Firsts in your life

First video: No idea. I watched a ton of MTV in the 80s, but have no clue what I saw first.

First car: 1955 VW Beetle ragtop. My dad bought it in the late 50s from a biker who had carved a swastika into the dash. When I got it (in '83) you could still clearly see the gouge where my grandfather had scraped the hell out of the dash, getting rid of the swastika. It had no seat belts, no gas gauge and no turn signals. Totaled by an asshole with no insurance who ran a red light and slammed into me.

First MLB game: Angels vs Royals, May 30, 1976 (I think). Went 14 innings.

First NFL game: LA Rams vs Vikings, Sept. 20, 1987. Dating a girl whose family had season tickets.

First concert: The Police & Oingo Boingo, LA Forum, Ghost in the Machine tour.

First booze: As I recall, Midori daiquiri. (Shudder.)

First album, used: "Meet the Beatles," I think.

First album, new: Either Kiss "Destroyer" or "Frampton Comes Alive." Probably Kiss.

First CD: Peter Gabriel, "Security"

First cassette: Probably one of The Cars albums

 

I'll sack up and admit it. It was 1989 and I drove a powder-blue 1974 Gremlin with air conditioning that I got for $500. My roommate claims that it wasn't blue that it had faded to purple, but the registration said blue, so that's what I called it. I was a poor college student at the time and had just started my first job in journalism at the start of my junior year.

 

Here's a new category.

My first computer: Apple Macintosh Plus. First built in '86, bought a used one in about '89 for $400!

Came with a monster 1MB of RAM. We upgraded it to 2MB for about $200. Awesome.

 

First MLB game: 1977 Orioles-Yankees at Yankee Stadium, field level box seats, first base side.

First NBA game: Knicks vs. somebody 1980 at MSG.

First NFL and NHL games: Haven't happened yet

First CD: Best of Van Morrison

First LP: Don't remember

First cassette with my own money: As previously posted Best of Glen Campbell

First Computer: Compaq Presario in 1993. Don't remember too much about the specs, think it had a Pentium 2 but it had a 14.4kbs modem that I upgraded to a 28.8

 

First time I bought a cell phone: 2005

First time I bought a cell phone that wouldn't look out of place in 2005: Last month

 

First time I bought a cell phone - 2000 as I wanted a way to call for Springsteen tickets to his MSG shows that year while I was in Tampa for his shows in Orlando and Tampa (and two Yankees spring training games).

Still have what I jokingly refer to as a "dumb phone" - it's 3+ years old, has a shitty camera and video recording capabilities, very limited web browser, but the most important thing is that the calls go through and they're clear. Not so sure you get a good quality phone with all the apps and other things that smartphones can do nowadays - seems like the "phone" part has taken a backseat to the speed and app part.

 

First time I bought a cell phone: 2008

It's a sweet flip phone though. Makes me look cool when I'm talkin' on it. If anyone ever calls me on it.

 

When I was 9-10, my hometown college, Shippensburg, had athletic facilities so small that they allowed only faculty, staff and students to attend football and basketball games.

My dad was the head of electronics at the school, and as a result, he had to keep the PA systems running. So my first college football and basketball games were circa 1967-70, as one of very few kids inside the gates or in the gym at these College Division (then) games.

 

Forgot one:

First job -- "Attractions Host" at Disneyland. The Matterhorn, Carrousel, Mr. Toad and Peter Pan.

 

First MTV song: Either "Don't comer around here no more" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, or "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers. I remember watching for a while over a friend's house before we got cable, and remember both videos coming on, but can't remember which came first.

First MLB game: Phillies-Giants at the Vet in 1982. Gary Matthews hit a home run for the Phils, and my dad got pissed because the hot dog vendor blocked his view of it.

First NFL game: A Saints-Chiefs preseason game in the Superdome sometime around 1985 or '86.

First in-person boobs: Some chick who flashed at Mardi Gras my freshman year of college. They were rather nice, as I recall. I'm glad they looked good, instead of an old, saggy whore. It's kind of weird to think two strangers can share a moment like that. She probably doesn't even remember flashing on Bourbon Street, and I'll always have a snapshot of her tits tucked away in the back of my brain.
Precious memories, man. Precious memories.

 

The first computer we got as a family when I was growing up was a Commadore 64 in I think 1987.

First one I owned was an HP Desktop that I got for graduating high school in 2000. Can't remember any of the specs.