Emile was my college dorm neighbor and a decent musician. He also inspired a song by Chris Pearson.

My pet rat Albert died in fall of 1988.  He was buried in an empty lot behind Bret Harte Elementary School.

In the 1990s, Chicago became the center of a so called “post-rock” scene.  Did my record collection, passed on to James Warden, play a role in this?

Brian Omelia hails from the Quad Cities, where my father’s parents also have roots, specifically in Davenport’s Germantown.