Which one is the most plastic?

Pamela Anderson was accompanied to a fashion show in London this week by a man in a white mask and gloves.  Speculation was rife that it was Michael Jackson.  Personally I doubt this – wrong sex and too old.

Leaving aside the possibility of it being Michael Jackson, I ask you, which one of these two has the highest plastic content?

(Of course if it is Jackson its a no-brainer).

Numerology

I was pleased today to get the CD I’d ordered a week or so ago. Its by one of my favourite bands of the early 80’s - ie when I was at uni and seeing bands a lot, The Numbers. They were always worth seeing, especially given the fantastic singer and bass player they had. Bet you can guess who that was.

I love this sort of music - power-pop is my favourite genre, hence why bands like The Numbers, Sunnyboys, The Riptides, Spy vs Spy and the like were great to see and listen to. And I still like it, even now The New Pornographers are probably my favourite current band - and yay, I have tickets to see them in Sydney in October.

This music I think stands the test of time. Sometimes the musicians don’t (witness The Rolling Stones for example), but I found this article about The Numbers when the new CD was released, and this picture of Annalisse Morrow shows she’s aged quite well, considering its getting on for 30 years since the photo on the CD cover would have been taken.

OK, I’ve listened to the CD in full twice now, plus a few random songs. Excellent!!!

Technorati Tags: The Numbers, Numerology, Annalisse Morrow, Chris Morrow, Sunnyboys, The Riptides, Spy vs Spy, power pop, New Pornographers

Batman - The Dark Knight

Saw “The Dark Knight”, the latest Batman movie, today. I’m not a fan of the Batman series but my son isa, and he talked me into taking him. It was well worth it, by far the best of the Batman movies, and the performance of Heath Ledger as The Joker was stunning.

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Sunday Roast

Well, thats what she’ll get nicknamed at school.

Congratulations to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.

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The patented Todd McKenney pants down defence

After being arrested for possession of the drug, GBH/GHB/fantasy, Todd McKenney (musical theatre actor, and “Dancing With the Stars” judge), told police that he had been at a party, and had danced so much and got too hot, so he took his pants off to cool down so he could continue dancing. While his pants were down, he claims someone else at the party must have put the drug in his pocket.

McKenney was arrested after being found unconscious in a park, and had to be revived by ambulance officers. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of drug possession. Since his arrest was revealed in April the entertainer and FM radio host, has publicly defended himself, saying that he had been the victim of drink spiking and “tall poppy syndrome” envy by someone who wanted to bring him down.

Everyone repeat after me, Todd, sure we believe you!!!!

Now I’m thinking such a creative defence lends itself to many situations. Lets see:

• homework not done - Sir, I got so hot riding to school I took my pants off to cool down, and my homework was in the pocket and must have got stolen
• missing deadlines at work - Boss, the preso was on my USB key, in my pocket, but it was so hot on the train I took my pants off to cool down, and when I got to the station I must have grabbed someone else’s pants and put them on by mistake
• speeding fines - Officer, I don’t know why I’ve got this ticket. I wasn’t there that day. I can explain what happened, my license was in my pants ……..

Technorati Tags: Todd McKenney, drugs, GHB, GBH, fantasy

Hey luckman22, get a life!!!!

To appreciate the significance of this heading, you’ll need to have seen The Chaser’s Age of Terror Variety Hour. We saw it tonight and its very funny. I hardly stopped laughing the whole way through.

Chas Licciardello’s lesson on internet dating was especially funny, with luckman22 a highlight of it. What a loser!!!

Iron Man

My son talked me into going to see “Iron Man” tonight. I’d seen the ads for it when I was in Taiwan and Hong Kong a week and a bit ago and thought it looked interesting (of course, I didn’t understand the ads in Chinese). So “cheapskate Tuesday” at the local cinema was enough to convince me it would be worth spending $9.50 on.

And it was well worthwhile, much better than I’d expected. I haven’t really been much of a fan of comic book adaptation movies (like Spiderman, Batman, the Hulk) but this one was pretty good ….I’d never heard of the Iron Man comics before, so it was all new to me.

Sure it was far fetched, but it did have an interesting premise, and the story was well told. Robert Downey Jr was excellent as the main character, Tony Stark, and Jeff Bridges made a good bad guy (I didn’t even realise it was him until the credits at the end). Gwyneth Paltrow did a decent job also.

Next thing we’re going to is in a couple of weeks …. The Chaser’s live show. Kids talked me into that as well. That should be good … Cellobella saw it last month in Perth and enjoyed it.

Adultery

Loved this song 21 years ago, and its got a great video, which has kindly been uploaded to Youtube. Do Re Mi were an excellent band, featuring the always delightful Deborah Conway.

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Time for some musical goodness. I’ve been listening to the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds CD “Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!” since yesterday ….I think I’ve listened to it completely at least 4 times. I’m impressed - while I’ve enjoyed the last few of the band’s CD’s such as “No More Shall We Part”, “Nocturama” and “Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus”, this one is more straightforward and rock-ish.

My favourite song: “Albert Goes West”.

Here is a video for the title track. Enjoy!

Breaking the internet

I really liked this photo when I first saw it a few days ago.  Lindsay Lohan did a photo shoot for New York magazine which was a re-creation of Marilyn Monroe’s last nude photo shoot.  It was even done by the same photographer who took the photos of Monroe - Bert Stern.

The images were so popular on the internet that the magazine’s website crashed after receiving around 20 million daily page views in the days after they were published. The average number of daily page views in January was 1.2 million.

While the cover photo above is really good, and some of the others (I was only looking at the magazine’s site for the articles, honest!) are too, it doesn’t alter the fact that Lindsay Lohan is a fairly mediocre actress who has gained more fame and notoriety for her out of control personal life than she’s ever likely to get for acting.

Still, I’m happy to post the photo here - (a) because I like it, (b) because I know it will be a traffic magnet.