HOW TO DANCE LIKE MICK JAGGER

Firstly, I have to own up to my sheer lack of inspirational directions to write about our beautiful pieces at points. In truth, it can be pretty hard to get the creative juices going about a Rolling Stone man wearing Aviators (if it is even him...ah!) until I found this hilarity from an enthusiastic e-how.com member, publishing her scrawls on HOW TO DANCE LIKE MICK JAGGER Inspirational.

Today (July 26th) is Mick's birthday and as he is my long time, imaginary rock-n-roll boyfriend, I felt compelled to share with you the key to getting your swagger-like-Mick-Jagger ON. Yeah yeah, the guy is 60 something or other but, damn, he can move those hips and exudes sexiness like nobody's business. You may want to practice this in your bathroom mirror before sharing it with your public...if you have glitter, apply now.

 Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You'll Need:

    * glitter
    * music listening device
    * tight spandex pants
    * gucci t-shirt
    * Rolling Stones music
    * mirror

Step 1

Hold something to simulate a microphone. Zucchinis are good as are small water bottles or wooden spoons. Whatever works for you. Select a Stones song you like and play it LOUD. Take care if using headphones. Some suggestions: "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'","Gimme Shelter", "Honky Tonk Woman", "Brown Sugar" or "Satisfaction".


Step 2

Do something to make your lips look bigger. Pucker up in an exaggerated fashion and hold this facial position throughout the dance (unless you are singing along to the Stones song and you need your lips to move for pronunciation purposes). When not singing, resume the hyper extension of your smackers.


Step 3

Project your head forward and back while placing one hand on your hip. Remember to keep lips pursed. You are kind of simulating a chicken, but a cool, old school, rock and roll chicken. Actually, you could think of it more like a rooster than a chicken. Yeah, a rooster is better. Think cocky! You are the rooster chasing after all the little chickens. That's a good metaphor to hold in your head.


Step 4

While pursing your lips and bobbing your head like a chicken/rooster, still holding the zucchini, hand on hip, begin to move forward into space by bending from the waist, then quickly return back to your starting position. For a special flourish you can wave your arms wildly.


Step 5

Incorporating ALL of the above movements, start to skip around. Hopefully you are in good cardiovascular shape because you are going to be moving for awhile. Periodically stand in one place and shake your hips to the left and to the right. Wag your finger for emphasis. Pretend you are scolding your little chickens. Resume your skipping.


Step 6

Helpful Tip: In addition to bobbing your head to and fro you may also shake your head as if you're saying "yes" while moving your head to the left and to the right. This is particularly effective when there is a long Keith solo on the guitar.


Step 7

Another delightful move involves standing with your legs about shoulder width apart and shifting the weight of your body, alternating between the left and the right leg. Sway your hips emphatically for greatest effect. Lift the foot off the ground of the alternating legs as if you are marching. Keep waving your arms and pointing.


Step 8

Remember. Mick has been practicing these moves for a long time. A very long time. Be gentle with yourself, act naturally, and most importantly, rock on with your bad self.

I was in Antartica yesterday!

Hi, I'm Britney, love me!

And this (on the left) is my sister LadyGaga...

And our whole family of wild cats! Rwaaargh!!!

Love us!

Jessica Watson, you made it!!

We interviewed her. By "we", I mean Angus Liars did but for SUPERSWEET! And now she's a rockstar! Go Jess! I wonder if their paths crossed in the Atlantic or the Pacific...

Homemade videos gone good

Normally I'm not big with fan videos, but I came across 'Undeclared' on YouTube. I'm really glad someone's made a video for it finally, the Dodos really should make this official!


And there's also a really cute version of Vampire Weekend's 'White Sky' that kind of reminds me of Plan B's 'No Good'


But best of all, what really made me cry and laugh out loud at the same time is this video. Officially Flaming Egg's first ever, yes, it's self-titled!


How silence could be so funny and so so cute I don't know!

We need to get a job...

After office hours can be a drag. But anyhoo... who does Julian Gross from Liars better now?

Is it Julian himself?

Or Gemma Dempster?

You be the judge! I still can't stop laughing.

Ahem. Wikipedia, you did it again.

To Wiki-followers.

Do you remember that rather robust article our dear Asst. Ed wrote a few months ago? (gah, has it really been that long?)

 Click Me!

Well I couldn't help but contribute to her huffing, swearing and puffing when I found this brilliant human touch left behind in reference to Warpaint. Not the band. The actual paint you slap on your face before war. Let's take a look shall we.

"Paint, to which one paints themselves for the purpose of war, and not believing there isn't an article for this already"

Oooh we love their fighting attitude!

Wikipedia. Hold out your right cheek for a good slap. We rule.

