[Blarg]

I remember him talking about one drunken night when some people were partying at his place. He and some girl apparently had the mutual hots for each other, were a good few drinks in, and she was in his room sitting on his bed, trying to get his ever-fickle and wandering attention. A couple sentences he wrote probably without thinking or caring about them seemed to me a hilarious summation of the guy and his crazy attitude. "She's sitting on my bed and I'm making her laugh. Now she's petting my dog, and it's making me mad!"

I told him those would be great lines in a song I would buy immediately and play over and over again. (I hear it as sung by Fred Schneider of The B-52's.) The guy could be very entertaining. Whether he was as gifted as Katy says, I don't know, but when he would go off on a tear, I always wanted to know, So what happened next? Even if the answer made me want to strangle him.