Inspire Me

katydidnot:

pussy-strut:

synecdoche:

• I was fifteen when this album came out and my favorite lyric in the whole world that year was “You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex” and I have no idea why.
• +10 points for JFK references.
• I will continue to wait for a second album until I die.
• But at least they will live on in movie trailers?
• Iron & Wine’s cover of “Such Great Heights” on the Garden State soundtrack.
• STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO’S COVER.
• “Will someone please call a surgeon who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart?” + “Your heart won’t heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures” = The Postal Service were pretty much the musical version of Grey’s Anatomy.
• If you didn’t swoon at the “I kissed you in a style Clark Gable would’ve admired” lyric then you were cold and dead inside.
• OH ALSO, “BRAND NEW COLONY”
• Ben Gibbard should have married Jenny Lewis instead of Zooey Deschanel.
• It’s weird that “I want life in every word to the extent that it’s absurd” wasn’t my yearbook quote in ‘05.
• I mean, in retrospect all of these lyrics were really stupid but whatever.
• Maybe The Postal Service were my Guns N Roses. 

This is one of the first albums I remember liking self-consciously, “in spite of myself.” Because I have always been awful, even when I was thirteen (or whatever), I found a way to feel superior by liking a thing that I knew was overwrought and sort of precious. Whatever. I listened to this album and made French toast like every day the summer before ninth grade. I made fun of people for listening to Deathcab. What I’m saying is I started out as an indie-rock bully and I expect I’ll die that way. Still know all the words to this album. Obviously.

this is bringing in some serious baby katy feelings

the second CD i ever purchased was a postal service EP. i bought the t-shirt and listened to postal service on repeat on nights when i wanted to get to sleep to music.

age 13 me loved death cab for cutie. it was my first show. i still have fond feelings for them.

I seriously loved this album in the purest of ways. I think WUOG nearly wore out their copy that Summer. Yeah it was sweet and cutesy but it was such a contrast to all the other stuff I was into (garage rock, post-punk, anarcho-punk). I saw Death Cab for Cutie because of this album hoping for some semblance. God it was such a boring show. Mates of State opened in Lucha Libra masks and that was the highlight. Also, I was really into Mates of State for a long time until they ditched that old Yamaha organ.