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Archive for December, 2008
repeal day, 2008

I have gorgeous friends who like to dress up and drink cocktails.

reading in hollywood

It was the sort of after-after-after party where by five past midnight some of the assembled young things were playing parlour games while others reclined before the bookcase. (Philip from The Strange Boys, at Otto’s after some sort of Silver Lake vs Hollywood dodgeball-plus-music extravaganza.)

last night: lil wayne

Coming soon to a Prefixmag.com near you.

sullen blond with lamp

(Action Jackson is his code name.) I always like it when my subjects bring along their own props and know exactly how they want to be shot.

the lynx technique

Promo shoot for The Lynx Technique — April and April, styled by Charon Nogues, in Elysian Heights. Very fun shoot, gorgeous girls. Can’t wait to see them play one day.

kanye west at kroq almost acoustic christmas

I can really take no credit for that picture, because we got one song that was lit almost entirely by strobes and I just held down the shutter button and hoped for good Kanye luck. My card filled up (Uh, *duh*. I’ve never, ever done that before, I swear.) and that was the very last [...]

MURS at the el rey

Sold out, packed to the rafters, boiling hot, brilliant (love-life advice, Alanis Morisette covers and all). Also starring: J*Davey, Verbs, Xzibit. (More on Prefix.)

old bank district block party

Little Radio brought Restaurant, Dawes, Rumspringa and The Like downtown to entertain us under pretty lights at Fourth and Main. (More on Prefix.)

lykke li on wilshire boulevard

Lykke Li outside the El Rey theatre on the last day of her tour, November 2008. (Outtakes from a shoot for NME.com‘s gallery.)

ninjasonik in LA

I already told you this story, right? The story of how we turned up in Austin and immediately decided that everything was rubbish and we should’ve stayed at home because we were walking down the main drag and everything sounded awful and people looked at us all funny and the lines to get into bars [...]

it never snows nowhere no more

NO MORE DAMNER GODGRAMMIT. It’s been a while. Here are some things: Last night I was lying on the floor getting my blacks dusty while flipping spirit animal cards and rewriting mine for Euro-ness and childhood memories of milk saucers once the half-Burmese was gone (although she said otherwise that time on Micheltorena, when I [...]

titus andronicus and no age at the troubadour

I’m all conflicted on Titus Andronicus because I pretty much have to like a band where the singer and I are wearing matching stupidly warm coats, but then they officially announced their hatred of English people so I have to retract the love. (More — plus discussion on the need to ever wear a parka [...]

blitzen trapper at the echo

Still my favourite band, but you already knew that. I like Parson Red Heads a lot, too. And then we all went to the Gold Room. Mmm, whiskey. [More on Prefix.]

the heir to the throne of the silver shoe treasury

Ooh, pretties.

yeasayer and icy demons at the troubadour

Yeasayer are even better live than on record. [You can see more on Prefix.]


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Rachel started taking pictures as a kid in deepest Essex. Now she shoots in Los Angeles and has a funny half-American accent.

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