Poppy Babies In A Tiny World

Look Look! I finally got around to colorizing the album art. Hooray!

	front (green) totally alternative, less girly, hyper glow green version!
	back (green) song list and credits...

Wondering what to wish for this holiday season? We suggest getting some copies of Planting Seeds Records' benefit release "Blue Skies and Daisy Days," which not only contains an exclusive track from our new album ("Stonewords") but also a veritable smorgasbord of other Mystery Lawn notables, such as The Fairwood Singers, The Incredible Vickers Brothers and The Ocean Blue. Plus other stuff like Jesus and Mary Chain people. Plus, it's for a good cause. Proceeds benefit a breast-cancer awareness nonprofit.

A Myspace page has just been set up: http://www.myspace.com/blueskiesda…
You can also pre-order it here: http://www.darla.com/comingSoon/

From Planting Seeds Records...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS "Blue Skies Daisy Days" (PSRCD-058)
Planting Seeds' third label comp featuring label artists & friends will be due out Fall 2008 with a slew of exclusive tracks and a portion of the proceeds going to San Diego, CA based Cancer Awareness KAB Organization. The compilation features a stellar line-up of artists from around the globe:

International Jetsetters (members of Jesus & Mary Chain, Ride), Corner Laughers (San Franciso, CA), A.M. Vibe (San Diego, CA) The Tamborines (London, UK), Fairwood Singers (featuring Allen Clapp), The Left Outsides (featuring members of The Eighteenth Day of May), Color Filter featuring Linda Draper (from Japan, Draper from Queens, NY), Loose Salute (featuring members of Mojave 3), Stevenson Ranch Davidians (from Los Angeles, CA), Loz Colbert (Ride, Jesus & Mary Chain, International Jetsetters), The Primary 5 (Teenage Fanclub), The See See (members of Eighteenth Day of May), The Parson Red Heads (Los Angeles, CA), Incredible Vickers Brothers (The Orange Peels), Nic Dalton (Lemonheads, Sneeze, etc), Michael Barrett (Essex Green, Ladybug Transistor), John Moore (Black Box Recorder, Jesus & Mary Chain), Pinkie (Sarah Records, Harper Lee etc), The Fischers (UK, members of Tompaulin), and more to be announced! Look for the full artist/track listing shortly...

yesterday i added a little zazzle store widget to the myspace page. there are some shirts on there now (babydoll TOL, mens TOL, babydoll hummingbird, Pigeon) but there is oh so much more i could add, including stickers, postcards, magnets, calendars and even aprons. (rock out while you're cookin'.) so, if there's something you'd really like to see on there, like mini pigeon stickers or a TOL poster or some Ultraviolet Garden postcards, just let me know!

i also cleaned up the HTML on the "About" section on the myspace. that little widget ("powered by SNOCAP") isn't working and i wonder if i should just delete it altogether because i can't get it to work and the music player at the top of the page seems to work just fine. but if you want to keep it there, that's cool, too. just let me know if you want me to delete it!

charlie's working on getting the videos on the page. hopefully they will work!

Last night we did a taping for the Mountain View public-access channel KMVT. We were "the talent." As you probably know, I love that channel and how it makes everything look like British tv in the 1980s. The sound mix is a bit dodgy. The show will be on every Thursday night at 9:15, possibly forever!
Please enjoy. I expect the endorsement deals to start flowing in ...oh and here are three more clips from the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuk…

EDIT: and of course the credit-rolling finale with the glorious drum close-up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STM…

AGAIN EDIT: Also, merch! http://www.zazzle.com/annarama?CMP…

since i'm on a roll here, i mocked up a demo t-shirt for ultraviolet garden.

here it is.

very minimal. bird on front, banner on back. just an idea...

by special request: TOL shirt on Zazzle!

i wasn't sure if you guys wanted it to just be the album front and back, but it was a pretty easy solution since i already had the art. all the song titles and credits are on the back. i'm not sure if they will be completely readable but i think they will be. oh, and dig that model guy's pose. that was cracking me up! :)

Edit: here's a version with the plain (no song titles/credits) design on the back.

okay, i think the yellow banner looks better...

so, here are some more tweaks and new colors! still more work to be done, but at least there's a little progress goin' on. :)

so, here it is. take #1 on the album artwork for Ultraviolet Garden...



first: i know the colors are WAY too girlie. goldenmoonbear and i discussed changing them to dark violet or dark blue and deep red instead of pink and purple. so i will try doing that.

second: there are still more tweaks i want to make (make the banner and text larger, enlarge the border, etc.) so i'm going to do that, too.

this is just a starting-off point!