Memoir One: First CD's

These are my first seven CD's. I'm pretty sure, anyway.

Janet Jackson - janet. [Christmas gift along with Sony CD player. I remember singing along with the song "Again" over and over in bed and thinking about Rachael P.]

Live - Mental Jewelry [Christmas gift along with Sony CD player]

Pearl Jam - Vs. [I first saw this CD at a haunted hayride in sixth grade. When I got there, Dustin G. (we called him "Tom Cruise Junior" because he played Tom Cruise as a kid in Oliver Stone's Born On The Fourth of July) handed me a business card with his name and telephone number and a picture of a telephone on it. I thought this was just about the coolest thing ever--and from Dustin: the coolest guy on the planet! Rachael P. brought the Pearl Jam CD and I really liked the cover so I bought it the next day. More about the party in a later memoir.]

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple ["Twelve Gracious Melodies!"]

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy [The liner notes detail the "evils" of masturbation--a frightening subject for fourteen year old boys.]

Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies [This EP still hails as one of my all-time favorites.]

Jim Valentino - Shadowhawk: The Secret Revealed Comic Book Soundtrack [I still hear quotes from this in my head from time to time.]

I'll have to do some heavy thinking to go further than this. BMG and Columbia House kicked in at a certain point and I started receiving CD's like mad.

This is about how it's gonna be: my memoirs, that is. Tiny fragments of my memory published here, as my memory seems to be failing the older I get. They won't be in any particular order or posted for any particular reason, other than that I might just be thinking about said memoir at the time. If it entertains you, read it; if it doesn't, feel free to move on. Either way, they are what they are and I'll remain real and true as far as my mind believes it to be the case.