Far-L

Not necessarily the top ten and not in any particular order but for me certainly high on the list:

1. When my mother got me 2nd row on the floor of Radio City Music Hall for the Grateful Dead electric/acoustic, then helped me escape from boarding school to get to the show and finally get me back before I was found gone.

2. Going to Mexico and getting over my fear of sharks and being in the ocean by swimming in a fenced pool full of sharks, some twice my size, then going in the ocean and swimming with a giant school of barracuda.

3. Winning my adult hockey league championship and making good on my promise that if we won I would re-create the final scene in Slapshot and do a strip tease on the ice... which got me a one game suspension at the start of the next season.

4. Making Porn with Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuess, Tim Hutton, and Buck Henry while teaching Matt Stone and Trey Parker about porn for "Orgazmo" (before SouthPark fame). I pretended to be Trey and he pretended to be me and that was just the beginning of the pranks we unleashed that evening.

5. Going with a friend and a girl I liked but who had a crush on my pal to hike and boulder in Joshua Tree on acid and having to rescue my friend when he got stuck on a ledge and began to panic... which made such a heroic impression on the gal that a flip switched and suddenly she saw the romantic potential in me... eventually leading to a very happy ending.

6. Being at the Orgazmo screening at the Toronto film festival with my record producer pal who just wrapped making a record with the Rolling Stones and him running into Mick Jagger at a Miramax party - then all of us getting invited to be an audience of about ten people watching the Stones rehearse their show, meeting all the Stones, then going to another party and getting picked up by a blond milf movie exec who was attracted to me because I looked so frigging euphoric.

7. Watching the Dead bust out the epic "dark star" for an encore during a lunar eclipse at a show in Berkeley. Doesn't sound like much but it was a mindblowingly heart wrenchingly spiritual moment, for all the work getting there, all ragged, hard, worn down from the road, but never saw that many people so happy and so spiritually moved and then silenced with a sense of rapture. Bliss. Pure bliss. (ok, you might have to be a Deadhead to even come close to getting this one..)

8. The moped ride back home on a warm star filled Summer night full of fireflies after I lost my virginity to a girl from New Jersey who taught me my first lesson on the road to a life in porn, namely, good girls are nice but nice sluts are a good deal more fun in bed.

9. Being on Dead tour and running into a guy whom I once while tripping flipped out on and wanted to apologize to for years and almost running into him on the way to the bathroom at a diner in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and finally able to get it off my chest... best piss I ever took after that.

10. The night we threw a huge party, the original Players Ball, during the AVN show with Long Beach Dub Allstars (Sublime, post death of singer) and afterwards I had sex in front of a room of people (rescuing an otherwise dull girl-girl show from putting folks to sleep) while listening to a few "playas" discuss the inside dope on DMR falling apart - it was a Matix download straight to the brain of how online worked plus some funky sex and life felt very balanced in that way one feels when being in the right place at the right time with the right group of friends should feel.

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