classic, & consistent.
Sep 19, 2024
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Hello lovely people, this is not a recommendation in regular sense, but more so an excuse to ramble about sparkling water.
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I donāt like sparkling water. Yet here I am, with a shiny green can of Lime LaCroix perched on a feminist poetry book beside me. āWhy?ā You ask. Because everyone in my family drinks it, and I on the rare occasion I cannot be bothered to fill up a glass, if nothing else graces the fridge, a sparkling water is what Iāll take.
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I confess, I actually am a fan of many flavors of Waterloo. I donāt drink or like soda much, but it reminds me the most of a soda, it tastes the least like the spicy medicinal whizz that is LaCroix. Bubly is somewhere in the middle, the carbonation levels are alright, but the flavors are here and there. Bonus points for the pronunciation of the name though.
I got sidetracked, but my story continues. I drank at least one every day or two, which (paired with a brief year-long stint in North Africa) led to the unfortunate accident of my family being convinced I enjoyed bubbly beverages large and small. So for my birthday, a sparkling water machine it was.
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Now, here I am with this device. A soda stream capable of (what seems to me) industrial level carbonation. Do I love carbonated beverages? Not quite. Will I become a connoisseur just for the bit of it? Absolutely.
Sprinkle recommendations for things I should bubble in the comments and report back I will.
See you again soon lovely people.
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Anyone who knows me knows there's always a green bottle somewhere in my vicinity. I've been drinking this water for over 15 years, before it was popular. When I was in Austin for a job I went to the deli and picked some up and as the gentleman was checkingĀ me out he says, "Elvis water, huh." I ask him, "What do you mean?" and he goes, "Elvis used to only drink Mountain Valley Water. It was like his thing." Turns out, on the MV website, they remark that it was the water Elvis exclusively drank and if it was good enough for Elvis...
Nov 30, 2023
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Prob fave this year
Dec 10, 2023
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I started a playlist series called Herb Sundays, which came out of posting sort of uncool (āherb-yā) records that I was listening to online and thinking about how the perfect Sunday records get played when other people arenāt looking. I don't feel bad plugging this series because itās free and the mixes are by other people than myself. I donāt think I could host a podcast so this scratches the itch of inviting interesting people to contribute to something beyond my regular job, and its also purely for fun. Music discovery is one of lifeās great gifts. A good new song can make your week, and a good mix can make your day. This series is also a love letter to the Mixtape. I still think a hand-cranked mix is one of the greatest DIY projects as far low-effort satisfaction on both ends of the chain. Iām not anti-algo on the whole, it has a place, but you can feel it when someone puts time into making a great mix.
Apr 6, 2021
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Stripping back the cult of ENO and just looking at the music, Music For Airports has got it all. Forget the Isaac Newton-y backstory (TLDR: Eno is bedridden while recuperating after being hit by a car, friend visits and puts on record, volume too low to āhearā properly, turntable too far to reach, the idea of music as room ātintā ensues), and the brilliance of the technical execution, the tunes are what matter here. I actually met ENO once, yes, in an airport. I associate this music along with a lot of the ENO cannon as the search for a romantic life. That there is more going on than meets the eye, but only if you look for it. Also the idea of Eno as the consummate ānon-musicianā is very appealing/comforting to me. Eno apparently said he sought to create music āas ignorable as it is interestingā which is great, and is coincidentally the basis of my personality.
Apr 6, 2021