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Lesbian

Words: Sarah • February 16, 2014

Lesbian
Lesbian

Lesbian

SPB: Is your band name in reference to the sexual orientation, the Greek island, any of the three ships that bore the name SS Lesbian, or the mason rule that can be bent to measure curves with an astonishing degree of accuracy?

Lesbian: It's actually all four of those, especially the last, but also the fifth option that you forgot to dimension, which is a futuristic planet called Lesbian. On Lesbian there is poverty and war for never, but plenty of dinosaurs and mushrooms. Fractal geometry is required and heavily enforced. We're there right now, man...getting wasted.

Sarah • February 16, 2014

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