Thursday, October 29, 2009
Music
1:11PM Jess McGuire | The Internet TM appears to be losing its shit over this song by Canadian duo Fan Death. Not only did they immediately win me over with their nu-disco-Siouxsie Sioux-esque-pop tunes (I wish that was a real genre!), but the video is really very good. More »
Fan Death – ‘Reunited’
1:11PM Jess McGuire | The Internet TM appears to be losing its shit over this song by Canadian duo Fan Death. Not only did they immediately win me over with their nu-disco-Siouxsie Sioux-esque-pop tunes (I wish that was a real genre!), but the video is really very good. More » 
Flotsam & Jetsam
12:48PM Jess McGuire | The ever-reliable Cameron sent me this clip containing CCTV footage of someone’s fairly impressive failure to park. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day II
12:48PM Jess McGuire | The ever-reliable Cameron sent me this clip containing CCTV footage of someone’s fairly impressive failure to park. More »
Music
10:47AM Jess McGuire | As we’ve probably all learned by now, winning Australian Idol does not necessarily mean you’re ensured a hugely successful career in music. For every Guy Sebastian and Shannon Noll, there’s a Casey Donovan or Natalie Gauci. It’s a little too early to claim that Wes Carr’s career is in trouble, but by god – it’s a bit worrying that only two people turned up to his gig for MySpace Music in Melbourne on Monday. More »
Well, This Has Gotta Be One Of Wes Carr’s Worst Gigs Ever
10:47AM Jess McGuire | As we’ve probably all learned by now, winning Australian Idol does not necessarily mean you’re ensured a hugely successful career in music. For every Guy Sebastian and Shannon Noll, there’s a Casey Donovan or Natalie Gauci. It’s a little too early to claim that Wes Carr’s career is in trouble, but by god – it’s a bit worrying that only two people turned up to his gig for MySpace Music in Melbourne on Monday. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
10:06AM Jess McGuire | Here is the story of Google in two minutes and thirteen seconds. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
10:06AM Jess McGuire | Here is the story of Google in two minutes and thirteen seconds. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
10:03AM Jess McGuire | The following video is kind of amazing – and totally heartbreaking. It’s footage from a news story on a 26 year old American cheerleader named Desiree Jennings who had a flu shot in late August… and then lost the ability to walk and talk due to a neurological disorder triggered by the injection. More »
When Flu Shots Go Bad…
10:03AM Jess McGuire | The following video is kind of amazing – and totally heartbreaking. It’s footage from a news story on a 26 year old American cheerleader named Desiree Jennings who had a flu shot in late August… and then lost the ability to walk and talk due to a neurological disorder triggered by the injection. More »
Big Screen
Hints Of Light At The End Of The Michael Jackson Mourning Tunnel
9:06AM Richard Rushfield | We’ve spent four long months mourning the death of the self-anointed King, a life of PR exploitation which segued beautifully into an afterlife of PR exploitation. But at last it seems the parade might be winding down. More »
People
8:32AM Gabriel Snyder | — the provacateur doing his best to eradicate any last remaining supporters of Roman Polanski, and his effort to get the world to overlook the fact that he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978, in an interview with The Atlantic.
Gore Vidal —
8:32AM Gabriel Snyder | — the provacateur doing his best to eradicate any last remaining supporters of Roman Polanski, and his effort to get the world to overlook the fact that he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978, in an interview with The Atlantic.
People
Now You Can Make Money When A Celebrity Bolts From Scientology
7:13AM John Cook | The British bookmaker Paddy Power is taking bets on which celebrity will be the next to turn their backs on L. Ron Hubbard. John Travolta leads the pack at 9:4 odds, and Tom Cruise is at 50:1. Place your markers. More »
People
6:47AM Brian Moylan | [Reese Witherspoon gets very excited whenever she is around cute things. Maybe they had a pet segment when she was on Good Morning America today. Image via INF]
Someone Must Have Said ‘Puppy’
6:47AM Brian Moylan | [Reese Witherspoon gets very excited whenever she is around cute things. Maybe they had a pet segment when she was on Good Morning America today. Image via INF]
Big Screen
