Brad Riesau:  

Larry. Kenny Kawamoto lived with me a couple of summers after that, then he'd get tired of bodysurfing and move back to TC for work. I also lived with Ted Moreno from TCHS in Pacific Beach for a while with a guy named Mono who has been a lifelong friend since. My most unique roomie was a guy who played bass w/ my band and drank a TON of beer. He was from Jersey and he'd sit right next to the little black & white TV we had with the volume turned WAY down so he could barely hear it. One of his many quirks. I loved living at the beach in San Diego. Walking at night, lounging in the day. Met a lot of great folks there who I still keep in touch with. We spent weekends in Mexico or driving up the Pacific Coast highway and went to tons of concerts. I wound up meeting Don, a guy at SDSU. We used to book concerts on campus (Bob Marley, Zappa and tons of others) and I learned the PR biz from him. SDSU and San Diego was an amazing place to go to school. The girls were gorgeous, the weather insanely perfect and the distractions plentiful. I'm surprised that I learned a thing and can remember any of it. Again, I had some GREAT professors, Jim Hinkle (Hemingway and Faulker classes...a free-spirited, quirky, brilliant man), William Cheek (history...a passionate, dedicated, no nonsense guy who could mesmerize a room and make history feel as if it was happening as he spoke it), Karl Keller (Literature...a way eccentric, over-the-top, entertaining and gonzo prof who made reading and writing explosive and fun) and Larry McCafferey (contemporary fiction...who became one of my life long friends and runnin' buddies and whose hilarity and brilliance and lust for life influences me every day). Workplace After working briefly at Alpha Beta and with my cousin Phil loading produce trucks one summer in L.A. (that sucked), while in high school I worked at Modern Electric on Las Tunas with Kenny K, putting together lamps and porch lights. Such drudgery but we had a fun and disreputable crew to work with so we laughed a lot. While on Las Tunas, I might mention that my favorite place to eat was Casa del Rey although a pizza at Mama Petrillo's was killer as long as you didn't get anxious and burn the roof of your mouth. Both still there, thankfully, In college, I worked in a restaurant (mostly remember making out with one of the waitresses in the walk-in ice box) and I was day manager at a couple of liquor stores (nice perks for a college kid). I briefly did phone solicitation for some survey company. Talk about a crap job. Yecch. Once out of college, I built a log home in Big Bear w/ my family where I now live half the year (still standing, hard to believe), worked in video stores for awhile and then moved East to DE with a girl I fell in love with in San Diego. Lynn and I were together 25 years. An incredibly real, honest and cool woman. Still best friends and watchin' each others' back. I worked in retail in music stores for a while and then opened my own CD/Record store in Wilmington, DE which I had for ten years. After we closed up, I came upon my current job as a publicist in the music business which has been an incredible experience. I work pr campaigns for mostly jazz artists, have been able to work with some of my favorite stars from other worlds like Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, Derek Trucks, JD Souther and Steely Dan and have had the chance to become friends with some of my childhood idols which has been quite a trip. I've been blessed. Talking about music all day is what I tend to do wherever I 'm working so why not get paid for it. ## Currently, living bicoastally in CA and DE (since 2004) and it provides greatly different lives for me, two disparate and loving groups of friends and my job is flexible enough to allow me this freedom. Soon probably heading west for an extended stay since my folks are growing older and I want to spend more time with them, though I am hard pressed to leave DE where I have an amazing and large support group of 28 yrs of close friends who I love dearly. I'm single for the first time in ages and have really enjoyed it. I never really danced until I was 48. I was always watching musicians play, stealing chords and ideas and thinking, "I can do that"...but I began dancing at a friends wedding and I haven't stopped since. I love it. I always felt like a wallflower too back in the day. now, I'm just an incorrigible flirt...lol. Again, I've been blessed meeting some vastly interesting and exhilarating folks who have made my life rich and happy. Life is good.