every now and then someone sends me a picture from the bygone days of my mis-spent new wave youth…
this is one of those pictures.
that’s me on the left, saying ‘hi, it’s 1984 and i live in connecticut but i really wish i was in scotland playing guitar with orange juice.’ this was my high school new wave band, awol. the other 2 members, paul and andrew, are currently serving time in a supermax prison for selling weapons in sub-saharan africa. actually they’re both dads with nice lives, and, apparently, their gun-running days are behind them.
oh, and for the record this picture was taken on a stairwell, that’s why i look so tiny. i’m pretty sure the other band members made me get on the lower step so that they could ridicule me later when the pictures came back. ah, new wave.
i hope you have a nice weekend,
moby