Winner Of Exclusive Sufjan Stevens Song Makes You Come To His House To Listen To It

A few Christmases back, folk wunderkind Sufjan Stevens thought up the idea for the Xmas Song Xchange Contest. People would send Sufjan holiday songs they wrote, and Sufjan would return the favor by giving a winner of his choosing the rights to a holiday song he wrote. With over 600 entries, a man by the name of Alec Duffy, with the tune Every Day Is Christmas, prevailed.

But how can you, the Christmas-song-writing loser, hear Mr. Duffy’s very own Sufjan track, The Lonely Man of Winter? You have to go to the guy’s house.

We would like to invite you to our Brooklyn home for an exclusive listening session of this gorgeous song, with hot beverages and cookies provided for your enjoyment. We’ll share some conversation, slip some headphones on you, and press play.

We’ll be holding the sessions every Wednesday through February 25th. There will be sessions at 4 pm, 6 pm and 8 pm, although some 8 pm sessions are currently fully booked. There is limited availability of four people per session. Please e-mail me back and let me know all the times and dates that work for you, and we’ll try to squeeze you in somewhere. Due to popular demand, we might also be adding Sunday afternoon sessions on February 15 and 22, so please let me know availability for those two dates as well, just in case.

The session will either be in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn or Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

After this month, listening sessions will be made by appointment. For those of you who are not able to make it to New York, both Dave and I travel quite a bit, and would be happy to take requests in the hope that we’ll be in your neighborhood at some point in the future and can share the song with you.

Please e-mail sufjansongATyahoo.com for more information about finding a time to come over for a special listening session of this beautiful song.

We’re really looking forward to welcoming you!

The dude either works for Mary Kay, or he wants to wear your skin as a raincoat. Or he wants to cut your anterior cruciate ligament into pepperocinis and saute them into a bisque and serve them to his mother. Or he wants to sell you a timeshare in Key West.

Or he wants to throw a key lime pie in your face, and then cut out your heart and make a broach out of it while your defenses are softened due to a delicious pie being in your face. Or he wants to give you a Gideon’s bible and a Sanctus Real CD.

Or he needs a friend. A friend that he can murder, and then harvest their organs to finish his Frankenstein monster that doesn’t understand human emotions, and then throws a girl into a pond to drown. Slowly. I’m done. Make your own!

Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance

[link, AbsolutePunk]