Thirty years ago today, something very important happened near Fresno, California. A boy with whom I could imagine spending the rest of my life was born. This doesn’t happen every day. In fact, it’s only happened once, to my knowlege.

Happy birthday, m’luv. I wish you all the cherry trees and dumpy Mexican diners in the world. And stuff.

And I’m sorry it’s been such a sucktastic week, but I’ll make up for it.

So I apparently accidentally uploaded an unfinished journal entry a day or so back, with broken image links and all, and never quite caught it until today. The really sad thing is that no one seems to have noticed either. Oh well.

Sorry for the disappearing act of late: family drama and stuff, y’know? Back soon…

Thing I love tonight: the original version of Obsession by Michael Des Barres and Holly Knight, from the soundtrack of a really bad 1983 movie called A Night in Heaven. Most of you, if you know it at all, know the much more popular Animotion version, which actually cracked the Billboard Top Ten, but I always liked the original much better.

Thing I vaguely knew at the time: Holly Knight was also the lead singer of Spider, who recorded one of my all-time favorite pop songs, New Romance in 1980.

Things I didn’t know: Holly Knight was also in Device, a short-lived mid-1980s band whose biggest hit was “Hanging on a Heart Attack,” the vinyl version of which I just happened to digitize on the same day as “Obsession” above. In addition, Holly Knight wrote, or co-wrote, such diverse songs as “Never” by Heart, Better Be Good to Me by Tina Turner, and Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar.

Reason you should care: None, really. I was just bored.

I just don’t think there’s much I can add to this…