Rapid Editor Movement

With the recent release of REM's live double DVD recorded here in dear old Éire, now is a good time to get better acquainted with the artsy Athens Georgian types. No better place than the blog created by one Matthew Perpetua.

Matthew is a dedicated REM fanatic, who has set himself a mission that some might find mundane: to post an entry 'about every song on every REM album'. At the time of writing, Matthew had entered 133 missives ranging from the personal to the poetic, categorised according to album.

As an introduction to one of rock's most enduring and eccentric rock icons, this is a good place to start and the definitive fannish view of REM's vast back catalogue.

The only thing it's missing is an explanation of Michael Stipe's penchant for rather unusual face paint concoctions.

Women are people too

With gender equality a given these days, it's hard to believe but there was a time when it was considered that a woman's place was in the home.

We've come a long way since those dark old days and girl power is marching proudly into the 21st century. So now that the glass ceiling has been shattered, maybe we can look back with thorn tinted glasses at just how far we've come.

Nowhere were these attitudes as prominent as in advertising and one website has collected some prime examples.

Like the advert for Hotpoint, which suggested that because their new washing machine was so good, husbands needed to remind their wives not to spend all of their time in the kitchen.

It's doubtful that Subaru would now get away with their 1970's ad describing the GL Coupe as being 'like a spirited woman who yearns to be tamed'.

And what would today's career woman make of the 1960's poster campaign for a Lawnmower depicting a Doris Day lookalike with the slogan 'As easy to use as a vacuum cleaner'?

In these days of equality, it tends to be men who are now the targets of humour. An American advert for reinforced roofing asks why hurricanes like Katrina are named after women. Their answer: like hurricanes, women are wild and exciting, but when they leave they take your house, your car and your boat with them.

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