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This track is a bit of a feel-good deep-cut favorite of mine because it’s a good song (also fun to play), and because it’s one that has two distinctly different takes. The original opens the 1980 Duke album from Genesis with Phil's R&B interpretation following in 1981 on his debut solo album. You know, the one with that other song… Also of note is Daryl Steurmer (guitar) and Chester Thompson (drums) in the backing band in the case of both of these particular live performances.

• A good music week with Billboard Heart from Deep Sea Diver and a wild cover (not entirely sure you can even call this a cover) of Comfortably Numb by ICE-T and Body Count featuring Pink Floyd’s own David Gilmour on guitar. Plus a gorgeous rehearsal version of Gilmour’s Between Two Points featuring this daughter on lead vocals and harp.
• No Dress Rehearsal, a massive feature documentary on Canada’s musical secret The Tragically Hip is now streaming on Prime. Us Canucks actually want the rest of the world to catch up to how good they were. RIP Gord.
• Typotheque’s new minimalist notebooks look really well considered. Ones that can actually open flat and without falling apart are key, especially if you’ve tried to use one that doesn’t.
• “To step into the stream of any social network… [is] unsettling, in the way that sediment is unsettled by water, lifted up and tossed around, scattered about.” This site, these posts and the rest are a container of context, not like those other places as Mandy rightly notes.
• Creativity Explained — On Type with Erik Spiekermann. A little video from oddfellows about the importance of just one element that can make or break a design’s success, whether a carton of milk, a newspaper, or an app on your phone.
• The Art of Liquid Death's Unconventional Marketing. I generally dislike most water drinks (on principle, but also flavor). Liquid Death is the singular exception. See, their marketing works.
• I had similar concerns and also an identical reaction to Naz and his first Waymo ride, but I really want to see vastly improved, accessible, and reliable transportation infrastructure first.
• But if you must have cars, can they at least actually be interesting looking Honda's HP X concept car. So many beautiful (physical) buttons, nary a touchscreen in sight.
• Type break: GT Pantheon wins the week with a knockout microsite for a stunning — and highly useful typeface family. This is definitely going on the wishlist.
• Do yourself and your design library a solid and pick up Richard Danne’s excellent monograph Shooting for the Stars: Six Decades of Timeless Design.
• 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades. An example of building something to last even if no one fully expected it would still be operating today.
• Antarctica — wow, some of those blue colors are out of this world.
• Friction isn't all bad. The trick is to know when it’s not something that should be removed.
• Behind the scenes of the creation of Penguin Books Marber grid.
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML. Yup.
• I’m very intrigued by Matt Webb's cursor party.