Shakes? Me too… I get ‘em bad.

I love my wife. I love that when you’ve been with someone for long enough, they not only share some of your obsessions, but they will indulge the other things that you’re into – even if they think it’s gross. Before you read anything into that, let me clarify.

We are both Blade Runner fans. Big time Blade Runner fans. Not “stand-in-line-for-8-days-in-costume-reciting-lines” fans, but big fans nonetheless. I know that a big part of it is our mutual love of Ridley Scott. Another big part of it is the sheer volume of visual information in the film. You know how you could live in New York all your life and not possibly see it all? Well Blade Runner is like that in the sense that you will invariably see something new that you never noticed before each and every time you watch the film. It’s the epitome of eye candy.

Most of my favorite sequences in the film take place around Dekkard’s apartment – staged on the mezzanine level of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House in Los Angeles. I think it best exemplifies just how remarkable a job Lawrence Paul and David Snyder did merging 1920’s architectural style with Syd Mead’s futurist visions of a 21st century metropolis. The details are amazing.

One of the things that I love about the scenes in that apartment are the double old-fashioned crystal glasses that Dekkard loads up with whiskey after a tough day of “airing out” Replicants (or getting his ass kicked by them).

So, back to the point… My wife finds the ACTUAL glasses for me. They are ridiculously heavy (in a good way) and just as beautiful in person as they are in the film. The company in Italy that manufactures them has been doing so since the 70’s – a testament to the longevity of good design.

I have been enjoying them with a ‘94 Glenrothes (heavy on carmel and vanilla notes) lately, but I’ll be pouring palette-busting peat/smoke heavy Isle-based malts into these bad boys in the frigid winter months to come. Mmmmmm.

Thanks for the awesome present babe, and I promise not to breathe on you too much… (whiskey’s not her cup of tea).

For the rest of you BR fans out there you should check out Phil Steinschneider’s site for other memorabilia. If your into the glasses, you can find them there. You can also look here.