So of course, I’d announce it and try to sell a sock monkey. You never want to be left with a ton of merch on the last day when you run an event. It was the last day of the festival and they wanted people to check it out who hadn’t yet, to try and clear stuff out. CotD was a mail-order catalog/zine and the spiritual predecessor to the company Aaron and I would start two years later, buyolympia. I worked with Tina at K Records and knew Star from around town. Watching it now, I get why I would do such a thing (sell a sock monkey on stage in front of a few thousand people) Tina and Star were running a booth for Catch Of The Day upstairs in the mezzanine of the theater. It wasn’t until Ryan Baldoz, who now runs Glacial Pace, but whom I’ll always remember first as the relatively quiet and low-key older brother of the girl my friend with only one working kidney was dating at the time, joking said in reply to my “Oh, if you use it, keep in the ‘Anyway, Here’s Modest Mouse’” part, “Should I keep in the Sock Monkey stuff, too?” I remember the “Anyway, Here’s Modest Mouse” part, mostly because it ended up on the record we put out, but trying to sell Rose’s sock monkey? I do not remember that. The latter of which means I did do stuff I regret, sure, but also, it means I don’t remember the whole time as clearly as I maybe could have if things were different. That kid was always running around Olympia doing something doing album covers for bands, duplicating CD-Rs at night for labels (I was one of the few folks in town who had one, since they still cost over $1,200 at the time), selling tickets at the Washington Center, still working for Housing at the college, helping run the film society day-to-day and, somehow, impossibly, now in retrospect, drinking at least half a dozen whiskey sours at the Reef each and every night. I remember that skinny kid with a red hat and a James Taylor shirt (at an indie rock festival? okay?) but I don’t really remember it as me. Twenty five years ago I was a lot skinnier, beardless and apparently sounded different? It’s surreal to watch now, honestly. ![]() Introducing Modest Mouse and Selling a Sock Monkey.
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