Thursday, September 25, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
4:27PM Jess McGuire | “It is shown, and it is wicked!”
My dear old housemate Born Dancin’ just sent me this clip with the following description:
This is one section of a guy narrating Harry Potter dubbed over the first movie. It’s so awesome. I couldn’t work out which chapter to send.
Yes, someone has decided to overdub the action to Harry Potter clips. Compelling!
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Australia Uninhabited Mystery Solved – Turns Out The Fruit Juice Was SBS!
1:53PM Jess McGuire | You cheeky public broadcasting bastards.
We’ve been following the story of The Australia Uninhabited video mystery quite closely here at Defamer Australia (see here, here, here, and here). And now, at last, we finally have some answers. It was a canny ruse to promote a new SBS show!
A stunt promising free land in Australia to British citizens has created intrigue on both sides of the world. A mobile billboard, describing Australia as “uninhabited” with “free land for the taking”, was paraded around major landmarks in London, sparking interest and debate.
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America, Here is Your Desired ‘Letterman on McCain’ Action
1:52PM Kyle Buchanan | Well, isn’t this interesting. Hours before the anticipated David Letterman evisceration of John McCain aired on the East Coast, a YouTube popped up (by a user who had never posted any videos before and registered today) with all the highlights. Thanks, CBS mole! Video after the jump: More »Defamer Australia Chum’s Facebook Banning Now Top News
12:48PM Jess McGuire | Words cannot describe how hard I laughed when I just saw this image on the smh.com.au front page.
Here’s what happened. Sydney writer Elmo Keep, whose time spent with KISS frontman Gene Simmons was well documented on here, recently found herself banned from Facebook. Which was vaguely hilarious for her friends, because Elmo loves Facebook more than anyone I know . As the Facebook group “95,000,000 Strong For Elmo Keep’s Facebook Reinstatement” created by our own Clem Bastow so aptly put it:
WTF Facebook? You deleted Elmo Keep’s Facebook profile for no reason, and then subjected her to the Facebook cone of Customer Support silence.
There are drongos on here spamming people with their porn blogs and shitty outer suburban nightclub functions, and you chose to delete Elmo, who “does” Facebook better than any of us?
SHE WAS YOUR BIGGEST FAN, AND YOU THREW HER AWAY! AND IF YOU CAN’T SEE THAT, THAT’S YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM!
Of course, smh.com.au looks at the issue in a slightly less hysterical way, and raises some interesting issues. More » 
Australian Idol Round-Up: A Message To My Bui
11:04AM Clem Bastow | As was noted the other day with the mention of Darren Hayes’ impending Australian Idol mentor duties, this weekend the Final 10 will be tackling “Aussie hits” week. This means the usual glut of disastrous choices – perhaps Chrislyn will tackle Swoop’s Apple Eyes? – and a hilarious Final 10 group song on Monday (please, please God, make it Ian Moss’ Telephone Booth). But if Defamer Australia has any power left in this fickle world, I would like to think we can make a miracle happen. Let’s band together with the magic of the internet and try to ohm a song choice into reality. Thanh Bui, this is for you: More » 
Warning: The Following Video Contains Footage Of The Very Deep And Intellectual Miranda Kerr Looking a Bit Daft
10:30AM Jess McGuire | I was re-living my love of Dave Hill yesterday on YouTube and catching up on all the clips of his that had been made and uploaded onto the site since I first became obsessed with him (check out his “report” from Comic Con to understand why) when I found a video filmed during 2006 New York Fashion Week.
Dave, being a mischievous kind of fellow, is schmoozing with assorted attendees and models and asking ridiculous questions. His favourite trick is to ask an interviewee what they think of an up and coming designer who isn’t actually a designer but they’d know the name for other reasons. For instance, this year Dave asked unsuspecting victims what they thought of Trig Palin’s new line of clothing, and rather then look ignorant, they just bluff and rattle on about how much they love his new stuff, etc.
Back in 2006, Dave asked people what they thought of Kofi Annan and (remember the dude who confessed to but was not actually responsible for Jon Benet’s murder?) John Mark Carr’s collection… one of those people being (and do correct me if I’m wrong, but it certainly looks and sounds like her) Miranda Kerr.
Check out what she has to say about Kofi Annan’s fashion line after the jump! More » 
Game Off, Moles: Charlotte Dawson NOT Taking ‘Model’ Gig
9:37AM Clem Bastow | Well, as Jeanette said to John on their wedding night, that was fast and disappointing: Charlotte Dawson, it seems, will not be taking over the Australia’s Next Top Model hosting gig left vacated by Jodhi Meares, as it seemed only yesterday she would be. Instead, Dawson will be focusing her attention on an as-yet untitled variety show on Foxtel: More » 
Tex Perkins And His Ladyboyz
9:25AM Jess McGuire | Oh. My. God.
Australian rock god Tex Perkins has a new album coming out with a little side project he’s calling Tex Perkins & His Ladyboyz. The album is a cover of “soft cock rock” songs, the guys are all dressed in white and lookin’ smooth and the entire project is as hilarious as it is disturbing.
Watch the following informercial and revel in the genius – there’s a special cameo by Jimmy Barnes!
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Letterman on McCain’s Sudden Cancellation: ‘I Think Someone’s Putting Something in His Metamucil’
9:00AM Kyle Buchanan | John McCain announced today that he would suspend his presidential campaign until the current economic crisis is settled, leaving some big holes in this week’s TV schedule — most especially, this Friday’s suddenly in-jeopardy presidential debate, which McCain is seeking to postpone (Barack Obama and debate organizers have rejected the idea). In the short-term, however, McCain pulled out of his planned appearance tonight on Late Show with David Letterman, and the host is pissed. Seems McCain told Letterman that he was cancelling so that he could rush back to Washington D.C., but then Dave caught wind that McCain hadn’t gone anywhere — that, in fact, he was just down the street taping an interview with CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric. What followed was an on-screen excoriation, according to the Drudge Report: More »
