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My favorite monologues/banter from the Carrie & Lowell tour

I have compiled a ranked list of my top 10 videos of Sufjan Stevens addressing the crowd on the Carrie & Lowell tour this past year or so. Most of them are hilarious, a few are more serious and thought-provoking.

(starting with my favorite and going backwards)

  1. Sufjan describes “your” life story and then explains the plot of the straight-to-video sequel to Bring It On
  2. Sufjan talks about the idea of containing multitudes and not becoming complacent
  3. Sufjan talks about almost changing his name and aggravating his stepmother by calling her pets by the wrong names
  4. Sufjan talks about his parents’ misguided attempts to teach him about death and how he’s come to learn that we carry those we’ve lost with us
  5. Sufjan talks about grief and how we don’t have to go through it alone
  6. Sufjan describes how God himself appeared before him and told him to play this tune
  7. Sufjan remembers attending a Waldorf school and his childhood pyromania
  8. Sufjan had to change his outfit because singing about death while wearing a death metal t-shirt seemed too meta
  9. Sufjan believes every day is Mother’s Day and blames his parents for his obsession with death
  10. Sufjan remembers going to Alateen meetings
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I’m, at best, a D-level celebrity, and can’t ever foresee that changing. I think I have very loyal, devoted fans, and they’re very, very patient with me. But I don’t think they revere me quite like that. And celebrity, and publicity, it’s all such an illusion, it has absolutely no meaning. In general, but, especially to me. I’m not about to court that.

Sufjan Stevens (x)

Source: altmusic.about.com
#love this#want it framed#cross stitched even in the spirit of our tacky lord sufman stevens
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Undertheradar: After Illinois, you had so much hype and discussion, and it felt like writers only focused on a few things – like the fifty state project and your religious background – did you find you lost a bit of control of your own persona with all that was being written about you?
Sufjan Stevens: It's true, but persona is an illusion. It doesn't exist outside of myself. It's definitely becomes at that point a plaything of the public. I did kind of lose control, but I think I was kinda the culprit. You create your own persona and as a performer you're meant to imbibe the music, and that requires you take on a character.
Source: undertheradar.co.nz
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A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetise the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivise reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs as strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (via gurlism)

#drag us#*deletes tumblr*
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Last month I watched this amazing movie that changed my life. It’s called Bring It On Again. It’s a whole like franchise about cheerleading. The first one stars Kristen Dunst, I think? Or Kirsten Dunst, right? The second one doesn’t have anybody you would know. Straight to DVD or whatever. (x)
Source: youtube.com
#stupid stevens#this fucking doofus
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My twenties were pretty crap. My career was absolutely amazing; in fact, I don’t think my career will ever get better than it was in my late teens, early twenties. But as a person, you’re changing so much and you’re trying to figure stuff out. Some people go wild and have a great time and throw caution to the wind, and I was the complete opposite. I was very shy. It took me a lot of years to try and stop pleasing a lot of people and allow myself to have fun. It’s the difficult thing of getting out of your own head. To stop going, ‘Oh, there’s something I should be doing, there’s a way I should be behaving, I should be dressing….’ All of those shoulds, you can drown in them.

Keira Knightley about her twenties (x)

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Advantageous (2015)| directed by Jennifer Phang & written by Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim

You know those movies that stay with you for a week? This is one of them. Watch it on Netflix and support women of color producing films!
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