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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Fashion Icons


The holiday life has quietened down. Spotting a wasps' nest in my bedroom just above my bed I screamed for help and the preacher woman next door ran over and made the world a better place. I still have a hive of bees in the slab that is my porch and most nights I chase great big water beetles around with a fashion icon in my hand.

Painting Sporadically

I am painting but it's hard. Am certainly distracted and the most I can manage to paint continuously is one day. Even then I usually jump in the car at four in the morning and drive straight to the river. Kinda nice having the option to see the world for a few hours before work.

Procrastination Dressed Up As Art

And now it is the weekend again. A pool. And beer. And maybe I'll go out. And maybe a festival, or an art fair. It's time I spent some of the money that is starting to build up. I need a fried egg.

Paul Dorrell says:

Just what is an art fair? Usually an outdoor event arranged by well intentioned dilettantes for a largely indifferent public

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Kate Moss & Pete Doherty: Part 3

Back in February we first started following the love story of Pete Doherty & Kate Moss as it first blossomed in the art of tabloid headlines. Part 2 picked up the story in April finishing up with blackmail charges against Pete being dropped. Are our friends still in love? Are they a still a couple? Are they still in the headlines? Let's have another little look at how Pete & Kate are living the artist's life:



Part 1 of Kate & Pete
Part 2 of Moss & Doherty

Kate Moss & Pete Doherty: Part 3



Aug 20 make Pete Doherty history
Aug 20 Shaun Ryder Sympathetic To Today's Drug Addicts

Aug 21 Liam Gallagher Calls Pete Doherty A Cock
Aug 21 Family worries about Moss' beau
Aug 22 GALLAGHER SLAMS DOHERTY AT FESTIVAL
Aug 23 Babyshambles’ Mad Rush To Complete Album
Aug 24 Kate Moss buys LA pad
Aug 24 Pete Doherty: Backstage and beyond with rock's bad boy
Aug 24 SHOULD be some great parties at Kate Moss's new pad out in LA.
Aug 25 Gallagher: 'Doherty risks being merely Moss' boyfriend'

Aug 26 Babyshambles Pledges 2005 Debut
Aug 26 Noel Gallagher Pities Pete Doherty
Aug 26 Intimate Doherty's web of intrigue

Aug 27 A very likely lad
Aug 27 Babyshambles smash up the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival
Aug 27 Why we love a bad boy

Aug 28 Ex-Sex Pistol Warns Doherty Of Drug Perils
Aug 28 DOHERTY TO SHOW HOME MOVIES ONLINE
Aug 28 MOSS ROMANCES BODYROCKER
Aug 28 "Who The F--k Is Pete Doherty" Screened By BBC

Aug 29 Why women can't resist the frisson of a bad boy on the loose
Aug 29 BABYSHAMBLES 'SPLIT' ORCHESTRATED FOR PRIVACY REASONS
Aug 29 Kate Moss and Kaz James?
Aug 29 Doherty never planned to quit band

Aug 29 Babyshambles Deny Split. Blame Media Circus
Aug 29 DOHERTY ATTACKS ROCK RIVAL AT SHOW
Aug 29 Pete Doherty starts fight, gets beaten in Leeds
Aug 29 Pete Doherty Headbutts Razorlight's Johnny Borrell At UK Festival

Aug 30 A happy shambles all over again
Aug 30 Char: Junkie Pete is idiot
Aug 30 Pete Doherty crazy
Aug 31 Pete Doherty could still play Carlisle
Aug 31 Charlotte blasts Potty Pete
Aug 31 DOHERTY RAPS WITH CELLMATE
Aug 31 Pete Doherty Recruits Rastafarian General

Sep 1 Pete Doherty launches website
Sep 1 DOHERTY WEBSITE HONOURS CRACK COCAINE
Sep 1 Church Offers Advice To Doherty
Sep 1 'Diana' artist does Kate

Sep 2 Doherty tries to take control
Sep 2 Artist paints Kate and Pete
Sep 2 Kate Moss becomes latest subject for Stella Vine

Sep 4 ART BRUT ATTACK PETE DOHERTY

Sep 5 Kate makes up with her mum in Ibiza
Sep 5 Pete Doherty Pens Song For Little 'Ans
Sep 5 Rocker Pete's on smacker!

