seeing sufjan do planetarium last night was really awesome :) i think that poe and i were the two most excited people (at least in our section) because as soon as he walked on stage to fix a couple things before the show, we were leaning forward in our seats whispering “look at him oh my god it’s that guy sufjan.” jesus. he is an adorable little man. i believe he was wearing one of nico’s shirts, because he was wearing a black t-shirt that like.. draped down to above his knees in the front? kind of looked like he was wearing a black shirt and an apron, but it was just the shirt. the show was so amazing. so much better than i had ever dreamed of. they didn’t talk a lot in between songs, but they talked in between maybe three songs and the banter was cute. sufjan said “in honor of earth day, we are going to play you the song for earth, our home planet” and then started going on a pretty long rant about how we’re all so obsessed with other planets that could provide liveable environments (idk his exact words) but that we’ve forgotten how precious we are on this planet, in these bodies etc and at the tail end of the rant, nico interrupts and says, “the moral of the story is you’re jet lagged” and sufjan did his little bashful smile and looked embarrassed. “am i rambling again?” omg i love you. it was a good show. yay solar system songs by sufjan.

seventhbrother:

“I think it’s a little cynical. I think it’s also realistic. There’s a kind of resignation to the cynicism. ‘This is the way that it is, and it’s not going to change. People are going to fail you. You’re not going to find fulfillment in a relationship. People will fail you. There’s not enlightenment.’ But it’s not pessimistic. I don’t believe in despair. I don’t reside in that. Even when I was at my worst, I wouldn’t allow myself to despair. It just forced me to face facts, and I think we’re all meant to face death in that way, that life is finite and we are bound for failure. And that humankind is a kind of ecological or environmental disaster. But I do believe that there is hope within us and that our bodies contain that…”

— Sufjan Stevens on The Age of Adz (via sleepingisgivingin)

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