Everything is a Christ figure, up to and including dying birds.

please, no speaking ill of our nation's greatest holiday, Casimir Pulaski Day.

I live in Chicago and now every Casimir Pulaski Day I can't stop thinking about osteosarcoma. THANKS SUFJAN.

Aaaand this is when I find Seven Swans on Spotify and cry at my desk instead of in my high school car.

how great would a sufjan concept album of heathers quotes be?

fuck me gently (with a chainsaw)
chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling
i love my dead gay son
what is your damage?
heather, my love, there's a new sheriff in town

Now do Iron & Wine!

I request Songs From A Bruce Springsteen Album Where Nobody Wants To Escape Their Suburban Hometown:

Born to Run A Small Accounting Firm
Everybody Has A Happy Heart and a 401k
Jungleland (Time To Trim The Hedges)

Man, these posts just really make me understand that I do not listen to music very thoroughly and, in particular, am terrible at spotting anything that's about religion.

"Is this Sufjan song gay or is it about Jesus?"

Why would anyone write about the 1883 World's Fair when they could write about the far superior 1893 World's Fair?

The 50 States Project is one of the most disappointing abandoned projects ever*. As soon as I heard about it though I knew it was probably overly ambitious.

*The second one being A Topiary, Shane Carruth's movie that he spent years on but never raised enough cash to produce.

It's always fun to contemplate the timeline in which Stevens commits to the 50 States Project and spends the next seven decades turning out increasingly desperate and resentful hyperlocal concept albums.

#5: Pennysylvania: Sufjan Stevens Doesn't Particularly Care for this State (It's Not Fair or Rational, He Just Doesn't, That's All) So Let's Get It Out of the Way Early! (2018)
#17: Sufjan Stevens Presents...Pretty Much Just Straight Covers of All the Songs From Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (2024)
#25: In the Middle of the Journey of Our Life, Sufjan Stevens Found Himself in Vermont, the Granite State (2037)
#26: It Turns Out that Sufjan Stevens had Vermont and New Hampshire Mixed Up Last Time Around, So Here's The Actual Vermont Album (2038)
#31: Mississippi God Fucking Damn It (2043)
#42: Sufjan Stevens was Halfway Done with the Alaska Album When the Lord's Republic of Siberia Conquered the State In Question, So, Uh, Have an Obsolete EP, I Guess (2049)
#43: Sufjan Stevens Held Off On Doing Washington State in the Perverse Hope that the LROS Army would Obviate His Commitments Again, But the Stupid Bastards Haven't Made It Past Edmonton in Six Years of Total Warfare, So (2055)
#48: Climate Change Has Rendered Georgia Absolutely Inhospitable to Plant Life, But Guess What? You're Still Getting Two Dozen Winking Ditties About Peaches and the Trees They Grow On (2060)
#50: Sufjan Stevens Detests Arkansas and the Flesh Cults Who Hold Sway There! (And You Penn Staters Have Done Nothing to Change My Mind About You Either) (2078)