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TEXT BY AMY KELLNER


MIRA BILLOTTE has an amazing psych-folk band called White Magic that released an EP on Drag City last year that was so good we’ve been dying for a full-length ever since. Our wishes will finally come true in early 2006. Mira also recently starred in Chain, a cool movie about how sad malls are.

Vintage handpainted silk tunic from “some little thrift shop in Maryland” / chime necklace from “a junk shop in Brooklyn”: I don’t remember which.

Mira tells us about some of her favorite stuff:

BLUE EMBROIDERED DRESS
I got this at Beacon’s Closet. I like things that are old or ethnic or one-of-a-kind. I was drawn to this strange design. It looks like a peacock or something. It’s for special occasions.

BEADED NECKLACES BY MIRA
I just started making jewelry. I collect beads from a lot of places. These coral ones are from Uzbekistan.

WHITE MAGIC T-SHIRT
I designed this. I wrote “White Magic” and then it just kept getting more and more complicated. I just got all into drawing it. It was inspired by a Navajo weaving I saw in a book.

MOROCCAN KIF PIPE
Kif is Moroccan pot mixed with tobacco. I got this pipe in Tangier for like 50 cents. We went to the Rif Mountains where kif grows wild. I watched this guy prepare it, like chop it up on a board with a huge knife, and then we smoked it with him. It was such an amazing experience. I was only in Morocco for eight days but I saw so much stuff it seemed like three months.

VINTAGE CLOAK
I got this in Brighton, England. They have cool old shops everywhere there, right on the sea. I thought it was the creepiest cloak I had ever seen. I wore it for Halloween this year.

UNITED BAMBOO DRESS
Miho from United Bamboo lives downstairs from us. She gave me this dress. It’s really warm.

SILVER CHIME NECKLACE
I don’t know what this is called, but it oscillates in this perfect, slow way and makes these amazing fairy bell noises. It sounds better than it looks.

THREE-WEEK-OLD KITTEN
We just rescued her a few days ago. It was very dramatic. I heard her crying outside in one of our neighbors’ yards, so I got them to let me back there. She was hiding and I had to coax her out. She was so scared. It was intense.




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