This may surprise you but I don’t spend all of my time sitting around thinking of cynical sentences to string together into senseless articles for the purpose of publishing on this blog. I made a decision a while ago not to use Crunkfish as a link dump. This was mostly because I enjoy banging on too much in these posts to find the time to present the entire multitude of awesome stuff I encounter daily on teh ‘netz. Therefore random (and frankly brilliant) rants from the frenetic maelstrom that is my imagination end up on these pages while articles, videos, images, and other stuff I find across the web go elsewhere.
One of these channels which I only just latched on to relatively recently but instantly lurved is Tumblr, which I use as a sort of inspiration dump/mood board. My tumblog (Deadlamb’s Giblets, as I’ve termed it for reasons that aren’t entirely important) is almost wholly free of troublesome words and is instead populated mostly by images I happen upon. Don’t read into it too much that the majority of these pics are of scantily-clad women - so’s the rest of the internet, it’s just proportionately representative that’s all…
Today is the last of this current wankathon. The girlfriend returns tomorrow and so will the usual, somewhat less saucy, content of this reputable blog. Having forgotten about it yesterday, I’m a day behind so have to go for a double whammy today - which is a bit of a struggle as after only five days I’ve run out of things to wank about. How bad is that? Hopefully I’ll think of something while writing the bit about Christina Aguilera…
As one of the original pop-tartlets, Christina Aguilera distinguished herself from the others by a) being talented and b) appearing to have a much stronger grasp of her own sexuality than her peers. Unlike the rest of the batch, Xxxtina genuinely appeared to age and mature in front of our own eyes; becoming a glamorous, confident personality rather than mere post-legal jailbait.
Feast your joy-receptors on ‘Candyman’, possibly Lustina’s coolest music vid and most likeable song. In fact, this refreshingly original and flavourful pop track was so good I think it went straight to Radio 2. The video, of course, harks back to that golden age of the US military when it wasn’t starting and losing wars. This setting blends perfectly with the bounce and character of the song and Aguilera is (probably) the only female singer around who could pull off the vintage pin-up style without simply looking like a cheap stripper. Awesome song, awesome broad. Awesome wank. Which kinda makes you think about stuff too.
Still, no ideas for any further wankage; I’m watching Hellboy on DVD so my heart isn’t really in it. In most cases where my imagination fail me I find it’s best to think about Cheryl Tweedy (which also keeps to the whole “popstars worth giving a damn about” theme and makes this almost seem brilliantly thought-out - almost). Tweedy/Cole is widely regarded as fitter than anyone you will ever even dream of fucking and scientists from over twenty nations are working together to conclusively prove that this whole Ashley Cole thing is a mass-hallucination and, in reality, Cheryl spends her time away from the rest of the girl group walking barefoot through dewy meadows, having pillow fights with herself in sexy PJs and sitting in front of her computer until 3am watching Garth Merenghi clips on YouTube and chatting to her buddies on MSN while getting stoned.
Anyway, please enjoy this video of Cheryl Tweedy half-heartedly trying to squeeze into a box:
Here’s another of her getting gunged - which, as we all know, is basically the Saturday kids TV equivalent of a facial:
And here she is again, this time riding a tiny motorbike. The vid also features Holly Willoughby, once voted “TV personality you’d most like to have as your fuck buddy” by readers of the Radio Times, dressed up as a schoolgirl. Did the guys who judge what’s acceptable on TV take Saturday mornings off back then? Why was there such a load of hassle about her possessing a cleavage and showing it on the telly at 8pm in the evening after she spent much of her early career staining the sheets of millions of schoolboys (of all ages) across the country. She was hardcore breakfast-porn, everyone knew it and loved her for it. Some mornings, I would even love her for it more than once. Obvious joke. I feel more ashamed about that than having written about wanking for the past six days.
I’ve only recently been introduced to the bluesy folk-rock delights of The Gaslight Anthem and this particular song has really caught my attention. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a decent live performance on YouTube of them performing this, so I’ve had to use this home-made music video. No comments on the video please, just close your eyes and let the breezy vocals and rousing guitar roll over you like an especially emotive landslide.
If you didn’t know, Pop Up Video is/was a TV show on VH1 and is responsible for entertaining me more than wanking did during my uni days. Overlaying some bizarre choices of music videos with nuggets of sometimes informative, often pointless, usually witty, but always welcome facts that ‘pop up’ throughout, this is the perfect recipe for a young mind thirsting for a wank, but who can’t reasonably commit to one at two in the afternoon.
I loved this show, and so did everyone else I forced to watch them. Waste a hell of a lot of time now and watch these…
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
Band Aid - Do they know it’s Christmas?
Men at Work - Down Under
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
No Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend
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