Late July '08 Soundbites

Just swoon at how cute Beatrice (a/k/a TRIXIE of AA) and Mama AKS are in the above recent photo! Looks like Ann Arbor, MI just became even more than ever a travel destination for Cafe Drake, who can't wait to run our fingers through Trix's punkie locks.


Ever wish you could have grown up on a sprawling British country estate, living life on the set of a Merchant-Ivory film? For those Anglophile fantasists amongst you, gulp a sobering dose of reality via Miranda Seymour's new biography, Thrumpton Hall, a tale of her regal girlhood home that held more than a few domestic horrors, including a sexually repressed and time-warped father . . . the grim product of English eccentricity stretched to its logical conclusion. The book fascinated Cafe Drake and even amongst the wickedness we found lots to love and inspire, sort of the same way we hope people feel about us.



Lots of evenings in July are spent in the cool confines of Cafe Drake's salon, where we munch on casual summer meals for one (cheese, pickles, olives, bread, wine, fruit, hummos and other dips, wine, ice cream, wine) and relax with a DVD. What We're Watching Now: Control (2007); Stop Loss (2008); Night of Dark Shadows (1971); Duffy (1968); Gods of the Plague (1971); Gypsy (1962).