WHAT ARE YOU DOING

What follows is a partial list of completely unadulterated song titles from the album Michigan by Sufjan Stevens.

• All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!


• For The Windows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti


• Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)


• They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)


• Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)

I realize this album is relatively old news, Sufjan-Stevens-speaking, but can someone have a talk with this guy. When the title of the song takes five billion years to scroll across my car stereo display, something is awry. I realize that my car stereo display's configuration and scroll rate are factors, but come on. Those aren't titles, those are thesis statements.