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Oh hideous putrid weekend. Most loathsome finish to a week most foul. I'm ill. It's not particularly a cold per se. I am dead dizzy though and keep having hot flushes and clammy sweats. I;m both sweaty betty and clammy pammy. I have googled my symptoms and apparently I am suffering from the menopause. Who knew? Anyway, as I cough and splutter and sweat in my arse (I seriously didn't know that was possible. Perhaps it has happened before and I assumed it was a natural lubricant?), here are some high and low lights of the week...

MY WEEKEND WITH CHRISTOPHER CICCONE:

Oh dear. What a fraught relationship Chris and Madz must have right now. I'd be furious if someone had put out a book about me that was as boring and predictable as this one! There are two main reasons for that - one is that I spent all week trying to find it (even to find Borders on Oxford Street would rather stock volumes of Katie Price novels and then get the fame hungry ho down there to sign them) so built up the anticipation a bit too much; two - all the best bits had already been in the newspapers. I pretty much had read the whole thing in about 24 hours and was stunned - STUNNED - to read the following "revelations":

• Madonna is a bit of a bitch who will step on anyone in her pursuit of fame, even using her dead mothers grave.
• Christopher is a bit bitter that he didn't really get much out of being Madonna's brother but is quite happy to live in her world and constantly work with her because "she needs him"
• Madonna doesn't have the best voice in the world. Oh my!
• Some of the myths of Madonna's past aren't strictly true! Who would've thought?!

If you detect a tone of sarcasm, it's because one can't help but feel that Chrissy has glossed over his own flaws and the best bits of his life with Madonna in order to preserve his relationship with her. He can be incredibly catty at times with some sly digs about her choice of singles, men, movies, the lot and works in scarcely disguised barbs with bitchy malevolence and ease. It's a pretty onesided account, as you would expect it to me, but that does mean there isn't much objectivity and I doubt that I will read it more than once. stick with Rupert Everett. It's far more entertaining.

THE POOPARAZI:


Some kind soul sent me the badly photo shopped but quite hilariously written little postcard this week featuring my fave Irish star in waiting, Robert O'Connor. Frankly there is nothing wrong with a bit of boozing when things go a bit tits up in life, so I fully approve of his actions, if not his t-shirt. Check this lovely pic out of his new single cover, while popping over to this website to vote for his songs and help get Robert back on the straight and narrow. Whatever that means:P

CATCHING UP WITH ALEXIS MORRELL CARRINGTON COLBY DEXTER ROWAN:

I am always quite enamoured of people with a huge amount of surnames. Like Liza Minelli Allen Haley jr Gero Gest or Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky or even Zsa Zsa Gabor Belge Hilton Sanders Hutner Cosden Ryan O'Hara de Alba Prinze Von Anhalt. But the best people with multiple married names are always in soaps - like Tanya Turner Laslett Gates Turner Federico Bardosa and of course, the lady named in the sub heading above. Darren and I have started to watch our 9 years of tivo'd Dynasty this week - skipping the boring season one (apart from getting to ogle at Steven Carrington and Jeff Colby) and moving straight onto where Alexis arrives. Love how they conveniently forget they have two other children besides Steven and Fallon at the start of year two... and how I have all the insane plotlines to look forward to that were only rivalled later by Sunset Beach. The show sadly would never work today - the scenes are too long, the cast too old and there isn't enough nakedness on a beach to work for the OC audiences of today. Still as a reminder of the opulent 80s, it's a fittingly guilty pleasure. Now, as Alexis herself once said "take this junk, and your blonde tramp and get out of my house". Fantastic.

