Song of the Day, 6/1/2011

Ugh, the flu. The new Death Cab for Cutie album is out this week, and I feel like I should have listened to it and have some sort of brilliant commentary on it by now. Instead I've been puking my guts up and having fever dreams for the last 48 hours.

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So instead, check out the latest sign that we're all old now - Death Cab for Cutie on VH1's Storytellers. Movie Script Ending is one of my favorite songs, it's about driving into Bellingham and it came out at a time when I was doing a lot of driving in to Bellingham - the album came out the week before I moved down to Seattle for college.

I could place most of the lines of the song, but I couldn't ever really figure out where the Bottoms on Barstools line was - but it turns out, it's about one of my favorite bars in Bellingham - the legendary Beaver Inn.

They also play and share the story behind Photobooth, another one of my favorites. When I hear it, I can smell the smells that mark the end of a Pacific NW Summer:

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There also is a house - or was house - in the lettered streets that I used to pretend this song was about. I didn't know the people that lived there real well, I was in high school, they were in college, I went to a party there, like, once I think - but I'd often drive past and see a couch on the lawn and pretend this song was happening. (And that I wasn't invited. But maybe, someday I would be.)