The Least Brilliant Idea I’ve Ever Had

Or “How our subconscious can play the worst tricks on us when it wants to.”

source: personal files

In the late eighties, I took a trip to Europe that lasted forty days. At the time, I was a keyboardist in a band in my high school, so all I thought about was music. Because of this, I spent almost half the money I took — which literally forced me to starve — on CDs, some…