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Today’s Joanna Page: Mark Owen’s ‘Makin Out’

Today’s Joanna Page is the video to Mark Owen’s “Makin Out”. All right, you don’t have to listen to it – turn the sound down if you want to.

Actually, I was expecting the worse, but it’s quite a nice little song, I think. The video’s pretty good, although a little creepy in the light of the Torchwood episode From Out of the Rain (they’re so similar, I’m wondering if the directors are the same). It’s mostly in the style of silent movies of the 10s and 20s – although it could be argued that Mark Owen isn’t so much doing Buster Keaton as Johnny Depp doing Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin in Benny & Joon.

Nice roller skating, too.

Next week: Joanna Page as Dickensian femme fatale* Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield.

* Let the debaters start preparing now!

Vote for my sister’s album at the Mojo awards


Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan

She’s popped up in the blog a couple of times this week now, providing invaluable information, so it would be very lovely if y’all could vote in the 2008 Mojo Awards for an album that she worked on.

After slaving away on ‘Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan‘ for much of last year, it’s been nominated in the “Compilation Of The Year” category. I’m sure it would be equally nice if you bought it, too!

You can see the shortlists here and you can register to vote for it here.

Ta very much!