ATP by Matt Groening Tweetathon

So some of you might know, I went to the ATP last weekend and did hour by hour on-site tweets. It wasn't easy, I don't talk to myself all the time that much but it was pretty interesting to have to busy myself all the time so I had things to tell. If you missed it, we had two cool guest tweets and here's the highlights of my past weekend with pictures. Follow us (or me, basically) at @supersweet!

We're geeks and early at #ATP - 5:50 PM May 7th

Just bumped into liars, they thought I was my own double! Can't wait to see th tonight, it's been 3 years! This will be epic! - 5:52 PM May 7th

Wow! Projector work at broadcast @atpfestival is amazing! I'm in trance! - 6:18 PM May 7th

Our neighbours next door mean business! Next up: cold cave! - 7:36 PM May 7th

Are cold cave serious? This is literally what I'm seeing at the @atpfestival right now. Literally!! - 8:00 PM May 7th

It's iggy o'clock!! - 9:03 PM May 7th

Spotted a girl wearing Sretsis make my heart melt jeans, she looks amazing!!- 9:15 PM May 7th

Arghhoooooooo..... I wanna be your dog #atp cuz your light show is the brightest ever!! - 9:27 PM May 7th

I have two hours of napping before the fresh&onlys and liars! How un rock and roll of me. - 9:55 PM May 7th

Ok round two for friday @atpfestival Woah nice hair shonen knife girls!! - 12:44 AM May 8th

Love this girls dress a lot. Second row for liars @atpfestival now. I'm a geek but can't wait! - 2:14 AM May 8th

It's official: liars are best band in the world - I will die doing everything to get the rest of the world to agree with me. Manipulative! - 2:25 AM May 8th

But seriously, they were even better than the last time I saw them and I didn't think that was possible ever! - 2:35 AM May 8th

Right I've never had a monologue for this long with and to myself before. Let's do more updates tomorrow. Night night #ATP! - 2:42 AM May 8th 

Ok I'm up! Who's at @atpfestival and awake and wants to meet up text me now. Today is a hang day. But give an hour to wash my hair first! - 11:32 AM May 8th

Top is such a man today! - 1:46 PM May 8th

Breakfast #atp how glamorous! - 2:18 PM May 8th

Love the colour and frills of this girls coat! Next up: last songs of boredoms! - 2:42 PM May 8th

I think the next question to our next freebie should be how many instrument hitting tweeps you see at boredoms - 3:12 PM May 8th

I have so much respect for boredoms now! Another best band to play @atpfestival! it was so pretty looking at cymbols flipping up/down too! - 3:16 PM May 8th 

We want... But oh so expensive! - 4:53 PM May 8th

Coffee with the lovely Debbie from @CreateSpark. Now: deerhunter time! - 4:57 PM May 8th

Why aren't your feet cold? - 5:27 PM May 8th

Matt groening is drawing for you right now #ATP!! = 5:51 PM May 8th

Bumped into this girl. She has a gorgeous orange jumper that shr apparently got for almost nothing in Taunton!! - 6:41 PM May 8th

This is Julian from Liars. Konono no 1 just about made me cry, and the boredoms earlier really did make me cry. Absolutely amazing. Choltida such a bitch cause she Is making me cry right now, cause I am an old man and ugly. - 7:37 PM May 8th

Watching residents... Not sure if I'm enjoying it yet... - 8:23 PM May 8th

Apparently liars are making us a toothbrush! Sending pat the lovely intern to collect it from their chalet tonight!! - 9:08 PM May 8th

Look! Tiny bunny at @atpfestival!! - 10:32 PM May 8th

That blond guy who sticks fingers at thee oh sees shouting I've heard them all before can go fuck yourself. Who begs you to be here? - 10:32 PM May 8th 

Getting ready for xx, we are right in the front for once! Ooh... Groupies! - 11:16 PM May 8th

Watching xx with matt groening, woah!! - 12:34 AM May 9th

Amazing light show at xx #ATP! - 12:46 AM May 9th

Because we were staring at his arse so much, we actually got given this teddy bear. Who's got peter pan now hey? - 2:02 AM May 9th

So pandabear was a bit of a let down... I'm going to bed now... Zzzz... - 2:11 AM May 9th

Pot noodles for breakfast anyone? Well it's kind of lunch now. Last day @atpfestival, can't wait to see Daniel Johnston! - 12:19 PM May 9th

Interviewing our band of the month later today. Look out for another guest tweet! - 12:50 PM May 9th

Cinema time! - 1:23 PM May 9th

Toy story! He won't stop staring! - 1:52 PM May 9th

Daniel Johnston is about to make me cry right now ;( - 6:50 PM May 9th

Oh my god Daniel Johnston is doing the soundcheck by himself right now! A private show!! I think I'm star struck!!! - 7:13 PM May 9th

Guest tweet from sierra CocoRosie: hey we are here #ATP, we're looking forward to playing tonight, let's dance! - 7:21 PM May 9th

