Buddy Motherfuckin Guy: Shine A Light

He's the scene stealer in Shine A Light.

There aren't any youtubes of the performance yet but here's Buddy and the Stones teaming up back in 1981 at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago.

Jagger on Shine A Light

I saw Shine A Light at the IMAX last night. It was as exciting as seeing the Stones live, but actually being on stage with them. Go see it! It's WOWOWOWOW!

The sweetest bit was when Keith gave his guitar to his pal Buddy "Motherfuckin'" Guy after Champagne and Reefer.

This Muddy Waters doing a version of the tune back in 1979:


Anyway, here's an MJ interview from myspace:
Mick Jagger: Two Minutes on MySpace

Hot

I think I'm getting a crush on Martin Scorsese. The man may be small but he's got charisma, intelligence, and you know how much he loves blues and the Stones.

Here they are through his eyes:

Texan Bird Poop and Song

I was at SXSW last week. In Austin there are just thousands of beautiful birds that make the most otherworldly sounds. They were so unreal to me as a Londoner, used to cooing pigeons and softly chirping sparrows, that when our cab took us down the main strip my friend and I asked the driver why they played birdsong from all the trees.

The next night, as if needing full on evidence that the noise came from real life birds, I walked under a noisy tree and had my great grandmother's wedding ring, that lives on my middle finger, pooped on.

Apparently it's lucky. I was luck my pal Spencer had a wet wipe handy.

Anyhoo, the next day I filmed one of the little birds:


If you have any idea what kind of bird this answers on a postcard please. Or email.
They're sweet little things and at least their poop is speedily clean-upable.

Strange Dreams I Have Had: Number 1

I have a very vivid subconscious imagination and have had some legendary dreams. I think my favourite is when I dreamt I was walking near Ilford library and Mick Jagger and David Bowie were rolling down a hill singing “Rolling In the Streets” to the tune of “Dancing In the Streets”. I was twenty and absolutely obsessed with that song for comedy value so I suppose it seeping into my subconscious was only a matter of time.

I was just rooting through some old emails and I found one with a CRAZY dream I had in January 2007. Just so you know I studied French History at A Level, hence all the 17th Century references:

I had a dream last night that The Duc D'Orleans was my father. I was living in France circa 1640 and an ex-boyfriend and his best friend were being pursued for wronging me. I went to church to be cleansed and absolved. This involved going into a grotty steam room with my best childhood friend, who in the dream was my Lady in Waiting. There were cobwebs everywhere. I saw my ex-boyfriend and his best friend in the church and kept laughing at them, especially at my old beau because had a very bushy beard which I thought he should shave off.

I then left the church to go to the gallows where they were about to be executed and cried out "Have mercy on them father!" My father absolved them of their evil crimes but as my ex’s best friend stepped towards the gallows Cardinal Richelieu, who looked just like Christopher Lee dressed as Rasputin crossed with the Wicker Man's Lord Summerisle, initiated a sword fight with him. The Cardinal kept shouting "I am a rhinoceros!".

The Cardinal killed the best friend, but my old beau was saved by my grace, despite the angry mob baying for more blood.

This is who I was in my dream, The Grande Mademoiselle (but I was the size I am now, so not too Grande):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Montpensier


This is my dad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%2C_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans


Isn’t that a nutty dream?! And so insane that my subconscious remembers all those details from A-Level French History. I spoke to a dream therapist about it, she’s a friend of a friend , who told me that it was either a past life thing (I doubt it), or I had been through major dramas with my ex beau and wanted him to be brought to justice but at the same time I wanted to forgive him because I felt he was being punished enough. Profound? I dunno. But I felt like a zillion dollars when I woke up.

I have actually been for hypnotherapy. (It is absolutely amazing, if you’re curious definitely try it! It’s like very intense meditation and btw there is no way she could make you bark like a dog unless you felt like doing that).

My hypnotherapist says dreams are a great way for the subconscious to work out your troubles without you having to think about them when you’re awake. She recommends that if I ever had a problem go to bed with a question and when you wake up you’ll have the answer. I have done this several times and it really has worked for me.

If you are based in or around London this is my hypnotherapist:
http://www.londonhypnosis.co.uk/
She’s one of those people that as soon as you meet you know they want to help you.

Brendan Blue Eyed Benson

I know I've mentioned him before, but once again, I'm So Hot For Him.

Oh Brendan Benson , you and your blue eyes and dirty blond hair and lovely hands.


However, although we make a VERY cute couple he has a lovely BLONDE! girlfriend, who from pictures seems nice and sweet and sincere. Which is a sign of a good man.

ANYWAY!

Brendan has shoved up some new tunes on his MySpace, why not have a listen.
http://www.myspace.com/brendanbenson


To be honest I'm not so hot for the new tunes. They're a bit plain and don't have the vibrancy of Alternative to Love or Lalpaco. Which is a real shame because I love those albums.

All the songs are about a painful breakup. It's weird, because I thought break-ups were creatively stimulating, but Brendan's produced some pretty samey stuff. The songs are only demos so maybe there'll sound a lot better on his album. I know Brendan can do a lot better than this!

STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm just about to interview Ida Maria, a Norweigian singer who I guess sounds a bit like a pop Liela from the Duke Spirit.

It's for Scarlet magazine and I think she's the kind of mainstream, gutsy woman that would appeal to Scarlet readers.

Anyhoo, her main tune is this one. Kinda catchy. I mean it's not blues based rock but I wouldn't mind hearing it on the radio:

I think one of the reasons I like the "STELLLLAAAA" chorus because it reminds me of this. I love Elaine! GET OUT!

