Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Beating An Abuser’s Reputation
11:06PM Defamer Hollywood | If you read Gatecrasher today, you can see the seeds of Chris Brown’s would-be image rehabilitation. Step 1, make the singer look remorseful for reportedly attacking Rihanna. Step 2, blame the victim. More »
Competition: The Confessions So Far
3:30PM Kym Weathersten | We’ve now hit the third day of our very competitive Confessions Of A Shopaholic comp, meaning you’ve got just two more days to enter. So, confess your greatest shopping weakness here, here, or in the comments below, to stand any chance of winning. Just like the utterly addicted Zoe, who’s weakness for “coffee, coffee, and more coffee- and maybe some lipgloss,” actually sounded pretty damn logical.
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Music
2:30PM Jess McGuire | Reet reet reet! Two Day Old News Desk™ here and extremely flat out after Monday’s Oscars ceremony pummelled my brain and rendered me unable to do anything except rock back and forth and sing “The Reader! I haven’t seen The Reader!”.
Remember how last week we talked about J.D’s unfortunate booting from the INXS camp? Well, according to the band, that’s not quite how things went down….
INXS has hit back at claims that they unceremoniously dumped their former singer JD Fortune from the band in the middle of a busy airport. INXS creative director and global business strategist, Chris Murphy, said yesterday that the band was horrified by comments made by Fortune that he was dropped by the band at Hong Kong airport.
It’s probably worth noting that INXS have actually hired someone to work as a “global business strategist”, thus confirming everyone’s suspicions that it hasn’t been “all about the music, maaaaaan” for quite some time as far as the band’s goals are concerned. More »
If J.D Fortune Wasn’t Fired Before, He Certainly Is Now…
2:30PM Jess McGuire | Reet reet reet! Two Day Old News Desk™ here and extremely flat out after Monday’s Oscars ceremony pummelled my brain and rendered me unable to do anything except rock back and forth and sing “The Reader! I haven’t seen The Reader!”.
Remember how last week we talked about J.D’s unfortunate booting from the INXS camp? Well, according to the band, that’s not quite how things went down….
INXS has hit back at claims that they unceremoniously dumped their former singer JD Fortune from the band in the middle of a busy airport. INXS creative director and global business strategist, Chris Murphy, said yesterday that the band was horrified by comments made by Fortune that he was dropped by the band at Hong Kong airport.
It’s probably worth noting that INXS have actually hired someone to work as a “global business strategist”, thus confirming everyone’s suspicions that it hasn’t been “all about the music, maaaaaan” for quite some time as far as the band’s goals are concerned. More »
Music
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
Wanna hear a few more acts that are playing there? More »
Midnight Oil Happy To Rock Once More For A Good Cause
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
Wanna hear a few more acts that are playing there? More »
Small Screen
1:02PM Jess McGuire | It’s very wrong that I have Ginuwine in my head as a write this, but good news, fans of television shows based on books focused on equine-y adventures! It seems both Defamer Australia’s female twelve year old readers are in luck, because Channel Nine have announced that The Saddle Club will be premiering on Saturday March 7 at 10:00am! OH HELL YEAH!
THE SADDLE CLUB brings to life the adventures of three heroines: Stevie (Lauren Dixon), Carole (Victoria Campbell) and Lisa (Ariel Kaplan) who share friendship and the love of their horses Belle, Starlight and Prancer at Pine Hollow Stables.
Based on the internationally best-selling novels by Bonnie Bryant, the third series of THE SADDLE CLUB features three new characters plus a wonderful combination of laughter, horses, adventure, companionship, new songs and an adorable miniature donkey.
The new cast includes Australian Ariel Kaplan, Canadians Lauren Dixon and Victoria Campbell along with supporting cast member Australian Marney Kennedy who received the AFI Young Actors Award in 2006 for her role in Mortified.
Now we need to be supportive of this, dear readers, because The Saddle Club is a local production that doesn’t feature Matthew Newton’s bare arse (as far as I know). More »
The Saddle’s Waiting, Come And Jump On It!
1:02PM Jess McGuire | It’s very wrong that I have Ginuwine in my head as a write this, but good news, fans of television shows based on books focused on equine-y adventures! It seems both Defamer Australia’s female twelve year old readers are in luck, because Channel Nine have announced that The Saddle Club will be premiering on Saturday March 7 at 10:00am! OH HELL YEAH!
