2006 October - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, Games and Gossip

You know - despite spending a good deal of our time either looking up weird websites or thinking of new ways to insult Mariah Carey - we re a literary bunch here at hecklerspray.
That - book-readin and stuff - is how we discovered the frankly brilliant Koren Zailckas, whose memoir Smashed is one of the most eye-opening, honest and exceptionally well-written things we ve clapped our eyes on in many a month.
We caught up with Koren to chat about alcohol abuse, flag-burning, the rubbishness of Jonathan Franzen, Finding Forrester, Johnny Cash and all the fun stuff in between.

And you know what? We ve only gone and put it online for the whole bloody world (well, about 60,000ish of you per day) to read.
That s how nice we are.

Posted in , , on October 31st, 2006 |
It s Halloween, which means two things; 1) Any music people try and get you to download will be shonky fake-scary Halloween music and 2) It s the one day of the year when giving sweets to kids you ve never met doesn t make you a paedophile.
But Halloween is easily the crappest holiday of the year, so naturally hecklerspray is bucking the trend with this week s Free New Crap - with our first point at least - and giving you the best free mournful Japanese language psychedelic indie folk with a prominent trumpet sound download that you ll hear today, probably. It s Here Is Very by My Pal Foot Foot.

And Here Is Very by My Pal Foot Foot is genius. If you like slightly out of tune trumpets and girls mumbling incomprehensibly - and you all do deep down - then Here Is Very by My Pal Foot Foot is the tune for you. Here Is Very is a compilation album called Songs For Nao: Fourteen Bands From Japan, which rocks because we ve heard it and we think it rocks.

And it beats the arse off any spooky music that you ll be forced to listen to today.
Posted in , on October 31st, 2006 |
On Saturday X Factor decided to unveil a shocking new twist. What twist?

we thought. Is it that Simon Cowell has learnt how to do up his shirts properly? Will Kate Thornton finally reveal where she hid her neck?

In actual fact it was just a boring old double elimination. But, on the subject of Kate Thornton, does anyone else get the feeling that this whole Kate Sacked From X Factor shebang is just a lazy publicity-grabber, the same as all the judge-fights were on the last couple of X Factor seasons? If it is, then X Factor has sorely missed the mark this time around.

There could be a Kate Thornton Gives Birth To A Burning Unicorn Out Of Her Arse headline and nobody would give a toss. Because it s Kate Thornton, for god s sake. Kate Thornton.