It's All Over For Ronnie and Jo Wood

How very sad.



What kind of imbecile would throw away his whole family, support system, and a woman who has stood by him, no matter what for over 30 years for this?

Girls like Ekaterina are two a penny, whereas a woman like Jo Wood come along once in a man's lifetime. He'll never meet another woman who loves him as much.

Jo is going to better off without him. But Woody is going to die lonely, full of regret. It's such a shame because he's a Rolling Stone and deserves better, but he has made his choice.

Good luck Jo, I hope you find happiness. The sisterhood is right behind you.

Here's the full story, from:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3101414/Ronnie-Woods-wife-Jo-Wood-says-her-marriage-is-over.html

The rock star faces a possible £50 million divorce settlement after Jo allegedly contacted her lawyers because of his continuing relationship with a 20-year-old Russian.

Wood, 61, was recently photographed enjoying a romantic meal with Ekaterina Ivanova at a fashionable London restaurant.

His wife now reportedly just wants to be friends with him rather than married.

Speaking at the Berkeley Square Ball, she told The Daily Mail: "We've been through too much together not to stay as friends whatever happens next.

"I'm still in touch with him and I've seen him And despite everything I still really care for Ronnie."

She added: "Everything is fine, and everything is going to be fine.

"The thing is, I spent so many years concentrating on Ronnie, dressing Ronnie, and looking after Ronnie, that suddenly I can now concentrate on me. So for example I have been dressing differently recently."

Jo has proven indispensable to Wood over the years he has spent in the band.

She has gone on every tour with him since they first met, choosing his outfits and cooking him food, while she also looks after the couple's finances.

She admitted she has lost weight thanks to the stress of the situation.

"Well, I've been going through a very tough time, so I guess a lot of the way I look is down to the stress. But also I have become completely obsessed with the gym.

"I think if you feel good inside, physically, that confidence really shows and I feel fantastic. I have been going as often as possible. I do find it very therapeutic and a great way to channel everything out."

I've Fallen For An Angel: Eddie Redmayne

My new crush is Eddie Redmayne, he plays the intelligent, romantic, pure, heart-of-gold, good guy in the excellent adaptation of Tess of the Durbervilles. As well as playing someone with these attributes, he's also, ya know, HOT:


I know it's a terribly depressing story, but it's the best costume drama I've seen since the infamous 1995 Pride and Prejudice.
Watch it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tess/

So that's why I like Barack! - Obama Prefers the Stones to the Beatles

Good man!



From: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/obama_choose_stones_over_beatl.html

Finally, some news (Stones vs. Beatles) from today's pool (the small group of journalists that traveled today with Sen. Barack Obama from Florida to Washington, D.C.).

As we zipped along Constitution Avenue, Jen Psaki, an Obama spokeswoman, briefed in the van on what happened inside Obama's Senate office building. She said he met only with staff and interns. "No members of Congress stopped by," she said.

Now the news: apparently there were a few Capitol Hill reporters waiting outside his office. He was asked by one whether he was a Rolling Stones or Beatles guy. "Stones," Obama reponded to a CQ reporter, per Psaki. She said he also said that he would make some comments after the White House meeting about the bailout agreement.

Obama and the pool arrived at the White House about 3:40 p.m. ET. We are now holding at the White House.

"I Can See Russia From My House"

Doesn't Tina Fey perfectly capture the moronic-ness of Palin.
And poor old Hillary....

Sarah Palin Witchcraft Scandal

I am shocked and slightly horrified that this story hasn't blown up everywhere. It's not even on Jezebel!

A video of Sarah Palin being blessed by a Christian Fundamentalist minister from her own church, hoping witchcraft can be swept out of Washington and that Christian Republicans will fully infiltrate the Whitehouse, has surfaced. It was filmed in 2005:


At first I thought it wasn't Palin, and just some random in a wig, but her camp confirmed it was her, but declined to comment further.

What's bizarre is that the story has been around for nearly two days and it's hardly been reported anywhere. Looking at the furore that ensued after the video of Obama's pastor surfaced (and Obama wasn't even in the room when those things were said!) why is this not being given more attention?
If it was the other way around there would be more scaremongering and racist propaganda like this:


Here's where I found out the story from:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/the_campaign_trailers/2008/09/blessed-are-the.html
It's my new favourite blog.

Anyway, here's hoping this and McCain's indecisiveness over the economy and campaign will finally put an end to Republican Whitehouse hopes.

Bring on the debates!

Jack White's New Bond Theme

What do you think?
I think it's hot. It's a pretty rock and roll Bond theme and Alicia Key's vox mash up with Jack's so well. It's a great, unlikely combination.

I like the Page/ Plant style wailing Alicia does to Jack's guitar playing.

Jack White is a bit of a Midas man, isn't he.
It's a shame the Amy Winehouse thing didn't work out, but that's crackheads for you.
Here's hoping she gets her shit together by the time they need another Bond theme.

John Lennon's Lost Interview

My friend Briana found this Fab (literally) video on youtube today. Real words of wisdom from John Lennon here, and his advice hasn't dated. If he was around today he'd say vote Obama, I know it.

Here's the blurb:
"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message. "

And here's the vid:

My New Blog

I've started another blog which is all about how I'm going to get my body up to scratch before my 30th birthday, which is nine months today.

Here's the link:
http://beforetheymakemerun30.blogspot.com/

Learn to make Keith's Shepherd's Pie!

