Archive for September 28th, 2003

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 [...]

OH THOSE CHEEKY BRITS…
Get your bum squeezed by Justin Timberlake.

NEXT WEEK IN NEW YORK TIMES: DARING EXPOSE ON HOW DAVE MATTHEWS HAS BECOME RICH BY SELLING MUSIC TO STONED WHITE KIDS… AND OTHER OBVIOUS THINGS THEY HAVEN’T GOTTEN DOWN IN PRINT FORM JUST YET
Can Vice commercialize hipsterdom? Watch out for the great mention of Blender being an “indie music” magazine. Ahhh… [...]