As we all know, Bumbershoot can’t go on forever. Below, find some suggestions on how to plot out your last day of the festival (a.k.a. Death Cab Come Home Day) before it even begins. TIP: don’t forget to get an elephant ear. It’s the end of the summer and you haven’t had even one yet, have you? Don’t spend the long dark winter dwelling on regrets, OK?

As usual, glance through the official lineup and don’t hesitate to loudly tell us what we forgot to mention.

All the picks (and, at least one pan), after the jumpcut.

Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden : If you want a preview of a band you’ll be hearing a lot about in the near future, be here for this. Just a little tip from me to you. [samantha] 12:15 - 12:45, NW Court.

One Reel Film Festival : Today’s highlights include All in the Family which takes a look at the ties that bind (and sometimes choke) at 1:00 and a series of locally produced films, Made in Seattle, at 2:00pm. [zee] SIFF Cinema, 12:00 - 9:00 pm.

Edmund White & Samantha Hunt, w/ Christopher Frizzelle, “This Hotel”: The Stranger’s Christopher Frizzelle moderates a discussion between two great novelists, who both happened to write novels about cultural icons dying in ramshackle hotes. Frizelle might want to just stand back and stay out of the way. [stan] 2:00 - 3:15 pm, Leo K. Theatre.

Choklate : Local singer/songwriter Choklate has a smooth and sultry, old-school R&B voice as rich and deep as her name which she puts to skillful use on her contemporary and progressive musical grooves. She’s a powerful, moving singer and you’re going to want to check her out now so that when she blows up into the international superstar she deserves to become you can tell people you saw her way back when. [zee] 12:45pm, Fisher Green Stage.

Blitzen Trapper : It took a while for Wild Mountain Nation itself and I to become friends, but from the first time I saw Blitzen Trapper onstage I wanted them to play at all of my glam rock robot hoedowns for the rest of time. Their performance at SP20 only confirmed that these guys somehow seamlessly meld harmonica-tinged country tunes with noisy electrofuzz blasts. And I’m not even going to pretend that Eric Earley isn’t one of the cutest boys in rock music. [samantha] 2:30 - 3:30, Broad Street.

William Gibson, Eileen Gunn, John Osebold: Gibson, the father of cyberpunk, joins Gunn in a moderated discussion with fellow SF writer Gunn. John Osebold will pitch in with some sort of kooky music thing that is guaranteed to be, well, kooky. One of the most interesting of Bumbershoot’s Literary Arts line-up. [stan] William Gibson used to write about the future until the future became the present and now we’re all living in it. That is, especially if you’re a artistically-inclined, quirky woman with a fantastically-wealthy Belgian bankrolling your international adventures. [josh] 3:15 - 4:30 pm, Bagley Wright.

Dan Deacon : First he’ll melt your face and get you to dance; then he’ll lead everyone in this gymnasium-style arena to play preschool summer camp games. Team-building with strangers and the potential for permanent hearing damage! You’ll love it and he’ll make sure that you think of safety first. 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Exhibition Hall

Old 97’s : By the time I discovered them, this energetic alt-country band had been around for so many years that I thought surely they must have broken up. Fortunately, they’re still at it 15 years later, playing the kind of tunes that make you want to go road-tripping with the windows down and the pedal to the floor. Their live shows are among the best, and it’s definitely the best way to showcase the band’s chemistry. [Beth] 6:45 pm, Starbucks Stage.

Flobots : You can ride a bike with no handlebars? Whatever. I can write a song that’s 1000 times less annoying, and not sound like a Linkin Park wannabe in the process. [dylan] 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Exhibition Hall.

John Vanderslice : Go see him instead of Flobots. Great songwriter and wonderful person who does not sound like a Linkin Park wannabe. [dylan] 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Broad Street.

Arthur & Yu : Somewhere between playing the Crocodile with A Sunny Day in Glasgow and playing Neumos with The Thermals, Arthur & Yu roughed up their dreamy picnic folk sound, and they just keep getting better. If you haven’t let them steal your heart yet, now is your chance. [samantha] 6:45 - 7:45, NW Court.

Superchunk : These guys are indie rock royalty. [dylan] I’ll confess that I hadn’t thought about Superchunk since forgetting to migrate Here’s To Shutting Up between iPod generations a few years ago, but that doesn’t mean that the surprise of finding them so prominently and unexpectedly on the schedule didn’t fill my heart with glee. I can’t wait to explode from the joy of seeing them again. [josh] 7:45 - 8:45 pm, Memorial Stadium.

Battles : One of the few chances you’ll have to see this mathbendingly great ensemble and not drown in your own sweat while they melt your faces and brains. [josh] They have a 7-foot-tall cymbal and they are all robots. Can I make this any clearer? [samantha] 7:45 - 8:45, Broad Street.
Sondre Lerche : Before Sweden went and stole the spotlight for being a near-bottomless well of sweet-tempered, smart, charming pop; there was singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche charming Norway right onto our popcultural map with Two Way Monologue. Since then, he’s made forays into jazz, movie soundtracks, and his latest is supposed to be a bit more on the rock side. [josh] 8:30-9:30, northwest court

Black Eyes and Neckties : If you missed them at the Block Party, now is your chance. These boys are picking up where the Murder City Devils left off, and they’re sometimes doing it with costumes and makeup. They might just be the exact opposite of Death Cab, who will be on the mainstage at the same time. [samantha] 9:00 - 10:00, EMP.

Death Cab for Cutie : If you are an old and liked Death Cab for Cutie before the Postal Service wound up on a Zach Braff compilation or before Seth Cohen endorsed them on the O.C., the main thing that you’ll notice when you filter into the stadium is that the band is beloved by millennials. You thought that they spoke only to your very special time, place, and situation but no. They have been adopted by a new generation of people who don’t mind love songs that border on the creepily obsessive. Some of these songs, despite the depressing content or meaninglessness of the sexual conquest being retold in verse, will in fact inspire more than a few circles of bouncing teens. Still, these are hometown boys done good. After their stint this summer opening for the Cure, it’s clear that they’ve become a big enough band to close a festival on their very own. Go ahead. You know you want to see them rock out on the big stage. [josh] 9:15 - 10:45 pm, Memorial Stadium.

Minus The Bear : I really want to recommend Death Cab, but there’s something elegantly beautiful about Minus The Bear’s goofy time signature manipulations and too-clever-for-their-own-good song titles. (Personal favorite: “Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked”) I think they’re a better option to close Bumbershoot, anyway — their music, filled with strange lyrics and almost Beck-ian phrase turns, fits the random ethos of Bumbershoot better than Death Cab’s polished, 30-second commercial ready musical monoculture. [dylan] 9:30 PM - 10:45 PM, Broad Street.