It's a Bon Iver kind of day. My favourite playlist on my iTunes is my 25 most played. Bon Iver occupies two positions on this hollowed chart; at number 19 with Skinny Love and at number 11 with For Emma
I feel like...Simon Mayo? Did Simon Mayo do the charts for years and years before he was shifted off to Radio 2/6? Mysteries. Anyway. I feel like whoever the chart show man used to be back when the charts were cool
back when there were cool kids.
It's a Bon Iver kind of day. I was playing my TOP 25 with a view to singing all of the songs in autotune. I have a Glee app for my iPhone and it has an autotune thing. it is pretty much the coolest thing ever.
but I couldn't bring myself to fuck up Skinny Love. I went to see Bon Iver on the Park Stage at Glastonbury last year with my now boyfriend. There was this big ribbon tower that looked like it was going to collapse all of the time, and we decided to watch Bon Iver after watching M.Ward from the top of the tower.
I remember, a couple of days before then. I was sat on a hill trying to write the best story ever. It was just about lots of abortions. I thought it would win me the game of life.
it was cold and we were huddled on the ground and I just remember all of these chinese lanterns in the sky, orange sky, and couples everywhere swaying and looking happy
and i just wanted to grab them and say- this is a break up album, this is about how love destroys
because they were too too happy
but it was so beautiful. to see people in love dancing to gutted songs. it was beautiful.
no-one makes you feel more lonely than Justin Vernon. nothing more than Skinny Love. But I'm lucky, now.
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