Lopez Blogs

HOUSEKEEPING:

• Hello dudes. Thought i'd do a bit of a summer clean up around the blog this weekend, during a hot sticky summer night bit of insomnia. Same Difference (looking lovely in green) now have their own fizzypop page. Woohoo! Their latest webpage redesign is freaking adorable and i literally cannot wait for their music. I think i only anticipate Spectacular more highly :) Be sure to check it out as there are 3 - yes 3! - exclusive fizzypop videos of them on there from last Christmas :)
• I've also spruced up the live lounge index. If you click here, pretty much all the posts now have active and working download links to the songs. Expect a huge live lounge update later this week where you can hear my fave acts pay tribute to/butcher your favourite songs. It;s gonna be bonza...
• Finally, I've updated all the indexes and page tabs, so that if you click on them, there will be lots of recent links taking you to my not very important in the big scheme of things opinions. Click away my pretties.

THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:

Hurrah for the arrival of the latest in aussie bum underwear. It's ubiquitous in it's poking-out-the-top-of-far-too-low-slung-jeans in the clubs, but they are so so comfortable and look brilliant when i'm pulling them off Dazpecs with my teeth :P TMI?



Big Brother 2008 gets more and more boring by the second. If it weren't for the homoerotic exercise activities of Dale and Stu, I'm pretty sure I would turn off all together instead of being turned on. God this heat is making me rambunctious...



...maybe I should do what Sergey Lazarev is doing and do a bit of Blue Pearl (dancing naked in the rain)? I think I would right now, only i'm carrying a little barbecue weight so need to work on my side abs a little bit more.



Finally, in the latest band update (that niftly sidesteps the appalling record company promotion of the second album), Paul from The Feeling suggests that there will be a dvd of the concert available at Christmas. Hurrah! I'm pretty sure everyone should start dressing like this for work (check out Live Lounge for lots of Feeling covers!)

WHAT I LEARNT/IMPARTED THIS WEEKEND:

• At first I was very nervous when Imogen whatsit came out with her Pop Babylon book. Everyone seems to have a boyband media project on the go at the moment, but they haven't really permeated the world of books yet. Would my novel "Disco Lemonade" suffer? I think it's fair to say that our respective approaches to the boyband tale are very different, with hers being all about the business side and mine being... well I don't want to give away the farm! March 20th 2009. That's all i'm saying :P
• On a night out with Burn-Ice, I had to inform her that liking Katy Perry is absolutely not ok. Being able to show posts from Yuri and Chartrigger confirming this on my mobile phone? Priceless :P
• It's fine to do a spot on impression of scenes from Muriel's Wedding (seemingly my latest revived obsession, though when drunk i do like my old-lady-throwing-diamond-off-boat schtick from Titanic) at work focusing on the "Nicole's having an affair with Chuck" speech, until someone overhears and comes in looking all shocked saying "nicole from accounts?" Blimey!
• Oh my. There was a fire in our building this weekend. Luckily no one was hurt other than the trauma and smoke inhilation, and it didn't come anywhere near us. Some goon left the chip pan on while they went to the shops! The building manager's response? Banning chip pans. Now i don't use one (dirty greasy things) as they are for common people (unless you reading this have one, then you are the most lovely exception to this rule) and they do a nice bag of chips at Mr Egg up the road (luring in the pink pound with their "Eat like a queen, pay like a pauper" slogan. Classy) but I own my fucking apartment and they wouldn't sell chip pans if they were that dangerous. I'm glad the foolish dude is ok, i wouldn't wish burns on anyone but i may have to start a poster campaign "chip pans don't start fires, careless goons do". Oh if this were a wealthy pair of old sisters living together, the daily mail would have been all over this
• Boo to McFly for doing the usual and plummeting to 21.
• Boo to Whitney - please don't let that dross with Akon be her comeback single! It's dire. It sounds like a demo from her 1997 years.
• Yay to Entertainment Weekly on their 1000th issue. Boo to them for putting X Files ahead of Buffy, Lost and Twin Peaks as top shows of past 25 years. I love the X Files but at least the other shows seem to know what they are doing unlike Chris 'oh fox will cancel me after 3 episodes so i;ll make it up as I go along' Carter. No wonder the "stand alones" were always the best (the new movie is quite good too!0
• Yay to Abbacadabra for coming out with almighty fantastic disco version of two hidden abba stompers. Download below at your legal peril :P

1. MP3: If It Wasn't For The Nights (2008 Almighty Radio Edit)
2. MP3: Just Like That (2008 Almighty Radio Edit)

Back soon with album reviews, a massive live lounge update, and some career retrospectives on Madonna, Erasure, Buffy and Party of Five. Any preference on who goes first? Oh and maybe some Beverley Craven, and Tom Baxter at the iTunes festival...