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www.myspace.com/stigmatador MySpace.com | Home The Web MySpace Help | SignUp Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Rank | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Games | Music | Classifieds Gabriel C. Zolman "CAN I HAVE AN AMEN? OK..HOW ABOUT A DOLLAR?" Male 29 years old ST.LOUIS,MISSOURI United States Last Login: 01/11/2006 View more pics Contacting Gabriel C. Zolman MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/stigmatador Gabriel C. Zolman's Interests General Sex, horror, blasphemy. Metal, 80's hardcore, Goth and Goth Chicks. Music FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, KILLING JOKE, THERION, BABYLON WHORES, CELTIC FROST, MOTORHEAD, MERCYFUL FATE, NEUROSIS, AT THE GATES, SAVIOUR MACHINE, GODFLESH, SISTERS OF MERCY, MINISTRY, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. Movies HEATHERS, MESSIAH OF EVIL, SUSPIRIA, GATES OF HELL, THE BEYOND, MONDO CANE, PHANTASM, NEON MANIACS, CRAWLSPACE, MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY, VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD, NUDE FOR SATAN, etc. Television MST3K, Daily Show, Undergrads, Venture Bros., Invader Zim, Tales From The Darkside, Babylon-5, Alien Nation, Monsters, old Headbanger's Ball episodes, cheesy 80's cartoons. Books ANYTHING BY; Robert Anton Wilson, John Keel, Hunter Thompson, Aleister Crowley, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce. Heroes Charles Bronson, Lemmy, Hunter Thompson, Aleister Crowley (though not in the traditional wanker sense), Voltaire. My heroes do things, good or bad, but always on their own terms. Gabriel C. Zolman's Details Status: Single Orientation: Straight Hometown: St. Louis, MO Body Type: 0' 0" Sign: Leo Occupation: Fornicator Gabriel C. Zolman's Networking Music - Marketing - Other I am a rock critic, and have done some independent publicity work, as well as various promotional and street-teaming efforts. Gabriel C. Zolman's Companies SubVerse Media , US This is my own personal production co. Gabriel C. Zolman is in your extended network Gabriel C. Zolman's Latest Blog Entry [ Subscribe to this Blog ] Bang Thy Neighbor ( view more ) No...THIS is the *real* blog... ( view more ) [ View All Blog Entries ] Gabriel C. Zolman's Blurbs About me: I am a freelance rock/metal journalist, and blogger. My website, THE AMEN CORNER (http://the-amen-corner.blogspot.com) still manages to draw complaints and protests after all this time. I am pleased. My articles and political satire have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, from SOD Magazine to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But you don't really care, do you?I also have two grim poetry books, due to be reissues (hopefully) this year, as well as an even grimmer novel on the way. Oh...and for fun? I help out my friend Roger Martinez, of the legendary 80's thrash act VENGEANCE RISING. I currently oversee his insane message board, and so forth. Check it out: http://p100.ezboard.com/bvengeancerisingswarpathboardWe're currently trying to get a new CD out, which will probably feature that cover of ST's "Send Me Your Money" you all keep hearing about. Answer that and stay fashionable. I don't think so.)+(GABRIEL)+(hellionmedia@yahoo.com Who I'd like to meet: My interview/drunken party wish list: Lemmy, Carl McCoy (FOTN), Mike Muir (ST), Dave Grohl, Jaz Coleman, Al Jourgensen, Rutger Hauer. Of course, your heroes always turn out to be utter disappointments...so maybe I'll pass. Gabriel C. Zolman's Friend Space Gabriel C. Zolman has 135 friends. Sara Mike shaun B.J. SHREDDER Melf Doctor Kandee M Fields Of The Nephilim View All of Gabriel C. Zolman's Friends Gabriel C. Zolman'sFriends Comments Displaying 16 of 16 comments ( View/Edit All Comments ) Melf Jan 4, 2006 06:08 PM Almost, my dear. You'll be the first to know (well, probably the second)...! Drowse Jan 4, 2006 08:38 AM Hey Bandito! No phone yesterday. Try me tonight. If no luck, try tomorrow. You will eventually get me. And we are going to kick it. Nice to meet you on NYE. Good times, good conversation. Always down to make a cool new friend. Talk at you when you catch me! Killjoy Jan 4, 2006 07:38 AM Thanxxx man, that fukking ruuuules !!! Harkonin Jan 3, 2006 01:54 PM thanks for the honest review, gabe. hope to see you again soon. C ~katincat~ Dec 31, 2005 09:05 AM may all your dreams come true in 2006... xo . . . Paul Wood Dec 30, 2005 08:08 PM Dude, I thought you were Jared at first from your picture...But now I get it. Whats up Gabriel? PoLyAnDrIuM Dec 30, 2005 06:54 PM Thanks for the add, and checking us out! We hope you enjoy our music. Killjoy