Air: 'If We Don't Surprise People Any More, Then We Will Die'
Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2000
"THE FIRST time I was in LA," says Nicolas Godin, "I was in a very cool hotel. And in front of that hotel was a very cool second-hand clothes shop, a Mexican thing, with boots, hats, belts. And in walked James Woods, looking for something. And I said oh my God, James Woods!"
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