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We have updated the ISBC photo album to include the pictures from Sunday, December 20, 2009.  They include the Choir Cantata, Christmas Dinner, and the Christmas Carol Sing.  You can find them by going to the photo album above and selecting “Christmas 2009″ or by clicking here.

There are numerous social networking sites which are shared amongst different class users. Some specialized sites are bringing together friends and relatives by sharing the photographs with them. Zoomin is one such site which helps the person keep in touch with friends and folks, even when miles apart from them.

A father can see his children while working on a project away from them. It’s easy to upload pictures to view them instantly. The best part of photo-sharing sites is that one can upload photos and create their own album to make a nice beautiful album out of them. This can be mailed directly to different people to let them enjoy every bit of them.

Users can even edit the pictures to remove the unwanted ones and add the choicest ones in their album. We often want to delete some photographs from the album as they are not a part of pleasant memories. Those people can be easily eliminated from the album to create an album with most loved persons.

Do people have tangible photo albums anymore, or are we all images in soft copy?  Snapshots of online sharing within social networks of people that probably would never actually be in a photograph with me anyway?  Optimized discovery at every view, and I recall the excitement of physical discovery itself, ah yes relic rembrance of the nostalgic kind. 

Everything at our fingertips, and I feel like a hypocrite for wishing my record player had a remote.  Nonetheless, my record can play from Side A to Side B in a linear listen and I even get up to flip it to the other side, but yet I could never listen, fully, to a digital album.  (By ‘record’ I mean vinyl, yes dinosaurs of music). I don’t lay on my rug, staring up at the ceiling and daydream of future experiences, and listen to an album from start to finish with an iPod.  I most certainly don’t print out the artwork and put it on my walls. 

Maybe something happened to my earnest filing of memories and dreams, and therein lies the issue?    Photo albums in the bookshelf, books from authors dedicated to me in pencil from friends along the way, music collections that imprinted the soul, and napkins of philosophy and dreams crumpled into boxes; all digitized and flash drived.

Storage, but none of it spends enough time in the soul.  It has become too easy to hit file, save, and connect to a USB that I’m afraid of losing  the simple aesthetic of my real life memory.  Unable to file away with a song and no image to thumb through to prove this moment exists, and let’s face it no blog is sacred. 

My journals used to contain writing, the deep kind, and each year represented in its own journal.  I’ve banged too many keyboards to remember how to write, so my years now piggyback off a single journal.  Three years of life tucked away in one college-ruled leather bound book, not even memorably expressed to exist individually.  Everything condensed to gigabytes and shared into forgotten drives, stored on a flash drive small enough to lose. 

You’ll never hear someone say they will grab their flash drive, iPod, or Kindle in the case of a fire, but they used to say photo albums, journals, and keepsakes.  Then again if you barely have enough time to jump from a burning house in time to save your life, at least your eBooks, music, photos, and documents will all be safely stored online.

This is a pic. among 54 pics. from fleathemagician.

Click it for more.

The crew from David’s Christmas from the Heart tour! An amazing tour we”ll never forget!!

Pics. credit to ILAA.

This is the funniest and best show ever!!!

David + Santa hat = Cuteness overload

Click  HERE for more full size gorgeous pics. from Gengen.

Thanks, alistpromotion. Click  HERE to see 50++.

Stockings hung on the microphone stand

David was SCARED when Ray came out- Surprised duet!

Ray came out to duet with David for HYAMLC

Benton and his band came out during ZG

Benton and crew jumped along to ZG

Thanks, John_AF and Trish. Click  HERE, and  HERE for more pics.

Recap:

VIP songs: MDYK & WFY. No Q/A today.

Had a surprise birthday party for him. Cake was brought out. We got party hats & noise makers 4 this

Right after David sang, he took a group pix on stage with the band, Kristen, Johnny, Ray and a few others.

Zero Gravity & Prank:

David’s little dance & introducing Johnny:

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas with Ray- Surprised duet!

Plus fan’s Happy Birthday to David and David’s afterward confused banter

Credit: GengenA Little Too Not Over You

Crush:

Go  HERE to watch all videos so far.

Click to view full size.

Thanks, Gengen.  Go  HERE for more.

Thanks, Alona and Nikki. Click  HERE for more.

Nice, warm day….took some pictures of the Wild Bunch on the back hill, including the broodmares and two year olds.

Sorry…working on a photo album that works well with this blog!!

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Click  HERE for more pics. from Sheila, and HERE for more from citgo_sign

VIP recap:

David sang Pat-A-Pan in a green snuggie! He giggled during singing 1st verse of PAP!

He said he looks like Harry Hotter or a ghost. He took snuggie off to sing Waiting For Yesterday.

He said he will be going to Utah for Christmas to spent time with family.

Concert updates:

Someone in the front row gave David a red rose…  He said “awww.. Thank you”. Everyone in the front row kept giving David flowers! He said “wow… This is a flowery kinda place tonight. Never mind”. lolz

Someone tossed a Santa hat down at David from balcony during Melodies of Christmas. Almost hit him with it.

