As one twitter joker put it, it was either a horrible mistake or an act of media genius when the PR team behind former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle decided to launch her new album, Standing Ovation, with a very special #susanalbumparty.
However, since the folks at @SusanBoyleHQ have yet to comment on the intention behind the tweet, we can only take it at face value and offer our own standing ovation to the 51-year old Grammy-award winning singer for finally giving voice to her true passion.
Given that there’s apparently a daring SuicideGirl lurking within Susan Boyle, we’d like to offer her an honorary membership to SG, since we think she’ll feel right at home in our Ass Appreciation and Anal Sex groups.
Ingredients
2 cups plain flower
2 tsp baking powder
5 ml salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup castor sugar
2 tbs instant Cuppacino
100g butter (room temperature)
cupcake cups
Icing:
125 ml fresh cream
1 cup icing sugar
1 tbs instant coffee powder
mini chocolate balls
Method:
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (celsius). In a bowl, sift together all of your dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, cream together your butter and sugar before slowly adding the eggs. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients. Combine thoroughly before spooning into the cupcake cups, places in a muffin tray to hold them in place. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Place onto a rack and allow to cool.
And now for the icing; In a bowl, whip the cream until it’s stiff before adding the combined sifted icing sugar and instant coffee powder. Once the cupcakes have cooled, smother them in the coffee cream and then sprinkle with mini chocolate balls to garnish.
“I’ve heard of actors that give a better performance just for their close-up and I wont do that because its ridiculous.” – Catalina Sandino Moreno
Maria Full of Grace tells the story of one young woman’s journey from a small Colombian town to the streets of New York. A bright, spirited 17-year old, Maria Alvarez [Catalina Sandino Moreno] lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia and works stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel – but, in fact, becoming a drug “mule” – changes the course of her life. Maria is transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking. Writer/director Joshua Marston is an American but he decided to go to Colombia and cast and shoot the movie there. Moreno is a real find and is sure to be a big star. For her first performance, she is amazingly real.