thank you, guys.
hi, cavin. i remeeeember you!
my iPod recently got totally shut down and i had to reboot the whole thing. upon doing so, i listened to harmonium for the first time in...probably a year. and i remembered how very powerful it had been to me once, and how, even now, it can completely knock me off of my feet. i stopped thinking too much about V after heroes and thieves - i was not a big fan of that album.
it was kind of weird to hear songs like "put your hands on me" (which lost the "put your") and "the one" in a studio setting, after having had the live (wonderful!) versions of these songs on my iPod since i was thirteen. i like vanessa so much better live - i feel like her music has such potential to be something so raw and beautiful, but the studio takes that out of it. harmonium was great for the precise reason that there wasn't a lot of poppy editing.
so yeah, i, too, am in love with what i've heard of "london," even if i can only make out half of the words. but i have this crushing fear that i'll hate an album version.
hence my desire to see her perform again...i haven't since, jesus christ, 2005. i guess four years isn't a huge amount of time for some people, but when it's the difference between being thirteen and being nearly eighteen, it's...colossal.
