The Future Is Unwritten

Effortlessly cool Joe Strummer photographed by Josh Cheuse, 1985.

“Joe Strummer and Mick Jones were secretly working together again on what would become the soundtrack to Sid and Nancy, The film by Alex Cox. Joe and I were waiting in the street outside Mick’s house in London before we went to the studio. I bet Joe we could do a whole photo session and develop the film before Mick even woke up. I shot some Polaroid 35 mm slide film took out my little portable developer and produced the shots right there on the pavement. Proof of the alchemy when silver and chemicals are combined with the spirit of the man and $5 dollar sunglasses. Groovy times, indeed.”

“People can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world.”

Cyanea capillata by Alexander Semenov on Flickr