22 Dec 2007 07:30 am 3
wishing to celebrate the winter solstice without ancient stylee hecatomb will find some of us looking for the most gorgeous blocks of tofu, bricks of oat milk, beautiful ginger root, beets, eggplant, mangos, fat hand made marzipan figurines and lemon sorbet to cleanse the palate in el corte ingles, in lavapies, or in the organic food shop on calle huertas before things shut down. i already brought the candied ginger down from london, and the fake mayonnaise (powered with pea protein) with which to impress my family when the time of the white asparagus comes. i can already see my dad eating the entire jar with a spoon and wiping it clean with a piece of bread. wishing you an… Read More
09 Dec 2007 04:47 pm 10
the world turned upside down. do you remember a while ago we had a new tshirt for sale, it was Huge, Red, a Sleeper we said, very limited edition (at only 10 shirts printed, by a man named Monkey), and featured a design of two people walking on their hands, dressed only in what looked like eggshells? some of you were even mildly disturbed by it, now that i remember. tomorrow i might be posing in front of the original inspiration for this silly shirt, hieronymus bosch´s the garden of earthly delights. i´m not trying to bore you here too much just wanted to explain why i prefer the name in spanish, el jardin de las delicias, mostly because it´s… Read More
07 Dec 2007 06:35 pm
and we have some news for you - there's a few old/revisited songs from the pipas vaults in the surgery at the moment for a very special compilation - we'll tell you more as soon as we can! and though we are slow we are are are working on a record with lots of tenderness laziness and abandon. from b 2 b, brooklyn to brixton now. i was walking around carnaby street the other day looking for a new taylor and lookihere what i bumped into. i always knew he was one multitalented fellow... anyone been to rosie's on coldharbour lane? my new favorite place to eavesdrop. today i heard a lovely lady talk about playing a show with jim… Read More