Creativity envy
The blog well is dry this morning, dear readers. Doesn't really matter, though, since you're only looking for a little bit of entertainment in between the dreary tasks of designing websites or writing to constituents or manufacturing books of checks with pictures of Snoopy shaking hands with the devil on them. And your entertainment comes in the form of the hilarious and brilliant (and, I'm presuming, real) track listing for the new Sufjan Stevens album, Illinois:
01 Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, ILHave a good weekend. That goes for almost all of you.
02 The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!"
03 Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
-Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition
-Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream
04 John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
05 Jacksonville
06 A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good Reasons
07 Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
08 One Last "Woo-hoo!" for the Pullman
09 Chicago
10 Casimir Pulaski Day
11 To the Workers of the Rockford River Valley Region, I have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and it involves shoe string, a lavender garland, and twelve strong women
12 The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About
14 A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
15 The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhhh!
17 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell
18 In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth
19 The Seer's Tower
20 The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
-Part I: The Great Frontier
-Part II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now
21 Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
22 Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run
2 comments:
That's just nutty. I'm glad he didn't steal "Chicago's Got the Ill Noise" tho. Also, I betcha that the chances of that acutally being the track list is as good as him actually recording an album for each of the 50 states. Maybe he's just having fun with Pitchfork? Who knows tho...maybe? He's definitely got a great sense of humor with his song titles (ie "What Child Is This Anyways?" from his Xmas collection).
This makes more sense now:
"Stevens will apparently mirror this folkish complexity by including two sets of tracklistings (which, again, we don't have on hand): The first will be included on the back of the album, while the second will be listed on the inside and will contain track titles stretching as far as three sentences long."
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