Dec 29, 2005 11:35 AM Seasons Bleedings Brother Thanxxx for everything Bella Morte Dec 29, 2005 08:27 AM Hell yeah man! Thanks for the rockin' support. See you when we invade Texas again!! Join the Bella Morte online community! Buy Bella Morte Merchandise and CDs! Chemlab Dec 27, 2005 07:46 PM Harkonin Dec 27, 2005 01:41 AM B.J. SHREDDER Dec 25, 2005 08:58 PM what's up man? good to see ya here! i still have to hear that crotchduster interview..... Jakey Dec 24, 2005 02:54 PM well i am dog:) so therefor you must like me Jakey Dec 24, 2005 02:47 PM hello there! do you like dogs?? jakey Mike Dec 4, 2005 06:18 PM holy cow your picture is tight Sara Nov 26, 2005 10:46 PM Hello brother dearest! Add Comment About | FAQ | Terms | Privacy | Safety Tips | Contact Myspace | Promote! | Advertise ©2003-2006 MySpace.com All Rights Reserved.
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Two Men with Fore Skin Explicit, Sexual, Controversial, Amusing - from Surrey, B.C., Canada Syndication www. flick r .com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from transpondency2 . Make your own badge here . Call our Voicemail 206-202-5191 EMAIL US VOTE FOR US SUBURBAN TRANSPONDENCY Check me out! Friendly Podcasts: The Apocalypse Dowell Show Mick Aloha Adaventures Brace For Impact The Moon Masters Call US GIZMO Support The Show Websites Two Men With Fore Skin Enter your email address: A service provided by SmartGroups Rate our podcast Excellent! Very Good Good Fair Poor Visitors Podcasts We Listen To Daily Source Code The Dawn and Drew Show Distorted View Show Seduction & Strip Clubs Dave's Lounge We Sell A Tasty Life 5 Minutes with Witchita The Starkcast Dave Cusick's Post Modern Rock Show The PK and J Show Accident Hash Skepticality inoveryourhead CBC Radio 3 Out of the Past: investigating film noir what's in your iPod? email us your favorite podcasts twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com Archives Categories Prepubescent general podcasts Jul 2005 Aug 2005 Sep 2005 Oct 2005 Nov 2005 Dec 2005 Jan 2006 January 2006 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Legal Stuff This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License . -- Wed, 11 January 2006 Surrey Perspective 04 special OUIJA edition first 20 mins: worth listening to second 20 mins: Ouija setup 10 mins: ouija attempt 1 20 mins: ouija attempt 2 last 15 mins: overview and sign off email: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com voicemail: 206-202-5191 thanks for participating in our occult experiment Direct download: -Podcast_2menw4skin_SP_04.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:21 AM Comments[0] Thu, 5 January 2006 Podmovie - The Hook Up extented coverage of The Hook Up continuation from episode 23 Featuring Professor Bestestes and 'Tea' at Blue Ridge Bar & Grill in Abbotsford Direct download: Vidcast_02_-_Blue_Ridge.mp4 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:28 AM Comments[0] Sat, 31 December 2005 Episode 23 - Magic Xmas Cookie! Post-Xmas Festivus Special back from holiday hiatus! "Foreskin in a Jar" by Lyrical Pranksters Festivus Dinner Party: Professor, Doctor L, Kitty, and Fleetwood Mac. Xmas Rap Up, Au Jus, Fleetwood Mac Flashback, 21 Seconds, Smance, Skippy, Fan email shout out. "C is for Cookie and Cannibalism" by Scott Walmsley Blue Ridge Grill in Abbotsford: Professor Bestestes with special guest "Tea" (from episode 11): The Hook Up follow along as Tea tries to hook up with a guy for holiday "get over" sex. download the upcoming video for a more in depth hook up converage email us: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com call us: 206-202-5191 vote for us: Podcast Alley Thank You and Good Night Direct download: Podcast_2menw4skin_23.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:51 PM Comments[2] Mon, 26 December 2005 Podmovie - Surrey Perspective Xmas Warning: This is our first attempt to create a video podcast version of our regular show. Its low quality and boring. The compression sucks. We hope you like it. Merry F#!&king Christmas! Direct download: Podmovie_01_SP.mp4 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:06 PM Comments[0] Sat, 10 December 2005 Episode 22 - Revenge of the SNiR! Stripper Night in Review seeks vengeance Ron Jeremy at Delaney's: the gang assembles outside the stripper bar where we are about to see the legendary Ron Jeremy. Dr Lickalottapus hears the rap challenge of the Professor Ron does some stand-up S tripper N ight i n R eview: honoring the Ron, movin' on up, The Rap Challenge, taking about sex drives, babies, and the new menstruation-$%&#!!.... The Doctor whips out his lightsaber and duels with the Professor! The Fleetwood Mack Flashback Everyone has AIDS SNiR part 2: the next night...Dr L and Prof B attempted to get an interview with Ron Jeremy, but failed. At least there was a hockey game on. Oh the sweet and the sour of shaking the hand of a porn celebrity. email: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com voicemail: 206-202-5191 check us out at myspace.com Transpondency Media & Greyish Blue vote for us at Podcast Alley Direct download: Podcast_2menw4skin_22.