Dear Sufjan, I enjoy your new album about my city and state, and I enjoy your marriage of the ecclesiastic and the vaguely erotic. I am wondering if you are available, one day in the future when you are less busy being a newly famous Christian troubadour, to drive around Chicago and listen to "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison over and over, and see who cries first, you or me. I do not know what "losing" would consist of—crying first or not crying. It wouldn't be a date or anything weird like that, just a contest. Then I could show you the cool things around town that you did not sing about on your record: drive under the Green Line tracks where... More >>>