Hello xanga community!!! Sorry i have neglected you these past few months but I had a couple other items that ranked a bit higher on the priority list.... like sleep. So did ya miss me????

Its been a couple of months so you know i've got plenty of wine recommendations to offer....but first things first mark your calendars for Friday December 12th!!!!!!!! My #3 favorite DJ, Donald Glaude, is coming to town. Here is a link to his info. http://www.thedjlist.com/djbiodisplay.php3?djName=DONALD+GLAUDE   He will be at Rich's for their weekly Spundae party and tix are only $12. Glaude always puts on a very energetic show with  badasss dance beats and some SICK scratchin on the decks. All you austin and dallas peops should come down for this. (Kim- Christene said she'll cook for you "again" if you come down) (Drew/BVC - round up the autstin crew)

So work has been hell these past 2 months. My company sends me off to SF for 2 weeks of training and now they are trying to make me earn all those expensed meals..... damn it!!!! I guess it still worth it though... i finally had the chance to hit up NAPA while I was der. Which happens to be a perfect seque to my next section. The much anticipated (or dreaded for some) wine recommendations from CTV.

For the ladies, I have a very pleasant white wine from Bordeaux France that I just finished tonite actually. Its called Chateau Ducla 2000 Bordeaux White. The bottle is $18 and goes well with salads (my dinner tonite) This wine has a mild pear aroma and a very delicious lychee taste. It is very smooth and has a long finish for a white wine. It is not too sweet to the extent of a dessert wine which makes it very hard to stop at one glass.

Now for 2 red recs. I was at a wine tasting this past weekend and had an opportunity to try a rly good Shiraz. Its the Eppalock Ridge 2001 Shiraz (Australia) I only had a tasting of it and don't remember all the characteristics of it but all I know it was YUMMY. I picked up a bottle for myself and can't wait to try it again. This Shiraz is $30 a bottle.

This final red was recently featured in the Nov. issue of Wine Spectator as one of the best values for 2000 Cabernets. Its the Franciscan Cabernet Sauvignon which retails for $28 but you can buy it at Specs for $18. This wine scored a 90 and reveals "jazzy oak, rich currant, and black cherry finishing with pretty coffee notes" 

HAPPY DRINKING!!!

What is good music?

Good music is.....when you can listen to a song for the 145th time and still get chills all over your body,  when you pick up your cell phone and call all your friends so that they can listen to the song with you, when you go to the gym but leave 15 mins into your workout so that you can go back to your car to listen to the song, when you think back to the other 144 times you've heard the song and a smile stretches from ear to ear... like the time me and Drew sang along to this song when Oakie dropped it at Hyperia, or the time Donna heard it at Icey before anyone else did, or the time Yan and I tore up the dance floor in Dallas when Icey played it, or even the 1st time at WMC 2002 when PVD spun it at SPACE and I had to ask Brain... "what song is this?".... hell it was even memorable when Ferry wouldn't play it for Winyo and I at 1015.

so what is the epitome of good music.... Punk by Ferry Corsten (Track 11 Mixed Live @Spundae)

HAPPY HOUR @ BirraPorett'is (Grey and Shepherd)

That place has the coolest happy hours. M-F 4 -7. They give free pizza , $3 Bellinis, $3 margartis, Cheap bear and $3.50 House wine (not that good) The pizza is rly good and the bring out like 6 or 7 different ones all the time. I went out there the past 2 monday's before our softball games. There is nothing like trying to pitch a softball game with a nice buzz!!!!

ok.... so there this one person who has been bugging me about adding a new entry b/c she thinks my static content is rather boring.

Well here you go girl.....

keep waiting!!!!!!

damn.... i suck too... can't link to a pic. You will have to do it ghetto style. go to properties and open in new browser.