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:57 PM Comments[0] Sat, 3 December 2005 Episode 21 - Lick-a-Little! Xmas in Vancouver In The Car: Professor and the good Doctor discuss radio listener bashing, south asians against violence, its the most gothiest time of the year, shut the cowboy up Under the Skytrain: Kitty Korrosive, Doc L and Prof B not quite a midnight society...dorment volcano to the oldies, Professor gets political on marijuana/hemp and the collapse of the Canadian gov't, inspirational speech George Bush sings Sunday Bloody Sunday by RX Over the Gimzo: a capella Montel Jordan also we remember a great one-hit-wonder legend, Jimmy Ray Vote for the Show at Podcast Alley Feedback for the Show: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com Call the Show: 206-202-5191 Direct download: podcast_2menw4skin_21.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:27 AM Comments[2] Thu, 24 November 2005 Episode 20 - Roboshambo! Fog by Carl Sandburg Conversation at Jabez Coffee Bar: Prof. Bestestes, Dr. Lickalottapus, Kitty Korrosive, DJ Mouse, and Why Not Vancouver's DJ Situation Midnight Society Prof B, Kitty K, The Fleetwood Mac, iTodd use the herbal muse in the thick of the fog: Mr Noirisms, Supernatural TV show filmed here, Xbox 360, pissing in the bushes, roshamboing, rap off, etc podsafe music: Danger Doom "Mince Meat" email: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com voicemail: 260-202-5191 Direct download: Podcast_2menw4skin_20.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:15 PM Comments[0] Thu, 24 November 2005 Podmovie - Promo Two Men with Fore Skin video promo featuring the music of Annikan Slayd from Montreal annakinslayd.com Direct download: 2menw4skin-Promo.mov Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:32 PM Comments[0] Thu, 17 November 2005 Episode 19 - Finger Forking Fresh! Controversy between Mick Aloha and Professor Bestestes Musical Rant: Dr. Lickalottapus wears his sister's jogging pants An Evening in Steveston: Kitty Korrosive, Dr. L, and Prof. B have a crazy conversation...Is there any polite way of saying "you got the herpes, bitch?" Prank Call: STDs burn My Left Nut: a love song under the influence The Moon Masters: Mick Aloha's goddamn promo Midnight Society Professor Bestestes loses his mind, more music/rapping ensues, mindfucking Johnny Depp, etc... call the "Foreskin Phone" 206-202-5191 email us: twomenwithforeskin@hotmail.com myspace: Transpondency Direct download: Podcast_2menw4skin_19.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:57 PM Comments[0] Sat, 12 November 2005 Podmovie - Smackdown, Bitches! This movie was captured using an Archos and dubbed over with stupid random audio clips. We created characters that resemble your favorite Two Men with Fore Skin personalities. On this movie we have Professor Bestestes, Dr. Lickalottapus, and The Fleetwood Mac pitted against each other in a ladder match. I hope you enjoy this experiment. Direct download: Smackdown_2Menw4Skin.mov Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:29 PM Comments[3] powered by
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Confessions of a Restaurant Whore: My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) BlogThis! CONFESSIONS OF A RESTAURANT WHORE A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground Confessions of a Restaurant Whore A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground -- Show a whore some lovin'. Email Me Where can I eat, bitch? Restaurant Whore's Dining Guide What I Said Before Zu(ni) Story (Zuni Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Good Night Moon (Luna Park and The Last Supper Club -- San Francisco, CA) Highway to Heaven (A16 -- San Francisco, CA) The Way We Were I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream (Mitchell's Ice Cream -- San Francisco, CA) Amber-ific (Amber India -- Mountain View, CA) Restaurant Behavior 101 Dim YUM (Ton Kiang -- San Francisco, CA) Just for ME (Mabel's Just For You Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Slow and Steady (Slow Club -- San Francisco, CA) Food Bloggers I Like Becks and Posh Burrito Eater Chocolate and Zucchini Epicurean Debauchery Food Blog S'cool Food Musings Gastronomie KQED Food Blog San Francisco Gourmet Spicetart Sweetnicks The Food Whore You Gonna Eat That? