Almo Top 30 Albums for 2004

Here they are ---
#1 TNT - My Religion - Modern hard melodic rock at it's finest
#2 Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending - Trippy Beatlesesque melodies
#3 Tesla - Into The Now - One of my favorite 80's hard rock bands is back!
#4 Pink Cream 69 - Thunderdome - Another hard rocker that is very well done
#5 Velvet Revolver - Contraband - Cock rock is back baby!
#6 Heart - Jupiter's Darling - Wow! A return to the early Heart sound.
#7 Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal - Cheesy, fun, heavy metal
#8 Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden - The best American heavy metal band today
#9 Collective Soul - Youth - Always classy, chock full of riffs
#10 Edguy - Hellfire Club - European power metal that never fails to entertain
#11 Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
#12 Megadeth - The System Has Failed
#13 Nightwish - Once
#14 Tak Matsumoto Group - TMG 1
#15 Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
#16 Jelly Jam - 2
#17 Adriangale - Crunch
#18 Scorpions - Unbreakable
#19 Dokken - Hell To Pay
#20 Dio - Master Of The Moon
#21 Mastodon - Leviathan
#22 Butch Walker - Letters
#23 Rick Springfield - Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
#24 Soul Sirkus - World Play
#25 Jeff Scott Soto - Lost In Translation
#26 Chris Caffery - Faces
#27 Fates Warning - FWX
#28 Seventh Key - The Raging Fire
#29 House of Shakira - First Class
#30 TCR - The Chrome Recordsings

Upcoming Races in 2005

Next up - Chill out 10 miler and 5k in Seaside NJ. Feb 20th @ 10:15 - http://www.jerseyrunner.com/races/racedetail2.asp?ID=1315 for details

E Murray Todd Half-Marathon on Feb 27th @ Brookdale Community College in Lincroft NJ - http://www.lin-mark.com/race/details.asp?race_id=309 for details

St. Paddy's 10 Mile run on March 13 @ 11:00 AM. It's held at Tighe Park in Freehold NJ. - http://www.farcnj.com/racecalendar.htm for details.


Hope to see you there!

2005 Hamilton Hangover

The results are in - http://www.compuscore.com/cs2005/janfeb/hamhng01.htm looks like my official time was 46:30 but I clocked myself at 46:11. This was my fourth hangover and my second fastest time. I was looking good for a 45 minute race after 3 miles but really phoned it in the last two miles. The issue as I see it, is fitness. While I'm fit enough to run 5 miles I don't have the lung capacity to run faster. So I have to really do a better job of training this year. We'll see ....

XM radio

Got an XM radio - the MyFi - for Xmas and I gotta admit, I'm getting addicted to listening to it. My favorite channel is #41 - the boneyard. This is basically a metal, 80's hair band format but they do manage to play new hard rock music that you never hear on commercial radio. The schedule for the boneyard can be found at - http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=41 while the general XM programming schedule is found at www.xmradio.com .