I'm of two minds about this new Virgin Atlantic ad. On the one hand, it's titillating and great fun to watch. (As was the ridiculous ad for Russia's Avianova airlines.) I like the song, a heavy cover of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" that sounds a little like Rufus Wainwright but is apparently by the popular band, Muse, whose other song, the one about revolution or whatever that bites the melody line from Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and gets played on the radio a lot, I don't so much like. And in a way it's nice to imagine naughty-girl porn-stars will serve me ice-cream that [...]

Here you will find a terrible attempt to analogize the New Labour experiment to Oasis: "Visit Oasis's Wikipedia page and the narrative eerily traces the birth, life and death of New Labour. The early Nineties are called 'Formation and first years'; 1995-98 are called 'The Battle of Britpop', which could be a chapter from Blair's biography; 1999-2000 are recorded as 'Line-up changes'; 2001-04 are 'Transitional years' (drummer Alastair Campbell, I mean Alan White, quit the band then); there was a "Resurgence in popularity" in 2005-2007. And now it's all over." You'd better believe there's a mention of Blur in there.

Two street performers in Birmingham, England, have been barred from playing musical instruments in public after repeated complaints about their selection of material and performing style. James Ryan and Andrew Cave were prosecuted for playing the same two songs "with a guitar and dustbin lids incessantly, every day, until the early hours of the morning." How bad was it?

This is a couple days old and already fairly viral, but it is so rare to find an even half-decent Downfall remix these days that I feel like the good ones should be treasured and shared. Enjoy.