Tonight leading Moomin academic Dr Vick, Tom Ewing and Pete Baran, corralled into brilliance by the Atommick Brane herself halloo the return of the kid-lit husband list! (Ms Puddleduck come on down!) (PuddleDUMB more like!) We’ll tackle Tove Jansson, Raymond Briggs, Uncle (<— the Elephant in the Castle!) (he has a B.A.!), the general disjunction between morals and quality in children’s art and the horrific not-so-SUBtext of Toy Story II. Plus something SO SCARY even Beaver Hateman and Knobsman Carsmile will tremble in fear. Tune in and find out for yourself! 7pm GMT, 104.4 Resonance FM, online at www.resonancefm.com and follow-ups at freakytrigger.co.uk, wild surmise to ftlollards@gmail.com.
Because we’ve been talking about this all over Poptimists and at Poptimism, and it needs its own Freaky Trigger mention for sheer grime/chicken amazingness….
Says Mr Eavis: “He will appeal to the young people and under-25s for sure, so that’s a big pull for them,” he said.
“It’s not like the traditional one we do, like Radiohead, Coldplay and Muse and Oasis.”
I dunno, I hear that being a Glastonbury headliner brings LOADS of problems! Like, now Jay-Z will have to worry about Nas giving him hash cookies before his normal cookies before he goes on stage and he’ll end up giggling his way through all the sweary bits!
Note how I subtly avoid mentioning the Neil Diamond issue… pah Anne Diamond would be better… and she no doubt needs the cash far more than rub old Neil.
Mmm chestnuts, how festive! I know it’s January, but I bought, and ate this Kit Kat last year so it’s still okay and bah humbug to the haters. Chestnut Kit Kat then: I’m sad to say that I am not really a big fan of this one. It felt too milky, like getting a latte when you wanted something that could hit the bottom end. The chestnut spread element was quite desultory - I had anticipated it would have been a lot more, well, nutty, but sadly not. The chocolate itself iirc is sort of cappuccino coloured rather than dark which again was a bit disappointing. I can’t help but feel that someone somewhere got the wrong idea about chestnuts and thought they were light and frothy instead of roasted and sweet. I give the chestnut kit kat 3/10 and will get me a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor on the way home instead and scoff them down with a dark chocolate Kit Kat. Mmmmm!!
Estelle, do you remember her - 1980 year that g0d made me - Estelle, she’s been singing songs in the Americas with people more famous than her. Though if you ask me calling yourself John “Legend” is trying too hard. It’s spelt “Leg-END”. Anyway, Estelle, despite alleged rumours about drama queen-dom whilst playing student union balls, and alleged rumours that she was the only one that turned up to her cd signings (remember, when she had that record out), she remains a girl after Freaky Trigger’s heart. Dig the following that she told Popjustce: … read on …
So, a bottle of wine down, I’d been baking cakes all night and didn’t fancy stopping. I fancied making chocolate cupcakes, but I’d already made a chocolate red velvet cake (for Lytton’s 1st birthday party)… so I knew I wanted to mix it up a little. “SPICE!”, said my drunken brain. “You like chilli chocolate, don’t you! Spicy cupcakes”! I knew I had seen a recipe for spicy chai cupcakes before, but couldn’t be bothered to find it. Therefore I simply decided that I’d use a standard chocolate cupcake mix and… just add what I normally put in my curries.
I’m spending my Sunday replaying the wonderful NIntendo DS law-em-up Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations and have a chance to make a note of something I couldn’t record on my first run through this case! Whilst interviewing my client in the detention centre, I ask her to describe the victim and assailant and her justification as to her comments why she thought they could be in the music industry….
GUILTY AS CHARGED! The prosecution indicts GABE SAPORTA!
Following on from last night’s volleyballpop discussion on Lollards, I thought I’d do a quick post as a follow up with some links to the other songs I mentioned! Doing the theme tune to volleyball championships seems to be quite lucrative. I mentioned that the first NewS single was used as the theme to the 2003 World Volleyball Championships (although for convoluted reasons this wasn’t considered the band’s official ‘debut’!): ladies and gentlemen I present NewS NIPPON! Really, nothing, ever, could beat the awesomeness of this song which I loved for years before I even sought out the video which features dancing in space, Yamapi in shorts. They also appear to have borrowed some of Kylie’s spare C&A spacesuits - remember when Kylie went into space? Yeah! I could go on (seriously <3 <3) BUT there’s MORE to this volleyball lark!
Because - as it turns out, in 2005, ANOTHER NewS single was used as a volleyball theme, this time to the ladies volleyball championship! … read on …
Whilst I am happy that the Wispa is back (it’s chocolate heaven, I ate it an hour ago and I’m still on a lovely bleary fuzzy high - Green & Blacks and Montezuma et al can just… fvck off until they get with the cocoa butter), the Cadburys Wispa microsite is the worst thing ever. I hate all Flash animation ever and it must die. I also mean YOU, Lucky Voice.
Said microsite includes:
1) a feature where you can upload a picture of yourself and it will give you “your 80s throwback look” in case you “weren’t there at the time” (ohgod)
2) 80s “prizes” including a Rubix cube
And there’s more but the Cadburys website is somehow stopping my keyboard from reacting so I’ve had to close it! Resign, internet.
Ever felt your cheese platters to be somewhat lacking? But you never knew why? The answer is to hand: you were missing a Girolle! The Girolle is a device used to curl “Tete de Moine” (me neither) cheese into beautiful rosettes and if the website is to be believed, is used by 2 million households and restaurants worldwide! But why only Tete de Moine cheese? What even IS that anyway?? What OTHER cheese flowers could we make??
Following on from last night’s volleyballpop discussion on Lollards, I thought I’d do a quick post as a follow up with some links to the other songs I mentioned! Doing the theme tune to volleyball championships seems to be quite lucrative. I mentioned that the first NewS single was used as the theme to the 2003 World Volleyball Championships (although for convoluted reasons this wasn’t considered the band’s official ‘debut’!): ladies and gentlemen I present 
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