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shore, I���d be perfectly happy as well. Classical versus vinyl. Classical is okay on CD because the noises of vinyl ��� the hisses and pops ��� can really be distracting in transparent passages. I really prefer jazz and rock on vinyl. Maybe because the technology and the art form are contemporary with each other? What I really like about vinyl is the ritual:��getting out a record and listening to an album, the songs in order. Then it���s over. It���s quiet. Shuffle mode and the endless stream of Pandora and Spotify are great if you are driving, but at home I prefer a record �����tons of jazz, Mingus, Holiday, Davis.��I am really excited about some of the recent rereleases, like the Beatles catalog.��Edith Piaf.��Kraftwork.��David Bowie���s The Next Day is out on March 19. Night table. I love English history ��� David Starkey���s Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne; also the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume I (I think I was reading about Brahms) and The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, a gift from Hiram Butler. Cinematic moments. I can���t wait to see The Place Beyond the Pines.��I think Ryan Gosling is underrated. Almodovar has a new film this spring, I���m So Excited. Blockbusters. The Oldenburg works at MoMA this spring are not to be missed.��There are also great shows coming this year to Houston, particularly ���Picasso Black and White��� at the MFAH and Forrest Bess at the Menil.��The Blaffer will bring us Andy Coolquitt in May. I���m excited about ���Outside the Lines,��� an abstract painting show being organized by the CAMH and co-curated by Bill Arning, Valerie Cassel Oliver and Dean Daderko, but we have to wait until winter. Digital and web loves. I am addicted to Swamplot, a perfect blend of architecture, development, restaurant openings and closings. And The Great God Pan is Dead.��Houston is lucky to have an independent voice like Robert Boyd covering our art scene. If a movie were cast about you. I don���t know about me, but Robert can only be played by Robert Mitchum. Fave city in the world. I will take Rome, and you can keep the rest.��I was there for the umpteenth��time this past summer but still managed to do something I had never done before on each day of the trip. Robert and I had the Pietro da Cortona ceilings at the Palazzo Barberini all to ourselves for 30 minutes. Conveniently, they had moved these couches to the middle of the grand salon, so we just lay back and took it all in. Our favorite meal was at L���Enoteca Cul de Sac. �� Signature menu and libations. You are unable to leave my house without having at least one piece of Popeye���s spicy fried chicken or a tamale from the Texas Tamale Company. I love Belhaven Scottish Ale and the Belgian Ales from Ommegang Brewery from New York State, like Three Philosophers.��If you were lamenting the passing of Dublin Dr Pepper, have no fear: The recipe with Imperial Cane Sugar is available at Central Market. �� Never leave the house without ��� Well, within reason, my two dogs, Solomon and Millie. I consider myself the luckiest person alive to be able to bring my dogs to the office. �� Wardrobe staple. Brooks Brothers no-iron and Munsingwear Penguin shirts, which I���m sure everyone is tired of seeing me in. Right now I like to dress them up with neon and Day-Glo unisex tees from American Apparel. Last art acquisition. I purchased a wooden construction by Nathan Green from Art Palace at the Texas Contemporary Fair. It is simple and beautiful. I also recently acquired a Devon Britt-Darby painting from his exhibit at PG Contemporary and a gorgeous yellow and blue print by Charles Wiese. Next art acquisition. I have my eye on a Ted Gahl painting at David Shelton Gallery and a wonderful primitive sculpture by Clark Derbes who had a show with Gus Kopriva at G Gallery this winter. Guilty pleasure. If it is a quiet day at the gallery and I can get out, I will go through the entire MFAH.��The entire museum. I pick a favorite object in each gallery. The re-installations of African, pre-Columbian and ancient art are sublime.��Do not MARCH | PAGE 40 | 2013 FIRST ROW, FROM LEFT: Friscoe and Borden fondly call their sun-filled library ���the Florida Room��� and have filled it with books and plants. The blue-pickled floors and simple maple bookshelves were added in 2006. Solkem N���Gangbet and Pahl Samson catch up on all the art news over Briscoe and Borden���s favorite party beverages, cane-sugar Dr Pepper (Central Market) and Ommegang Lambic Ale from Cooperstown, New York (Three Philosophers, available at Whole Foods Market). In the foreground, a collection of early 20th-century porcelain fragments are nestled in a bell jar. Borden found them in Germany. This Art Deco drawing of a woman by Francisco Lardies was acquired from the collection of Blaine Hickey and Ogden Robertson, photographers who recorded Houston art and interiors for more than 40 years. It���s festooned with a crocheted work by New York artist Sheila Pepe and rests on an Eastlake side table from August Antiques in the Heights. SECOND ROW, FROM LEFT: The music room adroitly combines diverse furniture and artwork. the recent Jordan Johnson tapioca drawing Funk hangs over Mark Flood���s Monster, Borden���s prescient first art acquisition from 1988. A pair of 19th-century Morris chairs in black leather and teal velvet surround a Darryl Lauster cast-resin tea table, inspired by the original at Bayou Bend, and a 19th-century chowder glass lamp from Andrew Spindler Antiques in Essex, Massachusetts. The Texas Tamale Company offers a healthy vegetarian spinach variation on the Tex-Mex classic. The nasturtium and dianthus salad is as colorful as it is delicious. Devin Borden, Pahl Samson and Geoff Hippenstiel. Hippenstiel���s rich impastos are on view at Devin Borden Gallery from March 8 through April 30.