Rolling Stones Friday

Friday, the best day of the week, deserves the best music.
And today I am spreading the love with the best music of all because the whole week I have been listening to the greatest album of all time.

Oh, and Ronnie Wood left me a voicemail last night:


There's a footloose man at my feet too:


What can a poor boy do:


Woody wrote this one:



Here's a choon, shame is such fromage version but you get the idea:

Keith Richards in the Louis Vuitton Ad Campaign

I've got the eyeliner, the rock jewellery and the skull scarves. To complete this picture in my own home I just need the £4000 suitcase.

Oh Keith, you've made Louis Vuitton cool to me. And there I was thinking it was all Posh Spice.

POST SCRIPT: The enlightened DD saw this post and told me he doesn't think KR can save Louis Vuitton from the Essex Girls and their fakes. I disagree, I think having someone so craggy faced will make them turn their back on their Romford market versions and stick to dodgy Mulberrys. To quote DD, they'll start saying, "Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr e'z a grunga".

Four Hot Men Over Forty

I've never been into older men. Maybe that's where I've been going wrong. But as my former boss frequently says to me, why would I want an old guy?

Sure, I love old music, which is these days made by old musicians, and those musicians were hot in their day. But now? It would be like snogging your mate's dad. And I'm not the kind of girl who fancies any of her mates' dads.

The oldest guy I've ever been involved with was a 37 year old when I was 24 (so a 13 year age difference). This guy was an old scenester who was kinda good looking, but dyed his hair because the front bit was going grey.

I hate it when men dye their hair, I think men look so handsome when they go grey, I mean at least they have hair!

This guy was so insecure and used to drink vodka and orange all night and then berate himself about how he's getting fat (he did have a slight gut, but was still very slim), and obsess about the amount of calories in whatever he was eating or drinking. He also used to slag off his ex-girlfriend who he had a kid with, didn't seem to know as much about music as me (at the time it was my be all and end all), and he wasn't the world's greatest kisser. Passion killers.

To be perfectly honest he was a nice enough guy but I was only stringing him along until something better came along. And it did. Ex-boyfriend chatted me up one night and I was instantly smitten. So I ended up dumping this older guy with a really badly worded text. Something really harsh, along the lines of "I'll see you around but I'm not interested".

I think the answer to the above is that scenesters never mature, so stay away. But I'm sure these older men are enlightened and sophisticated.

Daniel Craig

PROS: Perfect body, smart, rugged, smooth
CONS: Maybe he's a bit up himself and I hear he only likes Brunettes.

Johnny Depp

PROS: The hottest man in the world, as rock and roll as a Rolling Stone, very intelligent, great taste in music, polite, good hearted
CONS: Happily married, only seems to get involved with flat chested women, apart from that perfect in every way.

Alan Rickman

PROS: Articulate, brooding, he always plays these tortured romantic heroes from Snape to Colonel Brandon and the idea of a man who holds his cards to his chest like that, yet has sincere and profound feelings is very seductive.
CONS: At 62 perhaps too old

Jon Stewart

PROS: Very smart, politically aware, politically left, handsome, edgy
CONS: Married with kids, does it detract from his charisma?

Four Hot Men Under Forty

My friend Janey and I were swooning over the same man on MSN Messenger the other week and she challenged me to come up with a top five of hot men.

I got a list together but I thought, hang on, one of the guys is over forty, and the over-forties list is surely a whole different category.

So here's my top four, UNDER forty, in alphabetical order:

Brendan Benson

PROS: Blue eyes, dirty blond, tall, thin, handsome, very talented musician, in an amazing band, looks like fun, you can go drinking and party with him, lovely family, met him a couple of time and he's always very flirtatious, bet he's a great kisser!

CONS: Singer-songwriter (I love the music but out of all types of musicians they're the worst for being love junkies, they like all the attention, are slight megalomaniacs and they see themselves as tortured, they're dangerous but so seductive), maybe too flirtatious (does he tell every girl she smells great, like he told me? I like to feel special and unique), there are rumours he's a bit of a whore when he tours with the Raconteurs

Dhani Harrison


PROS: Such a dream boat, beautiful hair and big eyes, part Mexican so he has incredible skin, devoted to his family, articulate, great guitarist, rock royalty - so he's got lots of stories, creative, intelligent, enlightened, Om Shanthi, vegetarian

CONS: I've never met anyone who has hundreds of millions of pounds before, would it make you arrogant or distance you from people without money? By the looks of it it hasn't affected Dhani in this way but who knows. Also, he looks small, maybe 5ft 6". As I'm over 5ft 7" in stockinged feet and much, much taller in my high heels, maybe this is a faux pas. But as my friend Charlotte said to me when I was dating a shorter guy and attempting to buy flat shoes to come down to his level "Don't all men want to be dominated."

Sid Jenkins from Skins (Alias Mike Bailey)

PROS: Well, being the embodiment of fictional character Cassie surely Sid must be my ideal man and the perfect yang to my yin, he's cute,a bit dorky, wears glasses, looks a bit confused, smart, has a good heart, a good friend, a good boyfriend, like to have fun, nice singing voice

CONS: At 20, he's probably a teeny but too young for me. Shame. Also, he doesn't exist!

Mark Ronson


You were waiting for him to show his face weren't you!

PROS: A hunk, a great dresser, smart, good company, great conversationalist, lots of friends, gets on well with women, loves Blind Faith and Steve Winwood, single

CONS: If rumour is true, he may be a bit of a ho, he may also be after a famous girlfriend