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January 23, 2006

Death Cab Directions Preview

Sorry kids, Gibbard's real busy these days ... we can't help ourselves. Hopefully Sufjan will do something interesting soon so we can go back to fawning over him.

Watch Directions' "Marching Bands Of Manhattan," directed by Paul Brown, here (MOV).

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Sweet! I just ran out of Tylenol PMs- this should do the trick just fine

Posted by: andy at 01/23/06 3:40 PM | Reply
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Starring Moby!

Posted by: Xtian at 01/23/06 4:00 PM | Reply
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definite TRL material, i say.

Posted by: cindy loohoo at 01/23/06 4:48 PM | Reply
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if i wanted to watch things in slow motion, i'd watch my grandma paint.

Posted by: kg at 01/23/06 4:49 PM | Reply
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Boring and unwatchably bad.

Posted by: G3K at 01/23/06 5:01 PM | Reply
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trl material? no... just an amalgamated retread of things we have seen before. It's neither awful nor awesome.

Posted by: ryan at 01/23/06 5:32 PM | Reply
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i'd rather slide down a razorblade bannister into a vat of rubbing alcohol than watch these pseudo-intellectual indie-yuppie yawnmowers do anything. what's next, an official dcfc choose-your-own-adventure game?

Posted by: EJ at 01/23/06 5:46 PM | Reply
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no no, not trl fo' realz, yo. utter sarcasm.

Posted by: cindy loohoo at 01/23/06 6:02 PM | Reply
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Golly. Sure are a lot of Negative Nancys around today. I think you all just have a case of the Mondays.

Posted by: Rich at 01/23/06 6:32 PM | Reply
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is that the David Cross impersonator?

Posted by: Hoarses at 01/23/06 6:49 PM | Reply
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Did they ever catch that guy. My friend's mom told us on Saturday night that she had just had sex with the bald short guy from Arrested Development. We weren't sure if it was really David Cross.

Posted by: Agamemnon at 01/23/06 7:42 PM | Reply
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you all just want to hate it.

Posted by: susan at 01/23/06 9:54 PM | Reply
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The "Directions" trailer on the Death Cab website had some interesting looking clips from the future videos. I am especially looking forward to seeing the stop-motion animation for "Different Names for the Same Thing."

Posted by: Devin at 01/23/06 10:23 PM | Reply
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unwatchable

Posted by: Mike at 01/24/06 1:18 AM | Reply
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Wah wah wah. I hate everything. All art everywhere is shitty and boring. Nothing excites me.

Posted by: Jake at 01/24/06 2:12 AM | Reply
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Is that Felix Da Housecat?

Posted by: eric at 01/24/06 7:24 AM | Reply
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@EJ: Dear God, let's hope so. I'll even buy you a copy.

Posted by: Jason Tucker at 01/24/06 2:08 PM | Reply
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dcfc and sufjan are so 2005. who are we supposed to loathe/hate in 2006?

Posted by: phil at 01/24/06 3:03 PM | Reply
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sounds great. i'll choose the adventure where dcfc write something worth listening to, an adventure that makes the computer pause for 8 years before giving the player a blue screen of death.

Posted by: EJ at 01/24/06 3:05 PM | Reply
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No, seriously, I liked Plans. But that. That video is so many levels of suck.

Posted by: Vic at 01/24/06 4:35 PM | Reply
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That was okay... But really, what Death Cab video could live up to the Movie Script Ending video?

Posted by: Catie at 01/24/06 10:21 PM | Reply
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seriously, shockingly bad.

i take issue with the way these videos were created and paid for. $5000 a pop - which is embarrassing, how the hell you're supposed to make something great on that kind of budget is a mystery - and you sign away all rights to the work, which can then be resold by atlantic on dvd and itunes.

with all of that said, this video sucks balls. what a terrible way to launch 'directions'.

Posted by: tony at 01/25/06 12:45 PM | Reply
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