Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 29-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
My buddy Lee tells me about his trip to Dublin, how he walked into a travel agency and booked a flight for Nice the next day. How he took a bus to the airport and got on the hour-and-a-half flight to the south of France. I am thinking that Ron could never do anything like that in a million years. Make a plan, book a flight, go somewhere, do something. Ron had been collecting bottles in the alley to buy cat food. When I told him I was worried about my future he said, “Me too, baby.” I knew he didn’t mean that he was worried about my future. He was worried about his future, too. I felt so much worse.
“Texada Warns Me,” from Flood Plain (K, 1993) (download):
