Hipstamatic - my new favourite app

Hipstamatic - It's well Hip.....

This is a great little photo app for iPhone. Interchangeable lenses, flash and film allows you a multitude of combinations for creating that vintage look.

Northern Eyes and Northern Skies - we were meant for each other

I've been a fan of the Manchester band I Am Kloot for a couple of years now after seeing them in Bristol. I've bought all their albums and I was excited to hear that they used a good friend of theirs' - Guy Garvey of another favourite band of mine - Elbow, to produce their latest album.

This is a track called Northern Skies. These Northern Eyes regularly miss you.

Elena Anaya

I first saw Elena in a film called Sex and Lucia and she blew my mind. In a film that enjoyed a fair amount of explicit sex featuring a very talented and sexy Paz Vega, Elena stole the show for me as the bewitching seductress - Belén.

I saw Elena again in Almodovar's Talk to Her and more recently in Mesrine Pt 1 in which she played a very different role as Sofia. Sofia is the beautiful Spanish girl who falls in love with the very charismatic Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassell), at the beginning of his career as a bank robber, gangster and ultimately France's public enemy no 1. It's a great role for Elena and demonstrates her ability as a serious actor not just a very watchable lady. I think this role as Sofia will cement her position as a leading actress in Spanish cinema and put her on a similar footing as Penelope Cruz. I certainly hope so cos I want to see more of her.