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By Cayte Grieve September 01, 2009 A small portrait of Adam Green adorns the entrance to his East Village apartment, the words Kafka Lives written across the top of the framed sheet of paper, painted over by what look like smatterings of diluted watercolor red. Pete Doherty painted that with a syringe, says the 28-year-old singer-songwriter. He wanted to use my blood but I said he had to use his own. Seated in his living room next to friend and collaborator Lissy Trullie, downtown New Yorks latest hope for rock salvation, he motions to a different, napkin-size painting: Becks grandfather did that one. Click here for a free download of Lissy Trullies track Boy Boy. No wonder Trullie, 25, comes around so often. The willowy rocker, with strawb...(read more)