[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.]
[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.]