[At] the LA Universal Amphitheatre 9-86 show
[...] Michael just told this story [...]: "A man had a house, he built a wall
down the middle of it, he had an apartment on *this* side, he had an apartment
on *this* side. [To a screaming person in the audience:] Shut up. In *this*
apartment he had furniture, clothes, food, books... a cat. In *this*
apartment he had different food, different clothes, different furniture,
different books. And a gerbil. ...No that's not true. He would live over on
this side for a while, until he got tired of it, then he would take off his
clothes and put his books down on the counter, and he'd move over to *this*
side for a while until he got tired of it and then move back over to *this*
side and he flip-flopped back and forth until he died. When he died they went
into the house and they crawled back in the back apartment, back in this
closet, over *here*... And the whole closet was filled, floor to ceiling,
with [someone in the crowd yells 'Gerbils!'] -- this is *my* story, c'mon you
guys... This is true, by the way, this is incidentally a *true* story. Peter
can confirm it for you [Peter Buck, wryly: 'This is indeed true.'] Must be
getting old.... When he died they went back in this part *over here* and in
the closet they found these books piled up, from the floor to the ceiling,
packed in, and it was this book that he wrote and every single copy of the
book that was ever printed was in there, he never gave one away or showed it
to anybody so nobody ever knew that he wrote it. He just kept it there. And
the name of the book was 'Life and How to Live It.'" [Furious guitar intro to
song.]
REMFIELDon October 14, 2007 Link
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