Re: [F_MINOR] Surely this is The Mother of All OTs (and don't call meShirley)

[Brad Lehman <bpl@UMICH.EDU>]

At 04:50 PM 6/2/2005 -0400, Robert Merkin wrote:
> I have been having some troubles during the last ten years with recovered
> memories, well, with just one. I am overwhelmingly convinced that, at or
> around age 17 or 18, I was one of Screamin Jay Hawkins' pallbearers at a
> performance somewhere in or around Washington DC. My brother, six years
> older than I, has confronted me about this hallucination, and insists he
> was the pallbearer and I was not one of the other pallbearers. Perhaps
> someone has archival 16mm movie film of this concert and this dispute can
> someday be resolved.
>  (...)
> Cf. also "Ed Wood." Rent the DVD tonight.
> (...)
> Bob the Musical Pallbearer (or maybe Bob's brother)

Dangit, I tried to Google "merkin" with "I'm feeling lucky" and it gave me
*this*:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html

Anyway, good luck with the recovered memories.  Maybe the GG recording of
the Grieg sonata, allegedly channeling his relative, would help?  That and
those really Slooooo...oo...oooowwwww records of the "Siegfried Idyll"?


Brad Lehman

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