David almost tripped over a speaker.

Strings are from Russia, Bulgaria, Japan, Czech Republic. Wow

A girl fainted and he handed her one of his waters. He was so concerned. ‘you ok?’. Security had to help her and David asked the crowd to not push.

Videos from HoB:

Prayer of the Children:

My hands

Zero Gravity

ALTNOY

Waiting For Yesterday

Crush

The First Noel:

O Holy Night

What Child Is This

Videos credit to citgosign, sweetiex57, and 8throwcenter

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From SF:

A brooding hot killer

Omg…his smile…..how cuter should he be???

From Santa Rosa:

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The smile that lights up the WORLD

Credit to Larissa. Click  HERE to see more pics.

More  HERE.

Thanks, Trish, Christine and Alirek.

Click  HERE, HERE and  HERE for more.

VIP songs: Zero Gravity and Pat-A-Pan

VIP Q&A:

Lisa: A girl asked him what color his toothbrush was. his answer was ridiculously long he went into such detail haha. David said it was blueish green and then he said white then tourquise haha but its more blue than tourquise. And its a regular one. Not mechanical haha then he demonstrated how he brushes his teeth then he said sometimes he brushes once a day and sometimes 3 times haha.

David said how he watched himself jump during ZG and he said he looked like a monkey!

Videos from concert:

Click the tittles of the songs to watch.

Band intro:

Fields Of Gold

Waiting For Yesterday

ALTNOY

The Riddle

Zero Gravity

Feliz Navidad

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

O Holy Night

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Thanks, Sheila . Click the picture for more.

Zero Gravity:

What Child Is This:

Feliz Navidad:

Click the tittles of the songs to watch.

Crush

My Hands

The Riddle

Prayer Of The Children

Fields Of Gold

Melodies Of Christmas

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

The First Noel

Pat-A-Pan

Ave Maria

What Child Is This

Silent Night

Riu Riu Chiu

O Holy Night

Videos credit to djbell13.

Both of them are too cute for words, right?!

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Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

2003

Barsuk Records

Ok so before I start, let’s get all the nonsense out of the way that is sure to come from reviewing a Death Cab album… Death Cab was better before they were popular and sold out, blah blah, indie cred, blah blah, I eat dicks.  Okay, so now I’m going to start this.  Death Cab for Cutie is weird for me, because I generally like everything a band does, or nothing they do.  Death Cab breaks that mold.  There’s some stuff I love (Photo Album, first half of Plans), and some stuff I hate (end of Plans, probably some other stuff I can’t think of right now).  But as far as this album, Transatlanticism, goes, I like just about all of it.  I like Ben Gibbard, and The Postal Service was a great collaboration with Jimmy from Dntel.

So let’s kick things off; we start with “The New Year”.  After a boring, slow intro, we get some damn music.  Ben Gibbard chimes in with his standard high pitched vocals that sound like he was kicked in the nads (yes I like the sound of it).  We have here a song about going through a supposedly huge change, getting prepared for it, having a huge celebration, but then realizing that everything is pretty much the same.  Everyone has gone through this sometime.  This is a really good song to kick off the album with.  It has a good mood to it, despite having seemingly depressing lyrics.  Oh and it feels much shorter than it is.

So we’re very much slowed down, and the music is even lower on “Lightness”.  Oh wait, no, not all of it.  The vocals are as they always are, this is Death Cab, how could I forget? (I know it seems like I hate his voice, but I really don’t, I swear)  There’s some really cool figurative language going on here, and the lyrics are really well-written.  Oh and the line at the start about looking through a tear in the girl’s dress is so sneakily dirty.  “Lightness” seems like a song I wouldn’t like, but strangely I do.  Maybe because it feels short for such a slow song, or maybe it’s because there’s so many subtleties to notice.  Either way, it’s a good song.

“Title and Registration” is definitely up there for best track on the album.  Ironic that it’s got such depressing lyrics.  We start off with Ben challenging everyone to change terminology, then gets really depressing.  Damn it’s so depressing, but such a good song.  We continue with the semantic argument, and the fading of love to the point where both people just about forget it ever happened.  Jesus, that’s really something that could be a tear jerker.  How can such a depressing song be so good, you might be wondering.  Just listen, because it is.

“Expo ‘86″ is thankfully more upbeat, and again an awesome track.  Some of the wording here is like Yoda:  confusing, but still technically making sense.  Anyway the song is about being used to things going wrong.  He has something good going on, but is just waiting for something to go wrong, because it always does.  It’s a pretty crappy way to live your life.  Damnit, Death Cab did it again; they took depressing lyrics, put them over good music and tricked me.  Maybe that’s why I really like them.

