Mike Apichella begins to archive five years of his / your youth!

I'm real excited to see how this develops. I met Mike A. in 1997, I think. He gave me a hastily recorded copy of his band's tape and the B side was an oral love letter presumably from Mike to a girlfriend living in Argentina. I assume that giving me this tape was an accident but, as a zitty fifteen year-old without a boyfriend (but with sincere romantic longings for all punk dudes!) I listened to it about 500 times. He spends the entire side of the tape talking about his struggles with jealousy as he simultaneously tries to call a radio station to dedicate a love song to the girl. My favorite line was, and is, "When I look up at the moon and the stars, and all that other dumb shit, one thing that makes me feel better is knowing that it's the same moon and stars that you see - in Argentina." Then he chokes up, tells her he loves her, and turns the tape off. Anyway, I'm excited to think more about the relationship between the archive and personal histories and digitization.