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.
Lois asked how I came to give my heart to a political artist, and I had no idea what she meant. I asked her to repeat what she’d said and then I realized she meant my boyfriend Ron, who was standing beside me.
The day Ron admitted that he’d lied to me was also the day he tried to get out of driving us to a show. We’d been going out for five months and he’d never seen my band play. He asked if he could just drive us to the club and not stay. Great. My unemployed boyfriend can’t stay out past 9:00 p.m. because he’s too tired? Or was that another lie? Was he trying to get me to break up with him? There wasn’t much point in asking him about anything after that.
“Walking The Walls,” from Flood Plain (K, 1993) (download):