“The Sound of Settling” is my favorite song on the album, possibly my favorite Death Cab song overall.  This song really just kicks ass, and I wish they did more songs like this.  I think this was a single from this album too, but whatever, I don’t care.  The verses are so well written, the chorus repetitive but still great, the drums catchy, and the guitar riff simple and inviting.  I could write more on this song, but I’ll let you listen for yourself.  Honestly, it’s only two minutes and twelve seconds.  You can spare that for how awesome a song this is.

“Tiny Vessels”… yeah, we’re back to slow, depressing stuff here.  We have a song about being with a beautiful girl, wanting to love her, but you just can’t.  You want her to be ‘the one’, but something just makes you not love her.  You even tell her you love her, but you don’t believe the words you’re saying.  When she asks if something is wrong, you can’t bring yourself to tell her.  Oh yeah, the song is about a summer fling, which kinda makes sense.  The chorus does pick up, thankfully, which makes the song better.   All in all, it’s a good song, and the next song makes it seem even better.

No that was not a compliment to this track… “Transatlanticism” the album’s title track is just not a good song.  To be frank, I can’t stand to listen to 8 slow, boring minutes of this.  So it’s about being apart from the one you love, being so far apart that you simply cannot go to them.  You need them so much closer, but you just can’t have it that way.  The second half of the song is a long, slow crescendo with a moderately interesting peak.  By the end of the song, I’m checking my pulse to make sure I’m still alive after going through what seems like an eternity.

“Passenger Seat” continues the slow, boring trend, but is a better track.  For one, it’s because it is much shorter.  Second, it has more going on.  Also, it has no anticlimactic crescendo.  There really isn’t much to say about this song, except that is just kinda seems like an extended intro for the next track…

“Death of an Interior Decorator” finally brings back some lively music and interesting lyrics.  The song is about a woman losing her looks and her life after having kids, then we go through different times in her life.  There’s some weird comparisons going on here that confuse me.  First of all, how the hell can walking into a room where a bride tripped and broke a vase feel like falling in love again?  Secondly… well I guess that’s the only one, but I’m puzzled.  Still, this is a very good track, and a drastic improvement over the previous two.

“We Looked Like Giants” is right up there, just under” The Sound of Settling” for best track on the album.  This really feels like everyone in the band was in tune with each other, and they pieced togethers’ impeccable performances into one great track.  I love the imagery that Gibbard can create with the lyrics here.  “We’d learn how our bodies worked” always makes me giggle a little bit (yeah I’m a little immature).  It seems to me that the song is about having a purely physical relationship with someone, not realizing you were in love, losing them, and they comparing everyone else in your life with that one person.  Yeah, that sounds about right.  The chorus here really picks up, and makes this song even better.  The slow, mellow interlude is a huge change of pace, but I like it.  It almost sets a mood to reflect on what is going on in the song before it slowly fades out at the end.

I didn’t even realize I was at the end of the album when I was listening because it had been a while since I heard this album, but here we are, “A Lack of Color”.  It picks up right from the ending of “We Looked Like Giants” and uses some cool white noise and acoustic guitar in conjunction with Gibbard’s soft vocals.  A strong finish to the album, which is more than I can say for Plans (Yes I think that album should have ended 3 tracks early, but that’s another review for another time).

So there’s Transatlanticism from Death Cab for Cutie.  It’s a pretty straightforward album, definitely worth a listen if you’re a fan.  If you are unsure, give it a shot, but you probably will still be unsure after it’s over, honestly.  This album doesn’t set any kind of precedent for Death Cab, and doesn’t really have any radical changes to their style.  I have just noticed one thing, and it’s this:  this album really leaves me unfulfilled at the end.  I feel as if there’s something missing, like they cut a track from the end.  Maybe it’s just me,  but I feel like there should be more.  Either way, I’ve just got one more thing… Does Ben Gibbard take kicks to the nads before every concert or recording session? Seriously…

Buy This Album

Last.fm Page

Official Site

More  HERE.

David performed in Baltimore, MD tonight at the Lyric Theatre.

Killer #1:

Killer #2:

Thanks, Gengen.  Click  HERE for more from Gengen.

And  HERE for pics. from Sara. (Thanks, AA)

Feliz Navidad:

Riu Riu Chiu (credit: 8throwcenter)

The First Noel (partial; credit: 8throwcenter)

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (credit: 8throwcenter)

O Holy Night (credit: 8throwcenter)

Melodies of Christmas (credit: 8throwcenter)

My Hands (credit: mcamy1)

Prayer of the Children (credit: 8throwcenter)

Audience was completely silent for this performance.

Video 2 (close-up, credit: mcamy1)

Zero Gravity (credit: 8throwcenter)

The Riddle (credit: 8throwcenter)

Fields Of Gold (credit: mcamy1)

A Little Too Not Over You (credit: sk8terocker11)

SERIOUS WARNINGS!!!

I grab these beautiful pics. from IDF but I don’t know whom to give credit.

I think they’re from talented Gengen. You can go  HERE to see more from her.

Thanks, Stina.  More  HERE.