Van She are guest programing rage tonight (Saturday evening) just a little after Midnight on ABC1. The playlist of video clips (all selected by the boys) has a number of corkers and a few delightful surprises. Perhaps none more delightful than the inclusion of what is Tina Turner’s 2nd greatest song ever, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”. I have no idea which of them chose it, but whoever it was is now my favourite member of the band.

Other clips they’ve chosen includes stuff by Soulwax, Kraftwerk, Phoenix, Cassius, Aphex Twin, The Cars, E.L.O., The Pointer Sisters, Prince, Visage, INXS, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Bjork, Michael Jackson, Sinead O’Connor and “many more.” You can view the full playlist here. From 3:30am onward, rage will then play all of Van She’s video clips, and some jtv live performances.

Guess that’s my Saturday night sorted then.

After an awfully depressing 14 days gone, things are slowly picking up for me this week, especially when it comes to upcoming live music experiences. On Friday evening I’m off to catch my future husband Calvin Harris play a live show in Melbourne for “serious music journalist” (PAAH!) business. The mere thought of being in the same building as his fine self is enough to conjure up an explosion within, so God only knows how massive the eruption (ew…) is going to be when I’m A COUPLE OF FEET AWAY.

Then, on Saturday I’ll be catching Calvin AGAIN at the Good Vibrations Festival, along with Kanye West, Cypress Hill, The Rapture, Bag Raiders and several others, again for work. It’s funny, as much interest as I have in catching Kanye play, it’s really all about the Harris this weekend for me; Hopefully he’ll do my favourite song from “I Created Disco,” which is “Electro Man.” Naturally, photos and review will be up next week.

Oh. I have a Sneaky Sound System in concert review to upload at some point too. Fuck, I should really get around to that…

That’s Jack Chambers. He’s one of the dancers inducted into the Australian So You Think You Can Dance Top 100. Just so you know, he’s who I’m backing thus far into the competition.

The first season of the Oz series began on Sunday, is hosted by Rogue Trader Natalie Bassinghthwaighte, and has – so far – delivered the goods. GREAT music used so far in the show too which fills me with hope as to what sort of tracks these kids are going to be dancing to once the Top 20 is decided upon.

Anyways, eye-candy-happy post today, a bit more substance after the weekend. In the meantime, here’s the video clip for Ashlee Simpson’s new single “Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)” which I absolutely love. Great song, and the bassline reminds me a LOT of Madonna’s “Burning Up.”

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So what was probably my very actual favourite TV show from last year, Skins, returns to British television on e4 this February for its second season, which in turn means it returns to various torrent websites which I can obtain it from also in February. I am very excited about this. Australian television has just begun playing the first season (they’re up to episode 2 as of last night) on SBS and, from what I’ve heard/read/etcetera, it’s doing pretty well here. More good news.

For those of you watching the show on Australian television, it’s probably best you stop reading this post from this point onward. There will be some discussion of topics which may spoil Season 1 for you.  Just a word of warning…

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So that’s the trailer for the new season. Observations: Maxxie’s body is looking particularly sculptured (though in other videos I’ve seen he seems to still be hooked on using that fucking hair straightener,) Michelle is still an absolute cunt, and Sid is still as beautiful/gorgeous/charming as ever. Do you see the walls cracking? Do you see what they are trying to do? Are their fingertips holding onto the cracks in the house foundation? Do you see what I did there?

I’m sure we remember Tony’s accident, yes? Well, up until this week, Tony’s “blog” and the “Lost Weeks” videos over on the E4 website have insinuated he’s dead. I’d kind of assumed they’d just put him into a coma and sure enough, the most recent “Lost Weeks” video shows Sid talking to an unconscious Tony through a cassette tape, trying to wake him from his coma.

You can view the current Missing Weeks Videos here.

Some notes:

- I was incredibly nervous for the first hour.

- It is stinkingly obvious for that first hour.

- There are some (bad) Helen Keller jokes.

- I say the words “nu-rave” not even five minutes in.

- The plan is to make next weeks show (the “proper” launch) much better, and I apologise in ADVANCE for what you’re about to hear.

MP3 Format – 2 HOURS LONG – 92kbps – 90MB
http://sharebee.com/fa048594

Sharebee offers download links for ZShare, Rapidshare, Megaupload and some other one, so that should keep everyone happy. Tracklisting:

Sugababes – About U Now
M.I.A. – Jimmy (Alternate Video Version)
Kylie Minogue – Love Is The Drug
Eve Massacre – Never Be Your Friend
Justice vs Simian – We Are Your Friends
Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Yelle – Ce Jeu Muscles – Ice Cream
Gameboy/Gamegirl – Pumps & Rumps
Architecture In Helsinki – Heart It Races (Tizzy’s Rusty Tin Can Mix)
Arctic Monkeys – Teddy Picker
Babyshambles – Delivery
The Royal We – All The Rage
Klaxons – Not Over Yet
Delerium – Silence (Sanctuary Edit)
Dolly Parton – Peace Train
Girls Aloud – Sexy! No No No…
M.I.A. – 20 Dollar
Roisin Murphy – Let Me Know
Seal – Amazing
Bag Raiders – Fun Punch
K.I.M. – B.T.T.T.T.R.Y.
Howling Bells – Low Happening (Presets Remix)
Rogue Traders – Don’t You Wanna Feel
Subliminal Girls – Burn Koko
Chungking – Stay Up Forever
The Glass – Mad At You
Teenage Bad Girl – Cocotte
Duran Duran ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland – Nite Runner

So there you go.

On a completely unrelated note, I’ve just finished watching episode 7 of Season 3 Weeds… good golly it’s hilarious. Best season yet? Quite possibly. It’s definitely Nancy’s best season anyway… Season 1 was all about Celia, but the best one-liners have been OWNED by Nancy so far. And Silas… oh god, has he actually gotten HOTTER now that he is a convicted criminal/doing community service/drug dealer?