Sep 6 Razorlight React To Pete Doherty Headbutt
Sep 6 Babyshambles announce Autumn tour
Sep 6 MOSS EYES WILSON AS NEXT ROCK CONQUEST
Sep 6 Kate parties all night with her mom
Sep 6 Reinvigorated Babyshambles Hit The Road
Sep 6 NEW DATE FOR BABYSHAMBLES GIG

Sep 7 Pete's band voted 'a shambles'
Sep 7 Babyshambles voted worst act of summer
Sep 7 Kate Moss Depicted in Controversial Portrait

Sep 8 Kate Moss is Jessica Parker's fashion icon
Sep 8 BABYSHAMBLES ARE 'WORST BAND OF THE YEAR'
Sep 8 SWEDEN: H&M To Launch McCartney Range In November

Sep 8 SOMEBODY give Kate Moss's make-up artist a payrise
Sep 9 Babyshambles tour announced
Sep 9 Pete Doherty and Kate Moss to wed?
Sep 10 KATE TAXI'S REAR PHEW

Sep 12 HAS SHE DONE IT?
Sep 12 Pete Doherty And Kate Moss Married??
Sep 12 Babyshambles - Album Release Date / Pete Married?
Sep 12 Pete Doherty Engaged to Kate Moss?

Sep 13 Kate Moss and Pete Doherty Secretly Married?
Sep 13 H.Stern Turns 60 with Kate Moss Campaign Shot by Rankin

Sep 14 Pete and Kate launch Vogue CD
Sep 14 Pete Doherty Records Disney Duet
Sep 14 Kate Moss to guest edit French Vogue with free Doherty duet CD
Sep 14 Doherty and Moss duet?

Sep 14 MOSS AND DOHERTY TO RELEASE ROMANTIC DUET
Sep 14 Kate Moss’s beauty secret? Rock and “Roll”!
Sep 14 Kate Moss To Edit Top Fashion Magazine
Sep 14 Kate Moss does a line off French Vogue

Sep 15 'Moss drugs binge could end catwalk career'
Sep 15 Kate 'caught snorting coke'
Sep 15 Babyshambles ‘Pipe Down’ On Tour
Sep 15 Coked-up Kate

Sep 15 Kate Moss and Pete Doherty’s "La Belle Et La Bete"
Sep 15 Kate Moss 'seen using cocaine'
Sep 15 Moss in 'studio coke binge'
Sep 15 COCAINE KATE

Sep 15 Time to rely on lady look
Sep 15 Kate Moss in cocaine shocker
Sep 15 Kate Moss Snorts 5 Lines Of Coke In 40 Minutes
Sep 15 Kate Moss 'shown taking drugs'
Sep 15 Is Kate a cokehead?

Sep 15 Kate Moss endangers cosmetics deals as Daily Mirror splashes coke story
Sep 15 Pete Doherty: He’s coming to Carlisle... honest
Sep 15 MOSS PHOTOGRAPHED 'TAKING COCAINE' DURING BABYSHAMBLES ALBUM SESSIONS

Sep 15 Kate Moss photographed snorting cocaine
Sep 15 'Cocaine Kate' exposé puts brands on the spot
Sep 15 Babyshambles ticket prices double on Ebay

Sep 15 Mirror runs photos of Moss snorting powder
Sep 15 Kate Moss To Be The Guest Editor For French Vogue
Sep 15 Fashion the poorer as design loses out to celebrity factor

Sep 15 THE DAY DRUGS WIPED ME OUT
Sep 15 KATE MOSS ON COCAINE: WEED ISN'T WORTH ANYTHING. SKUNK IS THE WORST
Sep 15 Moss in cocaine photo furore

Sep 15 KATE MOSS ON COCAINE: DISGUST AT HEROIN WOUND OF DOHERTY
Sep 15 Kate's £200 a day coke habit
Sep 15 KATE MOSS SNAPS AFTER COCAINE CLAIMS
Sep 15 Kate Moss angry when confronted over cocaine photographs

Sep 16 Who Grassed Moss?
Sep 16 Cocaine Kate's fashion deals in jeopardy
Sep 16 Supermodel's deals in balance amid drugs claims
Sep 16 Cocaine row puts model Kate's career on the line

Sep 16 Moss' career in Jeopardy?
Sep 16 Kate Moss’ cocaine crack caught on camera
Sep 16 Kate Moss on new drug allegations
Sep 16 Top 10 Living Music Hellraisers Revealed
Sep 16 Kate's rage over coke pics
Sep 16 Kate Moss on cocaine?

