Glasser "Apply"

She's on the front cover of Fader right now, therefore destined to become big. I saw Glasser at the Williamsburg waterfront one Sunday afternoon in July and loved her voice and her dance moves.

Oh L'Wren, what were you thinking?

I realise that if your boyfriend is Mick Jagger, you can do whatever you damn well like in this world and pretty much get away with it, but what the hell was L'Wren Scott thinking when she designed these $2,725 boots? INSANE. How they hell is anyone going to get those on? Only a seasoned stripper would even know where to start...

Biutiful trailer

This movie is directed by the brilliant Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros), it stars mega fox Jarvier Bardem, and the photos used in it were taken by talented Australian photographer Fergus Stothart who lives in Spain. What more do you need?

Puppy love

I'm interviewing Katherine Heigl tomorrow. Today she is in the media because she has just donated $1 million to help get animals spayed and neutered in Los Angeles, a very noble cause. Heigl is a big dog lover and earlier this year she was awarded the ASPCA's Presidential Service Award for her work in animal rights. I also love dogs and cats and feel like crying every time I read figures on the numbers who are euthanized each year simply because no-one wanted them any more. Good on her for using her Hollywood profile to promote the rights of animals.

Time for cuteness

I'm not really into modern pop music, with the exception of Beyonce and Jay-Z and some of Lady Gaga's songs like Bad Romance. Oh and I also have a secret soft spot for the Sugarbabes, who I was introduced to by a dear friend and former housemate who is an absolute pop fiend, but most of their songs are almost a decade old now so I guess they're probably not on high rotation on commercial radio much these days.  Anyway, I hear this song being played absolutely everywhere in New York, and I know it's big in other countries too. Despite the fact it is an ultra-commercial-catchy-pop-sensation, I like this song and the cute film clip too. I also don't mind the cute boy in the red cardigan - I've already professed my love of cardigans publicly once before.   

Bob Dylan's art



This is one of Bob Dylan's paintings from his new series about Brazil. If anyone is in Denmark between now and January 2011, you can view his art work at Statens Museum for Kunst. What a multi talented man he is!



Boys on film

Last night I was in a classic American dive bar on First Avenue and they were playing really great music, including Heart's Magic Man and Fleetwood Mac's Dreams and Carly Simon's You're So Vain. I would have ordered a Pabst Blue Ribbon but this bar wasn't quite divey enough. Whenever I hear this song, I think of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and this clever montage of Trip Fontaine. I haven't seen Josh Hartnett in a film for a while but I know he's hanging around downtown Manhattan because about four people have mentioned him to me in the last month. Regardless of wherever his career has taken him subsequently, I think he was wonderful in this film, and I think Coppola did a great job of fetishising a male actor for the delight of female viewers, something not seen too often in Hollywood films. I was discussing this recently with a group of clever creative gals and we couldn't think of another example where a male character is depicted on screen quite clearly through a female gaze, apart from Brad Pitt in Thelma & Louise and most recently, Robert Pattinson in Twilight. I attribute the enormous popularity of the Twilight films in no small part to this overt female gaze and the way Pattinson (and the werewolf) are offered up as fetish objects for viewers in a way Kristen Stewart is not.