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Today’s Lyrics

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As the sun is sinking low

and the evening’s tucked in tow

On the horizon, my true love I see.

—The Decemberists, ‘Bandit Queen’

She’s a jar
With a heavy lid
My pop quiz kid
A sleepy kisser
A pretty war
With feelings hid
She begs me not to miss her

She says forever
To light a fuse
We could use
A hand full of wheel
And a day off
And a bruised road
However you might feel
Tonight is real


—Wilco, ‘She’s a Jar’
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For the typefacers, the fontaholics, the indesigners and illustrators;
For the lovers, the documenters, the cmyk’ers, rgb’s, too;
For the palette pressers, swatch collectors, fillers, strokers, designing fools…
This goes out to you:

Want this tee in every color.

Plasma

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Fall day, beautiful fall day
To do what with my
beautiful fall day..
I cleansed and ate
forced the multivitamin
off my plate,
raked,
bagged,
rolled every window down
merged on the Interstate
system rolled up again,
then down,
down,
down,
down.
I visited the dollar store.
I scrounged the block for
SALES!
of rummage galore,
and now I may
walk, fall day,
beautiful fall day
until I feel
autumn
in
every
pore.

Brilliant!

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I believe I’ve previously raved about the wonders of iTunes’ Genius feature—and apparently, I still can’t get enough of it. This morning I Genius’ed (now a verb) Bob Dylan’s ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ and Apple created the most spectacular group of artists for me, with an impressive list of tasty grooves stitched onto one gorgeous playlist. Will I share? Gladly.

+ Dylan / Simple Twist of Fate
+ Neil Young / Don’t Let It Bring You Down
+ Crosby, Stills & Nash / Guinnevere
+ Wilco / Jesus Etc.
+ Simon & Garfunkel / The Only Living Boy in New York
+ Van Morrison / Sweet Thing
+ The Shins / Gone for Good
+ Dylan / Idiot Wind
+ Velvet Underground / Heroin
+ Jeff Buckley / Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
+ Band of Horses / The First Song
+ M. Ward / Chinese Translation
+ Simon & Garfunkel / Kathy’s Song (live)
etc. etc.
All these dudes really get me dancing in the A.M..

Poster Children

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I’m smitten with ReadyMade mag—lovely designs, interiors, and knick knacks rolled into one, with a healthy dose of cool people (artists!). I swung by their website and found these radtastic posters—free for download! This makes for an exciting Friday (easily amused much?)!

Enjoy, and git’ ’em for yourself riiiiiiight here!

(PS / The first is my favorite. Right now I’m reading an awesome book titled Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. It’s her family’s recount of living off only local and homegrown food for one year. This phrase is her mantra—and going on my wall, no doubt. To not call it “fresh” would do it no cliché injustice.)
I also take a special liking to the third, because, well—really. Beautiful illustration (awesome bike) + layout + plethora of gorgeous typography = YES.)