berfdays

the first guy i ever idolized is 63 today. while he's stepped on his dick as often as anybody has over the years, it's no exaggeration to say that if i'd never seen his band's picture in some scholastic magazines newspaper they gave out when i was in 6th grade and gotten _obsessed_, i would be a different person than i am now, and therefore i owe him. big. watch him starting around 1:50 into this vid: both self-parodying and totally great.



and jeffrey hyman from forest hills, queens, would have been 57 today. it breaks my heart to think that three of these guys are no longer living.