Everybody Dim Sum tonight.

Dear 27,

Tonight was perfect. Thanks friend. Dim Sum and my new found foodie pals. Perfect.

I fell in love with Des Moines tonight. Again.

xo-LP

I just can't get enough.

Dear 27,

I just can't get enough. Of these.

xo-LP

An even better better side.

Dear 27,

I cannot stop singing this. On repeat.

Band of Horses wrote a terribly beautiful and heartbreaking, full, bold and totally rad song...

Cee-Lo made it even more compelling.

Both are worth a listen. Both are best played at heightened volume.

Listen to Cee-Lo via Pitchfork.

(Please note the video attached to the song is a bit risque. You were fully warned.)

(This song elicits this type of response. It's like Bieber Fever, but not really at all.)

xo-LP

"It's my better side of you to admire"

Dear 27,

The first pick-six tracks of the week.

I think you'll be pleased.

xo-LP

Home of the Replacements. Not to be confused with the Rembrandts.

Dear 27,

Went back to Minnesota this week. Not quite the same fun level as my last trip (missed you friend)...but saw the sights and spun around in my new dress. Booyah.

(this last one is just odd. Instead of ground level or basement, it's -1)

Click the photos to get more info on them.

xo-LP

Chaos Emerald.

Dear 27,

A hacked x-box complete with Sonic the Hedgehog and Bubble Bobble

(yes Jen- you read that right)

+ Karen Brady

+ an entertaining bartender Eric

+ a parade of people I know but wasn't expecting to see

+ 90's music

+ Belgian beer

= a pretty bizarrely awesome late night adventure

xo-LP

Laura.

Dear 27,
I adore this song. And Mates of State made it better.
Listen here.

(And yes, even 1989 Laura would enjoy it.)

xo- LP

Who still eats crackerjacks?

Dear 27,

My first I-Cubs game of the season. And what a lovely night.

See photographic evidence:

xo-LP

That was surely the heavy.

Dear 27,

Day 2 of the music fest (80/35 brought to my fair city by the folks of DMMC) brought rain and the Walkmen and the Heavy and many more missed connections...

And no fireworks.

xo-LP

Goodnight Laura. Not your best work. But I like it.

Dear 27,

Thanks to a pretty awesome and totally generous friend (thank you thank you thank you!!) I got an all access pass for Des Moines' own 80/35... and it rocked!

Met lots of new people, including my new friend, Britt Daniel.

Wrote a missed connection with my beloved Art Noir:

And got to see SPOON preform from backstage....

Oh 27, this was one of your greatest nights to date. In a big way.

xo-LP