Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Hi readers. So, I don’t have an album review here this week. I probably won’t have too much write in the next couple of weeks, as I have 6 tests over the next couple of weeks and I really need to do well on all 6 of them. And then I have the granddaddy of all tests, my Step 1 boards. But I will try to write a little diddy about something so you can have your weekly music fixes/updates.

Well, this week’s topic isn’t too much of a secret. I watch a program on MTV2 called Subterranean. Well, it’s the only thing I watch on any MTV channel so don’t judge me. Anyway, the last episode was on Death Cab for Cutie’s new DVD, Directions, where they have a video for each song on their newest album Plans. They are all original, even for songs that already had videos (Soul Meets Body and Crooked Teeth). In any event, being as Death Cab doesn’t plan on releasing these videos as singles, they have a bit more artistic license.

Well, I’ve only watched about half of the videos (they were the ones on the show) and I don’t actually own the DVD, but I was pretty impressed with them as a whole. I was most impressed with the video for Different Names for the Same Thing. It’s a rather simple video, based on a middle school music class. It just films kids playing and a couple of little kids singing the lyrics. Yet, for some reason, this video really struck a chord in me, in a way that music videos generally never do for me. I generally admire a video for how interesting it is, whether aesthetically or intellectually. This video hit me pretty emotionally though. Can’t explain it, but it did. Anyway, you can check it out here on the Subterranean page. Enjoy. I’m off to some neuropath studying.

-patrick