Tuesday, August 26, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
6:29PM Jess McGuire | My friend Gen put me onto this – it’s Russell Brand and Noel Fielding discussing the removal of someone called Redrum from Russell’s anus.
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RRR’s Radiothon – Subscribe To Transference!
4:21PM Jess McGuire | Dear readers,
Literally AS I TYPE the beautiful Clem Bastow, our wonderful Associate Editor, is on the airwaves giving the wireless-loving public a serving of Radiothon fuelled delight as presenter of the RRR drive program ‘Transference’. She’ll be joined this afternoon by Little Red, Guy Blackman AND the handsome (and recently returned from overseas) minstrel/PathWords freak Dan Kelly.
Listen now on 102.7FM if you’re in Melbourne, or stream from rrr.org.au.
And most importantly, SUBSCRIBE!
Tomorrow night I’ll be hosting my own Radiothon show at the very glamorous time of midnight, where I’ll be joined by Clem and a host of music gods, but more details about that later. More » Lindsay Lohan: ‘I Can Date Who I Want To Date. I Can Do What I Want To Do’
2:52PM Jess McGuire | This is quite old – actually, in internet terms, it’s positively ancient as it’s from late May – but last night I was taking a stroll down (Google paved) memory lane and re-reading all the leaked emails from when Lindsay Lohan’s secret MySpazz account was hacked back in 2007, and I came across something rather interesting.
On May 12th of 2008, Perez Hilton wrote a blog post stating that Lindsay’s career was down the toilet, she was being dropped from projects, and she’d just been spotted bawling her eyes out after a massive fight with her girlfriend Samantha Ronson (who, by the way, I think is a rather cute little tomboy type – and Perez’s constant need to refer to her as SaMAN is getting increasingly annoying).
“Blogger/famewhore Jonathan Jackson”, as the fabulous EvilBeet describes him, contacted Lindsay Lohan on her personal MySpazz account to ask her about what Perez had written, and her reply is actually ten kinds of awesome and I can’t believe I’ve only just stumbled upon it. What’s wrong with me? Am I drinking too much during the day?
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More » Perhaps Germaine Greer Recently Saw The Dark Knight?
1:47PM Jess McGuire | The Melbourne Writers Festival means that currently there are a lot of literary types wandering around the city, and if you’re an ornithologist (who is bored of checking out red breasted blue jays or whatever the hell kind of birds make ornithologists soil themselves with glee, and instead now spend your waking hours keeping an eye out for book lovin’ folk) you’re in absolute heaven.
I had a rather wonderful Celeb Spot myself on Sunday, and I would like to tell you about it.
Picture it… I’m walking up Brunswick Street with my friend Lee and we’re chatting about incredibly deep issues, when I glance behind us and notice Germaine Greer powering along with a friend. More » 
Today In Kerry Katona Breast Reduction News
1:00PM Clem Bastow | We’re a caring bunch here at Defamer Australia, so when I was perusing the British trash rags newspapers this morning, I knew you’d be dying to hear all about this particular bit of celebrity news: Kerry Katona is having her bazoongas reduced! Not only that, but she’s going to film the operation for her celebreality show. Yes, I know, I know – it should have been the first news item of the day but, you know, sometimes these major stories just trickle down slowly. Hell, it took me five months to find out that Kevin Rudd won the election!
She says: ‘After four kids I need it. I’m a GG at the moment, and when I take my bra off my nipples are by my feet. I want to be a DD instead.’
More » Australia’s Appetite For Retards, Blackface Ends Batman’s Box Office Reign
12:30PM Clem Bastow | It is now approximately five million years (let’s see if the Dido fans correct me on that one) since the latest Christopher Nolan Batman installment, The Dark Knight, opened at #1 on the Australian box office charts. But just when you thought it was going to stay perched atop the charts like Christian Bale brooding on top of a skyscraper for the rest of our natural lives, along comes the little satire that could – Tropic Thunder – to ruin the party. The question that remains begging to be answered through all this, is: does this mean that The Dark Whopper will be reduced in price?
The film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black, grossed $3.05 million on its opening weekend to take the number one position.
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Australian Idol Round-Up: It Continueth
11:00AM Clem Bastow | So we’re now two days into 2008’s edition of Australian Idol and already I’m reaching saturation point. Is slamming us with six solid nights of auditions a good way to begin a season? Jump over the, er, jump and we can discuss last night’s effort. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Coke Is It!
10:30AM Clem Bastow | When Kate Moss was busted allegedly doing coke, it was sort of shocking, right? And when Peaches Geldof was filmed apparently making – ahem – a transaction, it was also sort of out of left field, yeah? But when Amy Winehouse is shot doing what looks to be a nose-load of coke, it sort of ranks – in the “surprising” stakes – alongside Miriam revealing to the Big Brother housemates that she was, in fact, born a man, or the fact that (spoiler alert you guys!) the East Compton Clovers beat the Rancho Carne Toros in Bring It On. So, here’s the rub:
The troubled Back to Black star was secretly filmed hoovering up the Class A drug in a packed London pub.
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Alex Lloyd’s Legal Worries Not So Big Anymore
9:51AM Clem Bastow | You’ll recall back in April that an average Joe piped up and reckoned he’d written Alex Lloyd’s megabucks-earning hit Amazing on the back of a coaster in a pub’s front bar. Well, Mark O’Keefe seems to have cooled his heels somewhat (you know, after waiting roughly 16 years to even take the matter to court in the first place), changing his story just prior to the matter hitting the courts. That’s the spirit, Mark! Keep up the legal cats!
Mark O’Keefe, who originally said he wrote the song Amazing with Lloyd at the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle in November 1989, now says he got it wrong and it was up to two years later.
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Indiana Evans Leaves Summer Bay For Her Own Postmodern Mermaid Fantasy
9:32AM Clem Bastow | Indiana Evans – aka Matilda from Home & Away – is one of my favourite young soap stars. Unlike many soapie starlets, she can actually act – so it’s a shame to hear she’s leaving Summer Bay (incidentally, did anyone watch the “after the Olympics” return last night? Intense!), although where she’s going is possibly even more amazingly camp: she’s joining the cast of H2O: Just Add Water. Yes, the afternoon tweeny mermaid show! Splashtastic!
While it doesn’t command huge ratings in Australia, H2O: Just Add Water is a mammoth hit around the world, seen in more than 100 countries with a worldwide audience of more than 200 million viewers.
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