Picturenose

Ah, the joy of finally using Picturenose as a bag to swing around my head, as others frequently do with their own blogs (we’re a website, actually, but the point stands) - namely, to bang on about something that has got on my wick, big time.

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Today’s news roundup brings you clips for your viewing pleasure. I say ‘clips’ because one of the many things I hate about the internet is the ‘teaser trailer’. What dick ever thought that one up? In fact, if I’d bothered to sit down and stitch together all the Dark Knight ‘teasers’ I’d seen, I’d have seen pretty much the whole movie by now. Hardly a tease when you can see it all, I say. Complaining over (for now). Being on the subject of The Dark Knight does segue quite neatly into the fact that yours truly will be at the press screening next week, so check back for a blow-by-blow report on Wednesday (9 July 2008). I don’t really need to point you to yet another clip from the film, as I guess that if you haven’t already seen one, you a) don’t like The Batman or b) don’t have a computer.

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Sing-along-a-Bond?
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The bad? OK. Amy (’Look at me! Look at me!’) Winehouse was reported by the BBC to be involved in the production of the latest Bond outing Quantum of Solace. The good news? A couple of days later, her producer, Mark Ronson, was quoted as saying that Ms Ooh-Aren’t-I-Controversial is “not ready to make music”. Hardly surprising, really. My theory is that she’s either being a bit heavy-handed with the Columbian marching powder, or she simply can’t think of anything that rhymes with ’solace’. Let’s face it, she’s no Sheena Easton, is she?

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