Alex Hourigan

Do you feel like you've ever been in a flop era?

Or had a flop era?

Pop quiz.

Alan Menken.

Sal and I. Okay, pause.

Sal and I. Sal got me tickets to go see Alan Menken for one night only for Christmas.

And if you don't know who Alan Menken is, he is the orchestral composer for like all of our favorite Disney movies.

He does Little Mermaid.

He does Aladdin.

He did Pocahontas.

He did Beauty and the Beast.

And so it was this beautiful evening.

That fucked me up.

Because basically I didn't know like a lot of the history about his career, but essentially the first half of the evening was him talking about his best friend that was his like co-pilot, that there was two of them that they worked on every project together, and then his best friend died.

And he's playing all of these – I'm going to start crying.

He's playing all of these songs, fuck you, I've got my period, and they're like were about his best friend that he worked with who died and I'm sitting next to Zell and I was like –

What?

What did you do?

I was like, I didn't know it was going to be like this.

It was so fucked up.