Thursday, February 14, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
4:16PM Jess McGuire | Our Valentines Day (so far) by Defamer Australia.
- Got three hours sleep.
- Arrived half-awake at yoga class run by friend.
- Twenty minutes into yoga, pulled a muscle in shoulder or something in that area, what do we know, we’re not a doctor, IN ANY CASE IT IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL AND WE CANNOT TURN TO OUR LEFT ANYMORE.
- Romantic meeting with lawyer who resembled Penny Marshall.
- Puppy got the runs in the backyard.
Whatever. None of that matters anymore, not now we’ve been sent a link to the following YouTube video by reader Craig, who says “yeah i’ve been holding this one back for a while….”
WHY DID YOU HOLD BACK, CRAIG?! Did you want to wait until Valentines Day, so you could make our day? If so, well played.
We can’t decide if we prefer watching the clip with the sound on so we can hear the Finnish dance instructor say “disco feelink!” and “disco daanzzz!”, or with the sound off and ‘Jive Talkin’ blaring in the background thanks to iTunes. Either way, it’s utterly hypnotic. More » 
Precocious Abigail Breslin Surprising Fan Of ‘Metal Machine Music’
12:00PM Mark | Enjoy Blue Reed, Abigail Breslin’s cat, while you can. We have a feeling he’s going to go mysteriously missing very soon, the only clue to his whereabouts a note in what seems to be Dakota Fanning’s handwriting reading, “Stop!” · Rainn Wilson’s ass to steal the show at the Spirit Awards. ·Scarlett Johansson does Tom Waits. · It was all but inevitable: Ice Road Truckers is going to be adapted into a feature, probably to star The Rock as the slip-sliding-big-rig-drivingest badass the Canadian tundra has ever seen. More »
‘Free Radio’ Sorely In Need Of Jack Bauer-Style Fatal Neck-Snappings To Liven Things Up
11:19AM Seth | To be honest, we don’t exactly “get” VH1’s latest “comedy” Free Radio–it comes off like some ill-conceived, pitchroom fever dream in which network execs were somehow slipped peyote pills in their Diet Cokes before being sold on a cross between Yo on E! and The Office, as hosted by a young Gilbert Gottfried. Still, the show managed to score some impressive talent for the debut episode: More »
Let’s All Take A Moment To Enjoy One Of The Last Great Trainwreck Performances Of The New ‘Idol’ Season
11:05AM Mark | Now that we’ve entered the Hollywood phase of American Idol’s tireless search for the Next Big Thing Who Will Be Dropped By A Record Label Within A Year, the tin-eared Small Town Gays and tone-deaf, razor-taloned hippies have all been culled from the competition, leaving us with precious few opportunities to enjoy the kind of ear-diddling disasters that are at the heart Idol’s early-season bloodsport. More »
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Lesbe Friends And Have A Gay Time, We Can Do Our Homo-work Together
10:45AM Clem Bastow | Turns out Winegums’ mad bad husband Blake Fielder-Civil may not have to worry about Amy’s pal Blake Wood (aka Good Blake, aka Blake II).
It seems that her new squire could be little more than a fun-loving handbag for Winegums; yes, word on the street has it that Amy is just spending some quality time with her new gay. Well, sort of.
I’m told Blake and Kelly were seen acting like rather more than pals on a night out in London nightclub Punk last year.
And on Facebook he describes himself as being into men and women.
A pal said: “She’s said it’s fine so share a hotel room because he is gay.
“But he doesn’t seem gay to me — I think he’s bisexual. Amy’s husband wouldn’t be happy if he saw how close they are.”
This new Blake character sounds like a much better influence than her jailed hubby Fielder-Civil.
He is a drug-free, teetotal veggie who likes reading the works of French poet Charles Baudelaire.
Baudelaire? Definitely a gay. WE KID, WE KID, literary-inclined Defamer Australia readers!
However, we do like that the UK press are taking every opportunity they can get to remind us all, and Ammy for that matter, a) what a good bloke Blake Wood is and, ergo, b) what a no hoper Blake Fielder-Civil is.
It’s like Pete Doherty versus Jamie Hince all over again! More » 
Bang, Bang, You’re F–ked: Victorian ‘Underbelly’ Ban No Match For Internets
9:54AM Clem Bastow | In the biggest “well duh” news since Shane Warne admitted he had a problem keeping it in his dacks, Justice Betty King’s Victorian ban of Underbelly has been “ignored” by those meddling web pirates, who are busy cruisin ur P2P networks, downloadin ur superior local drama.
