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Amy Winehouse Round-Up: What’s Cookin’, Good Lookin’?
2:38PM Clem Bastow | Okay so based on the press surrounding Amy Winehouse’s appearance the last few weeks, you could be forgiven for thinking she was close to death and/or preparing, method-style, to play the female lead in a remake of Weekend At Bernie’s (particularly if you, you know, actually looked at her). But now, following the news that she actually didn’t fare too badly at the V Festival this past weekend (”The 24-year-old Grammy winner looked nervous, and her vocals were sometimes only partially audible, but the V crowd applauded loudly at the end of her curtailed set,” apparently), I’ve looked at the shots from the gig and, well, is it wrong to tentatively say she’s actually starting to look a bit better again? Evidence over the jump. More » 
News.com.au Presents A Handy Guide To Spotting Music Festival Dickheads
1:08PM Clem Bastow | You know when you go to the Big Day Out (or equivalent), inevitably you’ll find yourself a) accosted by tools wearing matching “hilarious” t-shirts, b) laugh at goths whose makeup is melting in the summer heat or c) lose count of the number of “totally hot” chicks wearing bathers as outerwear? And have you ever thought “Gee, wouldn’t it be great to catalogue these poor souls in some sort of anthropological bible”?
Those thoughtful people over at News.com.au have – somewhat unwittingly – compiled a shortlist of 50 of the biggest festival tools of the ‘07/’08 season, starting with these ladies:
And featuring the witty caption:
Radiant … these ladies describe themselves as The Wiggles on Speed.”
If that’s enough to whet your appetite then while away a lazy ten minutes or so of your lunch break by weeping for the future of our once fine nation.
Fifty compelling arguments for selective breeding can be found here. More » 