I moved to New York in the summer of 1994, fresh out of high school. The movie Kids was about to start filming. During senior year of high school I’d become close with Harmony Korine, who wrote the script for Kids. Soon after moving to New York I started dating Harmony’s best friend, who was then assisting Larry Clark, the director of Kids.I attended multiple funerals for friends while in my 20s, among them Justin Pierce and my beloved pal Harold Hunter (may they forever rest in power) who both co-starred in Kids. Somehow I’m still here to write about all of it.

This photo was taken in the summer of 1994 by Billy Valdes of (L to R) “Slick Rick” Rivera, myself, Harold Hunter, Danielle Steckler and Justin Pierce.