SOME STUFF ABOUT SUN RA/ ANGEL DUST/ MORE STUFF ABOUT DEE DEE

 When I was 20 years old I went and saw Sun Ra live even though no one under 21 was allowed. I used my brother's ID. I also wore nice clothes, I'm not kidding I wore the same sweater that guy called me a loser in. I remember when I gave the door guy the fake ID he looked at me and said "This doesn't even look like you" me and my brother have never looked alike at all. I had ID that said I was 26. He was thinking it over but decided to let me in, thankfully. 

This was the same week the new Batman movie had come out. Prince did the soundtrack and Michael Keaton played Batman. Everyone was into it. Sun Ra came out in a real chair. He had just had a stroke, he got out of the chair and walked fast hunched over to a piano saying, "I just wrote this." and started singing the Batman theme, with the words, "I am the bat man." Then he got behind the piano and did a whole song based on Batman. It was fucking cool. Then he played a whole show. He even did "Space is the Place' and he had his Arkestra with him. This is 25 fucking old guys playing all sorts of instruments. It was awesome. 

Years later in the same part of town I was on a first date with a girl I had a big crush on. I still fucking have a crush on this girl. It's incredible. We went to a show, I forget what band but it was at the Middle East and there was this huge Japanese guy I knew there. He offered us weed. He was smoking a joint, "Do you want any?" We were like, "Hell Yeah." We smoked it and I was immediately too stoned. My vision became like a fucking tunnel and I couldn't deal with anything. I turned to the girl and said, "I need to leave" and fucking left. I went across the street where there was a McDonalds and laid down in the bushes in front. I fucking slept there for a couple hours and then went home. Ten years later this girl is at my house. For a decade I've been wondering what the hell happened. We hadn't talked since this night. The girl says, "Remember the time that guy gave us Angel Dust?" That explains it. 

As a form of protest, one time Dee Dee stole like a dozen chicks from a chicken factory near us. So we had the fucking cutest little things in a box in the basement. For weeks they looked wicked cute and    made little peep noises. Talk about cute. One day they became adolescents, like 10 days in. They were no longer cute and they were kinda big and they shit everywhere. They made horrible noises. I remember being terrified that our father would hear. They were making a fucking racket. Eventually Dee Dee fucking returned them to the factory. We never told my father anything. Years and years later after Dee Dee had died I told my father this story. He said, "I didn't know that at all." He had no idea we had a fucking dozen chickens squawking in the cellar. 

MAN, YOU LOOK LIKE A LOSAH!

 In highschool I skipped a lot. Part of the reason was because it was wicked easy to skip. My highschool was 45 minutes away. Before I had a license my mother let me drive to and from school. When I got to the exit for my school I often kept going and changed the direction, drove all the way into Boston and bought records then I would go home. In homeroom the disciplinarian would come over the loudspeaker and read off the list of names of kids who had not showed up. I'm not kidding one of the kids was named Mike Hunt. He was totally given that name as a joke by another kid. Pretty god damned funny. The thing is the day you showed up after being out sick you just had to produce a note. I forged my mother's name a ton.

 I fucking hated gym class. I had two gym teachers, they were Mr. White and Mr. Loftus and they were awful. I literally saw Mr. White punch a kid in the locker room. Also whenever we played basketball he called me "special olympics," that was my nick name. I used to intentionally foul out within the first couple minutes, then I just stopped showing up at school on days that I had gym.

I also had a thing with my mother. My father had left for work and she was up having her morning coffee and cigarette. If I didn't feel like even driving to school I would say to her, "Hey Ma, you wanna go to Kmart?" And then we would go there and not go to school. She never told my father we were doing this. We did it a lot. One time when I was a junior the disciplinarian called me into his office and said if you skip one more day you'll be expelled. So I didn't skip anymore, but I literally had skipped like a 100 days starting sophmore year. One time I was in Boston after skipping school. I was on Newbury Street going to Newbury Records. I had my school clothes on, this was a maroon and black sweater and tan chinos. I felt fucking cool because I had skipped school and was walking around Boston in my new school sweater. A homeless guy was walking towards me, when he was a couple feet from me, he pointed at me and said, "Man, you look like a losah." I remember thinking, "Well, at least I have a place to go to after this." 

The other thing I should tell you about this highschool, after homeroom they would occasionally have us go to the gym for an assembly. One time the Dean of Students, Brother Fahey was talking. People started applauding everything he said. We kept applauding for so long it was going into the next class. They could not shut us up. Every time they said anything we applauded. The whole school, 1200 kids were there, they could not control us. Finally a guy came out with a dustpan and brush and started banging them together. Apparently this is the universal sign for "Quiet Down". 

COOL ROCK SHIT

 Sometime in the '90s, me and my sister Dee Dee went to LolLapalooza 2 because Cyprus Hill was playing. I was hella into Cyprus Hill. Also Pavement was playing so we went. We didn't really know anyone else. Because they would not sell alcohol in the venue we drank the 12 pack we had bought in the car before we went in. It was like 11am. After one of the bands this guy came on stage with a boombox and sang a song about being a loser. I heard that Sonic Youth had put him on the roster of bands because they thought his music was cool. When Pavement played, the show was outside and during the daytime. There was a huge mud area because it had been raining. People started throwing clumps of mud at each other. There was a huge mud fight in the middle of Pavement's set. It was awesome. The headliner was this girl that nobody had heard of, all we knew was she was Kurt Cobain's girlfriend. She opened with the song "Violet" it was fucking awesome and we had no idea who she was yet. 

I noticed this about AC/DC, you know how Bon Scott died and was kinda scarily satanic. He is wearing a fucking pentagram on the album cover "Highway to Hell!" And the last song on the record is "Night Stalker." At the end of it he says, "Shazbot, nanoo nanoo." This is a reference to the TV show Mork and Mindy so the very last thing that Bon Scott says on vinyl or on a rock n roll recording is a fucking Mork and Mindy reference. That's funny as hell.