On the show I went to Sufjan said it was an albino rat who got beat to death in a coffee can with a baseball bat (and I think he said his name was Mr. Buttons or something). Sufjan's stories are like the murder cards from the board game Clue that he mixes up to make something different every time. The albino salamander, in the backyard, with the hammer!
Some say Cat Stevens because of his last name. I say PAul Simon's grandson because Paul hitch hiked from Saginaw back in the sixties. Well you never know. I love this guy!
I know this comment is 5 years old, but in case anyone else comes across it: It's a sort of banjo-mandolin hybrid called a "guitalin". Sufjan used it extensively on Carrie & Lowell, and it also makes a couple of appearances on Javelin.
The whole thing with reincarnations is impossible since more humans are alive today than have ever existed in the history of mankind. So yeah, the math doesn't add up.
If anything could be better than Sufan singing it's his monologues.
Gah, his sense of humor is the cutest thing :). I love how Sufjan is so eloquent and stupidly humorous at the same time.
I love him with all my heart and soul
"It's time for Charles Darwin to meet his maker!" 😂
How could you not love him?
he makes me want to cry in the best way possible
Oh man I could listen to this all day haha
Thankful that call me by your name introduced me to him
Weng Fong ikr he’s so amazingly interesting.
On the show I went to Sufjan said it was an albino rat who got beat to death in a coffee can with a baseball bat (and I think he said his name was Mr. Buttons or something). Sufjan's stories are like the murder cards from the board game Clue that he mixes up to make something different every time. The albino salamander, in the backyard, with the hammer!
He's an unreliable narrator.
a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a 64 impala
It's all true, even if it didn't happen.
I think my show had the rat story too! Rat universe gang unite
This is awesome! I really like Sufjan Stevens more and more.
I needed to be reminded of Edgar Cayce and reincarnation. It gives me so much hope! Thanks, Suf!
what a storyteller
Ever So Witty😀. Thanks, Sufjan!
Charles Darwin "the white salamander" was going to meet his maker.... Funniest part
Some say Cat Stevens because of his last name. I say PAul Simon's grandson because Paul hitch hiked from Saginaw back in the sixties. Well you never know. I love this guy!
i feel like he told the story of the pet smashed with a hammer in a coffee can another time, but with a rat instead of a salamander.
"My sister" - Djohariah?
Bring back Mr Bossy pants.
Definitely old soul (speaking of past lives).
Darwin was hit SeVeN times (6:03)😂.
I really don't know if he's kidding or not.
What’s that box shaped acoustic she’s playing?
I know this comment is 5 years old, but in case anyone else comes across it:
It's a sort of banjo-mandolin hybrid called a "guitalin". Sufjan used it extensively on Carrie & Lowell, and it also makes a couple of appearances on Javelin.
Which is this song at the end?
"For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" off the Michigan album.
4:58
So Mr. Bossy Pants became Trump after Trump was already born?
He became a Trump supporter
6:35 -> the Donald
The whole thing with reincarnations is impossible since more humans are alive today than have ever existed in the history of mankind. So yeah, the math doesn't add up.
Some souls are just xeroxed.
Does he actually support Trump or was he being sarcastic?
Juni Xu nothing he says could be construed as supporting trump.
Juni Xu No idea, because he has made some donald jokes in his website.
Anyone with that level of artistic sensibility won't ever support that man
I'm saying the opposite
oh, i'm "artistic" so I'm so god damned smart