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It’s what I did for the entirety of my parents’ divorce. I became a lifelong peacekeeper. I’m always the guy in the middle, the guy who wants to keep the mood positive. I like creating things that make people happy. I don’t like chaos. But with that desire to please people comes the fear of letting them down. I am constantly worried about being the source of friction. I want everyone to get along. I never want to put my own needs forward in case they upset a precarious balance. This dynamic is what made me the person I am. It gave me the good parts of my personality, as well as the darker
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The Cure’s lyrics were great, but they were ambiguous. God knows what the hell Robert Smith was singing about most of the time, other than love and death.
“Okay, so you saw that, right?” “You mean the grown man trying to make out with you in front of your wife?” He laughed. “Yeah, I saw that.” So, I didn’t imagine it. Robert Smith really did try to kiss me, kiss me, kiss me. They say never meet your heroes, but I didn’t know what the rule about kissing them was.
Jerry lived in a house behind the Rock and Roll Hyatt, and he regaled us with wild stories of life on the Sunset Strip. He introduced us to Mr. Show and Mitch Hedberg.
My best friends follow me onstage. A thought crosses my mind. Maybe I died in that cancer center and this is heaven. I step out into the light and noise.
