Friday, August 15, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
3:42PM Jess McGuire | Oh god. Reader AliCakes sent in this gem of a video featuring Obama grooving along to Rick Astley. My head is exploding.
(Not technically a YouTube clip, but we’ve never been the types to be tied down by “rules”) More » 
Michael Costa Meets His Match In A Ten-Year-Old Girl
2:34PM Jess McGuire | I can’t work out if I find this article hilarious or sad. I think I find it hilarious. After all, there’s nothing more pleasant to learn on a Friday than a politician has been put in his place by a feisty young slip of a lass standing up for the rights of her daddy in front of a bunch of burly Wollongong firefighters.
When Mr Costa insisted that NSW firefighters were the highest paid in the country, Mr Sullivan’s daughter, Cate, stepped forward. “Excuse me, sir,” she said. “I’m only 10 years old and even I know that is a lie.”
Mr Sullivan said Mr Costa then told his daughter: “That was a good line your daddy taught you.”
Zing! Nice move, Costa.
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In Melbourne? No Plans For This Evening?
1:18PM Jess McGuire | You could do worse than attending this soiree, I suppose.
Great bands, it’s all very “rock”, and oh look! Your Editor will be “spinning” the “mad tunes” in between bands! As the line up is full of incredibly relevant and hip musical ensembles, and I am best known for choosing to blare Rip Rip Wood Chip or the Baywatch theme during DJ sets at The Retreat, there is a very good chance you’ll see me get glassed tonight if you come along. That will be pleasant, won’t it? More » 
Preemptive Australian Idol Round-Up: James Spargo Is Your New God
11:28AM Clem Bastow | After everyone enjoyed our first Australian Idol 2008 missive yesterday, I couldn’t stop watching the Idol promo – and, like many of you, became fascinated by the winning chap at the 0:27 mark, whose performance of the line “loving each other wholeheartedly” is sure to go down in the annals of Australian music as one of its greatest moments. Well, another Idol promo/teaser has surfaced that gives us a little more of an insight into this champion (as well as 23 of his fellow entrants; whatever). Ladies and gentlemen, at the 0:27 mark (again!) and 0:54, I give you James Spargo: More » 
Play On, Playa: Barry Hall Adds A THIRD Girl To His Harem
10:50AM Clem Bastow | Anyone who has read the Herald Sun and its interstate stablemates over the past three months or so will likely have been amused by Sydney Swans player Barry Hall’s turbulent love life, which until now involved two separate girls, and was aired as a possible reason for his predilection for punching players out on the field. However not content with two squeezes, Bazza’s seemingly decided to make it an uneven three and go for a lady hat trick.
Hall was spotted enjoying a night off with a mystery blonde at a Sydney cinema on Monday night.
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Where’s Your Husband, Peaches?
10:30AM Clem Bastow | After surprising everyone including her own father by getting hitched in Vegas’ Little White Wedding Chapel, Peaches Geldof has arrived back in Old Blighty without her new husband. Which is probably, when you think of it, even less surprising than the marriage itself! I put $5 on the marriage being over by October 14th – anyone want to raise me? However, I was particularly taken aback by this disturbing little bit of information that the Tele quietly slipped into their coverage: More » 
Fans’ Wizard Hats Droop With Anger, Sorrow as Warners Pushes Back ‘Harry Potter 6′
10:00AM STV | Warner Bros. sent surprising word today that it has bumped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a release this November all the way back to July 17, 2009 — a savvy numerological strategy landing Potter exactly one year’s worth of Fridays from its opening day for The Dark Knight. Studio boss Alan Horn officially attributed the move to more practical considerations, however, namely the fact that Warners’ vibrant content chain is missing a few links next summer thanks to the writer’s strike. But don’t get any ideas about Jonze-esque hold-ups or other snags, added Jeff Robinov: More »
Daily Telegraph’s Lesbian Fever Extends To New Veronicas Video
9:55AM Clem Bastow | The Daily Telegraph has been particularly fond of keeping us abreast, so to speak, of the movements of lesbian MTV VJ Ruby Rose and her is-she-or-isn’t-she gal pal, Jess Origliasso from The Veronicas. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that their drooling coverage would now extend to the new clip by said sister-to-sister girl group, which features a bit of artfully sexless smooching between a gaggle of models (not to mention the sisters Origliasso suggestively rubbing some fluorescent tubes, which isn’t very lezzy at all). Here’s the Tele trying desperately to keep it in its collective pants (the vid is over the jump): In a case of art imitating life, steamy footage of two girls kissing in the clip for current single Take Me On The Floor is an obvious echo of the apparent romance between pop twin Jess and gay MTV presenter Ruby Rose.
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Monk-y Magic
9:29AM Clem Bastow | In our Winegums’ checkered past over the last twelve months or so, I’ve lost track of the numerous people who have offered to “save” her; some notables have included Mick Jagger, who apparently ended up too busy pouting in front of a mirror to actually make good on his offer of salvation. Perhaps the latest offerers will have a little more luck: a group of Austrian monks has extended a hand to the troubled soul superstar:
The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz are based in Vienna, Austria, and they are a little worried about poor Amy. She certainly has a nice voice, but she doesn’t seem to be doing too well. So the brothers would like to bring her over for some solemn, pious R&R.
More » Does The ‘No Sleaze At Indy’ Rule Extend To The Grid?
9:19AM Clem Bastow | If there were to be a bunch of words that would be inextricably linked for all time, there’s a good bet they would be “motorsport”, “the Gold Coast” and “boobs”. Everyone knows that Indy time is nungas time, but if Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has anything to do with it, this year’s Gold Coast Indy carnival will be positively G-rated (and all the better for it). In a move bound to disappoint rubbernecking racing fans who travel north as much to gawp at wet t-shirt comps as derring do on the track, Bligh has cracked down on “sleaze” at Indy time:
Ms Bligh was offended by “lewd” behaviour, including women flashing their breasts on highrise balconies, during her first visit to Indy as Premier last year and has told organisers to clean up their act.
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