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Can't wait to watch the movie so I can read your thoughts on it. Also been thinking about Flannery O'Connor lately. A musician I like, Sufjan Stevens, made a song called A Good Man is Hard to Find à la her short story. Read it in one of my English classes a year or so ago & still think about it. I didn't like it at the time, but the longer I carry it in my mind the fonder of it I become.

If you haven't listened to his music before, maybe you should listen to a song or two. He has a lot of allusions to Christianity in his work that quite frankly go above my head most of the time, & not like a halo, (more like a very fast bird, myself shaded under its wings for a moment).

@vashti, I love Sufjan and that album (Seven Swans, if I remember correctly?) and I'm glad you brought it up. RE: A Good Man is Hard to Find, I think O'Connor's writing has that effect - on the surface it seems ugly, brutal and arbitrary but whoever said medicine had to taste good? :)

Yes, that's the one! (Though Carrie & Lowell is my favroite album of his.) Happy to meet another fan ^^ Out of curiosity, what's your favorite song of his?

Carrie & Lowell is beautiful. I love "All of Me Wants All of You" and I used to obsessively listen to "My Little Red Fox" from his newest album. What's your favorite song of Sufjan's?

Oh man, The Only Thing hands down, though I would say it's more sentimental & important to me rather than my favorite to listen to. I kinda go through phases & lately it's been For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, Feel the Illinoise, & Drawn to the Blood ^^