Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Does Anyone Else Remember This Song?
5:32PM Jess McGuire | I fell in love with it nearly a decade ago, never knew what it was called (but recalled that the band started with an ‘O’), and haven’t heard it since. Until today!
Here is Oscarlima with ‘If You Wanna Be My Friend’ on Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
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Five Minutes Until The World Ends!
4:55PM Jess McGuire | Maybe.
I’d be worried, but Lily Allen seems relaxed about the whole thing.
Now, late October is when we REALLY need to start feeling concerned. I might throw us all an apocalypse party. I think I’ll call it Armageddon Wasted!
UPDATE: Lily was right… AT LEAST UNTIL OCTOBER 21ST!
UPDATE II: Wait, it’s getting turned on at 6:30pm? Shit. I thought they said 5pm originally! So we still may die and Lily Allen will be proved wrong, or we’ll survive and Lily Allen is right. It’s hard to know what to root for. More » 
Kylie Apparently Considering Exploring The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
3:17PM Jess McGuire | Attention all Antipodean ladies who love ladies! Kylie’s impending tour Down Under could well lead to her exploring your down under if you play your cards right. Yes, Australia’s pop princess is allegedly contemplating a visit to “Lesbian Town, or so the showbiz press would have us believe.
Kylie Minogue has considered becoming a lesbian.
More » We Remember A Time When Shirley Manson Liked To Be The One To Deliver The Piss
2:55PM Jess McGuire | After this morning’s revelation that Garbage singer Shirley Manson will be starring as a urinal in the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it’s time to jump into the time machine that is Old Print Articles Which Are Helpfully Now Online and note that once upon a time, when she wasn’t adding her own special touch to the breakfasts of lovers, Shirley simply longed for a man who would let her pee on him.
From a 1996 issue of Juice:
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Former Home & Away Actor Ryan Kwanten Gets Naked
2:53PM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! Another special report from the Walkley Award winning team at the Two Day Old News Desk TM!
Remember Ryan Kwanten? He played Vinnie on Home & Away for years, then ditched Oz in favour of trying his luck in Los Angeles. He’s survived quite nicely, thanks for asking, paying the rent with roles in Summerland and assorted movies, and he’s now playing a “strapping, dim-witted Casanova” on Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball’s new program for HBO, the vampiretastic True Blood.
Happily, he’s naked in it.
“He does wear clothes, but he takes them off a lot,” True Blood’s creator, Alan Ball, who also created Six Feet Under and wrote the script for 2000 best picture Oscar winner, American Beauty, laughed during an interview.
Tell me more, Alan Ball!
More » ARIA Nominations Announced!
2:31PM Jess McGuire | This is always a tremendously exciting time of year for lovers of Australian tunes. Soon warblers and strummers and rappers and all other types of music folk will be clasping the coveted shiny pointy award that is an ARIA and delivering speeches to the people, hopefully while under the influence. Who can we expect to see potentially embarrassing themselves at this year’s ARIA Awards with ill-advised on stage banter (and possibly flashing)?
See the full list of ARIA nominees after the jump! More » 
Jodhi Meares Would Like You To Try Her Curtains On For Size
2:00PM Clem Bastow | It hasn’t been a fantastic year for Jodhi Meares, really; if her hosting skills weren’t already subject to enough fervent debate at the Vogue Forums, her no-show at the Australia’s Next Top Model live finale was the last straw. So, you could forgive her for wanting to throw herself into some new projects to take her mind off things – and perhaps said mind-taking-off (or, indeed, out, i.e., of her skull and into a glass jar and replaced by an alarm clock) explains her interesting logic when it comes to describing her new gig as an interior designer for a Potts Point development… More » 
Bang Bang, You’re STILL F–ked: Victoria’s ‘Underbelly’ Gets The Pixel Treatment
1:00PM Clem Bastow | As though Channel Nine hasn’t been dragged back and forth over metaphorical hot coals and then metaphorically whipped with branches before being metaphorically urinated on when it comes to what was to be 2008’s saving grace, the beleaguered “real life” drama series Underbelly, the pity party never stops: now Victorians are finally able to see the show, which will begin screening this Sunday night, only they’ll be getting a version that the censors and Supreme Court have had their sticky paws all over.
The face of an actor who plays an accused criminal will be pixelated.
Victorians will see only the first five episodes of the 13-part series after a Supreme Court ruling yesterday.
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In ‘East Enders’ Land, Unionist Baby Sues You
12:00PM Clem Bastow | Since WorkChoices came along and buggered everything up for everyone, it’s been a while since we’ve had a good unfair dismissal case to sink our teeth into, so we can all join hands and thank the stage mothers of Britain for providing this corker: a baby who has been sacked from East Enders is likely to sue (via his mother) the show for unfair dismissal! That’s little Gabriel in the picture above, and as you can see, he means business. He knows his rights! We’re comin’ back, WE’RE COMIN’ BACK!!
Gabriel Miller Williams was dropped from the BBC soap after playing the part of Tanya Branning’s son for nine months since he was just six weeks old.
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Third Kylie Show Announced For Melbourne
10:27AM Clem Bastow | Evidently Kylie’s fans in hometown Melbourne just can’t get enough – or rather, are assuming they just won’t be able to get enough – of her X2008 tour, and so Frontier Touring and Mushroom have announced a third helping of the singing budgie for the M-Town leg of her December tour (Sydney and Auckland lag with two shows each).
From the presser that was just sent out:
After selling out her first Melbourne show in just minutes, it didn’t take long for Kylie’s second concert in Melbourne to follow suit.
With demand for tickets still high promoter Michael Gudinski was on the phone to Kylie’s management in the hope of securing a third show for Melbourne.
It’s with great delight that The Frontier Touring Company confirm that a third concert has now been announced for Melbourne on Monday 22 December at Rod Laver Arena with tickets going on sale on Friday 12 September at 9am.
So there you have it, hot-pants fans – ready your dialing fingers and rapid-credit-card-number-recall skills come Friday morning!
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