large prime numbers

108: lettuce, ice, and different feelings

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:01:19 -0700

So, I kind of like having a band. I don't feel nearly as bad when I spend $300 a week on eBay on guitar equipment.

Anyone in Tokyo is hereby invited to come to Rinky Dink Studio in Ogikubo, Tokyo any Saturday afternoon this year to sit in on [...]

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108: the castle on the cliff

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:16:58 -0700

large prime numbers are a pretty decent band!

the above seems to be the popular opinion re: these rising stars, whose latest tricks include staging LIVE PERFORMANCES in small sound studios and inviting anyone hip enough to know what BYOB really stands for.

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eden: A review of A Store

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:01:26 -0700

The girl was blonde and had a nose-ring. I don't remember exactly what clothes she wore; maybe a black dress. As I browsed the men's racks, not really looking for anything- just idly flicking through various garments; she came up to me. She asked me how my day was.
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eden: Rei Kawakubo: clothes from the past that never happened

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:40:34 -0700

It sounds like a radio- my battered ipod nano plugged into one of those cheap ipod speaker systems- playing PJ Harvey's "Rid Of Me". Not so much playing as banging it out- it's like sort of audio equipment workmen have on a building site. Cheap radio with paint splattered all [...]

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eden: Burning Candles into the night- Yohji Yamamoto and Margiela

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:48:23 -0800

Finally! The flower of Paris fashion week starts to emerge and bloom- chopped up plumages of red and black. Yohji Yamamoto. The quiet gardener. Who gives a toss about Balenciaga now? (Don't answer that.) Sure, the Balenciaga show was terrible- a step back. Costuming for a harem in Arabian Nights- [...]

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eden: Raf Simons Fall 2009, a review

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:23:47 -0800

Some time ago I was in a little shop where they sell designers like Margiela and Comme des Garcons; and I came across a subtle but brilliant jacket by Raf Simons. It had pockets that were sort of semi-circles that stuck out; as if it was Matisse in all black. [...]

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108: a shotgun reads the phone book

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:09:42 -0800

I must have received two hundred emails regarding "rock and roll heart attack", which I previously posted on this blog here as something of a joke. Apparently, despite being, uhh, readers of this particular website, it seems not many people actually got the joke. The most common question, however, [...]

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Mr. Apol: cobras in the streetlight

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:01:06 -0800

what would you have me do with washington?
pepper it with spitballs?
no
how dare they anticipate my strategy?
i have morons on my payroll
we expect you to fry
as of now, your little project is deader than disco
get off me, you moron!
i will not allow such [...]

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eden: Inside the lair of the beast, an eyewitness account

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:33:52 -0800

I’ve been inside the beastly womb of fashion for about a year now. I’ve sat and observed; I’ve designed; I’ve written. The pre-conceptions about fashion are wrong. The image presented to you in The Devil Wears Prada is nowhere near true. It’s as true as the words of a song [...]

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eden: Blonde Girl

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:42:19 -0800

Blonde ghostal hair trailing behind her striped green of-another-world cardigan; she walks into the room. It's painted different shades of white and piled up upon each shelf stands shoes; the oddest shoes imaginable. Gucci has no place here; the imagined "elegance" of the old ladies of society does not exist. [...]

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