People are going to die tonight.

Recently Colin Meloy posted to Twitter that he had a spreadsheet tallying the amount of people who died in Decemberists songs. Paste Magazine has now posted their own list of deaths, with input from Colin. The final count is a rather-low-seeming 70, but this only counts the characters created by Colin who actually die; there are many more songs that allude to vicious deeds or refer to ghosts of people who didn't die in the song. Cheery stuff, but then that's what we love the band for.

To balance out the gloom, here's a happy photo. I was feeling rather shitty and borderline sick yesterday, so M brought me some flowers. It's been awhile since a guy gave me flowers. And aren't they lovely: