Hey everyone ,
So i’ve been on holiday for the past couple of weeks , i was at a friends house in Nice and then I went to see my Dad in Cannes for a screening of his documentary ” There are Dark Forces ” I don’t get to see him much as he’s always in Hungary filming Robin Hood . I had such a nice break , lots of swimming and eating yummy french food , but now I’m back and in the studio with Mark in the countryside trying to finish off the album. I’m so close now, I just really want to get it done so I can tour again . I’m also putting the final touches to this mixtape I’m working on , sorry it’s takking so long , but i’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to these things. I hope you’ve been enjoying the tunes on the player , i’ll put up some new ones when the albums done . Alfie is finishing his play Eqqus this week , he’s been on tour for six months with it , I’m so proud of him it’s on till saturday in Richmond so get down there if you can.
What else ?
Oh yeah , the football …………… How amazing was that ? I’ve never seen anything like it , i watched it down here in Henley with Mark and Barry , Mark supports Chelsea and Barry didn’t really care , i drank lots of rose and kept changing my mind about who I wanted to win . I felt bad for Terry and Lampard, I guess the right team won but i would have loved it if United had lost cause it would have been Ronaldo’s fault and I hate Ronaldo , well I don’t hate him , but after the whole winking incident I don’t like him so much .
Apart from that my life is boring , just working hard .
speak soon lovers x x
lily

listening to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ,Scarlett Johanssen doing Tom Waits, MGMT ,Vampire Weekend , Liquid Liquid and The Fall oh and Bon Iver . all amazing records please go and buy them all

ps . I don’t really like to respond to things I read about my self in the press but , for the record I was not thrown off anybodys yacht in Cannes , occasionally I drink wine with lunch and yes i swim topless , this in my book is not embarrasing behaviour I’m 23 years old it’s not my fault if photographers follow me everywhere and need a story to print with their pointless pictures . I wish digital cameras hadn’t been invented , if these photographers had to pay for film it wouldn’t wouldn’t be worth their time , there is nothing proffesional about them , most of them look like they wouldn’t be out of place at a BNP meeting . On the other hand digital pictures are easier to retouch , so i shouln’t complain .
I went for lunch with my ex boyfriend yesterday , lunch . I am not some failed baby making machine desperately to trying to win my man back . Sometimes I think these journalists are still living in the 50’s . No one knows anything about my relationships . Ed and I are friends , who went for lunch yesterday , thats it .
It’s all so sexist , i wonder how many of these male journos , had bought themselves a house by the time they were 23. I work very hard at what i do , yes I like a drink and yes I have my bad days , but that doesn’t mean I’m out of control. I’m perfectly capable of looking after my self thank you very much .

Amy attended the prestigious Ivor Novello song writing awards in London yesterday. The awards which are a favourite among musicians recognise genuine compositional achievement and Amy once again triumphed by winning and Ivor for ‘Love Is A losing Game’ in the ‘Best Song Musically & Lyrically’ category. It’s Amy’s third Ivor win having picked up an award last year for ‘Rehab’ and in 2004 for ‘Stronger Than Me’.

Click here to see a video of her dad collecting the award as Amy turns up a tiny bit late!

Question: “How do you view femininity and what aspect do you embrace it with ? An artform, personal growth , because its who you are, sexual gratification?”

WE HAD A BLAST OUT THERE.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TO CELEBRATE OUR FIRST TOUR OUT OF NORTH AMERICA.
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FINALLY GRANTED JEWELS HIS PASSPORT.
AND IT ONLY TOOK FOUR YEARS!
SO NOW WE’RE COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU.
THESE PHOTOS ARE STILLS FROM MIKE SIMONETTI’S PIXEL VISION VIDEOS OF THE TRIP.

THE CLUBS.
THE FESTIVALS.
THE PARTIES.
THE RECORDS.
THE FOOD.
THE FRIENDS.
THE AIRPORTS.
THE HOTELS.
THE SKY.
THE WATER.
THE AIR.
THE CANDY.
THE MUSIC.
WE COULD GET USED TO THIS.
WE LOVE YOU!

XOXO

G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y A.K.A HUSTLETOWN GLOBETROTTERS

Hey everyone! I am so excited, we have finally started taping my new show for MTV. I just want to thank you all for sending in your videos and applications. The response was massive and incredible, we had more applicants then any show in history, so that felt really nice that so many people wanted to be apart of it. I met all the contestants on wednesday night. I had them all meet me at the club Les Deux. I was a little nervous at first cause I always get shy meeting new people. But everyone ended up being very sweet, cool and fun to be around. I’m really happy with the final contestants, although it was really hard to pick only 18 people from so many great choices. Today I had the team from Fred Seagal Beauty come do makeovers on these girls and boys and the results were astonishing. They all looked stunning and beautiful and hot! So much fun! I love doing make overs on my friends .I have to do an elimination tomorrow, meaning telling one of the contestants that they have to leave. I am having anxiety and really dreading those moments of all the eliminations. But it’s going to be a lot of fun and a these people will get to have a fun experience and I’m happy cause I feel like I’ve made friends with some of these people already.
Also go check out my boyfriends blog at www.GoodCharlotte.com, he posted some cool pics of the first two days of shooting,and him and his friends came out to support me. I love how he’s always there for me, he always knows how to make me smile. Life is amazing, couldn’t be happier, excited for what the future holds. Again, thank you all for all your love and support. I’ll write soon xoxo Paris

 I went to the dollar store the other day and passed by the silly cheap school supply section.  I was inspired by the flimsy posterboard to take up a little art project.  So I bought a couple sheets, some glue sticks and a packet of paster paper and started planning out my project.

Now admittedly, my plans were a blatant rip-off of some art I had seen at the Seattle Center several years ago, but I really liked it and I guess that excuses my actions.

my project:  a cherry blossom tree made out of cut/ripped paper.

sketch

I sketched out my idea of the finished image, an absurdly twisted rendition of a tree trunk and branches w/ blossoms.

transfer design…

I then roughly sketched the design onto my piece of poster board.
I shredded pieces of browd paper and started gluing them to my posterboard in the shape of the trunk.↓

I then cut out several small pink circles (some I cut into the shape of the blossoms that they will all eventually be) and planned out where I wanted them to be when I finish.↓

That’s as far as I got. I hadplans to do a background scenery out of cut paper as well, but was kind of blocked.  I soon realized taht I probably should have planned out a background before creating my tree.  Live and learn.  Maybe I’ll do some watercolor-like additions, but that would ruin the cut paper theme.  I wish I had some very sheer pnk tissue paper, but it’s not likely to happen.  I may take my tracing paper and give it a slight pink wash.

anywhoooo… this is the status update, as promised.
future updates wil be forthcoming, unless I flake out and forget about this project.

Jesus I am freaking the hell out. I just had Katie and Phil in here mumbling excuses and trying to blame the contractor who hired the actors for the iPhone queue outside the Fifth Avenue store in New York. As you may have read, the bozos started lining up yesterday — a full two weeks ahead of schedule. I mean we’ve worked this out for months here in our Fifth Avenue mock-up set in Building X at the Cupertino headquarters. We’ve had rehearsal after rehearsal after rehearsal. How to give our rain gear, when to give our water, what kind of ratty-looking folding chairs to use. We’ve had these unemployed actors doing week-long run-throughs, and everything has been perfect.

And now this. Phil says it’s the contractor in New York who got the folks out on the sidewalk and had them out there chanting until we got wind of it and had them hustled away. I told Phil it doesn’t matter who screwed up, the whole thing falls on him. Moshe and his boys are dealing with Phil now. Then it’ll be Katie’s turn. It’s the full Gitmo for both of them. Sorry but it has to be done. Peace out.