Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Easy There, News.com.au, He Just LOOKS Like A Girl
4:58PM Clem Bastow | As you will have read this morning, Azaria and his bandmate KJ from Sydney kids The Follow have gone missing in the US where they are currently playing dates. As you will have also read, Azaria is The Veronicas’ Jess Origliasso’s ex-boyfriend. Both have dyed black hair and are fans of make-up and pretty clothes. Still, news.com.au, they’re not that easy to confuse:
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I’d Rather Jack Radiothon Spacktacular On RRR!
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Hello good readers,
As you may or may not be aware, I present a “cult” (that means “not too many listeners because it’s on very late, although the masturbating truck driver massive are a loyal audience”) radio show on Melbourne’s RRR 102.7FM called I’d Rather Jack.
On this show, I get to play whatever the damn hell I like (so playlists tend to include Stiff Little Fingers followed by Kylie followed by Otis Redding followed by Girls Aloud followed by The Drones followed by Angie Hart followed by Billy Ocean followed by YOU GET MY POINT) which is sort of great – especially the Billy Ocean part. I have RRR to thank for this rare wireless-molesting freedom.
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When You’re About To Sack 550 Employees, Who Goes First?
1:36PM Clem Bastow | If you’re Fairfax Media, the answer would be simple: can the editor-in-chief of one of your biggest papers! That’s right, just a day after Fairfax announced 550 jobs would be slashed across the board (the news, as other papers quaked in their boots regarding the apparent downturn in publishing the cuts reflected, reached as far as the UK), The Age’s editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan – who’d been in the role since July of 2004 – was shown the door. Here’s the official word, and more over the jump.
Don Churchill, Fairfax’s chief executive for Victoria, broke the news to staff at a meeting this morning.
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Remember Chantelle Barry From ‘Popstars’?
12:50PM Clem Bastow | There’s a question I bet you didn’t think you’d be asked any time soon! Yes, Chantelle Barry is back! You may remember her from the storied first ever season of Australian Popstars, where she kicked butt all the way from Perth – until she was accused of stealing from her fellow Bardot members, and summarily ejected from the group, the show and, seemingly, the industry. Well, you may or may not be pleased to hear that she’s snared herself a gig on the remake of 90210! Which is all well and good, but I had to stifle a laugh when I saw how those jokesters over at news.com.au and the Tele had chosen to describe her career’s turn for the better: More » Hatred Of NBC’s ‘Kath & Kim’ Remake Spreads Across Globe Like That Sneeze Sequence From ‘Outbreak’
12:15PM Clem Bastow | In the past few months, I have made no secret whatsoever of my very firm belief that the US adaptation, via NBC, of “our” Kath & Kim, will suck harder than the annual Hoover Vacuum Company International Convention. But throughout all this, aside from the occasional ratings expert’s opinion, the Americans themselves have remained oddly quiet on the topic. Thank heavens, then, for the fabulous ladies from Go Fug Yourself; this post is ostensibly about a poor fashion choice made by Selma Blair, but I think the opening salvo speaks directly to me for itself:
The promos for Kath & Kim that ran during the Olympics deeply stank. 
A Tale Of Two Swimmers (Or Possibly Three)
11:42AM Clem Bastow | The media just can’t get enough of golden girl Stephanie Rice (which means they also can’t get enough Rice-related headline puns – Rice Steamer! Sizzling Rice! Hot Rice! – could someone who’s a whiz with the old computer make them up a Rice Headline Generator? I fear they’re running out – thanks in advance) and their latest topic of concern is whether or not our Stephanie has been macking with fellow golden god, Michael Phelps – and whether Rice’s ex-bf, Eamon Sullivan, cares.
“No,” was the emphatic reply when Rice, flanked by her former Olympian boyfriend Eamon Sullivan, was asked if she’d shared a lip-locked moment at a Beijing party with Phelps, who won a staggering eight gold medals.
More » The Truth Behind The Alex Lloyd ‘Amazing’ Saga (According To A Mysteriously Knowledgeable Defamer Australia Commenter)
10:04AM Jess McGuire | Are you, like very few people, strangely captivated by the copyright saga currently surrounding Alex Lloyd’s massive hit ‘Amazing’? Yesterday Clem talked about how truck driver/musician Mark O’Keefe, the fellow who is suing Lloyd, has his updated recollection of how things went down and revealed he now believes he wrote the song with Lloyd up to two years later than he originally stated when he launched legal action.
A mysterious commenter named Sam contacted us and gave us a very, very lengthy version of events from “someone who was actually there”.
It’s just someone’s opinion, and there’s no way for us to verify it (thank GOD for the legal system, eh? Imagine if Defamer Australia was left in charge of running things!) but it may prove to be an interesting read.
Please get your facts right before you crucify a brilliant songwriter and singer. Mark was not a truck driver at the time, he had only started driving a truck in the last couple of years to support his family. Maybe if Alex had of come clean with the copyright, he would not have needed to. Mark O’keefe has always been, and still is, a professional musician. You make him sound like a truck driver leaning on the bar getting drunk. Mark O’keefe wrote the song “Amazing” and this was witnessed by many people at the Bridge hotel in 1991. At the time in question Mark O’keefe and his band “What’s Next” were performing to a packed hotel. When the band had finished to a standing ovation, Mark was approached by Alex Lloyd, then (Slim La Beef) or (Slim) from his Band “Slim La Beef and the Spare Ribs” as he was known.
What’s Next was not just your average mediocre pub band either, and had many guest artists, including Stevie Wright (Easybeats) Paul Day (Iron Maiden) and Laurie Marlow (Heaven), to name a few.
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Aaron Sorkin-Like Presence Invades Facebook In The Name Of Research
9:30AM Seth | We invite devoted Defamer readers to think back now, to almost two years ago to the day. The U.S. dollar dominated global free markets. Whitney Houston was in the middle of a liquor-store-robbery crime spree that left dozens dead. And a little show by the name of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip had captured the imaginations of the American working class, caught up weekly in its by-turns harrowing and inspirational tales from the front lines of the network sketch comedy wars. If you’re still with us, you’ll too recall Defaker, the Defamer-inspired mock gossip site that attempted to promote the series on NBC.com by opening itself up to visitor comments. Several harsh insights followed (”Aaron Sorkin, I’ll be seeing you soon! Posted by: Crack | September 21, 2006 08:30 PM” springs to mind), the site was quickly shuttered, and the ill-conceived exercise was chocked up by the lauded series creator as yet another example of the ugliness that will inevitably spring forth from the anonymous blogging wilds. More »Wednesday Blind Item!
9:15AM Jess McGuire | Sooo… I heard this about a year and a bit ago, but now the person in question appears to be doing very well for themselves, it’s about time to make it a blind item on Defamer Australia, I reckon.
Which highly successful Aussie pop star used to prefer the company of her fellow ladies? Apparently it wasn’t doing much for her, career-wise, so she made the switch over to powerful and influential doodle. From what I’ve been told, her first piece of male booty after this important decision was someone who has a tendency to drop things. As though aforementioned things had a high temperature. Clumsy! More » 
