Fox Bat Strategy plays "The Pink Room"

I listened to Sasha Pixlee's second podcast, "Old Man Cocktails," and he mentioned he thought he might need some Theme Music for his segment entitled "Sasha's Rules for Bad Ass cocktails."

I don't know why, but the song "The Pink Room" from the movie,  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, popped into my head as the perfect candidate for the job. I don't think music can get any more Bad Ass than this.

Once I got home that evening, I looked it up, only to find out that David Lynch, film director, artist, weather man, Eagle Scout, and all-around quirky character, had just released a new album of music featuring the same studio musicians he hired to play in the film.

David Lynch presents Fox Bat Strategy: A tribute to Dave Jaurequi, has seven original tunes that has that nostalgic 50's , rock-a-billy, massive reverb thing going and, like Lynch himself, manages to straddle the line behind hip retro and and slightly obtuse.

"They Go Down" is a track I highly recommend, especially while sipping Pixlee's Skeptic cocktail.

The Skeptic cocktail turned out to be a nice variation on the Manhattan, and with the inclusion of vanilla-forward Tuaca herbal liqueur, the sort of thing you might picture yourself sipping while watching Isabella Rosselini sing cryptic Chris Isaak-inspired rockabilly ballads.

Sasha Pixlee's Skeptic cocktail

2 oz rye whiskey

1 oz Tuaca liqueur
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
1 slice of lemon peel

Stir with ice and serve straight up in a cocktail glass, twist the lemon peel over the drink before dropping it in, as the oil lends an important flavor component to the cocktail.

Recreating Sasha Pixlee's Errol Flynn Fizz

I recently discovered a cocktail PodCast from a gentleman named Sasha Pixlee. Sasha calls his Podcast, "Sasha's Den of Iniquity," (which sounds a bit more like a BDSM dungeon than a name of a cocktail show.) I really enjoy Pixlee's style. He seems to have a dry wit, and a no-nonsense attitude, that comes across in his only-slightly vulgar delivery.

His very first episode featured fizzy drinks, which was a perfect topic for summer. Of course, the Gin & Tonic opened up the show, and then he moved on to some introductions of the Hemingway Code Hero, French 75, and something he invented, the Errol Flynn Fizz.
Now, I'm a sucker for cocktails with egg whites in them. There is something very appealing to the textural mouth-feel you can achieve with an egg in a drink. So, I knew this was something I needed to try...

Errol Flynn Fizz:
1-1/2 oz rum
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz falernum
1/4 oz grenadine
1 egg white
soda water

Dry shake (shake without ice) the rum, lime, falernum, grenadine, and egg white. Add ice and shake again to chill the drink. Strain it into a chilled champagne flute and top with cold soda water. Garnish with lime and whatever other tropical fruits you feel like."

Overall, this is a pleasing drink, though it could probably use some tweaking. I used home-made Grenadine, instead of that fluorescent-red-citric-acid-corn-syrup-industrial-waste that comes in a bottle, so the drink turned out the palest color of pink. Just a bit more color would make this drink more appealing. Hmmm.. Hibiscus grenadine? And one egg white for the proportion of ingredients is overkill. You could easily double the liquid ingredients for one egg white. The club soda adds it's own foam as well.
All in all, I would certainly serve this at a backyard summer party, or at a ladies get together.
Or if the ghost of Errol Flynn visited me.
Which he might.
I followed up the EFF with two Mai Tai's.