dressed in the dark?

In fourth grade someone's zitty older brother weeded the banks of the polluted stream next to my school and called it a nature trail, and my scribbles with Crayola magic markers won the competition to make a logo for the trail. The school got teeshirts with the logo printed, and just around the time when I would have actually started wearing it, my mother threw it away. This isn't a good story, but it's sort of almost relevant to the fact that Hot Chip and Threadless have teamed up for a Made in the Dark teeshirt competition. Basically, design a teeshirt around the theme of "made in the dark" (the name of their latest album), and the winners can get all kinds o' cool sheeit, like Hot Chip's full discography, a $500 Threadless gift card,  or a MicroKorg keyboard, not to mention getting to snicker at some douchebag on the L train wearing the shirt you designed. Maybe the winning design will be almost as cool as the Packanack Elementary Nature Trail teeshirt whose loss I'm still bemoaning.

In other news, as if you didn't know, Frontside favourites Chromeo open for Justice at the most ambitiously booked show of 2008 tonight at MSG -- oh, wait, I mean the WaMu Theatre, while most of the music-relevant world is waiting in security lines at LaGuardia for their flights to Austin for SXSW.  And Myspace FINALLY gets it together and is talking about launching a music service, possibly by the end of this year -- and actually with the support of EMI, Warner, and Sony BMG. (More on that at Daily Swarm).