as a teenager in the 80s, he was artsy, angsty, and desperately tried to get away from looking more and more like his father every day. he dyed his hair black, listened to a lot of moody post-punk (very smiths-coded, this kid was), and refused to even touch the guitar. he much rather preferred poetry and movies. i also like to imagine that he, like his mother in her youth, split his time between new york, london, and birmingham.