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TV I remember the aired pilot for 'South Park'. Not this one, the one in which Cartman gets a satalite dish stuck up his ass; in the immortal line 'Do your impression of David Corusso's career!' This was something different, funny, toughing -- and so good that preceeding episodes couldn't help to try and mimic the feeling but never truly live up to it's classic status. Yes the film was good, but did we really find the Satan/Sadam hoopla that funny? It's strange them to actually find a postive review: "Last season, "South Park" quietly regained its status as edgy, hip, appointment television after a couple of seasons when it seemed Parker and Stone were just dialing it in. Several episodes were nothing short of brilliant..." [username: feelinglistless / password: listless] [via tvtattle]

Sex The soapboxgirls' Porn Issue is a sometimes eyebrow-raising look at the consumer end of the industry. A dicey version of The Guardian's tablod section. So we have The Quest for the Elusive Attractive Man in Straight Porn ("Colt Steele, One Star, If he would cut his hair, he could have a decent career as a gay-bar go-go dancer. He doesn’t belong in porn."), Porno Preferences ("I buy more porn because I want to see new and different things, not the same old videos. And even though I’m pretty much equally into guys and girls in real life on any given day, most guys in porn just don’t do it for me. Give me all girl action any day and I’m happy.") and I'm a Porn Hater ("The cure for all this boredom? Directors who are women. The porn industry needs an onslaught of women producing porn movies, calling the shots and writing the scripts. Until then, I’m held hostage by the same storyline that’s being circulated throughout the entire porn industry. The repetitive nature of porn movies is enough for me to throw up my hands and say out loud that as a woman, I hate ’em all.")

Music Freaky Trigger exposes Bootleg Mixes, the dispiriting solution of two dispirite tracks, including an attempt to make the estimable Sugababes a viable prospect again: "Meanwhile the Sugababes' record company had a problem. The girl band had enjoyed an enviable rep for making moody but modern pop and for having 'real talent' at the same time - in other words, they were pop it was OK for anyone to like, innocents in the cynical biz, best mates, unmanufactured. This rep had been torpedoed by the defection of original 'babe Siobhan and her replacement with a girl called Holly, who had been in - oh horror! - an early line up of Sugababes antithesis Atomic Kitten (seveth mention). The game seemed to be up. What should Virgin Records do but relaunch the band - next month - with a cover of "We Don't Give A Damn..." Funny little article which demonstrates how some of these remixes can be better than the originals...