Watts The Big Idea

Being among the first to recognise the comic genius of Jeff Durham and Neil Hamburger on this side of the Atlantic, Caught In The Net is delighted to bring you word of Brooklyn hip-hop comic Reggie Watts whose ‘Fuck Shit Stack’ routine has been getting insane numbers of hits online. Unlikely to be covered any time soon by Jedward or Boyzone, it’s one of the standouts from his WhyS#!+So Crazy album, which is out in the States next month and also rather intriguingly includes a track called ‘Fields Of Donegal’.

Discover the man’s genius at www.reggiewatts.com.
Those rumours of Bret Easton Ellis producing a follow-up to Less Than Zero are, we’re delighted to report, true with Imperial Bedrooms hitting the shelves on June 15.
“Twenty-five years have passed and Clay Easton, now a successful screenwriter, has returned from a brief stint in New York to Los Angeles where he’s helping to cast his newest movie, The Listeners,” reads the promo blurb. “But the more things have changed, the more they stay the same, and Clay is soon drifting around in his familiar old circle. There’s his vulnerable former girlfriend, Blair, and her husband, Trent, now a high-powered agent but still a bisexual philanderer; and the parties they host at their Beverly Hills mansion are filled with Hollywood types of various levels of fame and fortune and power. There’s his childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict running an ultra-discreet, high-class escort service, and their old dealer Rip Millar, reconstructed and face-lifted nearly beyond recognition, who nowadays is involved in activities far more sinister than those of his notorious past.”
Find out more at www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/eastonellis.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com (delightfully rude silliness); www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWhYlhfWCI (Ice-T kills his Mac); www.vbs.tv/watch/uneven-terrain/london-pirate-frequencies (ace pirate radio documentary); and www.boingboing.net/2010/03/11/exhausting-the-entir.html (infinite teddy bears go on the rampage).