It's j spaceman performing ladies and gentlemen... Yo! - 8:13 PM May 9th

Let's try again. Were seriously super close now!! See? - 8:36 PM May 9th

Just danced with bianca and sierra from CocoRosie! - 9:38 PM May 9th

Can someone please teleport me from a to b? It's too cold to walk! - 10:30 PM May 9th

Raincoats talk too much I'm leaving! - 11:34 PM May 9th

Seriously, I like bands that talk and joke around but I'm not really here for a standup show... Gaagh! Really annoyed now! - 11:43 PM May 9th

These are the shiniest dms I've seen ever! - about 24 hours ago

My #ATP ends with frustration, don't know whose fault it is, joanna newsom playing too long and too quietly or raincoats talking too much? - about 24 hours ago

Let's hope our band of month nymphs close it nicely! I'm digging the chaos pads work at xx right now though! - about 24 hours ago

And may I add that they're doing 100 times better a job than george harrisons son's band the new #2. and he had four of them! - about 24 hours ago

I'm impressed! Am loving everything about the xx show right now! - about 24 hours ago

Aww... Last day @atpfestival has really done it for @pitterpatterpat. We're waiting for cocorosie... Eagerly, as you see! - about 23 hours ago

Come on coco, we're waiting #ATP! - about 23 hours ago

Alright! That was a high level of satisfaction!! Thank you CocoRosie you were amazing!! Well done @atpfestival! Nighty night!! - about 22 hours ago

End of ss #ATP tweet-reports. Can we call these tweetports?! - about 22 hours ago

Interview Idols

I hardly do interviews myself any more... Maybe the fear of people have completely taken over me and somehow I get more and more intimidated to do them myself (now that I have Gemma!)... But if I were completely brave to do anything, would I want to be like Nardwuar or Ushi?


It was Siobhan Fahey who introduced me to Ushi on Youtube... She interviewed Siobhan's favourite singer Melanie Safka. Now I don't really know who Melanie is but I have to say this is the most amusing interview I've ever seen! Can I be more like this please?

1000 dollars? Blink and you’ll miss it.

"Paying for purchases with Blink is a breeze. It's FAST, EASY and SECURE. It speeds up your time at checkout with no swiping necessary. Just blink and go."

That’s what the cash-cats of American bank Chase say. Now you can touch your bank card or credit card to a magnetic strip reader just like we do with Oysters, and hey-presto! You’ve paid for something in the blink of an eye.

SUPERSWEET is concerned. Chase stress security, but we don’t believe them. How does it stop a dodgy tea-leaf from nicking your card and ‘touching’ it against shop ‘readers’ and buying whatever the hell they want? No signature required? No pin? Sounds fucking terrible to us.

Imagine this, you’re walking down the street and some clever tech geek has a magnetic reader down his pants with a cash amount entered on it for 500 dollars. He bumps into you and you take no notice, but your Blink cash card has transferred a shit load of money into his pants without you even realizing. Imagine telling that to the coppers?

“Honestly constable, I didn’t pay for any dirty fishing tackle.”

And anyway, why does the world have to get itself in a damn hurry? Why doesn’t everything have to take less time than it takes a fart to escape a duck’s arse? Are we in such a bloody impatient mind-set we can’t take 5 minutes to enjoy making a shopping purchase? That is a sad life we live.

So kids, listen up, when this Blink shit hits the UK, don’t go there! Take your time, enjoy buying stuff, in fact, take a really fucking long time at the till and smile at all the impatient bastards queuing behind you. Life goes by too fast without us blinking it along.

Best and Worst Music VDO Awards

Honestly, if MTV could do it, so can I on... on my own on Good Friday where my only guest of honour is a cat called Michael de Babioshka.


Let's start with the best one, I know it's only the beginning of the month but it looks like this could be the best thing anyone will get to see in the next 28 days already! Phantogram, SUPERSWEET's favourite new band, with their new single 'Mouthful of Diamonds' (hmmm.... wouldn't that be nice?) - their video is just so alien-like I wanted to cry when I first saw it. I once went to an amazing gig where someone in the crowd kept yelling, "Seriously, how did you do that?" to the band. And I was like... what a thing to be shouting out. But now I'm going through the same motion... How did Phantogram do that? It's so good, so beautiful, powerful and mysteriously seductive! I'm in love right now. BRAVO!


And now let's skip all the way to the worst one. Just like Eric Prydz's 'Call On Me', Grum's 'Can't Shake This Feeling' is another interpretation of the infamous and attention-seeking (but works every time) "sex sells" method. However, before you think I'm torturing our office cat with a facelift. It's only because Michael got too squeamish to watch and I've had to force her. How demeaning can this get? Surely even Terry Richardson would disapprove!

But all in all, thanks to both. Now I have seen everything!