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- Launderette’s Best of 2009 List -
(part 2)

No rules, no genres, only things we encountered and loved this year.

Pushing Daisies
(TV Show)

This critically acclaimed, criminally canceled show is a delight. Worth your time for the art direction alone, and when they start to sing… Act on everything you’ve heard and rent it today.

Timorous Beasties
(wallpaper)

Entering a room lined with hand-printed papers by this Glasgow-based company is like stepping inside a Fabergé.

Dark Was The Night
(Album)

Aaron & Bryce Dessner of The National curate this formidable compilation. A pleasure straight through, over and over again. Includes music by:
Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Beirut, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, The Books, Buck 65, David Byrne, Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues, The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors, Kevin Drew, Feist, Ben Gibbard, Grizzly Bear, Iron & Wine, Jose Gonzalez, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Stuart Murdoch (of Belle & Sabastien), My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, The National, The New Pornographers, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, Yeasayer, Yo La Tengo

Sailor Pants
(pants)

Channel your inner Marlene Dietrich with high-waisted sailor pants. They had it right in the 1930s. Tailored, lengthening, and your butt crack doesn’t show when you sit down.

Local Farm Delivery
(service)

A truly fulfilling morning is one that starts with your monthly (or weekly) box of organic produce sitting on your doorstep. Launderette loves the challenge of preparing seasonal vegetables that we have never tasted before. Sauteed kale with red pepper flakes. Butternut squash curry. Satsuma mandarin orange cake. Salivating yet? Regardless of where you are reading this, there is likely a co-op providing deliveries near you.