Name dropping tends to be crass at the best of times but when you’re an A list Hollywood megastar it should, in anyone’s opinion, be considered a criminal offence.

Jamie Foxx, the man who has pushed the envelope of musical sodomy further even than Aqua, The Vengaboys and Posh Spice put together has, yet again, been sullying the good name of celebrity by bragging about all the exciting hard-core fun he’s been having with his Hollywood chums.

Were celebrities always as dumb as they are now? Or is this price we pay for a quick fix society which gives everybody fifteen minutes of fame.

The current behavioural trends of three of the most famous women in the world – Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton – suggest that this is a time of unprecedented irrationality.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last three years, you’ll be fully aware of Matt Lucas and David Walliams’s comic creation Little Britain.

Everyone knows the catchphrases which have plagued the office/school playground for what is seemingly an eternity. How many times have we heard the phrase “I want that one” pointlessly dropped in to conversation? Sometimes too much for our liking.

Whilst the third series of Little Britain started to show signs that the programme was beginning to run its course with the jokes and catchphrases wearing thin, its good to see that Lucas and Walliams haven’t just decided to ride on the show’s success and squeeze every little bit of comedy they can out of it. Some thought and a lot of planning has gone in to making this show something to remember with some sketches good enough to be recorded for real and put in to an episode of the show.

When we told someone we were going to see the Flaming Lips play the Royal Albert Hall, they remarked “Wow, that’s a lot of balloons.”

Damn right it was. And the view from up in the circle, where we sat like a joyously rapt little kid – was nothing short of magical. There’s not many shows where you find yourself saying things like “I hope he brings out the nun puppet for the sing along again…”

Goldfrapp
Fly Me Away
Mute

Aloof, not afraid of a bit of glitter, resolutely unwilling to talk about her age: Alison Goldfrapp is a fantastic popstar (much as she professes to hate that term). And last year’s thrilling Supernature album should have been enough to turn her into a chart-hogging, unit-flogging pop colossus. But, in spite of the T Mobile ad ‘success’ of lead single Ooh La La, household name status still eludes her. Fly Me Away, the fourth single from the album, lacks the grab-you-by-the-balls impact of its predecessors, but it’s still a sexy, uber-melodic mid-tempo pop song. And Alison’s seductive vocals really set off its mellow electro groove. What more can the ‘spray say? Maybe women called Alison just aren’t meant to be superstars.

You like reading singles reviews, don’t you? Specifically ones by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Laura Michelle Kelly, Broke, Beatfreakz and Kubb? Why, that’s exactly what we’ve got after the jump, you lucky bleeders…

There’s been yet another set of insane twists in the saga of the most unlikely Hollywood couple of 2002. That was the year Wild Things superhottie Denise Richards & general batshit crazebot Charlie Sheen got married in an event which had 98% of the English speaking world rubbing their eyes in disbelief.

Until earlier this year when Denise Richards came to her attractive senses and filed for divorce. And then the real madness started…

Scrolling the list of films about to show at the Tribeca Film Festival, one is curious to find this entry – 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep. A snuff film from the darkest regions of Wales? Curiously not.

37 Uses For A Dead Sheep is a documentary from British company Tigerlily Films. It follows the plight of the Pamir Kirghiz, a tribe of nomadic people who have, over the last century, been forced to migrate across Central Asia, from the U.S.S.R to China to Afghanistan to Pakistan and finally to remote eastern Turkey. Now, in the grips of the 21st century, the culture of this proud people is not at threat not only from geography, but also from globalisation, with many of the younger individuals escaping the rituals of the Kirghiz.

Recently on the hit FOX show 24 Jack Bauer, whose kill numbers must be higher than Charlie Sheen in Hot Shots Part Deux, has recently discovered that the mastermind nemesis in the shadows is none other than (drum roll) the President Of The United States.

Hold on one god damned second – a US President sanctioning illegal acts in order to secure America a greater percentage of the world’s oil?