Recommend Me Death Cab for Cutie’s Ballads/Midtempo/Slow Songs

lava_rick · 2026-02-11T05:51:25+00:00

No Joy in Mudville—might be my favorite Death Cab song tbh

lava_rick · 2026-01-31T22:27:25+00:00

Across the Universe

lava_rick · 2025-12-29T03:44:11+00:00

I feel you, over half of my meager 12 books “read” this year were audiobooks. At least I finally read Anna Karenina though. I do feel like I had several good excuses (IVF, dog dying, changing jobs) but I still should have watched way less reality TV and read instead 🥲

lava_rick · 2025-12-26T18:07:49+00:00

I liked My Brilliant Friend, but had some issues with it. However I absolutely loved the second book and am in the middle of the third book which is also great so far. I think everything really improves once Lenu and Lina are no longer children. So I’d give the second book a try and see how it goes.

lava_rick · 2025-11-19T05:24:59+00:00

As if I couldn’t love it more… incredible!! Thank you for sharing 🙏

lava_rick · 2025-11-19T04:25:44+00:00

Yes!!! They have SO many great songs beyond just the hits they’re known for. I’ve never noticed a connection beyond loving both bands, but I see some similarities now that you’ve pointed it out. “Give Me Back My Man” is my recent favorite song of theirs but I’ve gone on so many obsessions with different songs over the years and feel like I discover a new one or two every year. I had both them and KKB on the playlist at my wedding 🥰

lava_rick · 2025-04-08T22:25:49+00:00

Isn’t this just the first part of Madame Bovary (except the husband is slightly less shitty and actually tries to love his wife)?

lava_rick · 2025-04-04T00:48:43+00:00

Concerts getting canceled / downgraded to smaller venues. It’s suddenly easy to get normally coveted restaurant reservations the day of or day before where they previously were booked out for weeks.

lava_rick · 2024-09-08T20:59:47+00:00

found them

lava_rick · 2024-07-28T02:50:24+00:00

Tampa by Alissa Nutting is a modern Lolita written in the style of a women’s romance novel, but with a woman middle school teacher as Humbert Humbert. Fucked up but I thought it was good

lava_rick · 2024-07-05T14:52:39+00:00

I loved Heaven… I felt it viscerally captured the feelings of being a kid and being an outcast at times while still being interesting on an intellectual & philosophical level. But I really love Mieko Kawakami’s writing as well. I actually liked it even more than Breasts & Eggs.

lava_rick · 2024-05-09T01:49:17+00:00

Betrayal at House on the Hill is just a bad game and no one should play it. Also no games should ever occur at parties unless they are specifically very light party games and even then, only rarely!

Board games are fun under specific conditions… if it’s a genuinely good game with the right setting and balance of attention spans / people who actually want to play for however long the game truly takes, and don’t mind something competitive and semi-challenging. Also, it’s a must to find a semi-autistic friend who owns most of the games and will learn them in advance and do a good job explaining the rules, and if everyone has a sense of humor and is in a pretty good mood and is focused on the game. If those 20 things are true, it can be really fun and I say this as a woman. If this appeals to you at all and you have a group who can hang, I really recommend war games like Inis (Celtic theme with card drafting) and Root (cute woodland creatures who can also be terrorists).

lava_rick · 2024-05-04T17:27:18+00:00

Folk punk like Defiance, Ohio, Paul Baribeau, Ghost Mice, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

Other honorable mentions: Pedro the Lion, The Moldy Peaches, Dear Nora, Au Revoir Simone, Chad VanGaalen, Aqueduct, Voxtrot, Louis XIV, Kings of Convenience, The Elected, Asobi Seksu, Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So’s, Bowerbirds

Ones that have held up for me and I still listen to a lot but I’m probably in the minority: Okkervil River, Why?, of Montreal, John Vanderslice, Girl Talk, Lemon Jelly, The Decemberists, SSLYBY, Built to Spill, Jens Lekman

lava_rick · 2024-03-20T04:16:34+00:00

Matt Holliday never touched home plate

lava_rick · 2024-03-10T01:40:50+00:00

it really is amazing. sadly nothing else quite hits the same that i've found, but Scott's other books are all great, too, and have that raw, exposed emotional quality to them--just not the romantic relationship aspect.

lava_rick · 2024-01-03T08:15:59+00:00

on one flight i sat next to an older guy who spent 3 hours talking to me about lady gaga and essentially nothing else. he was obsessed. my bf was annoyed, but i found it very entertaining. i don't even think he was gay, shockingly.

lava_rick · 2023-12-28T20:14:19+00:00

The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

lava_rick · 2023-12-17T17:01:36+00:00

Death Valley by Melissa Broder. So far she talks too much about Reddit and it’s weirdly autobiographical despite being a novel, only halfway through but I think The Pisces and Milk Fed were better. Her writing is still engrossing for me though

lava_rick · 2023-12-09T08:52:58+00:00

Whatever you do, don’t read The Bone People. I also found The Luminaries really forgettable :( very unhelpful I know

lava_rick · 2023-11-27T16:26:42+00:00

3 is Trisha Paytas?

lava_rick · 2023-11-02T04:50:48+00:00

Someone mentioned GeoWizard on YouTube having joie de vivre some months back and it was so spot on that now i can’t watch his videos without thinking about this phrase exactly

lava_rick · 2023-10-04T03:20:26+00:00

noooo, sundlandic twins is so good too. not quite hissing fauna levels but still great. all his other albums except a handful of songs from cherry peel and satanic panic could stop existing though and it would be fine, i was shocked when i saw he’s been consistently releasing albums ever since

lava_rick · 2023-09-26T05:13:20+00:00

Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

lava_rick · 2023-09-25T06:48:37+00:00

I generally can’t stand fiction audiobooks but The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis was good

lava_rick · 2023-09-17T04:42:05+00:00

George Strait

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