THE SADDLE CLUB brings to life the adventures of three heroines: Stevie (Lauren Dixon), Carole (Victoria Campbell) and Lisa (Ariel Kaplan) who share friendship and the love of their horses Belle, Starlight and Prancer at Pine Hollow Stables.
Based on the internationally best-selling novels by Bonnie Bryant, the third series of THE SADDLE CLUB features three new characters plus a wonderful combination of laughter, horses, adventure, companionship, new songs and an adorable miniature donkey.
The new cast includes Australian Ariel Kaplan, Canadians Lauren Dixon and Victoria Campbell along with supporting cast member Australian Marney Kennedy who received the AFI Young Actors Award in 2006 for her role in Mortified.
Now we need to be supportive of this, dear readers, because The Saddle Club is a local production that doesn’t feature Matthew Newton’s bare arse (as far as I know). More »
People
11:51AM Jess McGuire | Today’s story about a Greens councillor who has been asked to stop bringing her husband to meetings because he eats all the food really made me laugh this morning. Then I popped down to my local AA meeting and greedily gobbled up the free biscuits before ducking out the back door and narrowly avoiding the sharing of feelings.
A Greens politician has been told to stop bringing her husband to council meetings because he eats too much of the food.
Councillor Prue Cancian was told not to bring her activist husband Chris Maltby to meetings of Waverly Coucil in Sydney’s eastern suburbs because the ratepayer-funded catering could not sustain it.
This cannot be true – how much food can one human being consume? Surely not the same amount as an entire suburban council’s membership? And is Chris Maltby some kind of idiot unable to notice when he’s scoffed down a table’s worth of food and left nothing for others? Has he no restraint? More »
Hungry Hungry Hippies
11:51AM Jess McGuire | Today’s story about a Greens councillor who has been asked to stop bringing her husband to meetings because he eats all the food really made me laugh this morning. Then I popped down to my local AA meeting and greedily gobbled up the free biscuits before ducking out the back door and narrowly avoiding the sharing of feelings.
A Greens politician has been told to stop bringing her husband to council meetings because he eats too much of the food.
Councillor Prue Cancian was told not to bring her activist husband Chris Maltby to meetings of Waverly Coucil in Sydney’s eastern suburbs because the ratepayer-funded catering could not sustain it.
This cannot be true – how much food can one human being consume? Surely not the same amount as an entire suburban council’s membership? And is Chris Maltby some kind of idiot unable to notice when he’s scoffed down a table’s worth of food and left nothing for others? Has he no restraint? More »
Music
10:22AM Jess McGuire | This clip of Melbourne band GOD performing their song ‘My Pal’ blows my mind. It’ all the more astounding to me because that voice comes out a boy wearing braces on his teeth.
“You’re my only friend and you don’t even like me”
Sigh.
MORE: GOD (Band) – WIkipedia More »
A Stroll Down Australian Rock Memory Lane
10:22AM Jess McGuire | This clip of Melbourne band GOD performing their song ‘My Pal’ blows my mind. It’ all the more astounding to me because that voice comes out a boy wearing braces on his teeth.
“You’re my only friend and you don’t even like me”
Sigh.
MORE: GOD (Band) – WIkipedia More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:04AM Jess McGuire | You know what? I found this clip to be really kinda sweet.
Go Rob! More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:04AM Jess McGuire | You know what? I found this clip to be really kinda sweet.
Go Rob! More » Competition: Win Tickets To Confessions Of A Shopaholic
8:30AM Kym Weathersten | The Defamer crew love to give you free stuff and winning doesn’t get much easier than this. We’re giving away a stack of double passes to Confessions of a Shopaholic, the new Jerry Bruckheimer romantic comedy starring our very own Isla Fisher.
To bag one of the 20 passes, confess with a comment that’s 40 words or less:
Your pockets are almost empty, your credit cards are maxed, you’re steeped in debt and you’ve been craving a shopping fix. How would you spend your last few precious dollars? What is your greatest shopping weakness?
Entries close at 5pm on Feb 27th so you can catch the film when it premieres on March 12. Good luck!
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