This is a great interview with Svetlana Kuznetsova, one of my favourite Russians. Key quotes: "In Britain, the first girl who hits two balls in, they give her everything," "If you want champagne, I will get you champagne," "I think I was black in a past life, because I feel so much for African culture. I tell Serena that I want her hair, to have ( Read more... )

I've just noticed that the three albums currently towering over 2008 all have a line containing the word 'grandmothers'. Two of these are hilarious and one is properly deep ( Read more... )

ugh dizzee rascal's new single features calvin harris and is as DREADFUL as you would expect :(

grime aktion 08 = all about tinchy stryder's cloud 9 ep, about half of ghetto's mixtape esp 'mountain', SWAY AND STUSH obv, wiley's grime wave (THIS is how you do electrogrime, silly dizz) and anything with chipmunk on. no lay's mixtape sadly a bit ( Read more... )

ok so I was peacefully watching Roland Garros - to be accurate, getting completely irritated by Gaël Monfils' habit of running around 50 feet behind the baseline ALL THE TIME when if he stood further in and was more aggressive he could be SO good - anyway, I decided to install those software updates my Mac is always bugging me about. I did check ( Read more... )

wowowowowow Dinara Safina just came back from 6-7, 2-5 down - having missed two set points in the first set and saving a match point at 4-5 in the second - to take the second set on a tiebreak against Maria Sharapova!

I want to be watching this properly, not just relying on the live scoreboard :(

GO DINARA GO

I was in meetings all morning and our work internet is being resolutely intermittent and so I just got on livescore.com to find that Serena Williams has lost in straight sets to Katarina Srebotnik wtf! Third round! And she was in good form, and everything! Hahahahaha I cannot wait for her inevitably hilarious press conference ( Read more... )

i just went to hip-hop dancing class! it was super-awesome but fucking hell SO HARD. i am even more in awe of dancers than i was before, srsly, this shit is so much harder to do well than writing it's not even funny. i am never going to cast aspersions or let others cast aspersions in my hearing on professional dancers. and I AM GOING TO GO UNTIL I ( Read more... )

Agh, tennis can be a game which comes down to so little. 103rd-ranked Evgeniya Rodina had an open court into which to put away a sitter forehand at 6-6, 30-30 in the third set against Maria Sharapova yesterday. She missed it by a mile, and Shriek won 8-6. Though on yesterday's form, Dinara Safina is going to get her good in the 4th round ( Read more... )

Well, someone clearly hasn't been to her media training classes lately:

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I forgot Roland Garros started today! None of my predictions would have been affected by today's matches though. I called the biggest two upsets (Benesova over Vaidisova and Schwank over Moya) though both were total non-surprises: Vaidisova hasn't won a match since like February and is more interested in shagging Radek Stepanek (!!!) than playing ( Read more... )