Archive for January, 2010

Gail’s Top Ten Media Related Things of 2009!

January 10th, 2010

“I Got Yer Top Ten Right Here” Everybody with a tongue in their mouth keeps asking me when I am going to post my list of Top Ten Favorite CDs of 2009. I am telling you now that this will not be happening; mostly because I only liked 3 or 4 new CDs released in [...]

Happy 66th Birthday, Jimmy Page!

January 9th, 2010

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page turns 66 years old today. If you didn’t get to see Jimmy in the fantastic documentary film It Might Get Loud when in was playing in theaters, you can now rent it from the Netflix or buy it on Amazon Dot Com. Happy Birthday, Jimmy!

Noel Fielding Helps To Increase My Popularity!

January 7th, 2010

That’s Hot! A couple of days ago I started following the Twitter feed of comedian/actor/mega hot thing Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh, and shortly after that I got a bunch more followers to my own Twitter Feed. Twitter!

Pink Thing of the Day: Pink Snow!

January 6th, 2010

Image Source Some lady named Stevie Famulari who lives in Fargo, ND sprayed the snow banks in her front yard with pink paint. How rad! You can read all about it at this link, but it appears you have to register for the site first.

Syd Barrett: Wish You Were Here

January 6th, 2010

On This Date in 1975: Pink Floyd entered London’s Abbey Road Studios to begin recording its seventh studio album, Wish You Were Here. Like much of Pink Floyd’s material, the album’s two-part song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” is a tribute to the band’s former singer and guitarist Syd Barrett, whose drug-induced breakdown had forced [...]

Bacon Thing of The Day: Chocolate Covered Bacon Maple Donut Bar

January 5th, 2010

Image Source Personally, I think that a vanilla glaze would be better on this than the chocolate. At any rate, I would eat it.

Happy Birthday, Paramahansa Yogananda!

January 5th, 2010

Usually, when The ‘Gig gives a shout out to a birthday boy or girl, we try to lump all birthdays happening on the same day together in one post, to save space or whatever. But for reasons which should be obvious, we could not really lump Paramahansa Yogananda – author of Autobiography of Yogi, founder [...]

Happy Birthday, Marilyn Manson!

January 5th, 2010

Old School Manson Circa 1996 The self-proclaimed God of Fuck, Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner) was born on this day in 1969. Happy Birthday Manson and thank you for being my very first in-person interview ever way back in 1995. Today is also the  birthday of my niece Shelby. Happy Birthday, Shel!

Happy Birthday, John Paul Jones!

January 3rd, 2010

Image Source Led Zeppelin bassist / keyboardist / arranger John Paul Jones (Born John Baldwin) celebrates his sixty-fourth birthday today! Read my interview with John from 2002 at this link.

Pink Thing of The Day: Pink House

January 2nd, 2010

Image Source I would like to live in this pink house.

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