Thursday, June 15, 2006

Paris Hilton/Cansei De Ser Sexy/Mumbo Jumbo

Paris Hilton



No, I’m not going to heap praise upon Paris Hilton or her stupid dog, but I will say that there is something strangely alluring about rich stupid girls – even ones like this who only look good from the neck down – having said that they are the kind of thing you’d like to appreciate from a distance, like a sunset, as getting too close will undoubtedly be a painful experience leaving you burnt.

There are some currently who believe they are being cultural ironic in lawding praise upon Paris Hilton’s venture into pop music - citing it as a feel good song of the summer - however it is a dismal UB40 pastiche and is about as summery as being stung on the tongue by a wasp.

Uncannily Paris tends to look a bit like she has been stung on the tongue by a wasp.

Maybe there is a lesson to be learnt here somewhere.


Cansei De Ser Sexy



Cansei De Ser Sexy are like the anti Pussycat Dolls, five Brazilian girls and a drummer venting their pop culture epitaph lyrics upon us in a Peaches style. Tracks like ‘Meeting Paris Hilton’ – which just says ‘Bitch’ a lot - and ‘I wanna be your Jlo’ are overtly under accomplished but raw enough, like Peaches, to get your attention and with just enough beat and electroclash to make you move.

MP3: Cansei Der Ser Sexy - Music is my Hot Hot Sex


How Mumbo Jumbo Conquereed the World - Francis Wheen



Somewhere along the way society lost the ability to reason and put its trust in buzz words and badly concealed lies wrapped up as facts. Francis Wheen seeks to illustrate how, as the world opted for financial gain above all, the cost was to lose the ability to rationalise our surroundings and environment.

Jeremy Paxman is quoted as calling the book ‘Hilarious’, which is odd as I wouldn’t really utilise Paxman as the benchmark for anything’s comedy status, but having said that it is amusing in a slightly Guardian journo way – think of the book as like Michael Moore but with less of the self satisfied propaganda and beer gags – and it has some interesting insights into a world stuck in the revolving door of Mumbo Jumbo at the lobby of progress, a building it knew only to well up until the mid seventies.

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