Wearing red and black is easy when you've got red hair. I managed to maintain red hair for a while in 2005. I didn't take as many pictures then, but I did take a few pictures during a trip to NYC to visit my sister, who was living there at the time. My style at the time was transitioning from cyber/industrial to the very uniquely Chicago "cyclist punk" (punks who rode bicycles, not an official thing...an alternative person who rolls up their pant leg and carries a helmet, pretty much). My haircut was an undercut with two braided rattails (that everyone hated!).
 |
| Coney Island |
 |
| lots of tenement apartments are also fallout shelters. Little did I know I'd end up living in one of these! |
 |
| I'd end up living in one of these tenement apartments. never line-dried though! |
 |
| CBGBs. It'd be closed when I finally moved here. I'm posting this to prove that I was of legal drinking age in these photos. I know I look like I'm 14! |
 |
| CBGB's |
 |
| I'm wearing a Manufactura shirt |
2005 was a pretty important year. I'd started dating the man I'd eventually marry, I quit my final hairstylist gig, was going for my creative writing degree, crashed my car and bought a bicycle (and never drove a car since). It's kind of funny... I actually hated NYC when I visited. I thought it was dirty and too hectic and too cramped. Honestly, I wouldn't live anywhere else now...well, maybe Hawaii or Miami.
This post was part of
