Tech Rider. Are you for real?

I've been updating, reviewing and revising my roster's hospitality and technical riders.

I receive a response today from one of my artists requesting for these items:
A blow-up ostrich waiting in our hotel room.
The television equipped with a VHS player (not DVD!) with 11 episodes of Bonanza where Hoss and Little Joe get into fist fights in smokey saloons.
A bowl with 96 assorted gummy bears with all of the red giraffes carefully removed.
The bar refrigerator equipped with 6 and a half Yoplaits yogurts, flavor Key Lime. The half eaten one to be shared with the Dalai Lama
A private limo equipped with a hot tub with a 7lb bag of dandelion bath salts and 14 rose pedals.
A personal valet that will constantly tell us how wonderful we are in a German accent.
A team of faux paparazzi chasing us from place to place (outside the hotel room that is)

I'm going to go work on my German accent now.
This made my day. Thank you.

[LC] Power of the week

Power of the Week

"I'll just pretend I'm right and move ahead-follow my ears and my heart more, and my analytical mind less." ~ Jac Holzman, Founder of Elektra Records

Live Sound Term

gain - When an electrical circuit increases the amplitude of a signal, it is said to have gain. The amount of gain is measured in decibels. Circuits that reduce the amplitude of a passing signal are called attenuators. The special case when a signal is passed without changing levels is called unity gain.

Business Term

absolute advantage - in international economics, capability of one producer to produce a given good using fewer resources than any other producer.

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous

Adorable fangirl

Here's the adorable four year fan we met today at Great America in Santa Clara. Lori Abucayan and I were sitting in the audience during GLP's set... When out of nowhere we hear this four year old girl screaming "I love you Gabe!" And me and Lori are like "what? Who?" Her mom tells us she was shy to meet Gabe at the meet and greet so we decide to take her backstage. She gave Gabe a HUGE hug .... And even showed us her dance while Leejay beatboxed. Heartbreaker. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous

Joshua Rifkin on Elektra Records

"What I realize, looking back, is that these people were having great fun doing what they were doing. It was still sort of a cottage industry, folk music leading into pop music-an enjoyable business. Everybody was having a good time. There were clearly, even then, people to whom rank and everything was important, but to these people at Elektra it wasn't. The headiest thing about this experience was at nineteen or twenty to become a colleague of these people, be taken into the circle, become one of them."
-Joshua Rifken thoughts on Elektra Records (book: Follow the Music by Jac Holzman and Gavan Daws)
 
 
* I read this and say -- see.. It IS possible, to run a company with people who enjoy what they do. I hope that's the only kind of people the LunaCo attracts -- in its artists and in its crew. So far, I believe it does. A continued blessing for sure. I hope I can be a role model of someone who -- follows the music. Follow the music, follow your heart. Follow your heart, follow the Creator.
 
 Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous

[LC] Power of the Week

Power of the Week

"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~ St. Francis of Assisi

Entertainment Term of the Week

audio news release - Recorded material ready for insertion into radio broadcasts.

Business Term of the Week

absence rate, absenteeism - frequency of employees failing to report to work when they are scheduled to do so. An absence rate above 5 percent is considered high.

Historic Milestone

span1896 - Gugielmo Marconi patents radio technology, moving electronics from "wired" to "wireless".

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous

Shift happens.

Shift happens.

 

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous

Residing at the Helm

From today's DailyOm.com - Residing at the Helm

 

"In times past, human beings learned all of the skills needed for survival. Today, the majority of people specialize in a single discipline, which they hone throughout their lives. Thus, many of us feel uncomfortable standing at the helm of our own existence. We question our ability to make decisions concerning our own health, happiness, and welfare, and are left feeling dependent and powerless. But the authority to take ultimate responsibility for our lives is simply a matter of believing that we have the necessary faith and intelligence to cope with any circumstance the universe chooses to place in our path."

 

Have faith. -C

Posted via email from christinaluna's posterous