Adam. Freaking. Lambert.
I <3 him so.
New book is going well. Mostly due to my infatuation with Mr. Lambert. Don't worry I still love chicks.
One of you needs to make a cd this great.... *sigh*
Ria

You say to yourself I don't know this name. Well you should. I recently came across one Jordan Reyne in the world of Second Life. I spend some time here hanging out in the live music scene because believe it or not the SL music scene has a HUGE pulse. Ms. Reyne is a New Zealand born Dark folk rock playing bad ass with a fantastic accent and incredible skills in both her vocals and her guitar playing. Most SL musicians play covers but I think in everything I have heard from this artist - that her originals by far cast a shadow over every single other track she does (that are not her own) This is an amazing artist who sings to us live from Germany almost daily in Second Life (When her elderly neighbor isn't calling the police on her for the noise or banging on the floor to tell her to shut up - this is not a sign of Jordan's talent but a sign of how out of touch her neighbor is.)
I would gladly listen to you any day of the week, Jordan. I am sorry your neighbor is tone death and/or stupid. You can find Jordan in Second Life as Adrienne Deezul
playing her awesome tunes and you skate on over to her website at http://www.jordanreyne.com/ where you can pick up 4 of her cds for free - download them - enjoy them and if you like them - buy her newest cd. I'm gonna and you should too!

Another artist that has my pulse a jumping is Mr. Sean Kagalis. Mr. Kagalis can be found in Second life as Strum Diesel and he plays any where from one to ten shows a day and as far as I can tell no one is banging on his walls to tell him to shut up which means he probably owns his house or his neighbors are fans..or deaf.. I am gonna go with fans. Because this dude seriously fucking rocks. I want you to pop on over to his website http://www.myspace.com/seankagalis and give his tunes a listen - he is fantastic and draws some of his heaviest influence from Ani Difranco. Ani fucking Difranco. Who doesn't love Ani? Never mind that, who doesn't love Sean? This little green haired freak is bound to make ya tweak when he picks up his guitar and croons for ya. I stole this next part from his Myspace so when you go there don't read it - READ IT HERE :P just go there and listen to his music
Sean began playing guitar and writing songs at 13. A year later he landed his first gig at an old rundown Daytona Beach, Florida gas station turned biker-bar dubbed Charlie's. After receiving the approval of a presumably tough audience, Sean began to realize that being a performing songwriter was his destiny. Sean performed in a number of outfits throughout high school and college. Entering his 20's in fall of 1997, he went solo and found himself in more coffeehouses than classrooms and left college to deliver pizza and perform as much as possible. Within six months he garnered a diverse following in central Florida. By the end of 1997, he moved to Buffalo, New York, where he would test his material on unfamiliar audiences. By the summer of 1998 he was included on a compilation CD sponsored by Stimulance Coffeehouse. At the opening of the disc, you hear the host announce Sean as Buffalo's finest import from Florida. Sean embarked on his first DIY east caoast tour (in tandem with fellow folkie Kim Rheul) that same summer. Sean performed his song "... and I failed social studies that year." at the 1999 International Conference on Non-Violence, which was held at the Doctor Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The song is a narration of childhood experiences growing up in a predominantly racist community in Lake County, Florida. Personal experience is the primary source for subject matter in Sean's work. When he's not lamenting his heartbreak, or the heartbreak he has created, his voice is dedicated to explicating socio-political issues that are constantly perverted or altogether ignored by mainstream media. The 21st-century found Sean writing and performing consistently. He began playing cover gigs in local venues such as Meehan's, Spondivits, and 37 Main. These frequent 3-hour shows helped refine Sean's performance technique, while providing him with an opportunity to expose his original material to larger audiences. He earned a second place nod for Male Musician in Southern Voice's Best of 2005 issue. The self-described 'folk-boy' has competed in Smith's Old Bar's 'Open Mic Madness' every year since it's inception, and has been a frequent finalist in the Eddie's Attic Monday Night Open Mic Competition. In 2007, Sean has found a renewed sense of purpose as a performer and writer. This renewed sense not only involves having the time of his life performing as much as possible, in as many places as possible, but also truly being a part of what will help mankind enter into an elevated state of awareness of what it means to be human. Now that's purpose!

Heh, yeah. This dude has some sick skills. Check him and Jordan out. I SAID DO IT. So do it. Now. Go. Leave. LEAVE.
Fuck yeah - Let's do it with 'Some peace love and harmony.'
Ria