All The Trees Of The Fields Will Clap Their Hands and The Transfiguration are currently getting constant play by me. Here’s a link to the amazon.com page for the album those tunes are on in case the direct links to the songs don’t work. One of the reviewers on the amazon site summed up my feelings for his album perfectly, which I’ll paraphrase – ‘a perfect blend of melody and haunting, sad optimism.’ I mentioned earlier how an old flame found me through this site (the good sarah, for those of you who remember her) and she and I have been trading emails, kind of working our way through old baggage. It’s been simultaneously fun and depressing, with just enough, oh, soul cleansing I guess, to make the depressing bits worth slogging through. Meanwhile I got surprised with a major life changing dilemma that I had basically known was coming, but it was one of those cases of pretending the future wasn’t looming. I’ll talk about what I can of that over the next few days, but anyway the upshot of all this is I’m in one of my rare melancholic fugues and I happened across Sufjan’s music at just about the perfect time.