@drivenbyboredom

When I was 14 or 15 my best friend Tom and I started a punk zine and we interviewed Nathan Strejcek, the frontman of the first ever straightedge band, the Teen Idles. We literally found his name in the phone book and cold called him and he just answered two kids questions for 45 minutes. A year after we interviewed him the legendary punk zine, Maximum Rocknroll, republished our interview. I had totally forgotten about it but Tom just found the interview and sent this to me. I had always thought my first ever published media was a joke I wrote for Playboy when I was 18, but turns out my first published article (outside of my own zine) was when I was just 16. I don't think I had my first photo published until I was in college.

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