Brute in Carlsbad

That's Brute Force, singer of such deathless rhymes as "Tapeworm of Love," "To Sit on a Sandwich" and the banned Apple single "King of Fuh," serenading the pickled patrons of the La Costa Spa and Resort on Thursday evening. Jackson Del Rey and I dined with Brute between his regular dashes to the nearly irresistable baby grand piano in the corner, and somewhere along the way finalized agreements for Brute's work to appear on lostinthegrooves.com. It was a delightful evening, one highlight of which was Brute's sharing of his unused (unsolicited, in fact) jingle for Little Debbie Snack Cakes, which goes something like "Mmm, Little Debbie, I wanna EATCHA!" -Kim Cooper