Luis Alvarado

In “Fear of Sleep,” the anecdote follows the stories of people whose sleep is being disturbed, infested, and invaded by bed bugs and cockroaches.  At times when the narrator is talking you can hear a murmured conversation presumably between the interviewer and one of her subjects.  In the first part of the story (talking about the cockroaches) there was a lot of ambient apartment noise that gave a sense of place and space.  In my own recording I could try to include sounds from the practice in the background, as well as the loud noise of airplanes landing.  There were many conversational elements such as laughter from Stephanie, the woman being plagued by bed bugs.  Also, when Stephanie found the bed bug colony behind the couch there was a back and forth between her and the reporter (around the 31 minute mark).   The moment of reflection came when the narrator recounted the story of Stephanie’s experiment with the bed bug to see how long it could live without food.  Ending on the poetic description of how “she’d grown a colony of bed bugs in an apartment of bed bugs in a building of bed bugs.”  This encompasses well the difficulty of dealing with the seeming inevitability of bed bugs.

Caption 1: Rugby on a rotary

Caption 2: They call it “a hooligan’s sport played by gentlemen.”

Caption 3: The game is imported as is the equipment and many of the players.

 Luis Alvarado

Pit Stops: Connecticut to Massachusetts to South Carolina to Colorado back to Boston.

Habits: Skiing, rugby, tickling the ivories, annoying dogs, fully literate, picks things up and puts them down.

Markings: Long lustrous locks, an unshaven face, and  barrel chest.

Characteristics: Connoisseur of fermented beverages, thumbs of a Madden champ, he is what makes a Subaru a Subaru.