Sufjan Stevens NE Fall Tour

This deserves to be posted on the YAY! thread.
And I'll be fighting for tickets online Saturday morning!

To answer my own question...yes. That was the quickest onsale I've seen other than Radiohead. Tried for Toronto the minute the went on sale, gone, sold out. Tried for Ithaca, the show wasn't on ticketmaster, had to go through their smaller site which was not ready for the server crush. Tried twenty minutes, finally got in and got two tickets. Commence victory dance.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art, My Old Kentucky Blog and Asthmatic Kitty present:

Osso
A screening of Sufjan Stevens’ “The BQE”
DM Stith

Promotional support from LUNA music

Sunday, November 1 at 4pm – Live at the Toby!

(Indianapolis, IN – Sept. 21, 2009) The Indianapolis Museum of Art and My Old Kentucky Blog present a multimedia indie arts blowout, featuring two art experiences inspired by the work of musician Sufjan Stevens and a performance by Asthmatic Kitty’s DM Stith.

Admission is $10 for the general public and $7 for IMA members. To purchase tickets for this event, visit: tickets.imamuseum.org/show.asp

About Osso
Osso is a New York and Berlin-based string quartet with a modernist pulse. Their interpretation of Stevens’ electronic album Enjoy Your Rabbit recomposes computer keystrokes into rhythmic classical arrangements.

About “The BQE”
Following Osso's performance, attendees can check out a screening of Sufjan Stevens' The BQE. The BQE is a cinematic suite, created by Sufjan Stevens, inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Next Wave Festival in October of 2007. The BQE is self-made home-movie documentation, exhibiting how all of the architectural colors of Brooklyn and Queens are fabulously intersected by this ramshackle artery of highway traffic. Shot renegade style on do-it-yourself film cameras, the animated footage of grid-lock crisscrossing the brick and mortar of Brooklyn flickers and cascades on three simultaneous screens. The 16mm cinematography utilizes time-lapse photography, in-camera editing, slow motion and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into a splendor of graphic compositions.

About DM Stith
DM Stith will perform to end the evening. Stith moved from Rochester to Brooklyn to pursue a career as a graphic designer. While in Brooklyn, he befriended Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, and began facilitating, in small, technical ways, the recording of her album Bring Me the Workhorse. This, in turn, spurred him to begin writing and recording songs of his own. He spent countless days stored away in his bedroom, sketching folk songs with epic electronic gestures. DM Stith completed his first catalog of songs for an album called Ichabod and Apple, written and recorded in the first month of his song-writing experiments. His first full length album, Heavy Ghost, is available on Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Do you have a setlist? I'm interested to see how much he changed things up from the Ithaca show.

He also played "Casimir Pulaski Day." That was the song that almost got me all weepy. It's depressing and painfully beautiful.

Golden rod and the 4-H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone

Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car to the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry

In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading

Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth

Tuesday night at the bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse

In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared

Oh the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you

Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I find the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom

In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing

Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window

Oh the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes