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1138 Ellis

By Keith | Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
This is the house in Bellingham, WA that Ben Gibbard lived in while he was attending Western Washington University, where he started Death Cab For Cutie. The address is mentioned in his solo song “Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs”, recorded as All-Time Quarterback. Today I was also able to hear the sound of “the [...]
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Rumor Mill

By Keith | Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Apparently, rumor has it that Death Cab For Cutie is playing Seattle University’s 20th annual end-of-year festival, Quadstock. I heard this last night and thought that I’ll believe it when I see it; they have to cost at least a couple grand to get to play anywhere these days. Then out of curiosity I checked [...]
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I Can Has Housing

By Keith | Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Yesterday I signed a lease for an apartment in a yellow house on Capitol Hill for one year. So it’s official. I’m moving away from home on or around June 1st. It doesn’t really feel that special or different or important. I’m as excited for it as I am worried about all the minutiae of [...]
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Up Front

By Keith | Published: Monday, May 12, 2008
Right off the bat I’m going to tell you that I am procrastinating. I should be reading Typee by Herman Melville. I should be drafting a response paper, due tomorrow. I should be doing a lot of things. But I’m looking up strings of things on Wikipedia and listening to Death Cab For Cutie in [...]
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At the Risk of Sounding Like a Fanboy

By Keith | Published: Sunday, April 13, 2008
The cover of this month’s Paste displays a photo of Death Cab For Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard surrounded by books and backed by an odd biblical-esque light. He wrote the cover article. It seems weird to me—I don’t altogether like his prose, though for a long time I thought I would as I do like his [...]
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Loyalty and Possession

By Keith | Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Apparently I’m not as much of a superfan as I thought. Death Cab For Cutie‘s new single was released yesterday and somehow I missed it. It’s an interesting direction they’re going in and I’m looking forward to seeing where they take it. You can find the single here. Did I mention I’m going to see them play [...]
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