So Sylvie

recent posts

Month: March 2014

  • Claire Basler: Portes Ouvertes!

    **NOTE** Get in touch if you're interested in joining us for Claire Basler's Open House, Sept. 2018. 5 slots available. www.artfulfrance.com   Claire Basler opens her home to visitors May 29 to June 15.  

  • A Mythic Quest…Divine Interior Design

    "Pay attention to your dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies, and see yourself as a mythic hero in life's divine drama. See yourself as being on a mythic quest to discover and fully express your soul's code. " Gemini ~ by Free Will Astrology   and I'm taking my bag of tricks with…

  • Melancholy Monday: Father John Misty

    Father John Misty ~ Every Man Needs A Companion   "Joseph Campbell and the Rolling Stones couldn't give me a myth, so I had to write my own." Amen. Sad can be sexy: watch live version at Don Quixote's in Felton, California.         KEXP always has great performances in the studio. See FJ…

  • Winery Winter Wonderland

    Marcel and I have been up north at Francis Ford Coppola's place!  A sprig of rosmarino in the lapel…       He's not really upset with me photographing him endlessly, he's just trying out his serious side…       Warm enough for a dip in the pool…    Happy Marcello!

  • Melancholy Monday ~ Carrickfergus, Bryan Ferry

      “I would swim over, the deepest ocean, just to see my love, before I die, but the sea is wide, and I cannot swim over, nor have I wings, so I could fly…”   This was on the 1978 album The Bride Stripped Bare (Waddy Wachtel was one of the producers). I played it to…

  • Dr. Dog ~ Live Grooves and Etsy Leather!

    Marcel and I were happy guests at Dr. Dog's concert last night in Santa Cruz. We got back from our trip just in time for the band's first appearance in Surf City. They had a documentary film crew in tow who interviewed Marcel and plied him gifts throughout the night. Merci mille fois to Monsieur Santos.…