The first video we post here is dedicated to the up-and-coming-local-politically-right band F.O.R.!!!! “Friends of Raven”!!! Their debut single, Minister Without Portfolio, is still being penned as we report. The melody will not venture far from Dead Kennedys’ Holiday In Cambodia.

The second video we post here is dedicated to all our customers who have become our friends, with our soul, sole, single, singular message at the video’s end.

This has to be my favorite Muse song. The video being not (entirely) focused on that guy with the sunnies. Or whizzed away by vampires.

On the same note, for those less inclined vampires, our Aviator frames are pretty for boys and girls.

More vintage eyewear.

Looking not a cent less Joan.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Now don’t say no one told you, loud only.
Don’t listen, unless loud.

There’s only one.

A good cover.

I’ve always thought the title said too much. Little Girl Blue, the new biography of Karen Carpenter by Randy Schmidt, is out July 2010. I hope this one is different from the others, with Light.

Stevie General Store is wrapped under a vintage mole hill, shoes from Spain (will post up photos later), and July’s vintage selection (there’s still more!).

Vintage aside, may I share with you Fragment VIII by Library Tapes, my current listening. So fit for a yellow July, when objects fly around as if walled by the head.

The truth is I have always wanted to post a Girlfriends group shot here. But then I realise I don’t have girlfriends. All my girlfriends I have lost. Growing up is a horrible thing. But I know some of you have beautiful girlfriend photos. Here’s to Girlfriends, and that loss.

If I had a voice like that, I wouldn’t want to speak.

No GaGa moves. No Deep Purple make-up. No need too for weirdness. Just plain passion.

…that in a cover remains the thing about this song.

Many things are mustard this time. Mustard that’s not eye, just tongue.

Have you heard Hole’s new album, Nobody’s Daughter? People are tough on Courtney Love. HY and I think it has something to do with her singing for too long lyrics like “People like you fuck people like me”. Though it’s not untrue. I say it again. People like you fuck people like me.

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Are you weary, but somehow free-willed?

Finally, the catalogue for The Weary & Free-Willed, and its Virgin alibi.

It’s for you too, if you are free-willed, but somehow weary

There is the heaven we enter
through institutional grace
and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing
in the lowly puddle.

Yellow, the first poem in Mary Oliver’s latest book Evidence.

I once drew a picture, titled Red Strings. There are two parts to this picture, I always try to explain. But even I cannot explain. This video made me think of it. It now hangs in the toilet of Stevie General Store. I also once wrote a poem called Only The Ones We Love. I reworked and reworked, and reworked this poem. It is now lost, in the memory of what love isn’t, and yet, so alive.