Dr. Kendall Crowns

Lane wasn't always in his apartment, but when he was, Lane liked to get drunk.

And when he was drunk, he liked to get loud.

And he liked to do this at all hours of the day.

I remember one time, at 2 a.m., he sat on his back porch blowing a Mardi Gras horn for over an hour.

Lane also liked to entertain strippers from a local strip club called Bazookas at his apartment.

Sometimes he would be having extracurricular activities with them late at night, and it would also get awful loud.

But the most annoying thing that he did was on the morning of our examinations.

And that activity was, he would play the song Rooster by Alice in Chains.

If you're not familiar with Alice in Chains, they are a heavy metal band that formed in Seattle in 1987.

And they're always mixed in with the grunge musical scene of the 1990s.

If you're not familiar with the song Rooster, it's a song about a soldier in the Vietnam War.

And it is written by one of the members of the band by the name of Jerry Cantrell.

It's a very loud guitar and drum-driven song.

And at 7 a.m.

on every test day, it would start like clockwork.

I would be sitting, eating my Cheerios next to my kitchen sink, reading my panic notes that I had put together the night before to do some last-minute studying.

And I would hear the opening guitar riff to the song, followed by the lyric, "'Ain't found a way to kill him yet.'"

And a few seconds later, the chorus, "'Here they come to snuff the rooster.

You know he ain't gonna die.'"

And all the while, Lane was screaming at the top of his voice along with a song.