Picture of the day

Tom is one scary motherfucker and Katie just seems like a zombie.
I mean. She was in Dawsons Creek for crying out loud and no one had heard of her since. What are the odds that the ehm straight actor Tom just meets her and falls in love with her? Ok, we confess, we are bit cyncial when it comes to luvvieluv but this is just making us puke. And then having a baby and calling it Suri. What's wrong with people?

But this is so funny! Shh, I'm in labour. Classic!

La fabuleux destin d'Carrie Bradshaw

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a bee?

I L.O.V.E British comedy.

I guess that's quite a common thing.
But being a foreigner living in the UK it's been a real treat to get to know British culture in a totally different way.
Jokes that might not translate to other cultures I now totally get and can spend a whole evening laughing about. I now know what chav culture is and can sympathise with all the Vicky Pollard's living here and having loads of babies from a very young age. The obese women who attend numerous weight loss classes and then go straight to the pub for beer and fish n' chips. The absolutely loaded women who live in Madia Vale / Holland Park and spend their days shopping and getting some work done on their faces. I know because I share the city with them. So when I watch how they are being portrayed I no longer laugh and see them from an outsiders perspective. I now laugh and feel connected to them at the same time. And that is big in my world.

When I saw this clip from the Catherine Tate Show I instantly though of a friend who is gay and from Northern Ireland. He hasn't told his parets and countless brother and sisters that he's gay even though he's been in a relationship for several years. Instead of just laughing at the sketch I saw the darker side in a totally different light. When I moved here I didn't have any friends or a job and lived in a rundown council area and Catherine's clip made me think of all the boys who used play football outside my tiny window or dragging a buggy with a small child even though they were still children themselves.

On a brighter note: Eddie, is it a bee? The classic!

It's better to burn out than fade away

Granny of rock Courtney Love (83) is on the cover of this months issue of POP Magazine. We can't wait to read the interview as she seems to be back on track again. A new face lift and a boyfriend who just left his teens behind him seem to have done wonders for her. She has also reportedly been supporting Whitney to clean up and stay away from crack cocaine. So she seems to get nicer as she gets older.
In one of last months issues of NME she spoke about the loss of Kurt and how her lifestyle has affected her. She poignantly spoke about missing her life living in Seattle with Kurt in a basement apartment just the two of them with their little girl and that she wished that they had spent more time together doing nice things.
We hope that she can stay clean for a while at least and we are planning to read Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love this week.

Some amazing Love in Mono below!

Update on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 1:17PM by GANGSTER

From Publishers Weekly

Love writes in her introduction:

"I have always said that I would never write a book, and I really haven't." It's true—"diaries" is something of a misnomer, as "scrapbooks" would more accurately describe the collection of old photographs, hand-scrawled song lyrics and other documents that fill these pages. The materials assembled by Stander cover every phase of the rock star's "wild pirate life," from a failed childhood audition for The Mickey Mouse Club to an e-mail exchange with Lindsay Lohan about dealing with negative press coverage. (The compilation is so up-to-date it even includes her shocked reactions to the revelations about JT Leroy.) Along the way there are mimeographed flyers for early Hole concerts, a picture of the actual heart-shaped box that inspired Kurt Cobain to write the Nirvana song and photo after photo of Love herself, from candid backstage shots to more polished celebrity portraits. A foreword by Carrie Fisher and an afterword by political activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (Manifesta) each, in their own way, celebrate Love as an unrestrained feminist, but the best way to understand her may be to plunge directly into the raw materials. One thing's for sure: you really have never seen a celebrity memoir like this. (Oct.)

Amy Winehouse: They try to make me go to rehab

This week we are lovin' Amy Winehouse and her stunning new single 'Rehab'.
A future classic if you ask me with more than subtle references to Motown of course.
Usually I don't like her at all. Mainly because she always looks so dirty and unwell and that scares me a bit, honestly.
There is something so deeply unsexy with someone who has obvious talent and then just let's it waste away. Or at least shower! (Think Amy and Pete Doherty naked.) Yuck!
An old flatmate of mine used to play pool with Ms Wine-house and he said she was a bit strange come to think of it.
This single is a corker though and it's on repeat in our ipod.
Enjoy!