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“Son, I admire how shitty you’ve been acting recently but if you really want to make it in this world you’ve got to get your priorities right and knuckle down if you want to be anywhere near as terribly fucking atrociously awful l as I am when you’re my age.” Comments/Enlarge | See all


I’m starting to think that the septum ring and the surface piercings and the connector chains and the filthy camo shirt with Discharge patches holding together the shoulder are all pretty integral to the overall shaved-headed look. When you take them away you just sort of look like you’re on your way home from concentration camp. Comments/Enlarge | See all






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PHOTOS BY ROE ETHRIDGE
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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