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!
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?”
Continue reading The Tribe Has Spoken! Survivor Guatemala Comes to an End
I’ve been an underground musician for a very long time. I have had the fortunate pleasure of working with Gail Worley twice. She reviewed my first album, Bad’lania Rising for StarPolish.com and also prepared the press release for a national publicity campaign for the release of my 2nd album, Jewish Lightning. Both times I felt very special to have this master journalist working with me. After the campaign, I was reviewed all over the international underground, have an unrivaled web presence and a growing fan base. Gail is definitely one of the best rock journalists ever!!
This month’s victims in the Critic’s Corner include Gerardo Wanna-Be Eduardo Renta, NYC Soul Diva Ladybug and Modern Rockers Radial Angel.
“Even Satan has Reasons to Be Thankful”
Top Ten Things I am Thankful for Today
1. Slept in until 7:45 AM!
2. Heat on in the Chickpad
3. Having a “Good hair day”
4. Have some time to transcribe part of the 90 minute phone interview I did last night.
5. Don’t have to take the subway today.
6. Received three nice comments on Myspace.
7. Barbara is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for me and all I have to do is pay for half the groceries (read: leftovers coming home with me).
8. Survivor on tonight!
9. About to toast an English muffin for breakfast.
10. Only 10 or so “Tamiflu” SPAM posts to delete in my Guestbook today!