Keira Knightley in Love Actually

Do you want to know something BIZARRE? Keira Knightley's pivotal role in Christmas comedy Love Actually was when SHE WAS 17!! Isn't that crazy? Just 17, not legally able to drink, smoke or if you're adopted, find your legal parents! She could've passed for 29 in this film.

In case you haven't seen the movie, does this look like a 17 year old to you?

The New MGMT?

Isn't it great trying out new things? Even better when you find some great things? Well then my advice is to check out up and coming band Amazing Baby,. They're a little bit indie, they're a little bit electronic, lots of magazines have said they're a lot MGMT. But to be honest their sound is one of a kind, hints of it (don't laugh) remind me of the Arcade Fire actually. Not necessarily the music they produce but that kind of BIG epic sound. They're very obviously going to be on many '10 to Watch in 2009' lists in a couple of months.

Check out (IMO) their best song:

The Cherry Picking Generation

Remember the days when you would buy a full album and listen to a full album? I don't, I am thirteen, but apparently this was the case. So what happened? Internets, iPods & iTunes. Suddenly kids were allowed to 'just buy the good ones' or the singles and skip all the rotten tomatoes. Now I'm not going to sit here and yell man, I myself am a 'Cherry Picker'. In my case, I kind of buy one song from a band a month and listen to that one song for a while and buy a new one when I'm sick of it, never fully finishing an album. I wish I had the focus to sit down and listen to 60 minutes non stop of ONE band but I am simply too ADD, and I think it's because I've always had fast technology in my half of 26 year life, flashing images man, flashing fucking images. And so many bands, so little time, I can't escape recommendations from friends and the latest remix from Pretty Much Amazing. So I simply have too much other technical stuff to do than listen to one full album.

Of Montreal / Wrath Pinned to the Mist

I have just discovered this cool little indie band called Of Montreal, well I've known of them for god knows how long but I've finally gotten the will to actually check out a song. Wrath Pinned to The Mist and Other Games is the funniest little song I've heard since Young Folks last year! It's almost on a wavelength as that song as a matter of fact, it's soft and quirky and kind of takes you to this dreamland. It has the line 'Let's pretend we're in Antarctica' over and over and it's almost a love song if you listen closely. Anyway thought I'd share that piece with you, plus it gets extra cred for being on awesome-O- show Weeds in Season 2.

HERE'S the MUSIC video:

Save Pushing Daisies

There is so much bullshit on TV lately, everything's a freaking soapfest. Remember the good old days when storylines had one episode arcs and weren't so dramatic? Look at the old 90210 compared to the new one. Old 90210 may have been a complete corn and cheese party but it had a good heart and soul and the characters were likeable, wheareas new 90210 has completely skipped any introduction and gone straight into utter soapiness, we barely know the characters and yet we're supposed to care that their parents are having affairs?.....

Anyway, with all the rotten cheese on TV it's always lovely when something different comes along. From the moment I started watching the Pushing Daisies Pilot, I knew it was like no other show that had ever existed, it's reaffirmed my faith in the Television industry. It's so quirky and amazing and happy and it's also a bit of an artistic statement. It flows in a similar way to movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish and even Amelie. The premise is freaking awesome, the writing is brilliant and Kristin Chenoweth alone is a good reason to watch.

The show's 2nd season recently started and man the ratings are LOW! On a network (ABC) that averages 9-20 million viewers, Pushing Daisies is getting about 5 millions viewers on average. Those ratings are very cancellation worthy and the show is very much on a death clock. Which is why us Daisies fans must unite to save the best show of the 21st century. If it is cancelled, you've got to feel for the creator Bryan Adams whose 3 amazing creations (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies) each never reached a 3rd season.

Isn't there some way to like send Daisies (the flowers) to ABC in protest like they did with nuts and Jericho? Could another more alternative channel pick it up? I always did feel Pushing was much too good for ABC, maybe like HBO or even the Sci Fi Network? Bryan Fuller reports if he doesn't get to finish it up that he'll continue the story in comic books (not unlike Buffy). Well I don't know about you but that sounds bloody awful! Who reads these days anyway?

The Eight Worst Songs of 2008

It's not even December yet and there's still 45 days of the neverending year to go but honestly... who can wait to write shit about their least favourite songs of the year!?

This honestly did not take long at all, that's how awful these 8 are.....

1) Anything with Soulja Boy in the Title
Taking rap music to a sickening new low, but at least he's got the lasting
power of a paralyzed ant. "Throws some D's on that bitch!" he raps in a song
about 'cars' oh and "Superman that ho" in the disturbingly massive hit Crank
Dat that influenced 'gangster kids' everywhere to dance like apes and twink
their 'shades. Trash, filthy dirty trash. I'm not a master in the genre, but this is
NOT rap, just plain and simple trash. If you want real rap listen to Lil Wayne
or Spank Rock.

2) Chris Brown - Forever
If I have to hear this catastrophe of a song one more time, I swear I will kick a
dog. It has absolutely no redeemable value, it's a sickening attempt at a
dance song and all it was ever intended to do was make blind teenage girls
melt a little.

3) Kid Rock - All Summer Long
I have zero interest in what a has been (well, never was) fat hilbilly did with
his summer some decades ago. Why anyone else does is beyond me. White
trash to the point of sickening.

4/5) Metro Station - Shake It/Kelsey
The epitome of shitty try hard pop rock. They should invent a new genre
and call it 'Shit' because this is an insult to the world of any other genre.
Computarized and completely uninstrumental, Hannah Montana's brother
turns out to be an even bigger turd than she is. Though you may be too
blinded by the sickingly catchiness of Shake It to notice how awful it is, the
lead singers voice is similar to an awkward 10 year old girl's. And by the
time the whiny attempting-the-electronic-genre ballad Kelsey roles around,
you begin to think 'is this a joke'?

6) Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
The words 'Overrated Crap' are thrown around in my head. How the hell did
this song reach #1 on ANY chart!? It's as lively as a piece of wood and as
tolerable as a puking baby. 'Your sex is on fire'..... what the fuck is that
supposed to mean.?

7) MGMT - Electric Feel
Not necessarily listed for the song itself, back in January I had a lot of fun
with this song but for what it did to the on-track-to-be best band of 2008.
When 10 year old kids are asking me if I've heard of them and Pop radio
stations have them in their top 20, I know an indie band has sold out.

8) Three Doors Down - It's Not My Time
Pop radio is twisted, it plays devilishly catchy tunes like I Kissed a Girl and
then it plays this dull try hard rock piece of shit. At least Shake it is catchy,
at least All Summer Long is trying to be a good summer song. And while
these songs are more fucking awful than this at least they try. This is just
blah..... NOTHING! I see no reason why anyone would waste their time