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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Gail’s Top Ten CDs of 2005!
As a special New Year’s treat, here’s a preview of my Top Ten Favorite CDs of the year, to be elaborated on in my upcoming 2005 Year End Rewind! Enjoy!
1. Crash Kelly, Penny Pills (Liquor & Poker)
When I got the advance of this album last winter, I predicted that Penny Pills would be my favorite CD of the year 2006 and, no surprise here, I was right. Embracing a full-on 70s sensibility of Alice Cooper’s School’s Out and T Rex at its most glam, Penny Pills is the only drug you need.
2. Lake Trout, Not Them, You (PALM)
Baltimore’s Lake Trout bring us acid rock for the aughts and are one of the best live bands around. Continue reading Gail’s Top Ten CDs of 2005!
Featured Bio, John “The Storm” Tempesta!
“Smiling is not Metal”
Hey Kids, check out the rad new bio I just wrote for Heavy Metal Drumming Legend, John Tempesta! Scroll to the bottom of the page!
Gail In Print: Modern Drummer, February 2006!
Be sure to check out my feature interview with drummer Shannon Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars, hiding towards the back of the book in the February 2006 issue of Modern Drummer with Jon Farris of INXS on the cover! Read the full issue online now at This Link!
The Tribe Has Spoken! Survivor Guatemala Comes to an End
Outwit, Outplay, Outlast, Tolerate Being Eaten Alive By Mosquitos!
Another season of Survivor has come to an end and I’ll be sad until the new season starts in the spring, because frankly, Survivor is the shit. My favorite castaway to win the million dollars and title of Sole Survivor was openly gay Mormon good guy, Rafe Judkins. Rafe managed to strategize and sweet talk his way into the final four in an almost perfect combination of staying in integrity and voting out the people I just couldn’t stand anymore. Go Rafe!
I Heart Rafe
Sadly, Rafe was outwitted, outplayed and outlasted by sports announcer-jock-model Dani Boatwrigtht, a dark horse favorite to be sure. Dani easily won the million bucks by choosing to take Stephenie LaGrossa (from last season’s Survivor Palau) with her to the final two. Steph had become the sort of Rock Star of this go-round due to her ridiculous good looks, physical strength and underdog status from last season. The thing is, nobody wanted Stephenie to win because she’d already had a chance and blown it. So Dani won the million bucks by a landslide, and I’m okay with that, because she played a good game. I still think we’ll be seeing Rafe in possibly an upcoming season of The Amazing Race or as a talk show host on the Logo network, or something. Rafe is definitely one of my favorite Survivors, ever.
Survivors ask, “Will we be able to eat the car?”
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