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To Be Alone With You

I am- as ever- in my own desperation- obsessing over Sufjan Stevens. Neurograd and I discussed, in a span of texts that hardly qualify as discussion, our mutual affection...except that he kept referring to him as "they" as though he were a band...and let the typo of Surfjan Stevens slip through which I found to be an amazing concept. And I truly hope there is somewhere out there a weird Beach Boys surf-rock style cover band playing Sufjan Stevens music. This error was further improved upon when I told him this and he said he read "Beastie Boys" in my text at first and was truly confused. And that, a Beastie Boys surf-rock Sufjan Stevens cover band would be truly confusing and completely magical. I want to live in that world. Age of Adz can be so discordant anyway. It has occurred to me that I will likely never meet my hero. Or even get close. I read this article  as I decided to look into the religious undertones, or regulartones, of Sufjan's music because I