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License . -- Tuesday, December 07, 2004 My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) Ribollita. The food of the Gods. OK, not really. It's actually peasant food. But it is DAMN good. Ribollita is Tuscan bread soup filled with cannelini beans, cavelo nero (a kale-like green), bread and yummy yum yums (that's a technical term). Then, it's stuck in a fridge to get all congeal-y and then it's FRIED. Fried soup. It's like a little blanket for your insides. It rocks. The first place Jon and I ever had ribollita was at Delfina . Delfina opened about 3 months after we, ourselves, moved to San Francisco. We made the pilgrimage from our shithole apartment about a week after they opened. As it was only 3 and a half blocks away, it wasn't a huge commitment. Or so we thought. From the moment we stepped in, we were in love. At the time, it was about a third the size it is now (if that). They described ribollita for us, and we figured eh, what the hell, how bad can it be? Well, I sure as hell may be a restaurant whore, but at that moment, I was ready to kiss my whorin' days goodbye and settle down. I love Delfina so much that it gets me all choked up just thinking about it. This is going to be a gushy post, so if that's going to wig you out, either suck it up or stop reading. Because I loooooooove them. It's taken me a long time to get to this post because I knew it would be a biggie. So settle in and get ready...here goes: The food. Ribollita yes. Simple-as-pie-but-delicious-as-hell spaghetti with plum tomatoes. For that matter, any pasta at all. The soups. Oh, dear God, the incredible soups (chickpea, Jerusalem artichoke, pappa al pomodoro, etc.). They just blow your mind. Grilled calamari and white bean salad where the beans are as good as those we had at French Laundry. The insalata del campo with everything good in the world in it. The panna cotta, the profiteroles, the crostatas....Oh, fuck it. It's all amazing. It's everything you hope, wish and dream for in your deepest fantasies. And special occasions bring special food, like the Bucatini with lobster and rice pudding with truffles that we eat each New Year's Eve. Craig and Annie Stoll. The owners. These people are the best people you could know. I have never, ever seen people so devoted to their business, their staff, their customers. They are so loyal. They will bend over backwards for their regulars. They take such good care of us, it makes me feel guilty. Here's the thing about Craig and Annie. They hire staff as devoted to their customers as they, themselves are. The staff are so amazing at their jobs, and so kind and wonderful (gush, gush, gush). I love them. I mean that. I LOVE THEM. And they treat us like friends instead of paychecks when we come in. LOVE THEM. We have been to Delfina during our highest ups and our lowest downs. Some examples: Losing a job, getting a new one, grieving a death, entertaining guests, celebrating birthdays, buying a home, moving, losing a friend, reconnecting with each other after hectic weeks apart, the aforementioned New Year's celebrations. And then there are the big ones. Such as September 11, 2001 when our families were on the east coast and we were lost. We wandered into Delfina and they told us they didn't know what to do but stay open and we told them that we didn't know what to do but turn off the TV and start walking in their direction. And the time when we packed up that same shithole apartment, to move to our beautiful new home. It was a happy thing that we were moving, but six years of our lives had been spent in that apartment during which time we had gone from dating to married, purchased a cat (hooray for Charlie!), gained and lost friends. It was a huge chunk of our lives. So when we shut the door for the last time, we felt strangely sad. And we walked straight to Delfina. After all, we'd now be 7 blocks away instead of 3 and a half. And they took care of us, as always. It's nights like those that made us come up with the code word "home" when referring to Delfina. As in "Where would you like to go for your birthday?" "Home." It is where we go when we want and/or need to share something important in our lives. Delfina is the restaurant we'd choose if we had to eat at only one place for the rest of our lives. So it is only fitting that when we were in Italy last September, we made a pilgrimage to Da Delfina in Tuscany, where Craig had studied. We arrived in Florence with Jon's super wonderful but disorganized family (5 of us total) and wandered the