Spritzer In some places it is said that wine spritzers make poets sing and nations come together. The word comes from the German "spritzen" "spatter, squirt, spray, sprinkle", i.e. adding water and thus diluting the wine so that it can be consumed in larger, thirst-quenching amounts. Alcoholic spritzers are increasingly available ready-mixed in cans; their relatively low alcohol and calorific content means they are often marketed at women. In Hesse, "gespritzt" usually refers to a mixture of soda water or lemonade and "Apfelwein" (in Central Hessian dialect, "Ebblwoi"), an alcoholic drink from fermented apple juice somewhat similar to dry hard cider.
Life's What You Make It (EP) Life's What You Make It (EP) Life's What You Make It is an EP by the English alternative rock band Placebo, released on 7 October 2016. It includes three cover songs (Talk Talk's "Life's What You Make It", Rowland S. Howard's "Autoluminescent" and Freak Power's "Song #6"), as well as the 2016 single "Jesus' Son" and two live recordings of "Twenty Years". Singer Brian Molko told "The Independent" that Placebo decided to cover "Life's What You Make It" because it's a 1980s song that the band still enjoys. Additionally, Molko said, "we wondered if we could replicate Gwen Stefani's global