Previously Worn Roles

A highly sentimental archive of things I’ve loved.

Reel 7 of 7 · Cutting room floor

Deleted Scenes

Ephemera the garments couldn't part with. Ticket stubs, polaroids, tracklists, parking tickets, postcards from a city she's no longer speaking to. Evidence the wardrobe kept.

ticket11·14·97

PAVEMENT · 4AD TOUR

  • ADMIT ONE
  • GA · NO RE-ENTRY
  • $18.50

Slip dress + combat boots. Lost the stub. Found it in a coat pocket two winters later.

polaroid08·02·98

Back porch, August

Denim jacket, somebody else's hand around a Pabst.

mixtapeSpring '99

FOR THE DRIVE BACK

  • A1 · Mazzy Star — Fade Into You
  • A2 · Liz Phair — Divorce Song
  • A3 · Built to Spill — Car
  • A4 · Elliott Smith — Between the Bars
  • B1 · Cat Power — Nude as the News

Found inside the camel coat. Side A intact.

receipt02·11·00

Kim's Video · Ave A

  • GHOST WORLD ............ 4.00
  • RUSHMORE ............... 4.00
  • LATE FEE x 3 ........... 9.00
  • ------------------------------
  • TOTAL ................. 17.00

Three nights late. Worth it.

journal10·06·97

page torn from a 1997 Moleskine

  • told him i'd think about it.
  • wore the green dress anyway.
  • rained the whole walk home.
  • did not, in fact, think about it.

Tucked into the flannel's chest pocket.

pass06·22·96

BACKSTAGE · GUEST + 1

  • ALL ACCESS
  • EXP. 06·22·96
  • G U E S T

Smashing Pumpkins tee era. Laminate sticky from a spilled beer.

parking09·17·99

City of Seattle · Notice

  • VIOLATION: METER EXP.
  • FINE .......... $22.00
  • PAY OR APPEAR

Paid in cash, kept in glovebox, forgotten.

postcardPostmarked 05·04·01

From: a place she'd already left

  • wish you were here.
  • no you don't.
  • yes i do.
  • — love, the version of me
  • that lived on 7th st.

Slipped between the lining and the pocket of the moto jacket.

✶ more scraps as we find them — these things turn up in pockets ✶