Daily Archives: December 20, 2009

Brittany Murphy 1977 - 2009

  By Darren Byrne | December 20, 2009 - 11:45 pm | Celebs, In The News, The Culch
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Actress Brittany Murphy (32) died this morning from a reported cardiac arrest. Reports stated that the Clueless actress was discovered unconscious in the shower by her mother. When paramedics arrived, they determined that the actress was in full cardiac arrest and they began to administer CPR. They continued their CPR attempts during the ambulance trip to the hospital, but Murphy was unresponsive and was pronounced dead on arrival. Murphy had her first role (albeit a small one) way back in 1991 on the popular TV show Murphy Brown and went on to star in movies such as Sin City, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile and Don’t Say a Word and has five films in post-production set for release in 2010.

All Christmas movies ever, the abridged scripts

  By Maxi Cane | December 20, 2009 - 10:53 pm | The Culch
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I hate Christmas. A lot of people say they do, but don’t really. I actually loathe it. Humbug and all other relevant sentiments. I hate the panic for presents. I hate the over indulgence. I hate the fake spirit of having to be nice to strangers just because it’s close becoming the 25th of December. I hate Christmas trees, the space filling, annoying to decorate and a who-er to clean up after. I hate turkey. Does anyone eat roast turkey, dry turkey sandwiches or turkey curry at any other part of the year? No, because it’s shit. And cranberry sauce? It’s like the inventor of turkeys wondered how to make the worst meat even more revolting and then brainstormed while having a glass of the worst variety of juice and thought: “OMG, that totally goes together”. No it doesn’t. Ham? Irish people don’t eat enough pork, bacon and ham all … There’s more →

The Rage Factor

  By Darren Byrne | December 20, 2009 - 10:20 pm | Music, The Culch
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Woo! It looks like Simon Cowell’s four year domination of the Christmas charts has ended after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped US metal band Rage Against the Machine nab the Christmas number one slot from X-factor’s Joe McEdlerry. More than half a million people downloaded Rage Against the Machine’s famously anti-authoritarian and expletive laden track Killing in the Name. It is the first time a non-X-Factor song has made it to Christmas number one for four years. X-Factor winner McElderry was less than a year old when Rage Against the Machine released their triple platinum self titled album in 1992. When McElderry heard Killing in the Name last week (for the very first time) he described it as “dreadful”. Speaking on BBC Radio 1’s Chart Show, Rage frontman Zach de la Rocha said his band getting to number one said “more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout … There’s more →