To-night!

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Tonight—or rather, this morning—I am working on design. Sigh. I’m ready to go home and eat a big bowl of cereal already, then catch a few sweet zZzzz’s. They are much-needed as I’ve been on my feet since 730am (it’s now 2am) and…and…wait for it…I begin working at my new j-o-b tomorrow! *Glamourous* Hah. Right.
This…this should be very interesting.
PS / I love the vision of someone letterpressing this poster in 1884. Such a beautiful craft that I hope to someday attempt…or just watch, always.

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.

Still Twisting Fate—Simply, of Course

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I must quote and/or post this song at least five times a year (including, well, yesterday). But I’ve not yet shared—and thus, am not ashamed, but ecstatic to relay this unbelievable fusion of three of my favorite things in the world: Jeff Tweedy, Bob Dylan, and Dylan’s ‘Simple Twist of Fate,’ off Blood on the Tracks.

The first time I heard it was at—surprise!—Sbucks. I believe I was writing at the time, and literally dropped my pen when it started playing, then refused to borrow my ears to any other sound for the next four minutes. This is so cheesy but, I may or may not have had tears coming on!

I could listen to this all day, especially beautiful today. Please enjoy.

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..