Motown, living in southern california, surfing every week in La Jolla, hot summers at the beach, warm clean blue-green ocean water, more of the British Invasion and the Beatles, Beach Boys, the Ventures, hot-rod and surf music, pre-drugs and pre-rampant testosterone, surfing in Mexico, good group of surfing buddies, joining my first band as a drummer, learning guitar from Danny Weis, rich girlfriends from up on the hill who had yet to initiate and follow Darwinian mate-selection techniques and rules, AM radio, too young for Vietnam, the exciting feeling of endless possibilities.

Afghan Whigs || 1965

How'd this guy manage to write and post a message board entry dated forty-two years into the future? Bizarre.

Sounds like a Keanu Reeves movie.

a personal favorite...along with...a little earlier...



a ton of great records came out in those days...

beat me to it

under-dog-lurker parody thread... heh heh. me likey.

Barney, post more.

great post.... although La Jolla was pretty white (was?)

and either you have the memory of a savant, are a good student of history, or you were indeed old enough for Vietnam. I remember three in my high school graduating class who died in Vietnam. I remember surfing in Santa Monica... not as white as La Jolla.

Yeah, this is a post of the year contender, early in 2007.

definitely "is," though now they allow Jews

How does B. Hazelwood stack up against the Filipino judge, though?

The judge was brain damaged and delusional. Barney just old.

I didn't know that William Rehnquist posted to Obner in the weeks preceding his death.