THE FIZZYPOPTASTIC 21 SONGS OF THE WEEK:

21 - Bryn Christopher, The Quest (NE) (thanks to Philworrapolava)
20 - Madonna, Four Minutes
19 - Jack McManus, Bang On Your Piano
18 - BWO, Lay Your Love On Me
17 - Jonas Bros, Burning Up
16 - Alphabeat, Boyfriend (NE)
15 - Enrique, Can You Hear Me?
14 - Infernal, Downtown Boys
13 - David Jordan, Set The Mood
12 - Sophie Ellis Bextor, Heartbreak Makes Me A Dancer
11 - Rongedal, Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
10 - Maroon 5 ft Rihanna, If I Never See Your Face Again
09 - Jason Mraz, Lucky
08 - Kylie, The One
07 - Madonna, Give It 2 Me
06 - The Feeling, Turn It Up
05 - Regina Spektor, The Call
04 - McFly, One For The Radio
03 - BWO, Bells of Freedom
02 - Lily Allen, GWB
01 - Miley Cyrus, 7 Things (2 weeks)

More Sunday with review of the new McFly album and monday with a review of the new Will Young single. Be still my beating testicles...

Well in the words of the ace of base Lilleth of Allen, fuck you Ryan Air. Fuck you very very much. I tell ya, you buy cheap you buy twice. Which is exactly what has happened to me and the ever burgeoning dazpecs. We had our lovely summer break booked for Salou in Spain - booked the hotel, and then some nicely timed flights through Ryan Air. Who then moved the times to much more inconvenient times. We swallowed that (we so often do. Well I do...) but then the mo'fo's moved the times of the flight again so it was almost a different day and would have resulted in more time off work! So dazpecs and I had to cancel and now have to wait 30 working (working!) days for a refund. In the meantime, we chatted about it last night and decided to do something completely different for us. So a lovely holiday in an Austrian village awaits us. I am so going to yodel and prance around singing songs from the Sound of Music. I'm sure Darren can't wait... Anyway! On with the post. Bit of a hotchpotch today. Answering five questions posed to me by this post (feel free to ask for five questions from me in the comments. Or not. Whatevs) and then some cool stuff that has been happening this week for some of my fave upcoming acts...
QUESTION TIME WITH DANUSA/FIZZYPOP:

Q: What is the most important thing that blogging has done for you?
A: 2 things I guess. One is that it has made me realise that blogging really isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. I used to take it UBER seriously. Now i see it as a hobby and realise that spending time with my friends, playing piano, family time, etc are much more valuable to me. The coolest thing blogging has provided me with is a bunch of international friends who I absolutely adore. You know who you loveable little ragamuffins are :P

Q: When was the last time you got a paper cut?
A: Fuck knows! I can't remember so it can't have been that recently! I'm such a baby about this things. I have no pain threshold and i whine about it until it has disappeared. I do have blisters on my feet at the moment because of stupid new shoes and darren hears a running commentary on how they are doing pretty much daily!

Q: What do gay and straight men have to bring to each other? Is the divide to wide to bridge?
A: Wow that is a great question and requires someone a lot smarter than me to answer it. My take on the situation is that straight men bring gay men a lot of fantasies about turning them :P And gay men bring straight men the opportunity to metrosexualise themselves and learn how to approach the subject of botty love with their lady folk. Yet my best male friendships apart from Darren have all been with straight men. I seem to get on with them better and are some of the most tolerant inclusive people I know. No way is my divide to wide to bridge (how euphemistic!!)
Q: If you had to live without either tv or internet, which would you pick?
A: Oh tv definitely! I can download all the shows from the internet anyway :P And if i wasn't allowed to do that (like it's so legal now!) then i'd be quite happy with my world of books. But the internet is also a communication tool - not just a global pornography network, and provides me with so much music. So I could live without tv. Am i allowed to watch my Buffy dvd boxsets though?!

