From the Book - First edition.
File Under "Music" p. 3 --
A Dream About Lightning Bugs p. 6 --
Watch Me Eat This Sandwich p. 10 --
Erase and Rewind p. 17 --
A Working-Class Tourist Is Something to Be p. 24 --
Measure Twice, Cut Once p. 33 --
Big Ears, Thin Walls p. 40 --
A Line and Some Clues p. 44 --
1979. The Summer of Love p. 50 --
But for the Grace of My Music Teachers p. 56 --
Plan A from Outer Space p. 71 --
Dropped at Exams in a Cop Car p. 75 --
Existential Chicken Dance p. 94 --
Of Mace and Men p. 103 --
An Accidental Mentor p. 107 --
Lederhosen to Pink Bow Ties p. 114 --
My Semester Overseas p. 120 --
Creative Visualization or Useful Delusion? p. 129 --
Where Oh Where Is My Voice? p. 136 --
Nashville-The Best (Preferred) Way to Fail p. 144 --
Frozen on a Suitcase p. 156 --
First Album-Both of Them p. 170 --
Welcome to the Goddamn Music Business p. 177 --
Hand Me That Piano p. 187 --
Throwing Stools (and Other Monkey Business) p. 207 --
Our Turn to Ride the Bull p. 213 --
Rockin' the Suburbs p. 233 --
Rock This Bitch! p. 247 --
Follow the Brown p. 254 --
Benny! What Is COOL?? p. 263 --
Time to Grow Up ... Wait. What? Again? p. 270 --
Music for the Mating Age p. 289 --
After the Flood p. 294 --
Ever-Popular VH1 Behind the Music Artist-Hits-Bottom Act p. 298 --
Following Interest p. 307.