"have they seen the reason viet people eat on plastic stools on the side of the streets? do they know how people sell coffee from their motorbike, a few chairs tied to the bike’s sides, as ready to make seats for customers as to pack everything up and speed away when a police comes at them for 'doing business without permission'?"
MATTER
UR STEPS
By: Matt Li
"it’s impossible in america, because it is the caricaturizer. everything you ever believed about this place will come true. hold onto your thoughts. clutch those fat pearls. the prophets wrote in a perfect tense, because everything they predicted that would come true may as well have happened already."
"There was something connected between all the seats I thought of rather than a desk chair or couch. They were the idle seats. Those seats that are there for the convenience of sitting but not the ones you are using for the purpose of sitting. They are the ones that offer that moment of respite and reflection, of ponderance and planning. "
THRONES OF
THOUGHT
By:
Diego Ramos
MIX BY:
RISHI
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LACED is a online editorial focused on highlighting musicians and musical issues from a broad spectrum of cultural backgrounds, thus creating a new canon of music to be analyzed and appericated.
To be seated is a subjective experience left up to the mind of who is sitting. Long road trips on cushy car seats, short cafe visits on uncomfortable stools or somewhere in between it all produces a spectrum of reactions only understood through words on a page.
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