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Tomorrow, Discopop Towers will be uprooted lock, stock and barrel from its top secret location in West London and re-located in its new home in an equally top secret nuclear bunker on the banks of the Thames.



Everything is going into boxes now. We'll see you back here on August 1st.

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Huzzah!

The spammers are taking notice of our campaign for silly names.

Today we received an email from one Guadalupe Saunders! Even better, it had the subject line "Swim by condiment maladroit"

Keep up the good work, you crazy sons-of-bitches!

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Wasted opportunity

This sounds like a great idea: Statler and Waldorf review the week's movie releases from the heady heights of their Muppety balcony.

Except... those aren't their real voices, are they? And the script seems to have been written by a toenail, such is the flourish and wit therein.

Unfortunately, now that Disney have purchased the muppet franchise, this is bound to be the first of many nails in Kermit's coffin.

Statler & Waldorf review current movies

BBC: Disney buys Kermit and friends

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We can't do pictures this week

But here's some of the stories we've been reading anyway...

The Mercury Prize nominations are out. Has it really come to this?.

First of all, the Magic Numbers are a poor man's Mamas and the Papas. By which we mean that, yes, they have the requisite weight problems, but they're sadly lacking the pretty lady member or the ability to sing.

Secondly, the MIA album really isn't as good as everyone pretends it is.

Thirdly, KT Tunstall.

Hopefully the Kaiser Chiefs will win, but why no pop albums this year? Girls Aloud and Joss Stone have been making some distinctly above-average music this year. Much of it is better than the tosh produced by the indie-boys on the list and, hey, they managed to sell some of their records too. It is a crime for which the serious music press will never forgive them.

These days, reporters have to bring it to our attention when newly-married films stars have "not been married before".

According to The Insider Justin Timberlake is producing songs for Macy Gray's new album… What is it with this man propping up the careers of down-on-their-luck r&b stars? Has he entered a pact with the devil of mid-90s hip-hop? Somebody, anybody, fill us in.

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Twisted Mind

Roald Dahl wrote his children's books in a "tiny cottage" at the end of his garden. It had "walls lined with Styrofoam" and "a jar containing gristly bits of his own spine". No wonder the six-foot-tall author came up with such twisted stories.

THE CANDY MAN: Why children love Roald Dahl’s stories… and many adults don’t.

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Feline fantasy

From today's Independent:

"[Christopher] Walken thinks it would be great if actors had tails. 'A tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared. They bush their tail. If I was an actor and I had to play scared in a movie all I'd have to do is bush my tail. I think that if actors had tails it would change everything.'"

Read the full interview

Also, for those of you who complained that you couldn't see the pictures of Mariah Carey's clothes falling, try here instead (Not safe for work. Or your sanity, we should imagine.)

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