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Personally, my favourite cocktail has been the Brown Cow: Kahlua and milk. Yes, I know...I'm sorry, but I simply prefer the simple and sweet stuff. So, I also like my Bailey's. One that I haven't tried yet is the Grasshopper which consists of crème de menthe, crème de cacao, cream, and ice thrown into a shaker.
When a group of students from one of the major Japanese oil companies and our teachers went out for a graduation dinner in Ginza, we stopped by one bar for a drink, and one of the students ordered a Grasshopper. He was mightily flying higher than an actual grasshopper for the rest of the evening. I guess something that sweet can be subversively powerful...just like a Long Island Iced Tea.
Anyways, before I retire for the evening, I'd like to put up a Kahimi Karie（カヒミ・カリィ）song that's a little out of the ordinary for her. I mean, "Alcohol" has still got that Shibuya-kei quality and of course, Karie's kittenish vocals but it's also quite danceable...especially after all those Grasshoppers. Maybe a Grasshopper dance never existed in the 1960s but I can imagine it being accompanied by young folk doing something like the Swim. It's got quite the hip-swiveling quality thanks to Pizzicato Five's Yasuharu Konishi（小西康陽）who wrote and composed the funky soulful song. "Alcohol" was the first track on Karie's 1st studio album from March 1997, "Larme De Crocodile".
That Grasshopper cocktail would have been the brilliant way to transition to a Showa Era Kamen Rider song as most of the mask/costume motifs for Kamen Rider in the Showa Era were based on Grasshopers. But, either way this was an interesting song by Kahimi Karie!
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