Q: When are you coming to visit us in Iowa? I need someone to help me with my wardrobe!
A: I seriously need to do a bloggers tour of the united states. It is preposterous that I have only met XO from America! Although that is not to denigrate that epic meeting. It was quite lovely though far too short. And I think Heidi does a very decent job with your wardrobe! Though I would love to drag you round a million clothes shops as Darren gets very bored of that. So yes, let's plan something. Or come to Florida for thanksgiving!
Merci beaucoup pour la tres interesant uh questions :)

CATCHING UP WITH THE POTENTIALS OF POP:

James Leon ~ the lovely James not only distracts me from work daily on msn, but is fast becoming a big name on the London club scene. He's been trashed and decoded and has some exciting stuff coming up. His excellent track Never Been Cool has been playlisted over at this website, and Camera Shy is giving me all sorts of human-league esque orgasms! But of course, it is the bloggy love for Club With No Name, that was premiered here a couple of months ago that has me smiling still everytime I hear it. James is back in the studio soon to record some more magic, and has promised to write up a review of Kylie in concert for la fizzles of popular very soon indeed. Check out his myspace here. Plus in match made in heaven news - one of James' first recording was called zap! It could have so been a theme for the lost lamented (by some?!) zapping website :P

Ryan Ferrada ~ Oh. My. Dayz. Remember when i got all hot and bothered about Ryan with his very groove filled club song Touch You Sexy? It's been a while, but he's burning up (sadly his Kylie cover of that name won't see the light of day. Booooo) the european clubs with his amazing new single. Dirty In The Clubs is so packed to the gills with dancey goodness, pulsating beats and a VERY seductive vocal that it is practically splitting at the seams. Add into this a radio remix by house supremo Solitaire (who recently remixed some of Donna Summer's new stuff) and I'm pretty positive this will blow up all over the world very shortly. You can listen to it - and a multitude of other mixes - at his myspace site.

Robert O'Connor ~ It shames me that I have still to post my album review of Mr O'Connor's very lovely debut album, but I will do so very soon. In the meantime, having been lucky enough to see some of Robert's songs progress from the demo stage to the fully produced stage, I noticed that some of his ideas were brutally stolen by that godbother Natasha Bedingfield. About 2 years ago, he had an ace track out called Save You which was then remixed to the tune of Chicane's Saltwater and a mighty pop dance tune it was too! And now bloody Nats has rerecorded her version of I Bruise Easily (me too luv, like a peach!) to the very same tune. Who would've thought that the music world is full of people who nick other ideas and use them for themselves?! Check out Robert's version on his myspace and imagine a world where this was THE tune of ibiza instead of nat's....

TOP 21 ACE FIZZYPOP SONGS OF THE WEEK:



21 ~ Jonas Bros, Burning Up (NE)
20 ~ Mariah Carey, Bye Bye
19 ~ Madonna, 4 Minutes
18 ~ Alphabeat, 10,000 Nights
17 ~ BWO, Lay Your Love On Me
16 ~ Jack McManus, Bang On Your Piano
15 ~ Infernal, Downtown Boys
14 ~ Sophie Ellis Bextor, Heartbreak Makes Me A Dancer
13 ~ David Jordan, Set The Mood
12 ~ Enrique, Can You Hear Me
11 ~ Rongedal, Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
10 ~ Maroon 5 ft Rihanna, Never See Your Face Again
09 ~ Jason Mraz, Lucky
08 ~ Madonna, Give It 2 Me
07 ~ Kylie, The One
06 ~ McFly, One For The Radio
05 ~ Regina Spektor, The Call (NE)
04 ~ The Feeling, Turn It Up
03 ~ BWO, The Bells of Freedom
02 ~ Lily Allen, GWB
01 ~ Miley Cyrus, 7 Things (1 week/see video)
Previous number ones: The Feeling-I Thought It Was Over (4 weeks); David Jordan-Sun Goes Down (4 weeks); Jesse McCartney-Leaving (3 weeks); Madonna-4 Minutes (2 weeks); The Feeling-Without You (4 weeks); BWO-Lay Your Love On Me (3 weeks); Maroon 5 ft Rihanna-Never See Your Face Again (2 weeks); Kylie-The One (3 weeks); Lily Allen-GWB (2 weeks)

Don't hate the number one and twenty one positions and check back sometime this weekend for a massive Abba post!