On this day in 1977

I was planning to sell photos (8 x 10s of various bands) at the Record Swap Meet, held in the parking lot of Capitol Records at Hollywood and Vine. Hard to believe that music fans ever got up so early, though in the latter days we would usually go there after a gig and Canters etc., and sleep all day the rest of Sunday. I really miss the swap meet; it's where I got my music/record collecting education! Anyway, the night before Jade and I had stayed at Steve Tigerman's place in WeHo so at least it wasn't a trek...

People mentioned: Brent was a good friend from high school who often had given us lifts to Hollywood. Ava was a friend I had known since Kindergarten with whom I had virtually nothing in common, tastewise and aspiration-wise. She was a freshman at Stanford, and could not refrain from mentioning it at every opportunity. Dan and Bill were my best buddies from high school.

3 July 1977

So I hardly got any sleep cause we had to go to the swap meet. A lot of people looked at my photos, but the only ones I sold were of The Babies and Detective. All to guys too, that's weird!

Tiger kept going off and finally I got him to look after my pitch and let me walk around and I swear I couldn't have been gone for more than fifteen minutes but he insisted it was more than half an hour! [I never wore a watch back then.] He had picked up all my pictures cause they were curling up in the sun. And we got in a really big fight. He complained about everything I looked at. He said that Jade had left but she was still there. She had been with the Van Halen geeks. [I have no idea who these people were, unless it was members of Van Halen themselves? They were still just a club band then. But probably they were just fans.] We saw Brent. He's so DEAD now! [Brent, I have no idea what I meant here!]

So then we went to Chinatown. It wasn't too thrilling at 9 o'clock on a Sunday morning! We went home and I talked to Ava. I was going to go shopping with her, and Dan and Bill came over. Said "How did you know?!" [Again, I have no idea what this all means!] They left, and Ava and I went to the Hawthorne Mall, It's so big!!! Ava has such normal tastes in clothes. I want to get some fishnet gloves, the kind that come up over your elbows. [I eventually did; there are photos of me wearing them a couple of years later.] So then Ava had to show me all her many boyfriends in the Stanford yearbook.

When I got home [Jade did not come shopping with us], Jade said my parents were on their way home. [They had been away somewhere.] Oh great. There was no way to get in touch with Tiger. So he came over and we watched a little of Sleuth, then we watched The Spell, which was pretty dumb. [Even though somebody spontaneously combusts!]

By NBC - http://www.blu-ray.com/The-Spell/716545/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57312640