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  <body>&lt;p class=&quot;quote&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;&quot;&gt;Becoming the favorite banjo-playing Episcopalian geography expert and&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://allgoodnaysayers.net/news/2007/10/09/halloween-costumes/&quot;&gt;Halloween costume inspiration&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;of NPR listeners apparently wasn&amp;#8217;t ambitious enough for Sufjan Stevens. Today at the Brooklyn Academy of Music&amp;#8217;s Next Wave Festival&amp;#8212;whose lineup also includes firebrand harpist&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bam.org/events/08MISU/08MISU.aspx&quot;&gt;Zeena Parkins&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8212; Stevens will present &amp;#8220;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bam.org/events/08SUFJ/08SUFJ.aspx&quot;&gt;The BQE&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#8221; a symphonic testament to that fount of poetic inspiration, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But why stop there? In what follows, I&amp;#8217;ll list some of my own favorite urban planning disasters, with accompanying theme music for each.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</body>
  <byline>Roger Moore | Stuck Between Stations</byline>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2009-11-04T12:38:07-05:00</created-at>
  <deck>&lt;p&gt;The Official Soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;</deck>
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  <title>Sufjan Stevens and Bad Urban Planning </title>
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  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-04T13:53:41-05:00</updated-at>
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