Roles Give You Cramps

In 1982, one of his favorite records was Sense and Sensuality, the second album by the British post-punk band The Au Pairs. He knew that he would have been the first person excluded from singer Leslie Wood's radical feminist politics, but he still liked her music, her smoky voice, and her attitude, although he generally preferred their first album, 1981's Playing With A Different Sex. But the more experimental follow-up album is what he remembers hearing when he remembers 1982.  It was the soundtrack for the year.

Life was going pretty well for him in 1982.  He wasn't making very much money, but that was okay.  He had once imagined that the girlfriend he had left behind in Boston was eventually going to come down and join him in Atlanta and he gradually came to realize that wasn't going to happen, ever, and he occasionally felt a sense of loss over that, but that was okay, too.  He was making new friends, and a few friends that he had known back up north had also moved down to Georgia as well, so that was cool.

He has no idea where this picture was taken or by whom, or why he was dressed that way, except, of course, it was the 80s.