 The album 's cover art , photographed by Brad Klausen , depicts an avocado cut in half with the seed still in place . McCready said , " That symbolizes just kind of ... Ed 's at the end of the process and said , for all I care right now , we 've done such a good job on this record , and we 're kind of tired from it . Let 's throw an avocado on the cover . I think that 's what happened , and our art director goes , hey , that 's not a bad idea . I think we were watching the Super Bowl , and we had some guacamole or something . " Because the album is self @-@ titled , many fans refer to it as " Avocado " or " The Avocado Album . " The cover was named in Pitchfork Media 's top 25 worst album covers of 2006 . The liner notes art features footage from the " Life Wasted " music video , directed by artist Fernando Apodaca . The photographs involve the band members with their skin decaying and animals crawling in and out of it , as Apodaca felt the songs , " Life Wasted " in particular , fit " my interpretation of the how fragile life is " . The album was also issued on a double vinyl . 
