Filter interviews Sufjan:
FILTER: Have you found people clamoring for you to write about their state?
SUFJAN STEVENS: It happens all the time. What I find most interesting is that my proposition has inspired all kinds of civic pride all over the U.S. People start telling me anecdotes about their small town or their university, their regional flower festival, or their beauty pageant. There is this sense of pride and ownership; feelings of a stronger identity of where they come from. I think that's interesting, because I never intended this to be about civic pride, but it's inspired a little bit of that all over the country.
FILTER: Do you have a plan as to where you want to go next with the state project?
SUFJAN STEVENS: I finally do, yes. But I probably shouldn't say.
(via stereogum)
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Let's make a deal...if it's your home state Sufjan picks, you buy. Texas and the state of Canada do not count.
Posted by: Coach | June 22, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Well it won't be Texas because Sufjan has yet to call me for expert advice.
Posted by: Trey | June 22, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Trey, I'm surpised that he hasn't been consulting you for expert advice on EVERYTHING.
Posted by: Kevin Cawley | June 22, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Trey- songs like "Oh glorious golden ring of Aggies and "Sweat, Sweat, sweat for the President of W!" probably won't catch on.
Posted by: Coach | June 23, 2006 at 09:00 AM
Coach, are you consulting Sufjan on the lore of BBQ for his KC songs?
Posted by: Kevin Cawley | June 23, 2006 at 09:32 AM
You'l know his inspiration when songs such as "Sausage no-more, the bain of Arthur's Existance"....and "White Bread Miracle, the story of Caucasians eating smoked Meats" make the album.
Posted by: Coach | June 25, 2006 at 08:46 PM
I was shocked that his IL album didn't include a tribute to "Lucky"
Posted by: Kevin Cawley | June 26, 2006 at 08:11 AM
Yeah I was kinda hoping that "A Sun Came" would include songs such as, "A proposed malt beverage toast to the H.O.B employee of the month" or "Meandering through the Excaliber club with two white youths from Kansas, the Land of Oz."
Posted by: Coach | June 26, 2006 at 10:32 AM
His Kansas CD will no doubt include "Don't buy the raisins from the 3rd floor vending machine" and "Nearly Sliding Under a Truck and Dying en route to KC"
Posted by: Kevin Cawley | June 26, 2006 at 10:40 AM