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It's Pronounced Soof-Yawn, I think...

So I cashed in a store credit at Borders today, and picked up a new CD. I haven't gotten a new CD in a while, and I figured since the credit was from a gift, I could get away with trying something "new" and not really feel much guilt. For a while, since I've been on the Danielson Famile mailing list and a subscriber to Relevant Magazine, I've been hearing about this folk artist with a funky name making waves in the underground. The artist is Sufjan Stevens, and on a whim I looked for his name in the CDs ( Life After God by Douglas Coupland was my first choice to use my credit on, but I would have had to special order it), and found a stack of three or four albums by this guy. My credit was equal to the cost of the album Seven Swans , and since it was the newest of the choices available, I grabbed it and didn't look back. (Although I did make a detour through the DVD's while chatting with Michelle on the phone - I was thinking the Donnie Darko Special Edi