Day 2: Story of how you heard of Bon Iver
December ‘09, scrolling through Xanga pages (because I was still on Xanga in 2009) and I came across this one and Skinny Love was playing in the background. I downloaded For Emma immediately and the rest is history.

Day 3: Have you seen them in concert?
No because honestly, what band comes to Ohio anymore?

Day 4: Have any merch?
Unfortunately not

Day 5: Your favorite thing to do with Bon Iver playing in the background.
Drive. Definitely. There’s just nothing like it.

As much as I’d like to say I don’t have a favorite Bon Iver song because they’re all great (which they are) it’s probably Towers, for several reasons.
- First, it’s one of his more uplifting songs. Not that I don’t enjoy the somber-ness of songs such as Skinny Love and Holocene, Towers just brings me happiness.
- Second, it’s nostalgic. Not just nostalgic in lyricisim but it sounds nostalgic. And it reminds me of my past. But not in a shit-I’m-thinking-about-the-past-again way. It’s a comfortable nostalgia.
-Third, I love love love LOVE his falsetto, at any time, but more prominently in this song.

I can’t really explain why I love Towers so much. It just works for me.

It’d have to be followed by
2. I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time
3. Hazelton (JV but I’d still consider it the same)
4. Skinny Love
5. Minnesota, WI

boner-iver:

IT’S THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BON IVER, BON IVER’S LEAK ON THE INTERNET!!!

It has officially been exactly one year since I was in tears with excitement as I frantically tried to find the download of the leaked album, and more tears as I heard it for the first time.

We’ve officially been listening to Bon Iver, Bon Iver for ONE YEAR!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

But I want to write. I know you think it’s silly and pointless and won’t get me anywhere, but it’s what I love doing. I’m sorry you don’t think I’ll be successful, and maybe I won’t, but wasn’t it you that said to spend the rest of my life doing something that made me happy? Well this is it. Please support me despite your disapproval. I love you.

Where you just feel so sad? And it’s not like you’re sad because of anything or for anything, you’re just sad. It’s almost so irrational that you feel this way because you have no viable reason to be so sad. But you just want to break down and cry. And all the sudden you’re longing for moments that have long passed rather than focusing on moments yet to happen. And you’re so sad for yourself and everyone else that you pull down. And you don’t want to hurt the people that mean anything to you. And you don’t want to hurt yourself. But you just feel so alone. Even though you know you’re not. And you want to talk to somebody. But you don’t know what to say. Because realistically speaking you have nothing to say. But at the same time you have so much to say. It’s hard. It’s so hard to feel whole when things are good and so easy to feel damaged when things are not. And every thing that happens is just a cycle of endless nostalgia. So you’re never spent enjoying moments when they happen. You’re caught up in moments you cannot get back. And you won’t enjoy the moments happening until a day, or a month, or a year, or years later when they’re unimportant and you’re losing moments still. I want to feel alive when things are happening. Not sad, not nostalgic, not disappointed, not lost, alive.