1. Sunday, June 5, 2011      the balancing act reunites after 22
years       at rhino      the day after my high school
graduation i was on a plane from illinois to santa monica.
six months later i was working at a great record store in west
los angeles during an era of great record stores.      there was
tower, moby disc, aron’s, american pie, the wherehouse, record
surplus, mr. record and rhino to name a few.      i was lucky
enough to work at licorice pizza records and the man who hired
me was gary calamar who youve heard on kcrw      and whose music
supervision can be seen and heard on dexter, weeds, six feet
under, and so many more      among all the other fascinating and
super nice young people who worked there was willie aron who was
part of a band called the balancing act      they had just been
signed to miles copeland’s irs records (r.e.m., the go-gos,
oingo boingo, the english beat, klark kent)      and their first
record was produced by peter case who had recently gone solo
from the plimsouls