Sep 16 Moss hits back over cocaine claims
Sep 16 Kate prepares 20 lines of coke - report
Sep 16 Kate Moss' expensive habit
Sep 16 MOSS' CAREER IN DANGER
Sep 16 MOSS MOTHER'S DOHERTY FURY

Sep 16 Rocky future for Kate Moss
Sep 16 Dissecting the art of fame
Sep 16 Kate Moss: Charlie's Angel
Sep 16 Kate Moss faces drug allegations

Sep 16 Moss's model behaviour may ruin career
Sep 16 Party's over as fashion world tries to kick cocaine habit
Sep 16 Kate Moss: Model target
Sep 16 Labels poised to drop famous face
Sep 16 Picture of health may lose her good looks
Sep 16 Of supermodels, cocaine and sheer anger

Sep 16 COCAINE KATE: I'LL DO DRUGS REHAB
Sep 16 HOW MUCH MORE CAN COCAINE KATE TAKE? SHE PAYS FOR HIGHLIFE
Sep 16 KATE ON COCAINE: THEY WILL TAKE MY BABY AWAY

Sep 16 Kate Moss 'cocaine' film threatens £1.3m contracts for supermodel
Sep 16 Brit papers target Kate Moss over drugs
Sep 16 Kate Moss' mother Blames Pete Doherty
Sep 16 Moss 'apologised over drug photos'

Sep 16 Kate Moss caught in dope drama!
Sep 16 Supermodel 'admits cocaine use'
Sep 16 Kate Moss Promises Drugs Rehab
Sep 16 Moss 'says sorry' to fashion firm
Sep 16 Kate wins reprieve over drug report

Sep 16 H&M says accepts Moss regret over allegations
Sep 16 Kate, cocaine and the public unravelling of a supermodel

Sep 17 What a fine role model!
Sep 17 Kate Moss' mother reportedly blames Doherty for problems
Sep 17 I use cocaine, says Moss
Sep 17 H&M to stick with Moss despite troubles

Sep 17 The Kate escape
Sep 17 The Kate I know
Sep 17 Cocaine & the catwalk
Sep 17 Moss offers good conduct clause to save career

Sep 17 Has the shine come off the £30m model?
Sep 17 Cocaine: an abuser's guide
Sep 17 That Kate. She's no better than she ought to be
Sep 17 'Celebs like Kate Moss always screw up. That's what they're there for'

Sep 17 The £4m apology: fashion industry backs model
Sep 17 Moss’s apology deserves only a snort of derision
Sep 17 A role model crosses the line

Sep 17 Kate Moss vows to get clean after cocaine photos published
Sep 17 H&M says it will stick with Kate Moss despite cocaine scandal
Sep 17 KATE'S LOST: Desperate model hides in hotel after drugs shame as pals fear for her health

Sep 18 Pete Doherty vows to get hold of the snitch!
Sep 18 DOHERTY SEEKS TO AVENGE MOSS
Sep 18 DOHERTY LOSES ALBUM ARTWORK
Sep 18 DOHERTY IN BINGE RAMPAGE
Sep 18 COCAINE shame supermodel Kate Moss was holed up in New York

Sep 18 Kate Moss’ lesbian orgies and threesome with Sadie Frost and Jude Law!
Sep 18 MOSS AND FROST SEX SCANDAL
Sep 18 Kate Moss Goes To Rehab
Sep 18 Kate Moss "cocaine photo" almost cost her $7 million
Sep 18 Kate a bit of a party person
Sep 18 Kate Moss admits recent drug use
Sep 18 Tabloid lands a blow against Moss

Sep 18 MOSS MADE JOINT OUT OF TAMPON COVER
Sep 18 MOSS TRIED TO SEDUCE PA
Sep 18 MOSS GOT HIGH WITH MANDELA

Sep 18 DOHERTY MANAGER: 'MOSS WAS NAIVE'
Sep 18 Kate's sex scandal
Sep 18 Kate Moss's future cast into doubt after latest allegations

Sep 18 I DON'T NEED REHAB BUT IT WILL LOOK SO BAD IF I DON'T GO
Sep 18 Cocaine and sex claims pile pressure on Kate
Sep 18 she should listen to the wake-up call
Sep 18 DOHERTY THREATENS JOURNALIST WITH BROKEN BOTTLE
Sep 18 MOSS 'TREATED HACK LIKE AN EMPLOYEE'

Sep 18 Sex claims rock troubled Moss
Sep 18 Moss did coke at Madiba party
Sep 18 Growing doubt over future of Kate Moss

Sep 18 Pete Doherty Distraught At Losing Album Artwork
Sep 18 Moss cleans up act
Sep 18 Supermodel Kate Moss Celbrates Celebrity Justice
Sep 18 PA Rebecca White Claims Kate Moss Tried To Seduce Her
Sep 18 Burberry just says no to Kate

