Maude said she’d needed to find herself, so we took a trip out to the Desert. America in one beautiful country. We’ll be back in LA soon.

Nikolai is traveling far from his native planet Ogeon but it’s songs like this that help remind him of HOME:

Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rhianna performed this new Swizz Beats/Dean Gaffney produced track during Friday night’s HOPE FOR HAITI NOW concert. Your donation goes directly to the relief effort: www.hopeforhaitinow.org.

UPDATE: YouTube has since taken this video down, but you can purchase the track, along with many others from last Friday’s benefit show in the iTunes Music Store. All proceeds go directly to the Haitian relief effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCR9iSV6h10

John Lennon was shot and killed 29 years ago today in New York City. Today, celebrate his life, listen to his music and enjoy this animated short film.

(Photo taken by Drew Goldberg on his annual, December 8th pilgrimage to Strawberry Fields in Central Park.

Beck has long been one of our favorite Los Angeles creatures and he’s been gathering some of his own favorites to reinterpret some of the greatest albums of all time.  This is a cut off of The Velvet Underground’s “The Velvet Underground & Nico” and it’s called “I’ll Be Your Mirror.”

Christopher just celebrated a birthday this past weekend. Major wishes to our Los Angeles buddy. Barraza’s essentials in life are taking photos with disposable cameras, random excursions and a light obsession with cheese and bread. You can check out Christopher’s inspiring webpage BLOGRRAZA.

Photo Cred: Rolling Blackouts.

Our chief executive creature ran the San Francisco marathon earlier this year to raise money and awareness for Pablove a great organization fighting childhood cancer. Jesse Jr. designed this shirt for the race.

First Peter, Bjorn & John, now Sweden has brought us Miike Snow. Enjoy the unofficial creatures theme song (of the moment.)

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And kudos to American Apparel for scoring these totes in their stores.

Loving the Domo stuff.  We think that Nikolai and Maude would look cute on your cups too….