Archive for September, 2003

A MOMENT OF SILENCE…
This is crazy… Matthew Jay died last night.
THE RETURN OF TRAVIS
We were listening to Radio 1 the other day when a song caught our… ear. We thought maybe it was from the new Starsailor album, and we said, “Woah, is James exploring his dark side?” But with minimal searching we […]

JUST A RANDOM THOUGHT…
Eddie Izzard has this bit in one of his shows where he discusses the fine line between being “cool, hip, and groovy” and “looking like a complete d*ckhead.” According to Izzard, “cool, hip, and groovy” is right up against “looking like a complete d*ckhead” and once you go over that line […]

OH NO YOU DIDN’T!
Read the most painful… er… self-gratification stories ever. Ouch.

AHH, YOU SMELL THAT? IT’S THE PUBLIC AIRING OUT OF PRETENTION!

Blogging is not the new journalism. It’s the new zine. They will disappear when some of the more high-profile bloggers—those who came up from nothing with a will to write, not those high-vis journos who slummed in the freeform—find jobs in the mainstream press, […]

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Jack White’s got a new message:

09/25/03
Males are such despicable creatures.
Jack White
III

HI, YOU MAY REMEMBER US AS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD — WELL, WE’RE BACK! AND OUR NEW ALBUM IS GREAT!

Movies we watched this weekend: Jerry Maguire, Something About Mary, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Jackass: The Movie
TV we watched this weekend: Season premiere of “Alias,” Gravity Games (BMX), “Miss Match,” “Boomtown”
Music we listened to this weekend: Room on Fire, The Strokes; In Utero, Nirvana

PARIS HILTON TELLS SISTER NICKY TO KEEP HER LEGS SHUT
Too bad she didn’t follow her own advice when she went comando last month… Says Paris in Seventeen magazine: “I tell Nicky, with guys, they’re only gonna want what they can’t have… Nobody wants the beaten-up Prada purse on Canal Street. Everyone wants the […]

AFFLECK’S SHAMPOO ADS, NOT CAREER, DECLARED “DEEPLY EMBARRASSING.”
Ben Affleck’s British L’Oreal ads banned in US.

BLACK(OUT) IS STILL IN STYLE FOR FALL!
Italy struck by wide-scale blackout, leaving 57 million people without power. On the bright side, brilliant quotes taken from the AP news wire release:
“Italy blamed France; France denied responsibility.”
“All the ice creams are melting. It’s a disaster.”
“Fabrizio Volpi, a 21-year-old student, was briefly stuck in a nightclub when […]