Cat Steven's Mona Bone Jakon was the first album I ever stole, I think. There was a used copy of it sitting on the shelf with the CD still in it, so I popped the CD out and slipped it into my back pocket. This was at a Blockbuster Music that used to exist over on Whittier Blvd; it's a Goodwill now. The woman I would later lose my virginity to was a manager there at the time.

I was listening to Cat Stevens before I even discovered The Beatles. I don't know how I had room for him in my musical pallet at the time since everything else I was listening to was industrial/psuedo-industrial. I would go from Nine Inch Nails, to Skinny Puppy, to some sort of EDM (Covenant, Project Pitchfork?), and then right into Cat Stevens.

I met a girl from OKCupid once who insisted that Phil Collins was a golden god and that Cat Steven's had a voice equivalent to nails on a chalkboard. I called her crazy. She had this funny habit of referring to the number of floors and bedrooms in the house of whoever she was talking about.

"My friend Steve," she'd say, "his house has 2 floors, 5 bedrooms, but he said that the movie was..."

"That guy Gary I was talking about, his parents house has 3 floors and 8 bedrooms and I'm like, omigawd, my house only has 2 floors you know?"

I drove her to a smoke shop (a Farmacy, which look pretty nice from the outside) in Santa Monica and she bought a bunch of ridiculously overpriced herb. I never hung out with her again. She kept talking about how she'd never been with a girl but was in love with this one girl but she had a boyfriend but she'd do the boyfriend too so who knows omigawd I am so scared you know but she's sooo hot. It's amazing how even a year or two out of high school, some people don't lose their high school mentality.

I should really start trolling OKCupid again just so that I have random fucked up girls to write about on the internet. I'll just try to meet people who I match exceptionally low with. "A 300lbs black girl who matches with me only 25% and has a bitchin' weave? Of course I'll meet you!" ... and then I'm never heard from again.

I didn't encounter April Fools yesterday until I got to a house full of kids under the age of 18. Prior to that moment, if it weren't for the internet, I wouldn't have realized it was the 1st at all.

"Brad, do you remember that thing we did last April Fools? That awesome prank we pulled?"

"No, I don't know, I don't think so, was I around?"

"Really man, you don't remember that ridiculous prank we did, man? It was fucking awesome!"

"No, man, I don't think so, that sucks."

"APRIL FOOLS! THERE WAS NO PRANK!"

Site Note: The March 2009 playlist is up.