A Room To Remember

After Vietnam, I went through an interesting time - I was, some might say cool ...... others would say weird ..... and still others were just worried about me. My hair was below my shoulders, my mustache was on a good start to a fu manchu, buckskin boots, dated an exotic dancer (not Brenda), also dated a lady who owned a monkey (again not Brenda) ..... you get the picture. I was living with Mom in the apartment above Erman's on Elkton Ave. I decided to paint the room, to make it feel more like me ....... but what color would really say something ........ special. I got my inspiration while at the market, do not ask what I was doing there, I don't really remember, I noticed an eggplant fruit. The more I thought about it, the more I liked its color, and then an idea began to form ...... I wonder ..... I decided eggplant would be the perfect color ...... If ...... what I was thinking would work. I painted the walls ..... turned out the regular light ..... oh did I say I had also purchased a large black light? ...... turned on the black light and just as I hoped my wall almost disappeared .... to add to the effect I cut some images out of some black light posters and put them on the walls .... stars, planets, moon, sun, characters ..... they all seemed to be floating in the air ..... very cool. Yellow lines in the wall corners, some fishnet hanging above the bed were just the right finishing touches. One cool room. For some of my nieces and nephews thought it was a bit scary, although some did like it. I understand after I moved out, when Erman tried to repaint the walls, the eggplant was very hard to cover and kept bleeding through. I would not be surprised that there still might be some evidence in that room.