One of only a few female singers who has managed to retain her credibility and her clothing while performing lead vocals in a hard rock band. Admittedly singing about snowboarding while being pursued by creatures from another planet betrays a hint of lunacy, but we’ve all been there after one too many ribenas.
Top tune.
Do you know who these people are? Most of the media don’t appear to. Image: AP Photo.
UPDATE: Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have been cleared of the murder of Meredith Kercher on appeal and freed. The morning after the verdict was given, Channel 5’s morning magazine show ‘The Wright Stuff’, ran a discussion segment prompted by the case called ‘Foxy Knoxy – Would Ya?’. The introduction, by presenter Matthew Wright, went like this.
‘She’s entirely innocent of the murder of Meredith Kercher and foxy as hell, so what I want to know this morning is: If you met Amanda Knox in a bar and she invited you back to her room – would ya?’
It’s actually worse than I thought.
ORIGINAL POST: Regardless of whether Amanda Knox’s conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher is overturned on appeal later today, it’s unlikely that anyone apart from Knox, her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede will ever know the truth of what happened that night in Perugia.
Continue reading “Amanda Knox: The Point. Has Anyone Seen It?”
It has been reported that a rape crisis centre in South London experienced an 800% increase in calls after a character in ITV soap Coronation St was attacked. Carla Connor, who was due to marry her fiance and colleague Frank Foster, was raped by him in the show last week after calling off the wedding in a storyline that attracted more than a little controversy.
No, I have no clue who they are either. But I feel it only fair to give you the same info I have before you continue to read.
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For those of you who have become obsessed with Lars von Trier since I availed you of his twisted genius, here’s the trailer for ‘Melancholia’, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year. If you haven’t, and you have little interest in familial relationships and the futility of human existence, the plot also features a rogue planet and Kiefer Sutherland.
Admittedly Morgan Freeman is not the President of the United States in the film, and although I haven’t seen Melancholia in it’s entirety yet, I’m almost positive the world is not going to be saved by a surprisingly hirsute Bruce Willis in an orange jumpsuit.
But it might be worth checking out anyway.
Shaima Jastaina has been sentenced to ten lashes after being caught breaking Saudi Arabia’s prohibition on female drivers.
Before launching into our collective repertoire of women driver jokes, (a myth that is perpetuated by women who refuse to believe that the absence of a Y chromosome equates to an inability to parallel park, incidentally), let’s remember that like many others before her in history, Jastaina is part of a movement defying law in the hope of changing it.
While her punishment is quite clearly egregious, brutal and ludicrously innappropriate, I, for one, can only admire what women in these countries are prepared to do to effect change.
It’s more than I think I could manage.
Image: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
The Radisson Hotel in Bloomsbury is hosting the XBIZ EU conference this weekend – a digital media summit for porn industry executives. The event has attracted criticism from feminist groups who have stated that pornography is degrading to women and likened it to a meat market, articulating their point by dressing up as butchers and protesting outside the venue.
On seeing the protests, Claire Wigington, head of marketing for Television X (purveyor of edifying fare such as ‘Entry Level Whore’ and ‘Freddie’s Tattoo Tarts’) responded by saying their argument was ‘simplified’ and ‘women in the porn industry know what they’re doing’.
Is it worth giving that tired old cliche another pummelling?
Continue reading “Feminists, Cardboard Meat Cleavers & Not-So-Lame Excuses”
To me, this looks largely like a shot for shot remake of the original. Which surely confirms the suspicion that they’re only doing it for those people who’ve yet to master reading subtitles, watching the action and breathing at the same time.
Despite a conviction for murder based on witness statements that have now been withdrawn, a refusal by officials to allow a lie detector test and a promise by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles that he would not be executed unless there was ‘no doubt’ of his guilt, Troy Davis was put to death last night.
The issue of the travellers camp at Dale Farm in Essex has been poked, prodded, manipulated and wrung dry of pathos by the media. But as we continue to wade through confusing stories of helpless cancer stricken pensioners being hurled out onto the street and non-resident protester types infiltrating the site in order to wage battle against the authorities, have we lost sight of the point?
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