new band to watch

as you may know from a previous posting, i met school of seven bells at a glam ghostly records party over the summer. well...their full length album release is now slated for october 28th and they will be touring between now and well after that date.

their sound is reminiscent of M83, miranda sex garden [though i may be the only person who bought their CDs], and enya [i know it's fun to hate on enya, but "orinoco flow" is an enigmatic pop classic]. SVIIB's singers are twins so i can't help but get images of the peanuts in my head [their classic koi no fugue is a karaoke standard in japan and taiwain to this day though americans know them from the 1960s mothra vs. godzilla movies]. i find SVIIB's alpinisms to be especially transportative [is that a word? if not, i just made it. feel free to use] when riding my bicycle – it brings me totally into my head and i don't notice my leg muscles at all – making for an effortless ride.

i hope this makes it interesting enough for you all to run out [or go to itunes] to buy the album when it comes out. update: available now on itunes!

they came to my studio last week to chat about the album, life, crazy people, fall allergies, as well as getting some snazzy nooka watches.

their myspace page is here.

nooka pairings

restaurants offer up pairing menus to push certain wines, so i'm gonna share some of my nooka pairings with you:

the silver sneakers are my new favorite shoes, the mini cooper edition from tiger onitsuka...they are actually very comfortable to wear as well. at first i though a mirror faced nooka with a metal mesh strap would go best with these shoes, but i opted for the white zirc which captured the dynamic white accents in the footwear. any white nooka would go well with these snazzy kicks! pants by uniglo.


i've been obsessed with grey clothes for a long time. it's actually quite difficult to find neutral grey clothing in the US [grey here tends to be greenish or bluish, so I fill up in japan!], and so it was natural i created a grey line-up for nooka – and they go great with my new dark cool grey shoes from around-the-shoes. well-worn grey jeans from united arrows green label.

UPDATE: looks like gap has a lot of neutral grey this season...but that means actually going to a gap store if i want to check it out....i'll keep you updated.