"Opie's Funeral Song" by Sufjan Stevens

This is some B-roll from last winter i had no use for. Now it has use.

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Music

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• Sufjan
• Stevens
• Opie's
• Funeral
• Song

[jimbobhotdog]

was this shot in new hampshire?

[Theinstant]

no, various spots in ohio

[jdavidsparham]

I would just like you to know that I have been watching this video on a semi-regular basis for two years. You have taken your previously useless footage and turned it into something that truly means something to me. I grew up in Southern Ontario, on Lake Erie. Somehow this video is home to me. I live in London England now, and lived in Ottawa before that, but whenever I needed reassurance, whenever I needed calm, I sought out this video. It may seem strange, but this video means a lot to me.

[stripeyninga]

I shrugged my shoulders and resigned myself to the same silly foreign name, a sequence of odd letters stitched together like a crazy quilt, easily misspelled, misread, mispronounced, teased and squeezed and tickled and jabbed at during recess, along with Nataki the black girl (my first kiss), Opie the foster kid (who died in a car crash), and Kiki the Japanese boy (who didnt even speak English but we played marbles during recess and communicated with our own form of sign language).

[mawiiee6]

the bird at the beginning is freakin big

[stripeyninga]

@ClosingSkylines i can send it to you if you want?

[kenmeyerjr]

@Theinstant

At 2:38, a guy sits on a bench and, though I assume there are similar benches everywhere, it sure looks like the bench that is a central part in the film 1000 Days of Summer (going on memory for the title)...is it the same?

[mushuplus]

LOVE the cloud shots

[ArlanCashier]

this is one of the most beautiful things

[TBBTV1]

anybody going to see him in the UK?

youtube.com/watch?v=_QCmLHA15j­c

[ClosingSkylines]

This is seriously my favorite song. I was having a terrible day and when I listened to it all my problems felt like they melted away :) I wish Sufjan would put this on a CD other than the Asmatic Kitty complation. I want to put it on my iPod but I can't find the song anywhere.

[ZeenyTehZurjian]

@stripeyninga Ah, I found it -- thanks! The more I find out about Sufjan and his past, the more I'm drawn to him as an artist. If he ever wrote a book, I'd be the first in line to buy it, that's for sure.

[stripeyninga]

@ZeenyTehZurjian uh try looking through the 'sidebar' on his record label's website - i'm pretty sure it's called "what's in a name", the tale of his parents offering him to change his name while he was a child - and in the end his realisation that he is sufjan and no one else, he can't change it!

[ZeenyTehZurjian]

@stripeyninga I was wondering -- where did you find that quote? Sufjan's such a great story-teller, and I'd really like to read that in context. :3