Can I nominate my girlfriend? There’s a few problems with following all the rules, however.

1) We no longer have recording equipment as we’re broke as ****, so re-recording any song I may submit so she could say her username (neaptides), would be impossible. However, some of these songs are available on her myspace page(s) which I’m sure she would be willing to edit as proof.

2) She doesn’t have internet right now, so the deadlines may be a problem. As stated above, we’re broke as ****. She’s moved in with her mom while grabbing onto the only job she can for the moment (Blockbuster… gg economy). Hopefully in two or three weeks she’ll be living with me again because she’ll be 21 and can actually get a real job.

3) Future rounds would involve singing into a $10 headset mic and would probably sound like utter **** because she’s a belter and would probably blow out the mic.

If there’s a second competition of this sort, I’m sure she would love to be a part of it. Right now I bumume we would disqualified for many different reasons.

Just to get an idea of her style though, here is a link to her old band’s music. If they wouldn’t have all been from Alaska, I’m sure they’d be famous and on tour by now instead of broken up because of band members going to college.

http://www.rannmann.com/the_riot/

Also found here: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Riot . The first song in the playlist (No Love) is from the Czech band with the same name. Ignore it.

And of course, her solo work:

http://www.rannmann.com/the_riot/laila.php

Ignore the terrible web-design… it was an old template I made in high school and I never got around to making The Riot a real website.