The buschenschank — or its spirit, conviviality and cuisine — is the inspiration for Café Katja, a tiny spot on the Lower East Side, with a menu of simple Austrian fare that is downright cheap, and an excellent selection of beers, wines and schnapps.
We did, however, come up with an incredible number of excellent (and some downright brilliant) ideas for moving toward these goals.
From the sultry come-ons of Make Me, Invitation and the excellent Just Luv Me, to the downright odd electronic closer Coupure Électrique, sung entirely in French, it feels anchored by Spears rather than something happening around her.
Don't get me wrong — for the most part, the Droid DNA is a truly excellent phone and I'm still downright smitten with the thing.
But in the era of Apple's excellent iMovie, the same old Sony package seems downright quaint, with five separate programs that range from simple-but-limited to powerful-but-inscrutable.
Radar Pictures has been responsible for a pretty mixed bag of movies, from the sublime (David Twohy's excellent 2000 slasher in space Pitch Black) to the downright preposterous (Richard Kelly's 2009 sub-Twilight Zone thriller The Box).
Bowers & Wilkins P5 Proving that expensive, fashionable headphones could sound good, the Bowers & Wilkins P5 ooze luxury and sound great, with excellent noise isolation and good range, which makes the equally pricey Beats sound downright mediocre.
The actors, uniformly excellent, attack the material with a vigor that, in such close quarters, sometimes is downright scary.
The atmosphere in the camp is said to be excellent, with the Lionesses relishing Sampson's comparatively relaxed management style after Powell's more authoritarian and, sometimes, downright confrontational approach.
