Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Attention Mount Isa: We May Have Located The Answer To Your Woman Trouble
4:52PM Jess McGuire | God bless the internet. After writing yesterday about Mount Isa mayor John Molony’s emotional plea for the less attractive female members of society to move to the small town in order to help the lonely men in town get some romantic relief, I was pleased to read the following comment from a concerned citizen willing to get her hands (and, presumably, other parts) dirty in the name of love.
OK, I’m game!! If there is a man over there that can keep up with me, fine, probably not though. I’m 61 years old, work full time 58 hours a week, (correctional officer in a men’s max unit). 5′2″ tall, (about) 100 pounds soaking wet, honestly, haven’t weight myself, size one and I look darn good.
She continues…
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“The Night Belonged To Tora Hymen” – DIVA Winners, We Salute You
3:27PM Jess McGuire | Well done to all the glamorous folk who attended the 18th Drag Industry Variety Awards! You can find a a small but thoroughly charming article about the evening’s festivities online here which will give you a run down of all the big winners, but I did want to point out a particular excerpt from the piece which made me laugh heartily.
But the night belonged to Tora Hymen, who was crowned Sydney’s favourite drag queen, as well as bitch of the year.
That there’s a drag queen called Tora Hymen and an award for bitch of the year just makes my day, it really does.
After the jump, why not check out a video of self-proclaimed “ex-child star, peace activist and saviour” Glace Chase wreaking havoc at the awards? More » 
Video Clip Flashback! ‘Full Moon, Dirty Hearts’ By INXS
3:17PM Jess McGuire | After watching an episode of SeaChange today*, I found myself Google-stalking Alice Garner, the actress who played hippie Carmen on the show. Eventually I learned she once appeared in an INXS video, so I tracked that down on YouTube. I don’t really recall ever seeing this clip, which is a shame because it is so nineties, it is almost unbelievable. The clothes, the giant sized video camera, Ben Mendelsohn (looking totally spunky, by the by), and a slutastic Kate Fischer playing the role of home-wrecker.
And woo, the song itself features guest vocals from the marvellous Chrissie Hynde!
You know, for a second there I almost thought Alice Garner was going to join them in the boudoir.
*SeaChange hasn’t aged all that well, discuss. More » 
The Hearts Of Comedy Loving Women Are Probably Breaking Around The World As We Speak
2:56PM Jess McGuire | If you’ve fallen for the Kiwi charms of comedy duo Flight Of the Conchords and spent hours wondering which of the two you’d prefer to marry/just what you’ll name your future children/where will you live, Melbourne or NYC/would both of the lads be up for a three-way, you’ll be gutted to know that Jemaine Clement, the handsome bespectacled member of the pair, has just gotten hitched.
Clement, 34, took a short break from writing the second series of the Conchords’ television show and wed his long-time girlfriend, Wellington actress and theatre director Miranda Manasiadis, in a Los Angeles registry office.
Sure, we were never really in with a chance – he’s been with Miranda for a billion years (likewise, Bret McKenzie also has a long term missus). But this makes things so… so final, you know?
A link to a photo of the happy couple (taken at last year’s Global Day Of Action For Burma in Wellington) after the jump. More » 
Are Nine Biting Off More New Media Than They Can Chew With ‘Scorched’?
12:47PM Clem Bastow | It’s a new media frenzy over at Channel Nine, where – like everyone else including Sonia Kruger – they are breathlessly awaiting the end of the Olympics so they can play their latest ace. No, not Hole In The Wall – their newest bright hope is Scorched, which is so much more than just a 90-minute telemovie. It is also a completely confusing web presence, a number of fake news services, and some not-very-convincing acted-by-actors YouTube tomfoolery! Yes, Nine are stepping into the 21st century:
“What we’ve created is an integrated story that runs across all the platforms,” director and producer Marcus Gillezeau said.
More » Melbourne Versus Sydney: The Culinary Edition
11:51AM Jess McGuire | There’s nothing more mind-numbingly dull that the old Melbourne versus Sydney argument. Surely this was settled once and for all when yours truly left the Emerald City and moved south to inflict my particularly irritating personality on the good inhabitants of Melbourne after falling in love with the miserable city in 2005? I jest, I jest.
In any case, a bite-sized brouhaha has started over the Gourmet Traveller’s 2009 Restaurant Guide Awards, which apparently looked over Melbourne’s culinary brilliance in favour of Sydney-based dining establishments.
Melbourne’s long-standing reputation as a food and wine city was once again ignored in Gourmet Traveller’s 2009 Restaurant Guide Awards last night.
As was the case last year, Vue de monde was the only Melbourne restaurant to receive the top honors of a three-star rating.
In contrast, nine Sydney restaurants gained the equivalent accolade.
Controversial! As one might expect, Melbourne food critic Bob Hart is spitting gourmet duck fat-fried chips over the snubbing. More » 
By The Way, I Think Your Cup’s Full…
11:49AM Jess McGuire | Oh hey, good news! Short skirts are back!
Better news – so are comments, after yesterday’s fist-fest!
So there you go. More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
11:38AM Jess McGuire | I’m in the midst of organising a Radiothon special for the RRR show that I host – cult time of midnight on a Wednesday, cult listenership of seven truck drivers! – and I’m attempting to convince some of my favourite musicians to step up to the plate and perform a completely ridiculous cover for next week’s SPACKTACULAR show (but more on that a bit later)..
While gently suggesting Dave McCormack perform a spirited rendition of Kylie’s touching eighties ballad Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquai, I thought I would helpfully send him a YouTube link to the song in order for him to learn it (despite the fact he’s yet to agree to do the bloody cover, but nevertheless…).
I suddenly realised I hadn’t actually seen the video clip for the song since I was about eight or nine years old. It is awesome if only for Kylie’s amazing acting at the beginning of it (and her thoroughly Charlene accent).
Let’s all revel in it’s majesty, huh?
More » Been Wondering What Radha Mitchell Has Been Up To?
11:19AM Clem Bastow | While we’re the first to stick the boot into our local press’ tendency to go crazy when an overseas publication/awards ceremony/religious leader gives mad props to our countrymen and women, there’s nothing in Defamer Australia’s charter that says we can’t get excited in our own time about what our cultural ambassadors are up to overseas, particularly since the sorts of things that excite us are rarely of any interest to anyone else (except YOU, because you complete us). So, you can imagine my giddiness when I saw this photo of expat Aussie starlet Radha Mitchell this morning: More » 
News.com.au Have Been Waiting So Long For AC/DC’s New Album They Forgot The Band’s Name
10:21AM Clem Bastow | Briefly in headbanging news, it seems Angus Young has taken time out from drinking milk and painting watercolours in the rolling Dutch meadows to get together with The New Guy and prepare the first AC/DC record in eight years for release. The album, Black Ice, will be out in October – and even though the group are no longer really Australian, it’s good to see that News.com.au can remember how to spell the country’s biggest rock band’s name: More » 