What If

February 21, 2012
"I mean, some people climb Mount Everest, are they less nuts? People die on Mount Everest - they get frostbite, they come out with no hands, no toes, dead, they get crushed by avalanches. Other people get shot to the moon and blown up by a space shuttle. For what? To float in the weightlessness and look back on Earth?
So I took things that made you do that without going anywhere. Yes, people died, but was it more insane than the pursuitswhich are put on pedestals by ordinary human beings?
You can look at it as adventuring. Maybe someone is on a path where they're seeking a certain knowlegde, and in order to get it they have to go the way of great danger with the possibility of griveous damage to themselves. But that's where the secret is, you know? I'm not saying people don't get lost, but if you have a compass that's hidden from view, and everyone else is going in the other direction and you're going this way, who's to say that they're not a lemming and that your other way is not the way of sanity? That everyone else is falling off the cliff at the end of the world, but they don't know it. It's about a certain sense of... maybe the flock of birds is flying in the wrong direction." - Richard Lloyd.

Ever since I read Please Kill Me (the uncensored oral history of punk) I've wanted to draw something related to this quote.
It's actually after the end of the book, as an extra, but out of all the crazy, honest and amazing moments, it is the one that stuck to me the most.