- Jason 'J' Brown from boy band Five (originally spelled 5ive) is taking part in the new I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! I've always hated the show. But ten years ago I use to kiss the ground J walked on. Thanks heavens for PVRs and fast-tracking through hours of footage at 3x speed searching for footage of shirtless J.
- Death From Above 1979 used to be called Death From Above. They changed their name after a legal wrangle with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, who had been using it as a working name.
- 2002 was the Year of the Whopper, in Infinite Jest's chronology of subsidised time. David Foster Wallace's novel still puts me off, at over 1000 pages, but the more I read about Infinite Jest the more I want to dig into it.
- If a cab driver is wearing his seatbelt, he is not for hire. 'As taxi drivers do not have to wear a seat belt when they are working, any driver wearing one is likely to be driving home'.
- The C7 2-conductor 2.5A appliance connector (which I usually call 'kettle cable') is also known as 'figure of eight cable'.
- Kirsten Bell has 'energy hands' in real life. And is great pals with Zach Quinto (WARNING: Heroes S02E05 spoilers - these links go to Greg Beeman's fantastic Heroes production blog).
- Nek's debut single Laura Non C'è (a surprisingly low 10th place at Sanremo 1997, the year Jalisse of Eurovision notoriety won); was not only recorded in Spanish as Laura No Está (a huge success in Latin America) but also in English as Laura Is Away (a, hem, not huge success I believe, not even as Laura Is Away - the Club Mix), and then again in 2005 re-recorded as 'Laura', with Céréna singing some verses in French. He could sing it in Esperanto and just flutter his eyelashes around his lovely lovely blue eyes, for all I care. And Nek gets hotter as he ages. Swoon.
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