Livonia
'99 or '00 - sometime while dating Katia, she busted out a CD she owned. In the days of youthful poverty and scarce media, ever album was as precious as it was a crap shoot.
You might be lucky enough to have a listening station to vet your selection, but without preordained information and a skilled eye, you were left to luck and availability.
She pulled out His Name is Alive's Livonia. I recognized the label, but not the era (my knowledge ended at Clan of Xymox's Medusa and a compilation that I owned. I was hooked, but it wasn't mine.
Things came to a close that summer.
Time creeps to '04. I'd been dating Vanessa. I'd acquired a few tracks from Livonia by dubious means. Fossil was my favorite track.
Things had come to a close that summer.
I asked the network for a copy of something. I got two albums that I didn't even know about Home is in Your Head and Mouth by Mouth. My song and mantra (and MySpace tagline) was Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking.
Within a year things began to recover. I bought more albums, each worse than the next. In '07 an all strings version of Livonia was released for download. Fossil was still the best song.
You might be lucky enough to have a listening station to vet your selection, but without preordained information and a skilled eye, you were left to luck and availability.
She pulled out His Name is Alive's Livonia. I recognized the label, but not the era (my knowledge ended at Clan of Xymox's Medusa and a compilation that I owned. I was hooked, but it wasn't mine.
Things came to a close that summer.
Time creeps to '04. I'd been dating Vanessa. I'd acquired a few tracks from Livonia by dubious means. Fossil was my favorite track.
Things had come to a close that summer.
I asked the network for a copy of something. I got two albums that I didn't even know about Home is in Your Head and Mouth by Mouth. My song and mantra (and MySpace tagline) was Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking.
Within a year things began to recover. I bought more albums, each worse than the next. In '07 an all strings version of Livonia was released for download. Fossil was still the best song.
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