A Rant Derivatived From A Negative Memory
The Boy Least Likely To : i took my hits on a dumb road trip.
and listened to some new cds that i bought in lawrence, kansas. i found two great record shops there. kiefs downtown and the love garden. and i found a fantastic second hand book shop there too, where i picked up a biography of anne sexton and andrea dworkin’s autobiography for a couple of dollars.
the shops i went into in lawrence all seemed to be full of cats. the love garden had three cats and i bought some badges with pictures of them on. i liked lawrence a lot. it was the first place we’d been to in america that i could imagine living there. it was quiet and calm, and seemed kind of cut off from the rest of kansas. lots of wizard of oz memorabilia in the shops too. we’ll definitely try and go back there on the next tour.
If more cool bands, like The Boy Least Likely To, would visit Lawrence more often, I might be tempted to move back there.
Yes, Kief's Downtown is a great record store. And the Anne Sexton purchase was probably at the awesome and eclectic The Dusty Bookshelf on Mass Street. However, I have very negative memories of Love Garden.
During my first semester at KU, I took Calc II having taken the equivalent of AP Calc I in high school. The TA for my class wore a Love Garden t-shirt at least once a week, sometimes twice week. I was not prepared for Calc II and my TA was horrible. I walked from my class to my residence hall on the verge of tears on more than one occasion. After dropping the class and taking an Incomplete, I harbor a hatred for all things related to that TA including the Love Garden record store.
I took Calc II at 7:30AM(!) the following semester with a wonderful TA and passed without any difficulty.
Many years later, I visited Love Garden and found it to be a really cool record shop but was still hesitated to climb the stairs to the second floor store.
