"Holocene is a bar in Portland, Ore., but it's also the name of a geologic era, an epoch if you will. It's a good example of how all the songs are all meant to come together as this idea that places are times and people are places and times are... people? [Laughs.] They can all be different and the same at the same time. Most of our lives feel like these epochs. That's kind of what that song's about. "Once I knew I was not magnificent." Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind. But I think there's a significance in that insignificance that I was trying to look at in that song."
Coming from Mr. Vernon himself:
"Holocene is a bar in Portland, Ore., but it's also the name of a geologic era, an epoch if you will. It's a good example of how all the songs are all meant to come together as this idea that places are times and people are places and times are... people? [Laughs.] They can all be different and the same at the same time. Most of our lives feel like these epochs. That's kind of what that song's about. "Once I knew I was not magnificent." Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind. But I think there's a significance in that insignificance that I was trying to look at in that song."
source: npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/06/22/137328981/bon-ivers-justin-vernon-talks-about-his-bands-new-album
Thanks for the link! Its one of the most insightful interviews with Vernon that I've read.. real humble and open.
Thanks for the link! Its one of the most insightful interviews with Vernon that I've read.. real humble and open.
reminds me of "People as places as people" by modest mouse
reminds me of "People as places as people" by modest mouse