Assembled by pop svengali Kim Fowley as a jailbait American riposte to the Sex Pistols, The Runaways managed to pack a spectacular amount of loose living into their four years together.

Their David Bowie-fixated bassist Cherie Currie comprehensively spilt the beans about all the sex, drugs and crashing through plate glass doors whilst completely gee-faced in her 1989 book Neon Angel, which has been updated and reissued to coincide with the Stateside premiere in April of The Runaways movie.
Early reports are that it’s a cracker with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart respectively looking spookily like Currie and Joan Jett who went on to rack up the hits in the ‘80s with The Blackhearts.
Watch the trailer and see original footage of the band at www.runawaysmovie.com. The latter includes a fabulous 1977 clip of Jett talking about punk rock on Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show with Fowley and a wonderfully prickly Paul Weller.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to melissafebos.com where you can get the lowdown on the new memoir that’s just been published in the States by former $1,500 an hour dominatrix Melissa Febos, a.k.a. Mistress X.
Asked what her weirdest request was, she says: “Where do I begin? There’s a fetish for everything, and an underground community to go with it. Did you know there’s a fetish for squishing bugs with your bare feet – or for watching sexy women do it? It’s called ‘crushing’. As a friend to all animals, I could never do that. Sweaters, stinky feet, tooth-pulling, extortion, farting, electricity, balloons – you name it, they wanted it.”
Far from being cheap titillation, Whip Smart is a brilliantly written book, which gives real insight into the psychology of being a sex worker.
Which just leaves time for visits to en.tackfilm.se (star in your own action hero movie); trololololololololololo.com (bizarre 1970s Soviet light entertainment); www.molvania.com/video_medium_2.html (Flight of the Conchords are so last year); and www.wbbm780.com/Barack-Obama-Ecstasy-Pills-Hit-Streets--Approval-R/5802331 (President-shaped E).