... Hoods as well as an ex-painter and chimney sweep. After finding out that Mark Linkous spent a considerable amount of his life up chimneys and around paint fumes the spooky lo-fi ramblings that appear on Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionpilot almost become understandable. In early 1996, after a Sparklehorse live date in London, Linkous nearly died when he passed out after mixing Valium ... with prescription antidepressants; throughout the 14 hours he spent unconscious on his hotel's bathroom floor his legs were pinned under the rest of his body, and the prolonged loss of blood circulation n...

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... longer, cause I had to go home , as I drove home I was thinking to myself ..........I was in love with Jennifer a girl that I thought would be the last person I would fall in love with, when I went home I went straight to my mom and started to talk to her about me falling in love with Jennifer ... be in love with you Jennifer" with my tone of voice raising, " because!, I"m dieing" it was those 2 words that had haunt me for the rest of my life, the girl I loved, the girl that had changed my life is dieing, I told her " what do you mean your dieing!" with every one's attention on me and Je...

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