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Sawtelle musings. Chikara is part of the George’s hardware crew. If you need a lawnmower sharpened, a key copied, or a big sack of cow shit, he’s your man. He’s a good person. That’s all you need to know. If you need someone to have your back, he’ll be there. The sunday sunset. Southern California smog makes for nice sunsets.
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Our friends from Asobi seksu on Tour again! It seems like they were just here, but why not? These guys have to work hard to get their brand of shoegazer out. These guys are great check em out. 5-Nov Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s6-Nov Des Moines, IA @ Vaudevilles7-Nov Lincoln, NE @ Chatterbox10-Nov Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour (w/The Wrens)11-Nov San Francisco, CA – Be the Riottt Festival @ Bill Graham CivicAuditorium (w/The Rapture, Clipse, Metric, and more)14-Nov Portland, OR @ Holocene (w/Tokyo Police Club)15-Nov Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey (w/Tokyo Police Club)17-Nov Salt Lake City, UT @ Broken City18-Nov Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge21-Nov Sacramento, CA @ tba22-Nov San francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w/Mates ofState)24-Nov Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater (w/Mates of State)25-Nov San Diego, CA Epi Center (w/Mates of State)26-Nov Tucson, AZ Congress Theater (w/Mates of State)27-Nov Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room (w/Mates of State)28-Nov Albuquerque, NM Launchpad (w/Mates of State)29-Nov Lubbock, TX Jake’s (w/Mates of State)30-Nov Oklahoma City, OK Conservatory (w/Mates of State)1-Dec Dallas, TX Sons Of Herman (w/Mates of State)2-Dec Houston, TX Numbers (w/Mates of State)3-Dec Austin, TX Emo’s Outside (w/Mates of State)5-Dec Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon6-Dec Atlanta, GA @TBA 7-Dec Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 5068-Dec Baltimore/DC @ tba9-Dec Philadelphia, PA @ Khyber Pass
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Anyone coming to this? Paper mag has a lot of things going on, this is one of them. I have no idea what we’re talking about just yet, and really, I have no info, but oh well. I guess that’s how stuff runs. It’s cool to be included, when there was a time when we’d be left out. But sometimes, it’s better to just be left out. Click on this to make it bigger.
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My man Kohei will out otaku all of you. In a glass cup, he creates dioramas that win awards. This is all done when he’s not working on his designs.
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T SHIRT 101. I know the t shirt making game is huge now. Everyone is a fashion designer. But do you know what you’re doing? Thankfully, I’ve been doing this longer than I’ve been doing GR, so here’s a simple tip. Make your design. It could be good, it could suck. I can’t help you there. But follow this easy step. Print the thing out. If you have a color printer that’s great. but if not, then make it on a white shirt, and print it with a white background. Print numerous sizes of it, and figure out what’s going to work on a Large, Medium, and maybe small. Then print another one for the girl shirts. Try to have blank shirts in the sizes you care most about. Size does matter when making your shirt designs, do don’t assume this step is easy, it might be the most important step in making your design look right. An important tip is to cut the design out from the paper, and tape it on. I’d even have someone wear the shirt with the design on it. This is hwa-shi starting to cut up his design. This is going to be for GR. He didn’t want to print it out first to check it. I told him he should. “No one listens to the publisher.” He may not do this step again, and he’ll pay for it one day, but not on my watch.
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