Every week, 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 36-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
I know I’ve told some stories more than once. Whatever. I made the video for this song using footage I shot alone at the local nude beach on my 50th birthday in 2010. I forget how it happened, but somehow I accidentally started to upload all the footage from the nude beach onto Facebook. Obviously I hit stop, cancel, halt, etc., and then I went to have a nap. When I returned to the computer, the entire video of me walking toward the camera all sexy-50-year-old feminist like and me walking away from the camera so I could do another take of me walking toward the camera had been uploaded to Facebook. I was mort-i-fucking-fied. I think only one person saw it and commented. I blocked him immediately, as one would.
“Trapped Inside Your Heart” from Sitting On Snaps (Matador, 1995) (download):
