Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 07, 2015
June 06, 2015
June 08, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: Where were you the first time you heard U2's "Joshua Tree" album? Rat: At my cousins house, in the living room. Summer of '87. Where were you when you first when you first heard Nirvana's "Nevermind"? Goat: High school parking lot. Right after school. Windy, fall day. Goat: Guns n' Roses' "Appetite for Destruction"? Rat: At a motel in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It was raining. Room smelled like cigars. Goat: Hang on... I gotta take this call. Blah blah blah. Okay... Bye. Sorry about that... Okay, what were we just talking about? Rat: I hate it when that happens. Goat: I can never remember anything.
Suppose everyone has a song, or songs, they remember where they were when they first heard it. For me it’s Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters. August, 1984, family vacation to the Outer Banks of NC, age 9. Had just gone to see a performance of The Lost Colony (the only play I ever recommend) and was in the car trying to leave Roanoke Island when the song came on the radio. Ended up wanting to see the movie because of that (think it was ’85 before we rented it, on Beta at that, and I finally got to see it).