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Wednesday, February 22, 1978

April 1, 2008

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This morning on Ray Rayner they had the winners from the jelly bean count. Nothing happened.

February 22, 1978

Ray Rayner

(Length: 0:44 / Size: 760 KB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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Friday, February 25, 2000

September 21, 2007

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Clean out old files from computer; PCS wants $120 from Yumi for breaking the lease; the What-Nots (Kevin Northcutt’s band) playing down at Whole Earth; call Case but we don’t have much to talk about; we’re both changing; stop by Kuumbwa; Yumi out playing poker with friends.

The What-Nots

Music: Parliament “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk)”
(Length: 2:37 / Size: 2.5 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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Saturday, February 18, 1995

September 20, 2007

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Read most of Farewell to Manzanar; call Grant; head downtown and stop to watch two girls dancing in their house; bad vibe in bar above the Redroom; get too drunk and wake up with a terrific hang-over.

Farewell to Manzanar

Music: Enya “Caribbean Blue”
(Length: 2:06 / Size: 2 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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August 1990 (part 5)

September 19, 2007

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Out on the scooter one night that Malathion is to be sprayed over the city; surreal; see a girl hitching for a ride outside of the Fish Grill on Beverly.

Malathion molecule

Music: Bell Biv DeVoe “Poison”
(Length: 1:16 / Size: 1.2 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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April 8, 1986 (part 2)

September 18, 2007

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Arrive in Montreal; rooming with Fred, Dean, and Dan at our hotel; go out for pizza with some of the girls, then Fred and I walk up and down Ste. Catherine street; Montreal is cool because the people speak perfect French and English.

Canada group

Music: Julian Lennon “Too Late For Goodbyes”
(Length: 2:35 / Size: 2.5 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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Tuesday, February 21, 1978

September 17, 2007

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Nothing happened today.

(Length: 0:07 / Size: 88 KB / Format: mp3 64 kbps)

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Thursday, February 24, 2000

September 7, 2007

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Yumi and I take bus up to campus to eat breakfast; Lisa getting an HIV test, in a funk over finishing her dissertation; have one of Grandpa’s navy pictures on my computer desktop; receive an email asking for The Last Vaudevillain review a.s.a.p.; see Yumi at Cabrillo.

Baseball game during the War

Music: Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “Caravan”
(Length: 2:25 / Size: 2.3 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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Friday, February 17, 1995

September 6, 2007

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Group-project is frustrating, and I’m confused about the major; first V.A. check finally arrives; Meggin calls with the news that Plouffis has died; I think Hal is growing weary of burying pets; call Mom to pass along the news; she and Tom are making cakes for Owen’s wedding.

Plouffis

Music: Marian McPartland “Long Ago and Far Away”
(Length: 2:18 / Size: 2.2 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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August 1990 (part 4)

September 5, 2007

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Rich goes away for a week to an intensive Forum “camp”, to get over his fear of heights; he says that he’s going to cross over a rope bridge spanning a gorge; Claire is hysterical, saying that he’ll kill himself; when he comes back he’s pretty quiet about the whole thing, and I wonder what happened.

Music: Les Paul “Cookin’”
(Length: 1:06 / Size: 1.1 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)

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April 8, 1986 (part 1)

September 4, 2007

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Miss Poly Sci and French because I oversleep; because I need to finish research on a paper, I also miss English; Mrs. Delaney tells me the work is inadequate, and to get my life organized; race home to pack for Canada; Fred’s parents take us to O’Hare; have time to think about how to straighten my life out.

O’Hare ticket stub

Music: Wang Chung “Let’s Go”
(Length: 2:48 / Size: 2.7 MB / Format: mp3 128 kbps)