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Just don't play "Lady of Spain"
Mar. 29th, 2002 03:07 pmI was just in Gilbert's on Main, in Bellevue.
It's a fairly cool place: Kinda industrialish, with exposed ducts and stuff (Gilliam's vision, from Brazil, continues to flourish). Art magazines and auction catalogs from Christie's and Sotheby's lying about. Arty picture books in the window.
They serve a mean breakfast (though not all day, I learned to my dismay -- they stop at 11a or so) -- so I had a pastrami on rye. Very good... But with tax and tip and the addition of a can of coke, it tipped the scales just over $16. Yikes.
But the part I hadn't known or expected was the guy playing accordion, just to make it more bistrôt-like. Hmph.
There are only three ways to approach the accordion:
1) Play it absolutely straight.
2) Use the Kronos Quartet method to "reinvigorate" the genre. Purple Haze on the accordion, that sort of thing.
3) Decide to make the leap for camp. Weird Al meets Dean Martin.
It was the last this guy was doing. If you haven't heard "The Duke of Earl", followed by "Ma Vie En Rose"... Well, I don't know whether to bless you or pity you.
It's a fairly cool place: Kinda industrialish, with exposed ducts and stuff (Gilliam's vision, from Brazil, continues to flourish). Art magazines and auction catalogs from Christie's and Sotheby's lying about. Arty picture books in the window.
They serve a mean breakfast (though not all day, I learned to my dismay -- they stop at 11a or so) -- so I had a pastrami on rye. Very good... But with tax and tip and the addition of a can of coke, it tipped the scales just over $16. Yikes.
But the part I hadn't known or expected was the guy playing accordion, just to make it more bistrôt-like. Hmph.
There are only three ways to approach the accordion:
1) Play it absolutely straight.
2) Use the Kronos Quartet method to "reinvigorate" the genre. Purple Haze on the accordion, that sort of thing.
3) Decide to make the leap for camp. Weird Al meets Dean Martin.
It was the last this guy was doing. If you haven't heard "The Duke of Earl", followed by "Ma Vie En Rose"... Well, I don't know whether to bless you or pity you.
