Emulsional Problems

     I delivered sandwiches and salads for Marsha's Sandwiches from 1970 to 1972 because they gave me the coolest route, the Sunset Strip from Vine to Doheny. My first day they gave me baskets of sandwiches and a list of businesses on the strip that regularly bought from them, including hair salons, record companies, production companies, and anyplace else I might care to check out along the route, all the way from the Whiskey to the Cinerama Dome.     Thus I was afforded the perfect excuse to burst into any establishment I pleased as long as I had my wicker basket full of goodies. Burst I did, gathering two other jobs in the process, getting fired from both, and ending up back selling sandwiches.      My first gig courtesy of Marsha's Sandwiches was receptionist for Cinemobile. It lasted two weeks until the president of Cinemobile returned from Europe and discovered to his horror that his new receptionist didn...

One day around 1978 I came home to find a kid on my front porch playing trumpet. He was around 14 and he was pretty good, so I invited him in. I play piano and guitar and we played for a little while together. His name was Michael. A few days later he brought by his friend Anthony and he hung out while Michael and I jammed. They discovered my bong and we got high and made music together. This went on for about a year until I moved.   I didn't see them again till many years later. Michael had changed his name to Flea and given up the trumpet for bass. They were the Red Hot Chili Peppers.