Richy's Random Ramblings

Ok, I know this link is “old” in Internet terms, but I was going to feature it back in November. Why the delay? Well, the day I decided to feature it I notice it was actually inside that day’s .net magazine. So I decided to wait. Then it appeared on the BBC’s Weird and wonderful top web list. I thought I’d delay it again to try and let their bandwidth recover (I know what it’s like when a website is featured on/in the mainstream media- your bandwidth usage shoots through the roof).

Anyway, since the site is still up I guess you can all go and visit Joel Veitch’s Independent Woman site where the popular Destiny’s Child song Independent Woman song is performed by smoking, North of England kittens. Extremely funny, and the pre-lude to it where part of I.W. appears in Joel’s Destiny’s Child meets “Til Death Us Do Part” (i.e. they both feature Alf Garnett).

I also quite like the cover of Led Zeppelin‘s Immigrant Song (“we come from the land of the ice and the snow…”). And the “Tales of the Blode” is also very enjoyable in a slightly South-Parkish way (an animation that looks suitable for children, but is more aimed at Adults – a bit like Jamie and his magic happy lamp ).

H–ll, just go over to Rather Good and pick your own enjoyable Flash animation.

Now, I thought I had a strange blog until I read this one. Supermodels are lonelier than you think has plenty of posts of supermodels (in some strange and near-Adult orientated poses) and some interesting details. Everything from Gucci‘s latest advertising and how the company has issued a press warning as they are only making around $54.3million per quarter (only?!?), to Friends actress Jennifer Aniston using toupee tape to secure her breasts inside a garment (yep, that is how they avoid ‘exposing’ more flesh then they want – they actually sticky tape their breasts to the clothes), to a picture that, initially, looks like a man is performing a sexual act on a woman – but is, in fact, just kissing her pregnant stomach.

I was actually tempted to put it on my Blogroll, but I don’t think it’ll be a blog that a read on a daily basis (more like once a week for a strange, often funny, in-sight to the modelling world). As for the title of that blog, well, are supermodels really that lonely? You never see them “out and about” on their own do you – or is that just the media perception again? (So-and-so is still single: not news, So-and-So seen with Mr/Miss/Mrs.X: could be a potential romance therefore it’s news). After all, if they were that lonely – that site would have a “Sign up here to go out with Supermodel X” wouldn’t it? 🙂

Slightly off-topic: Did you know that in September last year I received a telephone call asking if I was available for a model photo shoot? Yep, I was (and, if it was a wrong number they still knew my name). Alas, they didn’t call me back the following week – but it still got me wondering where they got my details. It could have been from a radio company, newspaper/magazine, the internet or a television company, but I guess I’ll never know (unless, of course, I call them back: I did store the number they dialled from on my mobile and confirmed they are a legit company so…). I can’t see myself being a model anyway – I haven’t got the breasts for it…