*music for some serious Sufjan Stevens representation in this!

Also, Maker Space is friggin' awesome. My 8 year old is already pretty involved in our local chapter (for kids) and they are doing some really cool things there and he's learning a ton.

I highly recommend looking for a local Maker Space for anyone interested in learning new skills while getting a creative outlet.

Vimeo description:

Animated by Austin illustrator Divya Srinivasan, this animated video depicts three sleepy ghost kids following a heterochromic fox through a snowy twilight. When the group discovers an impromptu critter disco in a forest clearing, the spirits and strays dance in harmony until a cranky babushka bemoans the noise and breaks up the party. Thus, the spectral youths return to the astral plane... but not without a final farewell to their new found animal friends.

Divya Srinivasan has previously created animated videos for Spoon ("Everything Hits at Once"), They Might Be Giants, The Sundance Channel and Wonder Showzen, and worked on Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" feature film. Divya's illustration portfolio includes numerous pieces for the New Yorker magazine, as well as the album artwork for Sufjan Stevens' Illinois and This American Life's "Stories of Hope and Fear" collection.

"I Saw The Bright Shinies" is from The Octopus Project's album "Hello, Avalanche," released in 2007 on Peek-A-Boo Records. The "Bright Shinies" video appears on the "Golden Beds" enhanced CD EP released in 2009 on Peek-A-Boo Records.

peekaboorecords.com/octopusproject
theoctopusproject.com
myspace.com/theoctopusproject
pupae.com/portfolio

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I know you're good for it.
And I could never get upset with a pretty cuntface like you.
Now, enjoy some music: http://videosift.com/video/Sufjan-Stevens-Jacksonville

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*promote


did i ever thank you for the help on this video?
dont believe i did which makes me a cuntface.
there i go bein ol' cuntface...

thanks man.always appreciated and sorry for the lateness.

Ain't seen much of you lately. Hope all is well. That aside, if you don't own this album yet, I'll send you a copy. It's priceless.

http://videosift.com/video/Sufjan-Stevens-Casmir-Polaski-Day

jesus coked up christ. i don't think i've ever crushed on a musician this badly.

fuck you, sufjan stevens, you wild clusterfuck of talent and beauty.

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*promote the beauty that is sufjan stevens

His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's t-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things, rotting fast, in their sleep
Oh, the dead

Twenty-seven people
Even more, they were boys
With their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God

Are you one of them?

He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed
He kissed them all
He'd kill ten thousand people
With a sleight of his hand
Running far, running fast to the dead
He took off all their clothes for them
He put a cloth on their lips
Quiet hands, quiet kiss on the mouth

And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floor boards
For the secrets I have hid


Sufjan Stevens on John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
“I think it’s kind of an exercise in humuliation. I won’t pretend to empathize with his behavior or his desire. But I can empathize with his nature. I feel our way of alienating and disassociating with serial killers is a way of disengaging with the reality of our nature, and that we are very selfish, possessive, violent people. I have high regard for the industry of humanity and our ability to give and generate love, but I also think we are selfish animals. I guess I felt a real conviction, although I don’t know where it came from, to humanize John Wayne Gacy, Jr. in a way that enabled us to encounter our own beasts within ourselves. [But] there was nothing good about him. He had no sense of grief about what he did, even to the very end. I’m not pretending to know where that comes from.”

hey, DillingerEscapePlan! I've seen them a halfdozen times. Jeez, probably ten years ago,... I'm getting soo old soo fast...

Anyhow, my musical taste kept going into weirder directions this year;

Sufjan Steven's made a tremendously interesting and personal album (Age of Adz) that took this consistently well done electronic turn, like it was produced by Reznor or something ('I Walked' is a highlight for me, with a weeeirdly cool, staggered melody that I'd never really heard done successfully before...). His vocals grow on you after a while... really the whole album gets a lot better with repeat listens (good night-driving album).

Yeasayer shared a (free) live album... I saw them twice in 2010, so might be biased, but they are just the right amount of experimental with a dash of pop so that people get down at their shows. 'Madder Red', 'Tight Rope', '2080', a lot of good stuff. Bit of an 80's throwback with the synth drums and such, but I like it as a child of the 80's.

Beach House (Teen Dream)... oooh beach house... listened to their album for all of Jan and Feb of 2010... great driving cd... love minimalism with build-ups, which is basically every song by them, and her distinct smoker's voice is just rad. Very different band doing its own thing. If you're into As I Lay Dying and all that business right now this cd might be a stretch... however I used to be way into The Locust, so, you never know! (ok, I still listen to The Locust from time to time...)

Local Natives cd was good. The ladies dug this shit a lot because of the vocal harmonies and whatnot; as a drummer, I thought it was pretty rocking at times, and had some nice minorkey guitar themes and buildups. Also caught them live, and they were excellent. 'Wide Eyes' is a good one.

Lastly, she didn't put out a cd, but I listened to a lot of Neko Case in 2010. 'Star Witness', 'The Pharaohs', 'Blacklisted','Deep Red Bells', 'Things that Scare Me',... all these darker, noir tracks really work for me, and I don't think anybody else is doing anything like this successfully. Plus Neko has the greatest voice possible.

Thanks for sharing your top 10; I'll check 'em out!

ahh, the Carleton Singing Knights from my alma mater...
I prefer Sufjan Stevens' Chicago, but then I am not familiar with this song

The first few times that I heard this song, I sobbed and sobbed. It's one of the most truthful and beautiful songs that I've ever heard, but I still can't listen to it often. I'm a college student who had bone cancer and I was given only a 44% chance of surviving (where do they get these numbers? why 44% and not 50%? Oye vay). Thankfully I am now in remission.

Anyway, this is EXACTLY how everyone in my life reacted. Literally. It is ridiculous how closely my life parallels this song - my dad cried on the telephone, I ran away from my boyfriend, everyone at the Bible study laid hands on me, I wrote letters to people in case I died, etc, etc. He captures perfectly what goes through the mind of someone facing death - which is why I cannot listen to it without having a quasi-nervous breakdown. I still love Sufjan Stevens and this is a gorgeous song - but Sufjan, stop stalking me! It's not cool! Stop hiding in the bushes or whatever. I'm on to you! Anyway, despite its propensity to induce the taking of fistfulls of Ativan, this remains one of my favorite songs of all time.

The rest of this album is also very good. I believe she's also played with Sufjan Stevens. I think most notably on Austin City Limits.

the composer has the first section from the original version available here on his homepage

very cool. it often reminds me of sufjan stevens.

The Best Musician

Eighteen people think Phoebe Buffay is the Best Musician compared to:

* David Bowie › 88 people
* Jimi Hendrix › 70 people
* Bob Dylan › 66 people
* Matthew Bellamy › 51 people
* Sufjan Stevens › 43 people
* Gackt › 42 people
* Bjork › 38 people
* George Harrison › 36 people
* Beck › 35 people
* Paul McCartney › 34 people
* Ben Folds › 31 people
* John Mayer › 27 people
* Brian Molko › 26 people
* The Killers › 25 people
* Prince › 24 people
* Damien Rice › 22 people

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bwahaha!

Thanks for posting. I like this song. I like choggie too. I don't like serial killers. I like the Cubs. I like Sufjan Stevens' songs. I don't like mean people. I think that covers it.