Merry Merry Happy Happy!!

Happy New Year everyone! I have many stories to tell about the last three weeks, and will blog them soon. The short of it all is that I'm desperately broke after blowing about £700 on God-knows-what. I can't even blame a massive blow-out of a New Year's Eve. Actually, I purchased a lot of clothes in the January sales, which are fabulous here. True discounts of 40% are to be had, and many boutiques operate a discount-on-everything policy. It sure beats sorting through oversized orange Gianfranco Ferre swimmers at David Jones or Century 21.

My internet trawling took a dark turn this week after hearing about Colin Farrell's home-made sex tape. Alas, I could not find it... but I did d/l some other home-made chestnuts:
- Paris Hilton (sad and boring)
- Kate Richie, who plays Sal on Home & Away (very very disturbing)
- Tom Sizemore, movie actor, appeared in Heat, presently in gaol for bashing ex-wife Heidi Fleiss (stupifyingly engrossing, car accident bad, and possibly the grossest thing I have ever witnessed)

While we're in the gutter, let me mention The Sun. I refuse to buy the paper, but I am obsessed with how appallingly trashy it is, and take advantage of reading a work colleague's copy every day. There are four types of articles in The Sun:
- sensationalised hot topic of the moment (eg the Muslim cleric who advocated blowing up Big Ben)
- the latest happening in non-ebrity (celebrities lacking talent) and reality-tv land.
- sex
- sport

And yes, I have seen the occasional Sun article which manages to touch on all four categories.

Today's nadir concerns Jonah Falcon who complains that his generous manhood has ruined his life. (yawn.) Apparently this is news, and worthy of a full page article. Can I draw your attention to the handy celebrity manhood index and ruler, printed in the article's sidebar, and faithfully reproduced on-line. Between the "manhood ruler" and the ubiqutous "Page 3 Girl" (which itself is astoudingly poor form in the 21st century), there is no graver indictment for The Sun's trashy reputation.

But there is some good news. The highlight of my year so far is tracking down the new remixes of Stars on 45. Remember those early 80s tracks that sampled the Beatles, Abba, and various 70 disco songs, et al ? Well, the chorus of that song ("You can boogie like disco, love that disco sound!") has been sampled, and the result is ultra-dancey and uber-cool. You can check it out at the Global Deejays website.