Monday, April 23, 2007

From The Latest Channel Ten Press Release

3:56PM Jess McGuire | We reproduce an email from reader Born Dancin’… On Susannah – “Fraud Analyst from QLD who controls her angler by bitching to her mates.” She has an out of control angler? How exactly do you keep your pet fisherman in line by bitching? Has anyone ever seen her wandering around the office with a disgruntled angler trailing along behind? Arf! More »

Big Brother’s Bodie, Two Ladies & Some Pants

1:00PM Jess McGuire | A nice moment between friends captured and published on Big Brother contestant Bodie’s MySpace page. “This isnt as dodgy as it looks, but yeah not my finest hour!” says Bodie in the caption underneath the snapshot. Oh come on – looks like wholesome fun to us! In other news revealed by the always informative BBBA, Bodie used to date Reigan Derry from last year’s Australian Idol. Remember her? Do you? We can vaguely recall some sort of change of hairstyle at the beginning of the series that may have something to do with her. In any case, it appears at some point Bodie offered Reigan the ultimate gift of love – a rubbish looking website. “A web page for Reigan love Bodie.” Awwwww… What a breathless online declaration from the youthful romantic! We applaud him. More »

Your Monday Morning MP3

11:12AM Jess McGuire | There’s no reason why we can’t use the excuse of “It’s the beginning of the working week, for fucks! I need some soothing music!” to download some free tunes in a 100% law abiding manner, now is there? So here’s Defamer Australia’s very first Monday Morning MP3 - Stephen Cummings – “I Want You To Want Me” If you don’t know who Stephen Cummings is, then now is the time to knuckle down and learn a thing or two, young man/lady. - He is very bloody good! - He used to be the frontman for The Sports! - But then he went solo! - He likes to write words on paper a bit too! - He has penned songs for and performed as part of Four Hours Sleep, an almost disturbingly lovely Melbourne music super group! The song “Stick To My Fingers” from their More Of Her album is heartbreakingly perfect, and their 2006 album Love Specifics was probably the most perfect “grown up” pop album of last year! - Bill McDonald, Cummings’ friend and fellow mastermind of the Four Hours Sleep project, once referred to Cummings as follows in a recent MySpazz blog entry – “We don’t like to talk of Stephen, he’s so butch, so square – he’s our Ian Stewart – according to the storyline, Ian Stewart was The Rolling Stones pianist, but he was too ugly to be included in the group. Need I say more? Stephen has trouble expressing his emotions. Tactically, the less said about him the better. I’ve forgotten what I was going to say.” - This is a good and pleasing quote because Bill obviously has a dry sense of humour and a clever way with words, and they are chums who allow each other to take the mickey! MOVING AND AMUSING! - The Age apparently described him once as “one of the great voices of Australian rock”! - He’s won ARIAs! Yes! One of those enjoyably pointy things that mean something and Savage Garden have 341 of them! Go forth and learn more about one of Australian music’s quiet-but-brilliant achievers at once. You can (legally) download a few more of Stephen’s tunes from this site. Go on. They’ve made our Monday morning, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t get your aural jollies as well. More »

Defamer Australia Wants YOU!

9:11AM Jess McGuire | That’s right, dear viewers. We’ve got a few blog-segment ideas we’re planning on launching over the next couple of weeks and we’re going to need your contributions in order to develop into the swarthy, likeable, deeply fascinating site we know we could be, if only you opened your hearts and minds to us. Here are just three things you’re welcome – nay, encouraged! – to participate in. Celebrity Check-OutOur American siblings Defamer and Gawker have, respectively, their Hollywood PrivacyWatch and Gawker Stalker features. Defamer Australia would also dearly love to know just who the hell you’ve caught sauntering about town. Spotted Russell Crowe pushing his little chubber Charlie around the streets of Woolloomooloo? Did Blake from Home & Away kick you out of Pontoon at closing time? Has that chick from Neighbours – you know, what’s her name… the one who sexed up Connor – poured you a beer at yer local? Let us know. There is of course another, far more interesting way of approaching a segment called “Celebrity Check-Out” – and the idea actually came from someone famous! Here’s the direct quote from our friendly entertainment industry inhabiting chum’s helpfully suggestive email… Um, I think ‘celebrity check-out’ might keep us all on our toes, as we test our photographic memories to recite every item in (insert name)’s grocery/pharmacy/sexmart purchase. Brilliant. If you happen to stumble across someone remotely famous purchasing items, please do your damnedest to memorise their shopping list and let us know. Once we served The Freak from Prisoner: Cell Block H whilst working as a check out chick at Franklins. She bought loads of health food and a packet of Benson & Hedges Ultra Mild, and wrote her shopping list on the back of a photocopy of a glowing review of her latest play. FACT. Email tips@defamer.com.au and put Celebrity Check-Out as the subject title and you’ll soon see the fruits of your disconcerting lingering beside the well-known on the internerd. YouTube Clip ‘O’ The DayThis one’s fairly self explanatory, isn’t it? Find something quite brilliant on YouTube (or any other clip site for that matter, we only say ‘YouTube’ cos it sounds punchy)? Then we insist you give us the heads up. Even if you think we would have already stumbled upon it, you must send us a link anyway. We have our finger on the pulse of pop culture and web obsessions far less than you’d think BUT DON’T TELL OUR EMPLOYER. Email tips@defamer.com.au and put Clip Of The Day as your subject title. Voila! Wednesday Gig GuideWe’d like to give you heads up about various gigs, shows and other such malarky – but unfortunately, we’re unable to spend one day per week in each of this fine country’s states and territories investigating the local “scene”. Which means if there’s a killer night out on the verge of happening in your town, let us know so we can totally pimp it out and pretend we know exactly what’s going on at any point in time across this wide brown land. Make sense? Excellent. We’ll collect the goings on you report and on a Wednesdays we’ll publish a state by state, territory by territory run down of what we think sounds the most like social top choice beef for the coming week. ANYTHING ELSE?While we’re finding our feet during these incredibly exciting and formative early days, any other suggestions you have are hungrily craved by Defamer Australia. Don’t hesitate to send us an email if you think of anything we should take a look at and/or start up on the site. And just in case you still haven’t picked up on Defamer Australia’s contact email address? Alright, one more time – tips@defamer.com.au. More »