streets with a shitload of luggage trying to find our hotel. Yes, Florence has cabs. But why take one when you can avoid making a decision and blindly stumble around like jackasses? Anyway, we found our hotel, threw our stuff in the door and made our way back out to the train station (We did this alone, we would be meeting Jon's family in Siena in the evening. Delfina is so personal to us that we felt we needed to go alone). We took a train to the town of Signa (one stop away, but there are only a few trains a day that go there). Once in Signa, we thought we'd take a cab to Artimino. Nice try. No cabs at the station. So we go into a ghetto hotel and ask them to call us one. We feel bad, so Jon goes to the bar and orders a shot of tequila for their troubles. Nice. So our "cab" arrives. It's a minivan with an older dude inside. As we wind through the hills, he describes everything we're seeing. In Italian. But it's so beautiful, and he's so good natured, that we don't care. And then we get there. There she is in all her glory. Da Delfina. And when I say that, I mean the restaurant and Delfina herself, sitting in the foyer. Delfina is in her 90's and she is beautiful. Carlo, the owner, looks at the young Americans like "What the hell are you here for?" But he seats us anyway. At a table overlooking the Tuscan countryside. We spent the whole meal with tears streaming down our faces. We felt like we had returned to the mothership. We order everything. I order the Tuscan bread soup (ribollita, before it becomes ribollita, if you follow...Carlo was very concerned that I knew this). And in everything we ate, we saw our own Delfina's roots. Jon's guinea hen was a clear ancestor of Craig's chicken, the chicken liver crostini was almost identical, etc. We each had an appetizer, a primi, a secondi. Plus wine. A lot of wine. By the time we got to secondi, I thought I was going to hurl. It was so amazing but it was also a shitload of food. When I let the last third of my salt cod go, Carlo asked me about four thousand times if it was OK. Damn, people, I just can't eat that much food! Nevertheless, they talked us into ordering dessert. Very Tuscan, very good, but again, on the verge of hurling. In between, we received vin santo and some Sangiovese grapes grown by the older Americans at the table behind us. Well it turns out the guy growing the grapes was a trustee at the college Jon and I went to. And he and his wife ended up inviting us to their Tuscan villa. But alas, we needed to meet Jon's family and only had 2 short days left in Italy. Damn. But how fucking cool is that? By the time we left, Carlo was hugging us and we were giving him some of the fake tattoos from the SF Delfina. And when our nice man in the minivan came to take us back to the train station, we were grateful for the meal of a lifetime (at only $110 euro, no less). When there are places in the world like Delfina and Da Delfina, why settle for anything less, ever? xoxo Joy "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." --La Rochefoucauld posted by Joy @ 7:44 AM 2 Comments: Gayle And Don said... This is the most passionate review I have ever read in my life. It almost brought me to tears. Thank god I stumbled across your blog. My girlfriend and I are heading for San Fran for a quickie getaway and I was looking for a place to take her. We are staying at the Westin by chance and I found your review of Michael Mina's very amusing. I love people who are not afraid to speak the truth. And, as some of your readers have shown, some people just can't handle the truth. Thanks again for your candid reviews, and I hope we have a chance to get to Delfina this weekend. Who knows, maybe we will see you there. Don 7/29/2005 7:11 PM art said... Loved your story about Da Delfina. Delfina SF was also the favorite restaurant of my wife and I when we lived there. So much that we pretty much organized our whole Florence trip around Da Delfina (I'm sure we had the same van driver). I am a chef in Chicago and I think back to the two years that I spent in San Francisco having the opportunity to work at Delfina. I had an interview with Craig Stoll and ended up working somewhere else. I kick myself all the time! I loved the part of your story where you said Carlo looked at you like "what the hell are you doing here?" We made the mistake of showing up a little bit early and I thought he was going to whale on my ass! So we killed time by having a drink in the little cantina where three chain smoking locals coughed and watched soap operas full blast on the t.v. Ah well, your story brought back great memories and I think your website is great too. 7/30/2005 8:24 PM Post a Comment