LOVE interview - Boo George

Photography by Boo GeorgeFreja Beha Erichsen
I first met Boo George at Giles Deacon's 40th Birthday.  His photographs had just started appearing in some great magazines and I'd admired his beautiful and atmospheric work.  A week later Katie Grand asked me if I'd interview him for LOVE's website, he's a total livewire and we hit it off straight away.  A suitable time has elapsed for me reproduce

The honey badger. I just had to blog this

The honey badger - it looks like a nice chilled out furry thing here
I've plastered this all over Facebook because it made me laugh.  I saw it on my dear and wonderful friend Ms Moon's blog last night.  I want to write a proper post about Ms Moon because I love her, I love her beautiful, funny and honest writing and she inspires me.  In fact she's inspired me to get out and do my garden

Mrs Jones new shop opening in Shoreditch

By Sunday I'd done four days on the low carb diet and was already bored with losing a food group.
Giles and David came over on Saturday night and I was unusually well behaved.  I drank umpteen cups of Rooibos tea.  Giles had beer and David had Jack Daniels and Coke, which I inhaled every time it passed me.  To top off the rock 'n' roll look I was also wearing a long white Victorian nightdress

The Rolling Stones Tour Of The Americas '75

So, this past Christmas, I decided that my favourite gift would be the gift I bought for myself: the Genesis Publications book by Christopher Simon Sykes (£395 - which is US $650 - plus shipping/handling) entitled The Rolling Stones Tour Of The Americas '75. 600 photographs, many never before seen, were compiled for this 2005 masterpiece, one of only 2150 ever published.  This was my second Genesis Publications buy (the other being Michael Cooper's Stones/Beatles/rock n' roll book called Blinds & Shutters), and I was again pleased.  I knew that at least two photos of Anita Pallenberg (a rare siting after 1973) were in the book, as my good friend Jayme, who runs and created the greatest ever Anita Pallenberg photo website (http://anitapallenberg.multiply.com) only has two 1975 Anita pics from the book on said site, and she pretty much has every Anita photo available. I was hoping, however, that there may have been another Anita pic - hidden somewhere, perhaps, and never considered big enough to scan - but alas, I was semi-crestfallen and indeed only two pictures of her exist in this book, and the third my own find from Rock Scene magazine. I have only scanned a fraction of the photographs from TOTA '75, so expect other installments. The Stones' 1975 tour of America (and despite the book and tour's title, there really WAS only one America toured - their plans to perform in South America never materialized) was epic indeed, and Sykes not only capitured it all, but saved invaluable diary entries, notes, and other memorabilia. Enjoy!

All photos scanned by me.

Friday quotes - Stevie Nicks

"If you think you know the truth about this band, you can think again.  Other than the people involved, nobody knows what really went on.
One day, when I'm an old lady, I'm going to tell the whole tale and people will be amazed.  The truth will blow your mind.

The story is deep, dark and heavy.  But it's also beautiful, sexy and more romantic than you could ever imagine.  Now's not the time,

Saving money on food and I actually cook something from scratch

This is my cooker.  You don't see it much.  I don't see a great deal of it either.
As I'm on my own so much I tend to buy things that I like to eat, that are easy and mostly require heating up, vegetables adding and maybe a bit of tinkering about with.  Sometimes it's easier to pick up some of Elaine's fabulous soup or one of her dishes at A Little of What You Fancy than make it myself.
I used

More of my wardrobe - Hooded cape

This Elsa Martinelli picture was the inspiration for this buy
I know it's not the weather for this sort of thing but I'm sorting out random bits from my wardrobe trying to decide what to keep.
We've had a gorgeous sunny day here in London.  The Actor and I went to Broadway Market to run some errands and he ended up insisting I had a few Bloody Mary's and some Mexican food with him.   He can't