Ghislaine

Call + Response Update! End Slavery Now!

From an email:Hey, Jamie!We did it!  We released CALL+RESPONSE.  And in doing so, we proved that art, justice, and commerce can all sit down at the table and get things done. I am sitting he...
Posted by Ghislaine on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:41:00 PST

Crazy Good Wines and Whiskies!

So book now- the wines this year are CRAZY good - I've been buying them for months - and special treats will be forthcoming from Besh's, courtesy of the fabulous Jeff.  Like pate with the Hungari...
Posted by Ghislaine on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:01:00 PST

Crazy good wines for the 2008 LRF Wine Tasting!!!!! And theres WHISKEY too!

I did it again.  I got an Amarone (the QUEEN of Italian wines) for the first wine tasting.  Not something you generally find at a wine tasting, as a matter of fact.  BUT IT'S SO GO...
Posted by Ghislaine on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:17:00 PST

New favorite museum....

Well, OK - maybe after the Prado and the Uffizzi and the Hermitage and the Louvre - BUT FABULOUS - the American Visionary Art Museum - the official "National Museum, repository, and education cen...
Posted by Ghislaine on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:49:00 PST

Randy Newman’s "Harps and Angels" - if it’s your last 10 bucks...

Buy Randy Newman's new CD, "Harps and Angels"...I downloaded it this AM, listened to it on the way to the office - and had to fix my eye makeup when I got here because it made me laugh 'til I cried an...
Posted by Ghislaine on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:48:00 PST

Synclive is the coolest!

I couldn't make it to Lafayette tonight for the Figs CD release party but they put it on Synclive!!!  OK, sound quality is indifferent but WHAT fun!  Not like being there but beats watchin' ...
Posted by Ghislaine on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:27:00 PST

Scary News (x-post to LJ)

Yes, scarier than the Bush budget deficit....more worrisome than McCain's health plan...comes the news that World Trade Organization trade talks have broken down.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/busi...
Posted by Ghislaine on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:04:00 PST

Cats, Irish Music and Figs

with the handsome, talented, intelligent, and modest  musical genius Marc Gunn in town...Friday night a rain-soaked but way-fun house concert chez moi, a successful in-so-many-ways CD releas...
Posted by Ghislaine on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:28:00 PST

Bastille Day!!!

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Posted by Ghislaine on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:25:00 PST

Wishbone Ash and Musical Memory

An AMAZING experience this morning - after talking with a friend yesterday about rock music and Wishbone Ash in particular, I went to iTunes to find that Wishbone Ash's "Argus" album has been remaster...
Posted by Ghislaine on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:45:00 PST