The Rolling Stones former tour chef, Tyrone Power, (the man who made Keith Richards' official "Don't Bust the Crust" shepherd's pie, every day on the Bigger Bang tour) is available to teach you a few things about cooking.

Tyrone has been employed by holiday company Balearic Discovery to give visitors to Mallorca a three day culinary course.

You get to go shopping with Tyrone to Palma's Mercado Olivar, then onto the kitchens in Sineu, central Mallorca, where he puts you through your paces.

www.balearicdiscovery.com

He's also available to cater your own parties and events, so you too can eat food fit for a Stone.

One of the Stones' crew once ate Keith's shepherds' pie, and Keith then threatened to cut his legs off and cook them in his dinner. Whether Roadie's Pie is on the menu is yet to be revealed.

I had a lot of fun sampling Tyrone's food on the Bigger Bang Tour. Here's a picture of me looking like slightly freakish, eating the incredible fresh cream cakes:

Fox and Pallenberg: Reunited for Performance 2

Alright, so it's not really the sequel to Performance, but if the stills from new film, Mr Lonely, are anything to go by it's in the same vein.
Anita Pallenberg plays a Queen lookalike:

Back in 1970's Performance she played a rock star's queen:

She ended up in bed with James Fox in both films:


He plays a Pope lookalike in Mr Lonely:

And I suppose gangsters dressed as rockstars were the Popes of 1970:

To Read and Not To Read: Books of My Hols

I loved life on holiday. I was living the Barbie-doll dream in a Dream Hotel (instead of house).

All day long I lounged in a bikini while bar staff brought me the occassional ice-cream or cocktail. I went for the odd swim, thought about what purchases to update my winter wardrobe with, got the concierge to book me tables at the Michelin starred restaurants round the corner.

God, what am I doing back here?

Anyway, in between shopping and working on my tan I read the following books:


The best book I read on holiday, by miles. The new Paddington book brought a few tears to my eye (we meet his uncle from Darkest Peru, he's as charming as Paddington!) and lots of chuckles. A lovely book about the modern world, politeness and immigration.

Next up, I found a copy of this in the hotel's library.

I picked it up out of curiosity. The first chapter is side splittingly funny, about his experiences in a sex-addiction clinic and having to share a room with a convicted paedo. Unfortunately, the following 250 pages were so bloody boring I had to put it down so I didn't finish it.

I'm still reading this and it's warm, sweet and honest, rather like the author himself I presume.

He doesn't keep a diary as many do, as a confessional to purge all emotions, he just says what he did each day. But it's this understated tone that makes the book all the more touching. There is so much love in the few words he uses to describe the birth of his second son, and brotherly concern with the restrained phrasing of Graham Chapman's dark moods, that makes Palin comes across in a more three dimensional way than Brand acheives with his flowery lingo.

I haven't read many spy novels, but this is the smartest and most enjoyably cyncical that I have.


Right, that's it from me. I'm going to bed with Michael Palin now.

Sarah Palin's Stuck-On Smile

One thing that is guaranteed to take my mind off what I'm trying to think about is being confronted by blatant plastic surgery.

Whether it's having a meeting with someone who may have had implants, or if there are rumours of botox, or even if I think their lips are looking a bit too plump, my beady eye goes into over-drive, looking for tell-tale signs. Then I judge how good the results are.

So, despite my enthusiasm for the 2008 US Elections (I haven't been this excited about politics since the 1997 UK ballots), when McCain announced his running mate on Friday I kept shouting at the CNN footage of Sarah Palin's embrace of J-Mc:

"Look at her face! She can't move it! Her smile is fixed! She's got more botox in her face than all the chemical weapons in Iraq!"

Judge for yourself.

I know that lots of politicians have stuck-on facial expressions. They're trying to look pleasant and kind, when really they're devious little shits. But Ms Palin's eyes and smile do not correspond:

Her skin is overly smooth. She doesn't even have smile lines when smiling.

She's had too much botox done, so when she speaks she hardly has any facial expressions:

You know she was a Miss Alaska contender but lost at the final? Maybe the wannabe beauty queen thinks the way to the voters' hearts is line free skin.

I thought that Republicans were no-nonsense type of people. They oppose abortion, so why would they not oppose cosmetic "enhancement"?

But then, take one look at C-Mc (what Whoopi Goldberg calls Cindy McCain) and you'll see she's obviously strongly in favour of the American cosmetic surgery industry:

Talk about a face-freeze.

Maybe Republican women love war so much that they're delighted to use the same toxins that are used in chemical war-fare in their faces.

BTW, what's with the Republican-woman dom** style dressing?
Here's Palin in her black leather jacket:


Is that to appeal to Republican men? Don't tell me John McCain's a sub!*


**Dom = Dominatrix
*Sub = Submissive, not Sub-Editor

I've Fallen Into The Fleetwood Mac Youtube Trap

Ooops

Doesn't Lindsey Buckingham look, ya know, hot.
He acheives the look with an effortless sex-appeal, that nearly depleted the lust-value of Brendan "Sayer" Benson earlier this summer.



Love this vid with Stevie Nick's opening "profound" nostalgic vibe.

And her eyes and Barnet just look killer.

My possee and I used to have a Pan's People style literal dance routine to this one:

(Yikes, it's a bit of a coke addled one.)

All this Mac-ing makes me really glad that Ladyhawke's channelling Stevie Nicks, and doing it well. Normally I really hate modern derivative music but Pip is so on the button with this. I can't wait to see her in London next month: