Monthly Archive for August, 2006

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Big Brother 7: Shameless

Last night’s eviction show, during which Mickey and Susie became the eleventh set of evictees from Big Brother, was a display of shamelessness, stupidity and greed! This time, however, it wasn’t the housemates acting up, it was Channel 4/Endemol/Big Brother whose latest twist is to ask the viewers to vote back in four of the skanks that they’d voted out in previous weeks! GAH! The reason they were booted out in the first place is that we’re sick of the sight of them!

Just when you thought they’d floated out of your life forever … they’re back. And they mean business.

Ten evicted housemates will be back on Big Brother tonight, and this Tuesday four of them will be returning to the House Next Door.

Is your head spinning yet? Let us explain.

During tonight’s live double eviction show EIGHT ex-housemates were welcomed back.

Grace, Jayne, Lea, Lisa, Michael, Nikki, Sam, Spiral, plus the two recently evicted housemates will now have the chance to get back onto Big Brother stage, as phone lines open for viewers to vote for their FOUR favourite housemates to go back in to the secret House Next Door.

The evicted housemates will then have four days to campaign for votes in the outside world before returning for a special live show hosted by Davina McCall on Tuesday 8 August. That night, the FOUR ex-housemates receiving the most votes will move into the House Next Door.

But that’s not all … three days later, on Friday 11 August, straight after the main eviction, the housemates in the main House will have to choose just ONE of the evicted housemates to re-join them in the main house.

That housemate will live among them for the final week, and is eligible to win the series and the £100,000 prize.

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The revolution will not be verified

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Big Brother 7: Rumours

There’s a rumour going round that one of the evicted housemates may get the opportunity to be voted back into the Big Brother house during tonight’s eviction show. GAH! Double GAH! If they do that then I want a refund on my phone bill!

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RIP Tony Ogden

Tony Ogden, front man of one of the best Bands ever, World of Twist, died this week! He was only 44.

World of Twist

There’s an article on the Guardian about him: It’s a twisted world.

In recent(ish) musical history, however, there is one exception to all this. In the early 1990s, a group called World of Twist attempted to drop into the slipstream of what was known as “Madchester” and wean Stone Roses fans on to a singular meld of Hawkwind, Roxy Music and northern soul.

For a few singles, at least, they were impossibly great. So much so that the teenage Noel Gallagher tried to join their road crew and nearly named Oasis after their peak work, a song called Sons of the Stage (the Oasis slogan “noise and confusion” comes from the same source). It all came to nought. An offshoot of Virgin records did what private firms always do and threw oceans of cash at them, but they still foundered.

In the poetic estimation of their singer and chief visionary, one Tony Ogden, they “spent £250,000 making an album with the smallest bollocks in pop history”.

Ogden went on to waste “four years on smack watching Third Reich movies”, and subsequently apologised to his fans for “letting them down”. Quite rightly, however, he just about stood by his pocket-sized oeuvre: “I’d ask anyone to play that World of Twist album 20 times with every dial on full. If it doesn’t rock, come and smash it over my head.”

Ogden died this week, aged 44, his personal history an apparent mess of unfulfilled promise and unreturned calls. He was, I’d wager, the last of the lost geniuses.

The Independent also has an obituary.

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D Percussion @ Castlefield

D Percussion, the music event is on at Castlefield tomorrow. There’s going to be 8 stages, 60 bands, 85 DJs and probably a huge crowd of people. You can find details here.

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Bill Clinton is Gay

Bill Clinton is gay according to Ann Coulter!

… That level of rampant promiscuity … does show some level of latent homosexuality

So wanting to have sex with women means you’re gay? That makes sense!

Here’s the original interview.

And here’s Clinton’s response (via the Letterman show).

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Big Brother 7: Another Double Eviction

There’s going to be another double eviction tomorrow! I’m hoping it’s Mikey and Imogen!

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Big Brother 7: Nominations

This week Imogen, Jennie, Mikey and Susie are up for the chop. I hope Mikey goes.

Big Brother was away on holiday in Margate apparently so the nominations were handled by Automated Big Brother, basically a huge number keypad connected to a call centre like voicemail service. Press one for your first nomination, press two for your second … and so on! It went more or less ok until it got to Susie’s turn. She was kept in the diary room so long, that the others thought she’d been evicted. She emerged eventually, looking a bit pale.

“I’m a husk of a woman, they’ve worn me out and I don’t love Big Brother anymore. They threw me in a telephonic abyss. I was parched. And there was supermarket music and it would stop and say ‘You are number seven in the queue’. They were taking the p**** out of me.”

“I waited all the way through and I pressed number one then I went back to the end of the queue. They were doing it to drive me mad!”

That must be about the longest time since being in the house that she’s gone without a cup of tea and a biccy! :-)

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