Wednesday, October 29, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:24PM Jess McGuire | I adore this child. ADORE HIM! I want to eat him up with a spoon. I want to see a sitcom where he’s the star. I want to vote for him in some kind of election. I want him turned into a soft toy to sit on my bed and be adorable when I need some cuteness in my life. Terrified cuteness, my favourite kind.
This was another entry for our How To Lose Friends And Alienate People competition. Who knew so many of you were holding onto such nuggets of YouTube gold? Why don’t you send me these kinds of things when there’s no prize involved? You pack of selfish bastards. I love you.
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Brian McFadden To Battle ‘Troubled’ Kerry Katona For Custody Of Their Two Children
1:19PM Jess McGuire | After his ex-wife, former Atomic Kitten ‘singer’ Kerry Katona, made a disastrous appearance last week on a British television program where she slurred throughout her conversation with the show’s hosts, Brian McFadden is apparently set to fight his former missus for custody of their little ones.
Delta Goodrem’s finance, Brian McFadden, will reportedly fight his ex-wife for the custody of their two children. McFadden, who is living with Goodrem in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo, will fly back to the UK to fight Kerry Katona in the courts in an attempt to bring his daughters Molly, seven, and six-year-old Lilly-Sue, to live with him in Australia, The Sun reports.
The Daily Telegraph article goes on to describe Kerry Katona as someone who is “used to sell chicken nuggets in commercials”, although that may be a harsh assessment – she the face of Iceland, a supermarket chain, which sounds somewhat better. More » 
Ladyhawke – ‘My Delirium’
11:44AM Jess McGuire | When I reviewed the Ladyhawke album for Jmag, I declared ‘My Delirium’ to be the track I recommended readers download, and I’m happy to learn it’s now going to be the new single from record.
Over in the U.K, Popjustice have launched a campaign to try and get ‘My Delirium’ on top of the singles chart on December 25th, thus ensuring New Zealander Pip Brown’s place in the pop history books in the chapter titled ‘Chrismas Number Ones‘.
Popjustice says:
This is clearly a Christmas Number One waiting to happen. All it needs is some sleigh bells chucked over the top and maybe some new lyrics about the festive period (‘stop playing with my eggnog’, ‘stop playing with grandma’s colostomy bag’ etc etc) and it’s job done. Ladyhawke could do a new video where instead of a car she’s in Santa’s sleigh, and instead of a guitar she’s holding a Christmas tree. There should probably be some snow on the ground too. And she’d have to change her name to Ladyho Ho Ho.
More » Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, And Paris Hilton To Star In A New HBO Show? Unbelievable!
10:34AM Jess McGuire | Sometimes it can seem as though the glittering world of showbiz is so insane and illogical on a daily basis that nothing can truly shock us anymore. Well, that’s what I thought – and then I read that HBO are apparently arranging for Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton to star together in a new sitcom. And my unflappable self was well and truly flapped. Surely this cannot be true?!
Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan are rumoured to be in talks to star in a sitcom together. US TV network HBO, which brought us Sex and the City, are reportedly keen to sign up the blonde trio to appear as flatmates struggling to make it big in Hollywood.
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Al Franken Faces Toughest Political Challenge Yet From Fellow ‘SNL’ Vet Victoria Jackson
10:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Excuse us, did you just hear a loud thunk? Did it sound something like a gauntlet being thrown down? Because it just got all tense up in here, and we think that’s thanks to the only thing that could derail Al Franken’s unlikely-yet-succeeding candidacy for the U.S. Senate: a stern, bobble-headed rebuke ad from his old Saturday Night Live coworker, Victoria Jackson! You may remember Jackson — less so for her SNL tenure than for her recent proclamations that Barack Obama is an “Anti-Christ whitey-hater.” Now, she and other well-respected Hollywood Republicans like Stephen Baldwin and John Ratzenberger (what, was D.B. Sweeney’s quote too high?) have taken to the airwaves in an attempt to boost Franken’s competitor, Sen. Norm Coleman. For what it’s worth, we think Jackson’s screech of “Go VIKEEEEEENGS!” is indubitably her best work since Handi-Off. Enjoy the clip, after the jump: More »
10:01AM Seth | The Future of Weiner. A rumour that Lionsgate is approaching various agencies in search of a Mad Men showrunner to replace a too-rich-for-their-blood Matthew Weiner was shot down by an insider, who told Defamer the negotiations had just begun, and that while he asked high, they were absolutely “not looking to replace him. He IS the show.” Fret not, Mad Men fans still in mourning over the end of Season 2 and sweating the fate of Season 3: the studio is confident the deal will close before Christmas. (And without the celebrity dancing competition Jon Hamm promised in his SNL monologue.) More »
Audrina Patridge Risks Underexposure as MTV Crews Tossed From Neighbourhood
9:50AM STV | Civil war is stirring near Audrina Patridge’s plush new Hollywood Dell redoubt, where the MTV crews following her every supple, dignified move has drawn outrage from neighbours insisting that the city regulate nearby shooting on The Hills. And after hearing the residents’ appeal, the Los Angeles film office has in fact interceded to bring you less Audrina from the comfort of her own home — marking a small victory for a tormented community under siege, and possibly marking the West Coast front in America’s burgeoning Hills defensive. More »
Free MP3! | Dan Kelly And The Ukeladies – ‘The SUV Song’
9:19AM Jess McGuire | Happy Wednesday, comrades.
To celebrate the fact we’ve made it through to what office workers hilariously refer to as “hump day”, I think we should celebrate by downloading a brand new track from handsome troubadour Dan Kelly called ‘The SUV Song’. The tune features the gorgeous backing vocals of The Ukeladies, two gorgeous young ladies I’ve spoken about before on Defamer Australia, as their gentle crooning is destined to be the sound you hear when you approach the gates of Heaven.
So what’s The SUV Song about, I hear you ask?
A timely ode to the sinking Samoan and Tuvaluan women as they resignedly gurgle insults at Westerners pottering about in their supersize automobiles, The S.U.V Song is another skewed, witty, sweetly melodic and bleak song from the pen of the man who brought us “Drunk On Election Night’ and the award winning LP Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth.
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Defamer Halloween Costume Ideas, Vol. III: The Dreamer
8:50AM Seth | Time for another one of those costume ideas/seasonal mini-mysteries you love so much! Hmmm…What do we have here? A shortsleeved collarless shirt, some black slacks, a screenwriting manual, and an odd suggestion to embed some popcorn in one’s hair. Whatever could those daffy scientists at Defamer’s Halloween Sciences labs be up to now? Wonder no longer: the finished product is after the jump! More »