The mid-interview pick-up strategy

My favorite so-guilty-I-should-be-convicted-already band Cobra Starship landed the cover of this month's Alternative Press, the onetime punk zine gone glossy. (Track it down at a newsstand or enjoy the DIY scans at ONTD.)

There was one mysteriously homo-queasy line by the writer in the piece, though, that left me wondering: "After being accosted in the crowded eatery by an annoyingly effeminate fellow claiming to be a vocal coach to Madonna and Roger Waters..."

Only one way to get to the bottom of that weirdness -- ask Gabe if he really got hit on by some dude while trying to give an uncharacteristically serious interview:

Yes I did! He was eavesdropping and then asked if I was a singer and kept telling me how much he could help me. I told him I smoke and drink and my voice only has about 2 years left in it and I couldn't give a fuck. But he kept talking about himself and all his maestros and famous clients even though we had a tape recorder on the table and were obviously in the middle of an interview. It was sweet though.

That update came fresh from the studio where Cobra is recording vocals in Spanish for a re-release of ¡Viva La Cobra! Though guilty pleasure translated literally is placer culpable, Gabe is apparently now determined to improve on the original: he used vicio -- vice -- because it's hotter. Clearly Gabe has traded in his Justin Timberlake obsession for a new career based on that of Christina Aguilera.

The new, more expensive video for "Guilty Pleasure," by the way, is debuting Monday on MTV -- Rolling Stone has a sneak peek here -- but if you want to check out the old, cheap, hysterical version, it's still on YouTube.

Previously > Toying with sexuality > The O.G.P.

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[jessica b]

*throwing the requisite fangs up*