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• Fear and loathing at Christmas

Sufjan Stevens is one awesome artist. His original recordings are some of my favorite of all time. He’s also someone who tackles more Christmas songs than your typical artist and often puts his own unique spin on them.

The song for the below video is actual quite a benign rendition. But the video itself is one giant animated acid trip. Enjoy.

Oh… and check out the Sufjan Stevens X-Mas rap mix-tape below. Yes… you read that right.

This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2012.

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Merry Christmas. Drop some acid.

by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 15, 2012

<h1>Merry Christmas. Drop some acid.</h1> <p class="byline">by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 15, 2012</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter"><img src="https://media1.fdncms.com/bend/imager/fear-and-loathing-at-christmas/u/original/2202304/1355591660-sufjan-stevens_510x317.jpg" alt="Fear and loathing at Christmas" title="Fear and loathing at Christmas" width="500" height="311" /></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/ImageArchives?by=2124650" target="_blank"></a></li> <li>Fear and loathing at Christmas</li> </ul> </div> <p>Sufjan Stevens is one awesome artist. His original recordings are some of my favorite of all time. He's also someone who tackles more Christmas songs than your typical artist and often puts his own unique spin on them. </p> <p>The song for the below video is actual quite a benign rendition. But the video itself is one giant animated acid trip. Enjoy. </p> <p>Oh... and check out the Sufjan Stevens X-Mas rap mix-tape below. Yes... you read that right. </p> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/embed/3Pe0iloRe9Q </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/merry-christmas-drop-some-acid-2202302/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=14063&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/merry-christmas-drop-some-acid-2202302/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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