Ricky Gervais Kills at Golden Globes.

Updated Youtube had to pull the Gervais bits due to a copyright claim from that pauper Dick Clark, but they'll be back up in good time and when they are, I'll repost.

Barely an hour into this year's Golden Globes, a few alleged writers were saying that host Ricky Gervais had 'flopped' and 'bombed'.

Bull...shit.

With a room full of stars laughing their heads off and ceaseless Tweets lauding his performance at every turn, Gervais did a brilliant job, skewering the industry, making fun of celebrities and celebrity and doing his standard 'shameless plug' routine (which, now it has reached its peak, he may have to drop lest it not look like comedy anymore). All this while sipping at a couple of cold ones, which always puts certain people in two minds as to whether he's pissed.

These columnists or glorified bloggers or whatever the fuck they are claim that Ricky's jokes 'fell flat', were met with 'shocked silence' and prompted a 'boo' when Gervais made a joke at Paul McCartney's expense. What fucking show were these people watching? The guy brought the house down in his usual irreverent fashion, and if that 'boo' was not an 'aww' then I'm deaf.

In any case, what were these people expecting? Some kind of shitty variety hour with Hugh Jackman?

I'm not going to rehash the bits he did. Watch it yourself. Here's a sample of Gervais' from the show, during which some people apparently won awards for, er, doing things good:



What I wanna know is, why do these people constantly lie in order to deride? Is it possible that the natty little twat from the Telegraph sought to turn his emission into a bit of a viral, scooped up and sprayed all over the Internet? It's possible. If you google 'Gervais bombs' you'll see it fill the first half of the page and all the stories relate back to the Telegraph splat.
If you google 'flops', you'll see a similar situation with the Chicago Sun-Times.
Both of these stories were filed before the show had finished, in the case of the Tele guy, he admits it. What the fuck is that?

These people are joyless liars. Gervais killed...and finally provided a very public kick in the butt to the smug self-importance of celebrity. Introducing Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler as "Rachel from Friends and the guy from 300" didn't go down well with them, but who cares? They can go back to their bloated, opulent lives and have assistants dab away their jewelled tears.

A day after the Globes and the verdict on Gervais' performance is mixed, with the bulk of the reportage of negative criticism tracking back to the stuff I mentioned yesterday.

PGR - Punk Girl Rudie.

Hallo. Here's another video. The sweet and precious few who have watched She & Moonflower will certainly notice a change of style in this song. It was written in 1999 and designed deliberately as a piece of angry punk noise. As with She, which was originally recorded dry with guitar and vocal and then plopped into Audacity and washed dirty with a bit of phaser, PGR was doubled, manually delayed and then digitally delayed. I've also added a tiny grab from the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore 'Derek & Clive' bit, 'The Horn'.

Unlike Moonflower and She, which are basic flights of fancy, PGR is based on a story I heard at the time about a Washington State girl. Because she dressed as a punkish 'rude girl', she was being picked on by a group of college Christians called 'WWJD' (What Would Jesus Do?). This is a bit of a rejoinder.

It was recorded at my friend Mirko's place. He sped up the drum line from 'Modern Love' by David Bowie, which worked a treat. I added one bass and two guitar tracks and vocals. Part of the riff was inspired by 'Mosh, Don't Pass the Guy' by Frank Black. Once again, it's very short. I hope you at least like the video part, because the song is quite abrasive and not much like what I'd record these days.

She Video.

On the back of the Moonflower vid made on New Year's Day, I decided 'She' should get a little treatment as well.