Konnor got a single victory and 2018 is officially the weirdest year of wrestling yet

Konnor got a single victory and 2018 is officially the weirdest year of wrestling yet

10 WWE Superstars Who Deserve More from the WWE

So, the day after the WWE SmackDown Live pay-per-view event, Fastlane, I am convinced now, more than ever, that certain WWESuperstars are more deserving in their careers than what they have achieved within the WWE to date; especially since three of those that I will talk in this post were featured on Fastlanelast night. But I know that every profession wrestling fan out there knows exactly what…

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“What gives me hope? Oh God. Diazepam! Lithium!”

-Sufjan Stevens on the current state of the world

The song “Goodbye to all That” on The Ascension is inspired by and named for this very moving essay by Joan Didion. Worth the read.

‘I have a sense of urgency’: Sufjan Stevens wakes from the American dream

“In experiencing so much and growing older, I’ve realised there was definitely a naivety to my former self. There was a hopefulness, joyfulness and playfulness to a lot of those early records that’s been slowly receding over the years. It’s hard for me to speak for it because it’s happened so gradually, like watching a tree grow. But you start to lose faith in the structures of society as you get older, and I think that’s coming to the surface now.”

Sufjan Stevens’s Problem With America

New interview with Sufjan about The Ascension out in The Atlantic!

“I’m speaking to you,” Stevens said. “You are the subject of this record. You, the listener.” It’s an intimidating album, and I asked whether he was worried about coming off as didactic or preachy. “I think I’ve earned the right to be didactic and preachy,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and how many songs have I written about my own personal grievances [with] judgment against myself, self-deprecation, and sorrow? I was like, No, I don’t want to write another song about my dead mother. I want to write a song that is casting judgment against the world.”

Sufjan says the foundations of The Ascension are “a call for personal transformation and a refusal to play along with the systems around us.” And its first single stands as “a protest song against the sickness of American culture in particular.”

“America,” the first single from Sufjan’s new album, available now