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2012-02-11T22:43:00.001-08:00

Whitney Houston was the original Breaking Bad

2012-02-11T21:53:00.001-08:00

second day of the second week of the second month of the second year of the second decade of the second millennium

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you'd be sued dude

2012-02-03T13:06:00.001-08:00

Australia or bust

2012-01-29T21:03:00.001-08:00

powerless punches

2012-01-16T10:50:00.001-08:00

this is a ritual date

2011-12-24T08:29:00.000-08:00

one time my philosophy professor told me i should be a model

2011-11-04T17:37:00.001-07:00

i'm going to write a novel

2011-10-03T17:18:00.000-07:00

about how an animate group consisting of a whale mask, an ancient perfume jar, and the perfect taco somehow travel around New York City in search of a ride to Jerusalem...

spilled my guts

2011-09-05T19:01:00.001-07:00

more horror ahead

2011-07-16T19:49:00.000-07:00

This issue might again look like a chic skin magazine. But Purple Fashion isn’t a sex magazine hiding behind the façade of fashion. We prefer to think

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of nudity as Roland Barthes did, that it’s the Degree Zero of style. Nudity imprints itself on time, along with architecture, fashion, music, and art.

We do explore nudity — not as a semi-pornographic tool,but as an indicator of fashion’s seasonal changes, as a barometer of its never-ending artistic evolution. The 19th century nude by the sculptor Aristide Maillol featured on our cover, and those by Auguste Rodin in the visual essay that closes this issue, incarnate their era, just as the dazzling beauty of Laetitia Casta embodies ours.

The frenetic, erotic tableaux of Les Krims encapsulate the ’70s just as accurately. And I believe that Terry Richardson’s topless models, the Japanese actress Sakura Ando wearing only Ligia Dias’s latest jewelry collection, and Ryan McGinley’s New York portraits capture the essence of the current season.

In our eyes aesthetic canons radically opened up in 2011 — in the Spring / Summer of this new decade — canons that can accommodate the perfect body of the Brazilian model shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde as easily as they can Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters. Hopefully in this new decade we’ll see a true shift in fashion toward diversity and inclusion.

We at Purple strive to push fashion in this direction.

— OLIVIER ZAHM

Sal Salad

2011-07-06T10:32:00.001-07:00

Regularly cited as one of the greatest pure rock stars of all time, Philip Lynott had already guided hard rock heroes Thin Lizzy for over a decade and

2011-06-11T20:45:00.001-07:00

an ugly no-no

2011-05-04T23:06:00.001-07:00

PRELUDE to Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins

2011-04-21T14:35:00.001-07:00

THIS IS THE ROOM of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention.

This is the room where your wisest ancestor was born, be you Christian, Arab, or Jew. The linoleum underfoot is sacred linoleum. Please remove your shoes. Quite recently, the linoleum here was restored to its original luster with the aid of a wax made from hornet fat. It scuffs easily. So never mind if there are holes in your socks.

This is the room where your music was invented. Notice the cracked drumhead spiked to the wall, spiked to the wolfmother wallpaper above the corner sink where the wayward wife washed out her silk underpants, inspecting them in the blue seepage from the No Vacancy neon that flickered suspiciously out in the thin lizard dawn.

What room is this? This is the room where the antler carved the pumpkin. This is the room where the gutter pipes drank the moonlight. This is the room where moss gradually silenced the treasure, rubies being the last to go. Transmissions from insect antennae were monitored in this room. It's amazing how often their broadcasts referred to the stars.

A clue: this is the room where the Painted Stick was buried, where the Conch Shell lay wrapped in its adoring papyrus. Lovers, like serpents, shed their old skin in this clay room. Now do you remember the wallpaper? The language of the wallpaper? The wolfmother's blood roses that vibrated there?

Enough of this wild fox barking. You pulled up in the forest Cadillac, the vehicle you claimed you'd forgotten how to drive. You parked between the swimming pool and the row of blackened skulls. Of course, you know what room this is.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter, where Delilah practiced for her beautician's license, the room in which Salome dropped the seventh veil while dancing the dance of ultimate cognition, skinny legs and all.

the drudgery of work

2011-04-01T20:40:00.001-07:00

The Tractatus-era Wittgenstein would have killed it on Twitter.

2011-03-27T12:13:00.001-07:00

Keep Julian Assange away from your pussy!

2011-03-09T20:03:00.002-08:00

Cat Abuser

"would you call your Country a Cunt?"

2011-03-09T20:03:00.001-08:00

porn is physical comedy, no?

2011-03-04T22:22:00.001-08:00

"We are training young warriors for a humanistic jihad against ignorance, bigotry, suffering, injustice, hunger, pain, and confusion." Gerald Smith

2011-02-28T13:57:00.000-08:00

ODD FUTURE on Fallon

2011-02-17T21:27:00.001-08:00

ascetic aesthetic

2011-02-16T18:56:00.002-08:00

formerly formally

2011-02-16T18:56:00.001-08:00

my other blog is a dj

2011-02-14T19:29:00.001-08:00

i only drink dickel no. 12 #endofanera

2011-01-27T19:23:00.001-08:00

Only confirmed followers

2011-01-27T19:20:00.001-08:00

Junya Watanabe

2011-01-23T09:57:00.001-08:00

maybe now i'll have to write stories over here and cut out all the youtube vids on friction dip... vimeo though, yo!

