As we were taxiing back from Chunk last night, the radio started to play an old song from the 80′s. I started drifting back to what I was doing the year that song was a hit and it reminded me of the very first CD I ever bought. So here’s a list of my firsts, in no particular order:
First Address: 123, rue Docquier, Ile-Ste-Therese, Quebec
First Memory: 4 yrs old, my mom making me sing for relatives on our kitchen table
First Best Friend: Manon Boivin
First Cat: Grisou
First Dog: Kooky
First Album: ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love
First Video: Grease
First CD: Pretty In Pink soundtrack
First DVD: The Sixth Sense and The 13th Warrior, bought at the same time
First Time Drunk: 26 May 1982, the year I turned 18 and could legally drink
First Time Stoned: huh… not happened yet
First Part-Time Job: 1978, Dimanche-Matin newspaper delivery
First Full-Time Job: 1983, Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Barber Shop
First Car: 1986, a gorgeous 1974 Cherry Red MGB, my sister co-signed
First Girlfriend: Josee (I forget her last name, how sad) summer of 1979
First Boyfriend: Terry Last, summer of 1985
First Flight: 1987, Air Canada, Montreal /St-Lucia
First Time In The Ocean: 1982, Old Orchard, Maine
First Time at Disney: 1988 for Disneyland, 1990 for Disney World
First Cruise: 2004, with Mailman, Eastern Caribbean
First Marriage: Dead Robot, November 11, 2006
First Blog Post on my new 24″ Imac 2.4 GH Intel Core 2 Duo: this one…
What are your first?
First Address: Somewhere in Toronto for two months, then we moved to Brockville
First Memory: I can’t say which one was first but I think it was also in a high chair…
First Best Friend: Rob Barr. He was a rich kid with all the best toys
First Cat: Lady Penelope
First Dog: Cindy
First Album: The Cars – Panorama
First Video: Don’t recall. Alien?
First CD: KLF – The White Room
First DVD: Gladiator
First Time Drunk: Thirteen. With Mitch Hart
First Time Stoned: Fifteen. Cliche, but I don’t remember who with.
First Part-Time Job: Janitor support, Woolco Department Store
First Full-Time Job: Night Clerk, Walper Terrace Hotel
First Car: None ever
First Girlfriend: Kim House
First Boyfriend: Can’t recall! He was Mr Bear Toronto once…
First Flight: Toronto to UK. Was drunk nearly the entire time I was so scared
First Time In The Ocean: 2001, Vancouver. I didn’t really go in, but I did touch the water
First Blog Post: 2004, Lame introduction. Same computer I’m on now.
Sigh.
First Address:Route 3 Box 37, Huntersville, NC
First Memory: Pissing my pants at the top of the stairs at 3 for fear of going down then to the washroom
First Best Friend: Kenneth Wilson, First grade, I loved the way this pants were always wedged in the crack of his butt
First Cat: Maxine
First Dog: Butch
First Album: Chicago 10
First Video: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
First CD: Clint Black Killing Time
First DVD: Moonstruck
First Time Drunk: 17 while working at Paramounts Carowinds Theme park.
First Time Stoned: 18, with college roomates. Only thime this has ever happened
First Part-Time Job: Ride operatore at Paramounts Carowinds Theme park
First Full-Time Job: Night Clerk Tenneco gas Station, Charlotte, NC
First Car: 1986 Red Cavalier RS 5 speed
First Girlfriend: Janet Wilborn – first grade
First Boyfriend: Carlton Grayson Willis III freshman year at college. I was 18 he was 22
First Flight: Charlotte to NY in June 1983 on EASTERN AIRLINES
First Time In The Ocean: 1972 Myrtle Beach, SC
First Blog Post: never or not yet
First Address: some Ottawa apartment?
First Memory:
First Best Friend: Amanda Holsey, who weeks later moved to Washington DC
First Cat: Lenin
First Album: Help!- The Beatles
First Video: mission to mars, bought for ten dollars IN QUARTERS (yeah, that’s right.)
First CD:
First DVD:
First Time Drunk: in my friend’s basement, 15, rum and with MS Paint proected onto a wall.
First Time Stoned: grade 8, Leba’s front porch. that’s right. front porch.
First Part-Time Job: Second Cup (oh! that was pleasent, i just tasted a little bile…)
First Car: i hate cars
First Bike: my beautiful pink tricycle.
First Girlfriend: Sarah Davidson, the loveliest girl in high school art class.
First Boyfriend: Calan Walker, grade three.
First Flight: Ottawa to St. Lucia? i was 1…
First Time In The Ocean: i live in the ocean?
First marriage…???
First Address: Corner of Mass. Ave & Washington Street, Boston, Ma, 3rd story walk up with another flight of stairs once you got in the door of the apartment
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First Memory: laying on the floor, peaking around the corner trying to watch TV after being put to bed – 3 years old.
First Best Friend: Can’t remember his name, but have a picture of him that Mom & Dad took.
First Cat: Ducky
First Dog: Tobey – Dad sent him back after two weeks….eating the furniture…
First Album: What’s an Album..???
First Video: What’s a Video..??
First CD: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here…before I had the CD player to play it on….
First DVD: Gladiator
First Time Drunk: 14, “Cool” kid up the street had a keg party
First Time Stoned: 15, Previous babysitter – can still smell her perfume….
First Part-time Job: Stone Mason – Helper
First Full-time job: AutoCAD Drafter (school Co-op)
First Car: 1972 Chevelle
First Girlfriend: Kristen Phanuef (not sure she knew….
First Boyfriend: he is still out there….
First Flight: Hartford to LA – 1984
First Time in the Ocean: 1973 – Misquamicut Beach, Conn. always in the water….
First blog Post: Not yet….
First Album(s): Partridge Family
First Best Friend: Mike in Las Vegas. Met when we were 7 and still hang
First Cassette: Kraftwerk “Computer World” or B-52′s “Wild Planet”
First Time Drunk: 9th Grade. MD2020. Didn’t stay down long!
First Part Time Job: BK
First Full Time Job: BK, then Comcast as a Producer
First Car: 1974 Chevy Vega, Flat Black
First Girlfriend: Whitney C in 3rd Grade
First Real Girlfriend: Jenny C in 12th Grade
First Flight: Detroit to Auckland via LA and Hawaii
First ‘Blog Post: 2002
Check me on that, Skippy… I forgot about flying to NYC in college a few times for the College Music Journal new music festivals they had every fall. Always a good time.