Monday, May 12, 2008

Your Monday Afternoon MP3

3:23PM Jess McGuire | Over a year ago we launched a concept called Your Monday Morning MP3 which was meant to alert you to amazing free mp3’s available online for your listening pleasure. Being the kind of easily distracted lass I am, I totally forgot about it after the initial post – but hey, it’s been a year, it’s a Monday, so even though it’s afternoon I say let’s get downloading, folks! Do you know Charles Jenkins? (Photo by Ben Loveridge) He’s the dude from Ice Cream Hands, and he’s rather good at this whole songwriting caper. Charles has a beautiful song called In Your Arms available to download from his MySpazz page (you can read the story behind the tune here) and I’ve been listening to it all day (along with the AMAZING Lilith Lane, who I will talk about another time, but suffice to say her weekend album launch made many rock and roll types’ heads explode with glee…) Go “do yourself a favour”, why doncha? Costs you nothing, and you’re about to add a sweet-as-pie slice of melody to your music collection. [Charles Jenkins' MySpace] More »

YouTube Clip Of The Day

3:11PM Jess McGuire | This is pretty much my favourite thing today. That is one bloody good Billy Connolly impression. (Via b3ta.com) More »

Tina Sparkle Is Unhappy – SOMEONE FIX THIS SHIT!

2:18PM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia BFF and Mix 106.5FM breakfast host Sonia Kruger is not a happy camper, and when The Kruges is grumpy, we’re grumpy. MIX FM’s breakfast could turn scrambled today, after it emerged star recruit Sonia Kruger has threatened to walk unless the program’s executive producer is reinstated from suspension. Kruger was in Los Angeles on assignment for Channel 7 last week when her MIX colleague Brenden Wood was sent packing by management over a stunt which sledged Nine newsreader Mark Ferguson. Confidential understands the decision to shelve Wood, after Channel 9 pulled $1 million worth of advertising, left Kruger to champion her workmate’s cause from Tinseltown. Adding to her stressful work schedule, the Mix maven is believed to have written to her Australian Radio Network boss Bob Longwell over the knee-jerk reaction. SHE DOES NOT NEED ANYMORE STRESS IN HER LIFE. God, she couldn’t even accept a Logie without Daryl Somers jumping in front of the mic and hogging the limelight. Not. Good. Enough. Someone arrange a massage and some chocolates for Sonia, and assure the woman her beloved producer is on his way back to the studios. “It’s not for Sonia to tell management what to do but she has found Brenden to be a terrific producer and doesn’t want this to affect the team’s success,” (Kruger’s manager) Klemens said. “She’s been very supportive of him as a colleague and a friend. The discussions we’ve had with management have been open and frank about that.” Wood, who declined to comment yesterday, was benched “indefinitely” last Wednesday and has not returned to the station’s North Ryde studios since. Defamer Australia strongly supports anything Sonia wants. More »

Here’s An Enjoyable Way To Start Your Week – Hear Kylie Call Someone A Twat!

8:37AM Jess McGuire | A few of years back, Kylie did an interview with a British radio DJ. He asked her a couple of daft questions, she cracked it, and the whole thing was recorded. Huzzah! Defamer Australia’s beloved Euro Correspondent and pop guru Will Fop sent me a copy of the dance remix a year ago (it’s worth hunting down), but here’s the audio of the original interview. Is he… retarded? More »

BB08: Goodbye Saxon, We Hardly Knew Ye…

8:33AM Jess McGuire | After last night’s show, UFO conspiracy theorist and former – we hope – racist Saxon was the first person to be evicted from the Big Brother house (well, if you don’t count those two intruder folks whose names I never bothered to learn even though I am going out of my way to remember one of them has a stripper girlfriend and will mention it as often as I can be bothered – OMG PLEZE DONT GET UR PPL TO CAL MA BOSS, IM AFRAYD OF YER ‘PULL’). Why did his fellow housemates choose to boot him, you may be wondering – well, Saxon says… “I’m pretty aggressive and I probably got under some people’s skin,” he said last night after his eviction. “I’m pretty rude, and I probably gave it to them,” he said moments after being booted out. Indeed. According to the official site, his parting gift to the housemates was an EXPLOSIVE!!! farewell video where he informs a couple of the Dreamworld massive of what he really thinks of them (gosh!) and then has BB remove Bridget Brigitte’s possessions. Saxon’s message from the grave causes some trouble in the House. He doesn’t hold back and tells everyone what he thinks of them. Saxon tells the group that what caused him the most trouble was people talking behind his back, he singles out Bianca and David! Saxon tells David he needs to change to make the House more harmonious and he needs to realize his word isn’t the be all and end all! Saxon also expresses his problem with Brigitte he tells her to read a book and stop worrying about her unicorn. Then he drops a bomb shell … the second Housemate Hand grenade. Brigitte is the target, her possessions will be removed indefinitely. This bit is particularly pleasing. Brigitte is irate, running up to the screen to hit it with her shoe she begins to cry. Upset and confused pushing through her tears Brigitte asks the House what indefinitely means… Heh. More »