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 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Long before there was such a thing as instantaneous connection at all times, I staged a personal revolution against audio intrusion by only using my phone (a landline, obviously) for outbound calls. To this day, it’s the same. My phone’s unplugged and I’ve never had a cell phone.
“Phone’s Unplugged” from Mecca Normal (Smarten Up!, 1986) (download):
