CAKE On A Tuesday

Every Day Is A Good Day For CAKE...

Billy & I have been talking about & listening to a lot of CAKE lately, because he's recently & quite randomly developed a fixation with the songs "Pretty Pink Ribbon" & "Commissioning A Symphony In C".

I first fell in love with the lyrical stylings & quirky, almost monotone vocals of John McCrea back in the mid-90s Fashion Nugget days. That record & the song "Open Book" remain, to this day, my all time CAKE faves.

But, once Billy came along, Pressure Chief and Comfort Eagle also would up putting a lot of mileage on the stereo, a cover of "Friend Is A Four Letter Word" made it into the Obedient Waves repertoire, and CAKE became a recurring moment on the soundtrack of our lives.



So, for the love of good music, I give you, "Open Book", "Pretty Pink Ribbon", and "Commissioning A Symphony In C"...







-xo


p.s. For thirteen bucks, you can get yourself one of these trippy-cool, Aesthetic Apparatus-designed, Limited Edition, New Year's Eve, Glow-in-the-Dark, CAKE Posters HERE. Besides CAKE, I also happen to be crazy about eyeballs. It's true. So this poster is a Big Must Have for kooky Ms. KOSHi...

Cupcake Insanity

Last night's party for Molly Crabapple's book release of Scarlett Takes Manhattan was a very unique experience & really quite fun. Molly talked about her art & comic-making process & then we all sat around drinking vodka, listening to scratchy vinyl records from the 30s, spun by a dapper gentleman with a curly cue mustache, and sketching two burlesque models who changed poses every so often by the DiNG of a relentless timer. There was never enough time to get a decent illustration done, but it kept us on our toes. The real star of the night though was the world's most unforgettable, melt in your mouth cupcakes by a Silverlake company called Lark Cake Shop. I'm, much to my annoyance, on a gluten free, dairy free diet, but I couldn't resist a little taste after seeing the bug-eyed expression on Billy's face as he dug into one of these oh-so creamy, heavenly, dreamy concoctions. It looked something like this...

Berry Shortcake Cupcake: White cake filled with Crème Patisserie, topped with whipped cream icing and a seasonal berry.