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This is the one where Alec and I found out that the internet is a very interesting place, and that six strangers can have a very good time with tea and cookies.
To say: In 2007 Alec Duffy won the Sufjan Stevens Xmas Xchange contest with his song "Everyday is Christmas", winning full exclusive rights to an original Sufjan Stevens song, "The Lonely Man of Winter". We have since been hosting private listening sessions of the song, in which any and all can come by and listen over headphones and tea and cookies. Here's why.
This has invoked many goodtimes and fuzzyfeelings for the brave and few, and constant mindnumbing ire from various fanatical fans and internet commenters. See below for many points of view.
You can book a session by emailing sufjansong at yahoo.com. If you don't live in Brooklyn, please ask us anyway, cause we travel a lot, and maybe you do too, and things happen. E.g. last June we had a session in Finland.
- Some Thoughts on Musical Distribution and Rarity (original manifesto)
- Alec's song at Asthmatic Kitty (click on Musical Downloads at the top)
- Sufjan on Alec's song
- Alec's company, Hoi Polloi
People who came and wrote about it
- Everything Sounds podcast
- Annie Scott's Tonic article
- Jessica Suarez's Village Voice article
- Look at me, I made a blog
- Stupidfresh
- Maha Is A State Of Mind
- Sarah Nelson Wright
- One For The Good Days
- The 405
- Lessons in Curating. Lessons in Culture
- sharocks the blogspot
- ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆
- Chloe Veltman
Press
- Wall Street Journal
- Studio 360 radio piece
- Pitchfork
- Original Pitchfork article
- The Chicago Reader
- Washington City Paper
- Maclean's
Bloggers & Commenters
- Metafilter
- Reverend Mother
- Creative Deconstruction
- Dave Mark
- New York Magazine
- Buzzfeed
- The Awl
- RAW-Law
- Hypeful
- Tangzine
- This article is in French and I don't know what it says
- Kind of weird Village Voice article bragging about scooping WSJ
- All Good Naysayers once had some really great comments, but the site is no longer up
Other cool people who have come so far
