listening project notes

will i ever finish my sufjan listening project? i'd love to take down my old posts, reorganize them, and publish it in one (hopefully improved) piece. but i just don't know if i can finish it. i've revised my recommended playlist so many times it's absurd.

i hope i can see some live clips after sufjan plays at the kennedy center tonight. his performances are so interesting and unexpected - i can only imagine what trickster sufjan has up his sleeve for the kennedy center audience. like the now-iconic wings the band wore on austin city limits, or the recent impromptu jam with david byrne at a benefit concert (i read about this on pitchfork, and they have a clip). i wish i could be at the kennedy center show tonight, or at least have the chance to watch a live webcast, but it looks like the show will be available on the awesome millennium stage site, which has tons of archived performances.

at some point, if i ever finish this project, i'll post an annotated sufjan playlist, which will compile my choices for his best and most interesting songs. right now, i'm so into greetings from michigan that it could be the whole playlist...