In retrospect, I don't know if it was the margaritas or the handfull of no-doz I took to keep rocking. But they were definitely using everclear instead of tequila. The party was sort of half-public... it was in a public space, so all laws were in effect, but you had to be invited to get in, so nobody was keeping track. I didn't see them make my drink, but I sure as hell felt roofied. Ah, well. Strange things happen on all saints' day. My favorite thing about Halloween isn't the party, anyway... it's watching the general public's creativity in effect.

halloween sucked like i thought it would...called it quits early and came home. it was warmer in bed with annie.

Mine was good.. hung out with bandmate and old bandmates... met a girl that I look forward to see again.. and slept in until 1:45 the next day. Ah yeah.

i totally forgot to tell you about the reversible music. when ELO's "time" album came out, a friend heard a rumor that there was a message on the LP (we're talking vinyl here) if you played it backwards.

so we did--disconnected the turntable belt so it wouldn't turn. left the amp and turntable ON, then manually spun the record backwards.

sure enough, at the beginning of the first track it says in a haunting voice "the music is reversible, but time is not...turn back, turn back, turn back" and fades out. i recorded it on cassette. i wonder if it's a hidden track on the CD.

pretty cool....

when you said from "my dad's cd" it made me wonder why franandzooey's dad would be listening to ELO. see, my parents are 70. doing a little math though, i figure you're just 1 year too old to be MY daughter. now i understand dad's music tastes.

the ELO album is "Time" from 1981. if you put on track 1, "Prologue," you'll hear at the backwards music at the beginning--it sorta sounds like backwards voices. i checked the CD--there's no hidden track and it's been edited out of Prologue."

don't crew up your needle!

my first album i ever bought--halfsies with my older sister--was the Beatles' Hard Day's Night. the year it was released! how's that for old? my second album was Bridge Over Troubled Water.

When I was a senior high school and in early college, me and buddies would go to Sunset Bowl in Waukesha, WI. there were two bands out of illinois--trying to make it big--that would play there weekends. REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick. saw them live in a bowling alley bar at least a dozen times each!

ah, the memories....

night night, cutie.