This World is Totally Fugazi
Behold my very first Totally True Story Tuesday ever, posted on Facebook on December 30th, 2014. I don’t recall the exact motivation behind writing this up, or making it public. But I did, and here we are.
Okay so in 1988 I did my very first college radio show, as an apprentice under a savvy senior DJ named Pam. I was still very much a sheltered, ignorant, unsocialized prog rock nerd at the time. So much so that when Pam asked to fetch a Fugazi album from the collection this led to some "Who's on first?" comedy act where she referred to the (very new at the time) indie rock band, and I referred to an album called "Fugazi" by the band Marillion. The conversation went something like:
Pam: Can you get me that new Fugazi record from the library?
Matt: Oh I love that record, but I dig their earlier stuff better.
Pam: What earlier stuff?
Matt: You know, "Script for a Jester's Tear."
Pam: ?!?!?!
Matt: [digs out Marillion's "Fugazi" from the library and shows Pam]
Pam: [completely stumped by the ridiculous cover art] Oh this is a different band.
Matt: Ha okay – but pretty cool that this Fugazi band named themselves after this Marillion album!
Pam: ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Anyway... fast forward five years. Several random and unexpected twists of fate later I found myself living in Oakland, California and my housemate’s brother was a member of the band Fugazi. And as some kind of postponed karmic penance for previously being such a clueless, miserable prog-rock-centric dolt she had a cat that would frequently sneak into my room and crap on the floor behind my stereo.