Rule 32: Enjoy the little things in life.

Recently, a friend lent me the DVD Directions by Death Cab for Cutie.  Directions is a visual companion to their album, Plans.  Each video has a different director who was given essentially total creative freedom with their video.  This results in a very creative myriad, each one being quite different from the rest.  The band themselves do not appear it apart from an introduction at the beginning of the DVD, and in the music.  The real goal of the DVD is to present a different way of experiencing the music.  Instead of merely an audio coming from your CD player, the video hopefully enriches the experience that much more.  Do I feel they accomplished that?

I do.  I have been a fan of Death Cab (and Plans) for some time.  But still watching the videos for the songs felt like a new, but familiar, experience.  Well worth watching, a few of my favorites are “Crooked Teeth”, “Jealousy Rides with Me”, and “Summer Skin”.  It is an entertaining experience, the culimination being more that merely a sum of its parts.

–theindiegeek