The gangland series premiered last night everywhere but Victoria and our helpful interstate pals shameless copyright infringement fans wasted no time in uploading the goods.
By midnight Victorians were rushing to file sharing sites such as mininova and torrents2hell to download the first episode.
This morning over 600 people were already downloading the show from one site, but some users reported slow speeds due to the rush of people trying to obtain the file at the same time.
Some Victorian bars defied the ban in other ways by screening Underbelly via a satellite feed beamed from another state, risking being found in contempt of court.
It goes without saying, naturally, that we will be staying well clear of these “file-sharing sites” the youth of today frequent.
Anyway, we’re still trying to get used to having electricity and running hot water in our houses – when we were young, we had to lick road clean with tongue and work down t’ pit.
That were luxury! More » 
We Thought Global Warming Was Bad For Polar Bears And Other Living Things…
9:45AM Clem Bastow | …But it appears we, not to mention Al Gore and Leonardo Di Caprio, were very much mistaken.
Bugger those polar bears on their shrinking ice-caps. Stuff the idea that Venice might be submerged within years. According to our pals at News Ltd, the most pressing issue when it comes to global warming will be the untimely extinction of… the necktie.
Won’t somebody think of the Roger David stores? God, it’s almost too much to take in.
We’re feeling a little fragile right now. We just didn’t see it coming. Hold us. More » 
9:44AM Seth | Traversing the globe to bring you the latest Indy 4 photo leaks, we now head to Italian magazine L’espresso, for what we believe is the first known image of latter-day Jones in the presence of his single phobia, the dreaded snake. While our Italian is virtually nonexistent, a quick consultation with Google Translate tells us the headline “Poker d’assi per Indiana,” in fact means, “Poker of axles for Indiana,” suggesting that while he may be a little grayer, and run a little bit slower, everyone’s favorite archaeological adventurer is still doing just fine in the Nazi-cargo-truck-dominating arena. [L'espresso via Slash Film] More »
Tracing The Long And Sordid History Of ‘Brangelina To Wed’ Stories
9:26AM Defamer Hollywood | How many times will it take for the tabloids to breathlessly declare wedding plans for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt before they realize there’s simply no there there? Officially marking the umpteenth time a “source” has claimed the power couple are leaving the Goldie/Kurt School of Long-Term Relationship Success, the National Enquirer is now stating that “Brad proposed again after they discovered they were having twins” and that Angelina “has decided to follow her heart.” But before we start envisioning Angelina’s maternity wedding dress or how the pair might exchange rings under an African canopy made of recycled diapers and clean needles, let’s take a walk down memory lane to see how the tabloids have reported on Brangelina wedding claims over the years: More »
Confidential’s Breathless ‘Sytycd’ Coverage Hampered By Laughable Knowledge Of Melbourne Drag History
9:10AM Clem Bastow | News Ltd’s Confidential, in this instance its Melbourne-based Herald Sun incarnation, love to think of themselves as the all-seeing, all-knowing orifice oracle of entertainment gossip, and get particularly excited about themselves when they think they’ve got the scoop.
So it was that they breathlessly started going on about So You Think You Can Dance Australia contestant Rhys and his apparent double life as a drag performer:
Melbourne’s Rhys Bobridge who made the cut on So You Can Think You Can Dance, has been slogging it out as a real-life Priscilla.
Bobridge, whose drag queen alias is Zowie Knox, has been working at Prahran’s Market Hotel in Commercial Rd for seven years.
As well as doing drag, Bobridge, 26, was a regular dancer at the pub for its mid-morning shows.
Isn’t that camp?!
What a pity, then, that Confidential haven’t done a jot of research.
Zowie Knox is indeed a well-loved drag superstar and show producer who did the hard yards on the live circuit… in the mid-’90s.
Rhys’ alter ego is the beautiful and glamorous Miss Regime Dettol, as we hinted rather heavily when we got word that he’d made it to the Top 20, and as anyone who knows anything about Melbourne’s drag scene would be well aware.
As for describing Miss Dettol as a mere “Priscilla”, those gossip folk better wash their mouths out with soap and learn a thing or two about how to talk to a lady.
Then again, those hilarious gays and their make-up and spangles – they’re all the same, aren’t they Confidential? More » 