Head Games

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
-Daphne du Maurier
"REBECCA"

Twenty-five years ago today:

August 18, 1985
Sunday

It was 9AM when the telephone rang. It was none other than Miss Rachelle Davies. She talks to me now as if we have NOT broken up!  What gives?   I don’t understand.  I almost don’t want her anymore with all of the head games she’s putting forth on me.  I love her in my own special way but she’s in a ‘too young world’ or something.  If she’d only wake up and smell the coffee. I am just wasting my time with her.   I want a girl that’ll want me solely and love me back.  I don’t want a girl who is all hyped-up into partying and ‘other shit’ all of the time.  It’s just like the morals that Jake Ryan stated during that movie called “SIXTEEN CANDLES”.   I feel the same way. Rachelle should see that movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MK35Ls1TY

I enjoyed the pancakes at mom’s house this morning. Yummy.

Rachelle kept pressing.
“Why don’t you just come over and have some coke with me.”
I played along, but I cannot believe she was serious. What a druggie!
“Well, listen,” I said, “Maybe I’ll do a little stuff at the WHAM concert.”
I thought silently, “Sure, why not, it could be fun. I will. And to think, the day after the WHAM concert I fly to Paris!”

I rented a few more interesting movies: BRAINSTORM, DREAMSCAPE, SIXTEEN CANDLES and MAKING THE GRADE. They were for rent at Long’s Drugstore for $1.99 each. It was a great deal, so I taped them all for further viewing on a rainy day.

I ended up having dinner with mom and dad.

Later, I was doing my aerobics when Bob (one of the guys from Chicago) telephoned me at around two o’clock this afternoon.
Bob asked, “I was just wondering…did you talk to your Dad about renting your place?”
I didn’t say it aloud but I didn’t think I wanted any of these three guys moving in with me after all. First of all, two of them smoke. And as far as Chuck goes…well his cool blue eyes and the resemblance to Matt Houston (actor Lee Horsley) is too much. He thinks he’s Mr. Macho King and shit. I don’t need that childish jerk around. Bob and Chuck are only nineteen years old. Their friend Mike is twenty-one. They’re too young. They’re in that WHAM BAMM stage.
PHOTO: Actor, Lee Horsley

I watched a few movies tonight at mom and dad’s and returned home to my pad to sleep. Mom and I liked MAKING THE GRADE and SIXTEEN CANDLES a lot.

Tomorrow is another day. The good thing is that I only have two more weeks to go.

Rachelle is all hyped-up about her Rick Springfield-concert this coming Tuesday. Grow up!

"She had a right to amuse herself, didn't she? Lovemaking was a game with her, only a game."
-Mrs. Danvers when speaking of Rebecca.
"REBECCA" by Daphne du Maurier