Tomorrow, Discopop Towers will be uprooted lock, stock and barrel from its top secret location in West London and re-located in its new home in an equally top secret nuclear bunker on the banks of the Thames.
Everything is going into boxes now. We’ll see you back here on August 1st.
The spammers are taking notice of our campaign for silly names.
Today we received an email from one Guadalupe Saunders! Even better, it had the subject line “Swim by condiment maladroit”
Keep up the good work, you crazy sons-of-bitches!
This sounds like a great idea: Statler and Waldorf review the week’s movie releases from the heady heights of their Muppety balcony.
Except… those aren’t their real voices, are they? And the script seems to have been written by a toenail, such is the flourish and wit therein.
Unfortunately, now that Disney have purchased the muppet franchise, this is bound to be the first of many nails in Kermit’s coffin.
But here’s some of the stories we’ve been reading anyway…
First of all, the Magic Numbers are a poor man’s Mamas and the Papas. By which we mean that, yes, they have the requisite weight problems, but they’re sadly lacking the pretty lady member or the ability to sing.
Secondly, the MIA album really isn’t as good as everyone pretends it is.
Thirdly, KT Tunstall.
Hopefully the Kaiser Chiefs will win, but why no pop albums this year? Girls Aloud and Joss Stone have been making some distinctly above-average music this year. Much of it is better than the tosh produced by the indie-boys on the list and, hey, they managed to sell some of their records too. It is a crime for which the serious music press will never forgive them.
Roald Dahl wrote his children’s books in a “tiny cottage” at the end of his garden. It had “walls lined with Styrofoam” and “a jar containing gristly bits of his own spine”. No wonder the six-foot-tall author came up with such twisted stories.
From today’s Independent:
“[Christopher] Walken thinks it would be great if actors had tails. ‘A tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell if they’re annoyed. You can tell whether they’re scared. They bush their tail. If I was an actor and I had to play scared in a movie all I’d have to do is bush my tail. I think that if actors had tails it would change everything.’“
Also, for those of you who complained that you couldn’t see the pictures of Mariah Carey’s clothes falling, try here instead (Not safe for work. Or your sanity, we should imagine.)
Here at Discopop towers, we get hundreds of spam emails a day.
They are generally very entertaining – who knew how many different ways there are to spell a simple word like Viagra? However, its getting to the point where we simply can’t keep up.
Today we have a message for the spammers: We appreciate your attention, but we require a bit more effort on your part.
From now on, we won’t read your emails unless you use a stupid made-up name. Allow us to illustrate, using actual examples from the past week:
Thank you for your kind attention in this matter.
Will’s standing with the winner of a national photography competition, sponsored by Mencap (he’s an ambassador for the charity). More photos and info over at Mencap,org.uk
Update: 14/7/05. The internet does what it does best – distributes pictures of fleshy ladybits. We will not be held responsible if your eyes burn when you click on this link
No, it’s not a telephone exchange, it’s synth-god Giorgio Moroder working on the equipment that produced Donna Summer’s 16 minute dirt-fest “Love To Love You Baby”.
Much Music has a bizarre tribute / shrine to his music running this week. Worth a look, if only to see more pictures like this one.
Price comparison websites are useless. The prices they quote are usually out-of-date, and you rarely have any way to guage how reliable the vendors will be.
There are no such problems at pricenoia.com. It compares prices at six of Amazon’s international stores on your choice of books, CDs, DVDs, etc. You’d be surprised at how much you can save, even when you pay £5 shipping from the USA, for example.
A quick surf shows that 50 Cent’s new album will cost you £10 if you order it from the USA, a saving of £5 on the Amazon UK price. Although we can’t understand why anyone would want to own a copy of this rancid dustbin of an album.
The only snag is that the site can’t amalgamate different versions of the same product; so a Region 1 DVD gets a separate listing to it’s Region 2 cousin. But overall you’re saved a lot of clicking, and a fair amount of cash.
Temporary Fix 