2011-01-20T21:49:00.002-08:00

that didn't work

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fs=1&hl=en_US

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after the above on the second line

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Lanai

2011-01-20T09:21:00.003-08:00

taught thought

2011-01-20T09:21:00.001-08:00

why can't i embed my videos with that orange color frame anymore, youtube? fuck that.

2011-01-19T21:07:00.002-08:00

moon boom adsum

2011-01-19T21:07:00.001-08:00

BBQ tofu

2011-01-17T20:26:00.000-08:00

"Firstly, you must be skint and on the dole..."

2011-01-17T17:53:00.000-08:00

scotch eggs

2011-01-17T15:07:00.001-08:00

Deviances anticipated / Triple-X or at least R-rated

2011-01-16T14:05:00.001-08:00

Lord Anthony > If You Find Yourself Caught In Love

2011-01-12T11:50:00.000-08:00

sublimate the hate

2011-01-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

i fucking hate this violence and murder that is so commonplace in our selfish society

2011-01-08T13:00:00.000-08:00

This is an upbeat 80s composition about the mystery of how love can find you in the most mysterious ways.

2011-01-05T19:23:00.001-08:00

her elbows rub the right elbows

2010-12-23T21:36:00.000-08:00

dog got all jackson pollock up on my rug, drippy / browns n browns

2010-12-23T21:30:00.000-08:00

does the NBA let blake griffin hang on the rim longer than other dunkers?

2010-12-21T22:02:00.000-08:00

oh, hippie speedball

2010-12-18T10:41:00.000-08:00

i purchased and helped consume probably 20 gallons of George Dickel No. 12 whiskey in 2010.

2010-12-16T20:19:00.000-08:00

cold wet gets pants

2010-12-13T17:42:00.001-08:00

bill hader

2010-12-11T23:58:00.001-08:00

"the meaning of the world lies outside the world"

2010-12-10T18:41:00.000-08:00

and trying not to be defined by the slights against them

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too

2010-11-29T19:42:00.001-08:00

good day today- david lynch

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tolerance

2010-11-28T20:00:00.001-08:00

the thrust muscles in my back hurt

2010-11-26T20:50:00.000-08:00

they have chicken kiev / butter squirts everywhere

2010-11-24T20:33:00.000-08:00

roach coach at the grease truck

2010-11-23T20:27:00.000-08:00

eddy current suppression ring

2010-11-19T20:55:00.001-08:00

come christmas

2010-11-19T17:47:00.000-08:00

bernie madoff's belgian shoes

2010-11-09T20:33:00.000-08:00

Gucci Mane Arrested Again

2010-11-02T20:59:00.001-07:00

dune, director's cut

2010-11-02T19:40:00.001-07:00

the Kostabi Show

2010-10-29T17:36:00.001-07:00

here

Quijada

2010-10-28T11:59:00.000-07:00

google cars

2010-10-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

here

jets while i slept

2010-10-26T20:51:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Gregory Isaacs

2010-10-25T18:54:00.001-07:00

broken dreams club

2010-10-25T18:43:00.001-07:00

Dan Colen is doing well & looking good

2010-10-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

BEST SHOW on wfmu

2010-10-19T19:33:00.001-07:00

Jimmy McMillan, Rent is Too Damn High Party

2010-10-19T08:53:00.001-07:00

george condo & kanye west

2010-10-18T11:36:00.001-07:00

all hail, Glenn O'Brien

2010-10-15T20:45:00.001-07:00

L. B. Jeffries < PopMatters

2010-10-12T09:29:00.001-07:00

archive here

that friction is equivalent to the random arrival of trading partners

2010-10-11T08:23:00.001-07:00

sometimes the youtube videos wilt and die

2010-10-07T18:59:00.000-07:00

"Schmidt. This is el-p on ross' phone sayin hi"

2010-10-06T08:44:00.000-07:00

thin lizzy, minutemen, crimpshrine, pavement,

2010-09-24T20:51:00.001-07:00

i should've picked mike vick up off waivers

2010-09-21T17:51:00.001-07:00

bookkeeper

2010-09-17T16:28:00.001-07:00

Andrew (Pinkskins) updated their Team Slogan Tim Tebow & Taylor Swift will spawn the antichrist

2010-09-12T22:03:00.001-07:00

Cee Lo Green - FUCK YOU

2010-09-06T11:39:00.001-07:00

sense of humour!

2010-09-06T11:33:00.001-07:00

seeing Bob Nastanovich live in concert was fucking awesome

2010-09-04T12:54:00.000-07:00

Little girl in bloom You watch the men play cricket From the window in your room You see the ball go from bat to wicket Pass the afternoon

2010-08-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

got on "the best show" on WFMU, gomp'd

2010-08-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

i need to buy some fish mix

2010-08-09T20:30:00.001-07:00

luck be my dragon

2010-08-04T21:35:00.001-07:00

turns 28 in 7 days

2010-08-04T21:34:00.001-07:00

"Although he suffered from emphysema and lung cancer, he was an enthusiastic smoker with a spectacular cough." Great sentence, Glenn O'Brien.

2010-08-03T11:32:00.001-07:00

Natacha Ramsay is cold

2010-07-30T22:04:00.001-07:00

colour scheme theory

2010-07-24T21:48:00.001-07:00

conversation with artist Francesco Clemente, Charlie Rose

2010-07-24T19:43:00.001-07:00

curry crazy

2010-07-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

here

judgement vs criticism

2010-07-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

skin fade

2010-07-16T17:31:00.001-07:00

Barefoot Bandit Caught: Bahamas Police Arrest Colton Harris-Moore

2010-07-11T11:04:00.001-07:00