Well it’s that time of year again. The time where I once again reminisce about all the fun I’ve had blogging here on The World Forgot. It’s been two full years now since this little music blog was launched and I’d like to think that it’s grown up a bit in the intervening time. Now that I’m officially a toddling blog you can expect me to be even more temperamental, demanding, and precocious than ever before. Here’s to hoping that the next two years will prove to be just as much fun as the past two have been.
As I was thinking over what to post to mark this momentous occasion, while also contemplating that my relationship with this blog has now out performed even the longest of my romantic endeavors, I turned once again to the artist that quite literally got me into blogging in the first place. That artist is Sufjan Stevens and two years ago he was on literally every blog that you had ever heard of on at least a monthly basis. It was my interest in exploring his music, and his storytelling {along with a fair amount of other influences}, that led me to start blogging two years ago. And to commemorate this moment I’ve diced up a a small live set that Sufjan preformed for PENultimate Lit in 2007.
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Interlude 01 (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Barn Owl, Night Killer (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Interlude 02 (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch from Mcclure (Or The Mind That Knows Itself) (Live at PENultimate Lit
This is the entire set he played that day, cut up into individual tracks, and posted in the order they appear in the performance. If you’d care to download the set as one continuous recording you can find that here on PEN American Center’s website. I chose Sufjan for today’s post because of how influential his music has been on how I think and write about music, but also because I’ve blogged about him far more times than any other artist I’ve mentioned here. To check all the posts that include Sufjan Stevens here on The World Forgot simply click here.
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