The Ungooglables

There exists a popular pastime of the web known as Googling, in other words, using the Google search engine to find things on the web, including yourself. To my knowledge, there have been only four searches I've ever done that have come up completely and totally bust. Oh, Google managed to give me a hundred or so responses for each, but none of them yielded any kind of usable information.

So, to finish out my little corner of the web, here are my four Ungooglables:

David Lindquist My 8th grade Advanced Science teacher at Pine Middle School in Los Alamitos. Mr. Lindquist taught a sort of "alternative science" class - lots of weird, wild stuff that really sparked the imagination of a thirteen-year-old - drawing on the right side of the brain, stuff like that. Some of what he introduced us to I now know to be unabashedly New Age stuff - he lectured us at length about pyramid power and various and sundry other off-the-beaten-path topics, but I still ate it up. He's the main reason for this post - I actually had a dream about him this morning - I dreamt that he had come to my school as a sub, and I was able to introduce him to my students as one of my favorite teachers. (Incidentally, my teaching partner, Gary, thinks he took a class on Lawrence Kohlberg and moral development from Mr. Lindquist down in California a few years ago - quite possible, as Kohlberg's stages of moral development was one of the topics I first learned about from Mr. Lindquist).

Imre Golden Fellow Los Alamitos High School graduate, class of 1987. A very good friend, Imre played a mean trumpet, and drove an incredible 1971 Mach One Mustang. He lived in Davis for a time, attending the University of California there (romy might have been in contact with him then, although I can't recall - perhaps she can comment). His was the only Googling that did actually yield some kind of results - he ended up on a page from a Davis alum, looking for "missing" classmates. Weird.

Cee Faro Early 80s German new wave singer based in Orange County, California. Had one minor hit on KROQ radio called "Should I Love You?" There was actually a video for the song which made the rounds of local LA video shows like MV3 and that other one hosted by Richard Blade as well, what was it, Video One? (KMJ would know for sure). For all the kids out there, back in the early days, not everyone had cable TV, but we all "wanted our MTV." So, local TV outlets would run their own video shows. Los Angeles had MV3, which, I guess, was quite similar to MTV's TRL. (All I can remember is they didn't show the whole video on the show - they'd cut to the studio audience dancing and commenting and stuff). Video One was a more straightforward video show - an hour's worth of music videos, and the occasional interview with a current hot band, be it the Fixx or Wham! or Duran Duran. (All Southern California-connected readers - didja click on the link for Richard Blade above? Looks like he's been booted from KROQ! Surely a sign of the coming apocalypse).
Anyway, Cee Faro was on Rocshire Records, a label I'm sure is now defunct. About ten years ago, I went on a concentrated hunt to find a recording of the song "Should I Love You?" which resulted. awesomely enough, in my finding at a record store in Orange County the 12" single of the song and his full-length LP, Red and Blue, both in near-mint condition. Not that they're really worth anything to anyone, as it seems KMJ and I are the only ones on the planet (with maybe the exception of the aforementioned Richard Blade) who even remember this guy.

Jimmy the Tantilizer Another obscure KROQ singer, his song was called "Heartbeat Like a Drum" (or something similar to that). Kind of a bouncy, boppy, Reggae sort of thing, I own a copy of this song on a cassette tape somewhere that I taped off a KROQ flashback weekend sometime in the early 1990s.

So, those are my Ungooglables. Anyone have anything to add?