Sep 19 Kate hit by more revelations
Sep 19 Moss ready to sign 'good behaviour' contracts to save career
Sep 19 'Dump junkie Doherty' urge Moss friends
Sep 19 Kate Moss 'dumps Pete Doherty'
Sep 19 Kate Moss Splits With Pete Doherty
Sep 19 Kate Moss ditches Pete Doherty

Sep 19 Kate Moss' three-in-a-bed lesbian romps
Sep 19 Kate Moss: This Supermodel Is No Role Model
Sep 19 'Cocaine Kate' loses contracts
Sep 19 Kate Moss ditches Doherty...again

Sep 19 Moss' lesbian orgies and threesomes
Sep 19 Moss and Frost Sex Scandal
Sep 19 Kate Moss orgy revelations
Sep 19 Kate Moss Ditched Pete Doherty?

Sep 19 Fashion world backs supermodel Kate
Sep 19 Spoke Too Soon: H&M, Dior and Chanel reconsidering Kate Moss
Sep 19 Fashion labels should dump Cocaine Kate
Sep 19 Why Kate Moss is the consummate professional

Sep 19 Kate Moss + Cocaine = Sex Scandal
Sep 19 Kate may come to Ireland for rehab
Sep 19 Get close to Kate at your peril
Sep 19 Fashion companies silent over Kate Moss drug claims
Sep 19 Kate Moss' Drug Mess

Sep 19 The real villains in the mess-up of Kate Moss
Sep 19 Four steps to redemption for supermodels on the nose
Sep 19 WILL BAD BOY PETE DOHERTY SHOW UP?
Sep 19 Kate on the road to PR recovery?

Sep 19 H&M drop Kate Moss
Sep 19 Kate Moss dumped by H&M
Sep 19 H&M Cancels Moss Campaign After Drug Disclosure
Sep 19 H&M ditches Kate Moss
Sep 19 H&M Blows Off Kate Moss
Sep 19 H&M GIVES UP KATE
Sep 19 Fashion Firm Withdraws Kate Moss Ad Campaign
Sep 19 Kate Moss Ads Scrapped by Hennes & Mauritz After Drugs Claims
Sep 19 H&M Sack Kate Moss
Sep 19 Fashion giant Hennes and Mauritz dismisses Kate Moss
Sep 19 WILL ROCK’S BAD BOY REALLY TURN UP IN CARLISLE TONIGHT?

Sep 20 Kate Moss admits why she's no role model
Sep 20 Has Kate blown it with not-so-model behavior?
Sep 20 Moss admits to drug use, dumps beau
Sep 20 She nose how to stay thin
Sep 20 Drugs and sex drive supermodel to brink

Sep 20 Kate Moss flees to Ibiza
Sep 20 Cocaine Kate gone too far?
Sep 20 Rolling notes gather Moss
Sep 20 MORRISSEY: 'DOHERTY CAN'T COPE'

Part 1 of Kate & Pete
Part 2 of Moss & Doherty


Paul Dorrell says:


It doesn't matter if it's weed, hash, coke, ecstasy or whatever, you'll never get fully in touch with your artistic power as long as you indulge

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Monday, September 19, 2005

Four Wheels and Two Wheels

Yesterday I got auto insurance, got the car inspected and tonight I hand over a check which is just the latest in a long endless line of tasks to waste one's life on related to motor vehicles.

A Car Gets An Owner

By tomorrow morning the car in the eyes of both states (for its ownership is crossing a State Line) will be mine. A 1987 big silver grey thing. Everything moves electrically - even my hair in the warm wind with the windows down. The music is loud -very, and it covers any bad noises I intermittently make, like bumping the car off things.

A Disbelieving Bicycler

My bicycle, a magnificent steed on two wheels having finally returned home to the gateway to the Prairies, stands alone and silent in a room full of paintings. I have told him - for he is male - that once legally a car owner I will neglect the car and return to him enthusiastically, but like all the other residents of this city he does not believe me. It hurts that my bicycle should lose faith in me so.

The Society of the Car

Supposed to be meeting gallery people this weekend also but we'll see. Right now the thunder has exploded and ended the hot spell. We will drop down to a cool 88 degrees and beer won't taste as good. With the rain falling I must join the exodus to the parking lot to roll up my car windows for that is my world now.

Paul Dorrell says:

Amusingly, the jury members in juried shows are sometimes no more qualified to serve on these panels than the average car salesman

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