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Posted in music on January 29, 2007
Camping out for Sufjan Stevens tickets in DC
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"waiting outside the kennedy center at 4:30 in the morning to get tickets to the Sufjan Stevens Concert. Man it was cold. There was supposedly like 3000 people out there. Only the first 1000 or so got them." [tmuff's flickr]
"Check out both the triumphant and the whining bloggers". [Vinyl Mine]
"Well, I figured the line would be long, but I had no idea that thousands of people would brave freezing temperatures to camp out overnight for tickets." [Pop Candy] (thx J)
Posted on January 29, 2007 6:49 PM
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Please tell me this is a joke. 4,000 people sleeping out for SUFJAN STEVENS? Has the George W. Bush administration really done this much damage to our country?
Posted by Steve | January 29, 2007 6:55 PM
Doesnt anyone have a job?
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 7:04 PM
jesus fucking christ. I can't believe this, for SUFJAN?
he's THAT big?
my lord
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 7:07 PM
i dont get it. why are people sleeping outside for sufjan? am i missing something? he plays somewhere every other week. it's not exactly a rare event or anything.
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 7:48 PM
out of work republicans.
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 8:01 PM
I live in DC and it was too cold to stand outside for 4 1/2 minutes for tix to a Bjork/PJ Harvey double bill, let alone SUFJAN! WTF?
Posted by B. | January 29, 2007 8:01 PM
Sufjan is the new Star Wars
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 8:16 PM
I totally saw a guy dressed as Illinois in line.
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 8:28 PM
Dorks.
Posted by Anonymous | January 29, 2007 8:41 PM
That guy with the funky pants and the green Northface jacket standing up slightly right of center in that photo? Thats me. In line around 5:40 am....
Posted by Arakias | January 29, 2007 10:25 PM
c'mon people! Sufjan Stevens is so 2005!
Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2007 11:08 AM
I hope you got tix Arakias!
Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2007 12:54 PM
The tickets were free and he's playing with the orchestra. I think ti'd be a cool show, but not worth the 8+ hours in the cold. A bunch of tix are/were on craigslist for 300/pair...they get flagged like crazy now though.
Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2007 1:01 PM
free show. free booze (though that hasnt been advertised). and he's playing with the national orchestra.
oh and it wasnt that cold. it actually was pretty damned fun. a nice sunrise, some nice people, and now i've got two free tickets. there are worse ways to spend your saturday mornings.
Posted by colleen | January 30, 2007 1:04 PM
"The tickets were free and he's playing with the orchestra. I think ti'd be a cool show, but not worth the 8+ hours in the cold."
I agree. It's it more effective to work for 8 hours and just buy tickets normally the next time he comes around? It's all about math people.
Posted by Anonymous | January 30, 2007 1:46 PM
"I hope you got tix Arakias!"
I did indeed. I think they were among some of the last 30 sets given out. And fortunately, it wasnt that cold at least compared to New England winters.
Posted by Arakias | January 30, 2007 3:51 PM
man...it's times like this that i'm really glad i don't like sufjan stevens.
Posted by Anonymous | February 1, 2007 6:06 AM
i would just like to further reinforce the statement that these people are incredible losers. cheers! :)
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2007 2:49 PM