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Archive for October, 2008
letterboxes and the existence of anything

(For sale, for now.) I was in a yoga class once and the teacher started the lesson by reading from a book I can’t tell you the title of because I arrived late and was urgently braiding my hair in the ladies’ at the time. Anyway, it was about there being two paths through life [...]

on the white sofa at sugar hair salon
pittsburgh sunrise

I like autumn that feels like autumn, and I like cities that feel like cities.

dj am at the palladium

Looking relatively healthy, considering. Lucky bloke.

welcome to pittsburgh

I like it here, so far. The weather’s been brisk and the drinks have been strong. And — please prepare yourself for the oddest compliment ever paid — this convention center’s really lovely.

hayden panettiere at the hollywood palladium

That girl has more composure that I will ever have. Very, very poised.

dear americans… abbie cornish would like you to vote for obama

Abbie Cornish is Australian and therefore isn’t eligible to vote in the upcoming U.S. election, but feels very strongly that Barack Obama should be president. If you’re not too fussed about the whole election thing, perhaps you could vote for him on her behalf. I’m foreign, too, so if one non citizen with great hair [...]

cheech & chong + wives at the hollywood palladium

For your viewing pleasure while I edit the rest of the Jay-Z Hollywood Palladium show/red carpet shots. (And by “edit” I of course mean “sleep and pack suitcases and *then* edit”.) They worked the red carpet for far longer than anyone else and were much funnier, of course. More about my long night of sitting [...]

talib kweli
ghostland observatory at street scene

I really didn’t know anything about Ghostland Observatory until I was at Street Scene for NME.com with a hole in my schedule and read about the cape and the braids and legged it to where they were playing.

agyness deyn at spaceland

Impromptu photoshoot with Agyness Deyn in the ladies’ room at Spaceland. It was really dark. She was really nice.

old pictures you haven’t seen before

I don’t have a telly any more, so I’m going through old pictures that I never posted. Seems the logical thing to do, in lieu of the usual Law & Order marathon. (High Places at The Smell last night were really good.)

oso joins fucked up

Oso snuggling with the excellent Damian of Fucked Up at my old house, after Fuck Yeah Fest 2008. Can’t believe I had this one sitting on my computer doing nothing until now. That was a fun weekend.

gogol bordello on nme.com, via countessian

This one makes me really happy, because I LOVE GOGOL BORDELLO. It really was a dance frenzy, too. I should actually take a picture of my feet, because I’ve never had bruises like it. I worked the hardest I’d ever done in my life for my time in the pit because there were so many [...]

T.I., Rihanna and Kayne West at the key club

T.I.’s record release show for “Paper Trail” at the Key Club was super duper fun, and included unannounced guest performances by Kanye West and Rihanna. (These were all for Prefix, as you can probably tell. Click that link to read a little about the show and see more shots.)

the mae shi

I like them. And I like this picture. That’s all. (Actually, I woke up this morning with them yelling “I want almost everything and I get almost everything I want” stuck in my head at six am, and am posting pictures in the hope that I will appease the Mae Shi gods and will be [...]

babygirl + bike + whiskey + whiskey at detour

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Detour was fun. Pictures of Grand Ole Party, Bitter Sweet, Black Lips, Hercules & Love Affair, The Presets and The Mars Volta are published on Prefix now. Pls go directly to look at them, because I can’t post [...]

“cat power for president”

That’s what her badge says, anyway. (Shot at Street Scene in San Diego for NME.com.)

i love a man in clean white trainers

Mine always get dirty immediately. That’s why I’m not a rapper. Talib Kweli: And Nick Thornton from Islands, proving that you don’t have to rap to have good taste in footwear: And one of the boys from Black Lips: (All of the above were shot for Prefix.)

pinky in his new home

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I moved. I like it. I’d been saving my golden bedsheets for the new place. I like them, too. In other news, I went to the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip last night and didn’t find [...]


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