Tuesday, December 30, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
4:27PM Jess McGuire | I blame my pronunciation of Footscray on this man’s legacy.
Melbourne residents? You are well familiar with Franco Cozzo. Viewers elsewhere should delight in him, please. One day I will tell you my Franco Cozzo dream.
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Sneaky Sound System’s Connie Collapses On Stage After Nasty Face-Meets-Water Bottle Incident
1:37PM Jess McGuire | A Mount Franklin bottle to the head isn’t fun at the best of times, but when your noggin makes contact with such an object while you’re singing onstage? Bad. And if you stop singing but the vocals keep going regardless? It can look a little Ashlee/Milli Vanilli.
Pity Sneaky Sound System’s Connie Mitchell then, please.
Sneaky Sound System lead singer Connie Mitchell collapsed during her performance at Rollercoaster Music Festival after being hit by a water bottle. The event in Mandurah, which featured artists such as Cut Copy, Gyroscope, The Teenagers and The Living End, was marred by the incident.
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Win A BRAVIA Z Series LCD TV
12:30PM Kym Weathersten | Remember, for your chance to win that BRAVIA Z Series LCD TV we keep harping on about head to our absurdely brilliant site survey and take a few minutes to tell us about yourself. [Survey] [Terms and Conditions] More »
Charlotte Hatherley Appreciation
11:53AM Jess McGuire | I’m not sure how many of you dear readers were/are fans of Irish rock pop ensemble Ash, but when I was a kid I was thoroughly obsessed with them. Seriously, I’d never felt such feverish passion for a band in my life, and it seems unlikely I ever will again. There’s just something about the hearts of fourteen year old girls, you know?
Anyway, when I fell in love with Ash, I had two dreams. The first was to marry front man Tim Wheeler. I truly thought this would happen. When I went to Ireland as a fifteen year old and visited their hometown of Downpatrick and didn’t run into them and therefore failed in my plan to make Tim fall in love with me, I felt genuine disappointment and grief. The second Ash-related dream? To join the band as their teen chick guitarist and travel the world. Sure, being in a band with my lover might be difficult at times, but we’d manage. It all seemed so inevitable.
And then those bastards recruited a teen chick guitarist and she was not me and I was absolutely furious. I swore I could never love Ash again. How dare they do something like that to their biggest fan/future wife? It was cruel and hurtful.
So imagine my surprise a few years ago to find myself very much enjoying the solo works of aforementioned teen chick guitarist, a lass by the name of Charlotte Hatherley. Her download only single of 2004 “Kim Wilde” was on high rotation at Chez Jess for a loooooong time.
For some reason I thought of her again today and trawled YouTube to see what she’s done since. I appear to like her later works as well, so I’ll have to track down a copy of her last record. In the meantime, would you like to hear some nice girl poprock? More » Even More 2008 Defamer Video Highlights!
10:44AM Seth | Still have an appetite for memorable Defamer video moments after getting through the Hall of Shame? Intern Leigh Lumford compiled A Top 10 Defamer Video Moments for your 2008 nostalgic enjoyment. More »
How Steven Soderbergh Intends to Capsize the Careers of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman
10:00AM Kyle Buchanan | We’d be lying if we said we weren’t excited for Cleo, Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming 3-D Cleopatra musical/possible practical joke starring Hugh Jackman and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Now, Soderbergh has revealed insane new details.
Warner Bros. Slaps Back at Fox, Preps For ‘Watchmen’ Trial
9:25AM STV | Now that Fox and Warner Bros. no longer have SAG to engage in their quest for mutually assured destruction, they’ve officially entered the saber-rattling stage of their own legal wrangle over the rights to Watchmen. More »Attention Larry Emdur – Defamer Australia Has A Message For You
8:58AM Jess McGuire | And when I say we have a message for Larry Emdur, I don’t mean in the sense that I’m about to give him career and/or life advice in the form of an open letter. I mean it in the receptionist way.
Someone just emailed me a message for Larry Emdur, and since it’s the festive season and thus the only time of year I feel the urge to do anything good for someone else’s sake, I am going to republish the request here on the off chance Larry is a regular Defamer Australia reader.
Oh, who am I kidding? He’s not – but maybe one of his “people”/someone who met someone who knows one of his “people” could pass this on?
trying to make contact with Larry Emdur
We used to have Larry’s email, can you get a message to him from Nina & Michael Richards, he knows us very well. Send him our love and ask him to make contact. Thanks. Nina Richards
So there you go, Larry. Nina and Michael send their love, and for god’s sake, man – give ‘em a call! They miss your cheery soul!
PS: Oh, and Larry? If you need Nina and Michael’s email address, get in touch.
COMING SOON: MORE LETTERS TO CELEBRITIES SENT C/O DEFAMER AUSTRALIA! MAYBE! More » 
