November
10 Friday
B(spare)-Dave,
Christine and I went to the shops, got donuts, sat outside
Steinberg's. Dave and Christine said
they were going swimming tonight. Lunch-Ralph, Linda,
Ruth, Dave and I went to the C.C. and stood in the corner.
Watched people swimming through the windows. On the way
in we passed Chris, we said "Hello Christopher".
nite-smoked my last splif before anyone came, got stoned.
[I'm waiting for Dave and Linda to arrive so that we can
go to Alan's (they're late of course)]. About 7:45
Ralph, Dave, Danielle and Linda came. Ralph brought a
thing that squirts water. At 9:30 Mike F. came. Everyone
left at 11. [Dave Danielle Linda
and me went to Alan's. Dave and I hid and followed D +
L to Alan's. At Alan's Lesley was already there. Left
at 11 pm. Nothing much happened.]
November
11 Saturday
At
2 the old man drove me to Fairview, met Ralph and we
walked to Dave's. Took a T-Rex picture out of Sue's
room and I drew some of it. Watched 'Bugs Bunny', then
we walked to McDonald's and ate. Went back to Dave's
and Diane came over. We frizzed our hair by teasing.
At 10 we went out in the field with a flash light and
one of us had to find the rest in the grass . Got a
ride with Ralph at 11:30...Ralph's
account does not match in all details-
[Rode my bike to Dave's.
Alan was there. Went to MacDonald's at 6:30. I now owe
Alan $1.10 and Dave 20 cents. Went back to Dave's. Andy
had called while we were out. We called him back 2 times
but he was out. Diane came at about 9 pm. Went outside
and played hide and seek in the field in the dark with
a flash light. Went back to Dave's for 30 min, got picked
up at 11:30 pm]
Rod
Smith
Dave
Webb
Laura
Kalio
Tom
Niven
November
12 Sunday
nite-at
6:45 Lesley came over, I scared her when she came in
by sitting in the dark and opening the door [to
the basement room]. About 7:30 Dave and Ralph
came. Drank grape juice, tried to get the record player
to work. Read bits out of this book and the others.
They left at 9:30. [Went to Dave's
at about 3 pm. Witnessed a fight with his mother about
some glass that lights up that he had broken [?]. Stayed for supper. Rode our bikes to Alan's. Stopped
at my house to pick up pictures of Oct 14 for Lesley.
Got to Alan's at 7:25. Talked about memories. Alan's
record player was dead again. Alan read out of his diary
[which
probably inspired my switch to the notebook diary. Even
at this time we were already nostalgic for our own (brief)
past together, and concerned with the preservation of
that past, and the ongoing present, for future reference].
Left at 9:30 pm.
November
13 Monday
Richard
followed me to the student's lounge, he caught up with
me before I got there. Lunch-Ralph, Dave, Ruth, Andy
and I went to the C.C., sat outside the rink. Andy left
then Lesley and Linda came. We went in and sat downstairs
by the data room. French-stood by the main entrance
then Ralph, Dave, Christine, Gail Astles, some guy and
I went to the shops. Ran into Ralph and broke my watch
strap. Got donuts, sat outside Steinberg's. Math-Andy
and Mike didn't go. English-didn't do anything, talked
to [Dave] Webb and
[Tom] Niven [Tom
was a friend of Dave Webb's and also Rod Smith (->).
He, Dave and Lora were part of a jock group, and I became
friends with them in English class] about
groups at the Pierrefonds Arena. After school Christine,
Linda, Dave and I got Dave's bus and we went to Fairview.
Got the album 'Jethro Tull Living in the Past' (76).
Walked around, got the 4:15 bus.
Jethro
Tull
This Was
Jethro
Tull
Living in the Past
76.
This album reminds me of November 1972, with a feeling of
snow and medieval imagery. In fact the period since September
1971 can be vividly recreated in my mind with the music of
the time. For Lesley's basement (late 1971) it is Black Sabbath
and Led Zeppelin IV (I know we listened to Uriah Heep, one
album cover had some sort of serpent monster on it, another
was a mirror, but I don't remember their music at all (since
writing this I have got hold of a 'best of' CD and they sound
like Deep Purple...). Ten Years After's 'Shhh', Jeff Beck's
first album (with Rod Stewart) and Alice Cooper's first three
were also important (though 'Love it to Death' stands out.
Minor ones included Dave Mason, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and others long forgotten I'm
sure), but Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath evoke the strongest
memories). Dave is of course T-Rex, and the times at my place
and Gillian's are also T-Rex and Jethro Tull (my place is
"Thick as a Brink" and T-Rex's "T-Rex", Gillian's "Benefit".
Ralph is brought to mind by "Stand Up"). Of course there is
other music ('Hocus Pocus" by Focus (Ralph. This album, or
at least the song, was huge in Montreal. Another album that
sticks in my memory is the underrated first release by Blodwyn
Pig 'Getting to This', which Ralph also owned), Emerson, Lake
and Palmer (Ralph and Gillian...actually on second though,
we listened to ELP far more than the journals would indicate
this year. At this time Gillian's parents owned the most advance
stereo of anyone we knew, which lent itself to reproducing
the then high tech sounds of this band. The song 'From the
Beginning" especially reminds me of there), Alice Cooper (Lesley
and Chris), Zappa (Don and Ralph), the Stones 'Exile on Main
St.' (summer my place) but T-Rex and Jethro Tull will always
represent 1972 for me.