Sandy Linter: There’s a lot that I could talk about, but I just withdrew.
Mike Albo: It's a huge challenge for me because all I do is make fun of consumerism.
Linter: Platform goody two-shoes, a bright yellow sweater, a bright yellow and red mini skirt, big black suede platforms that tied around the ankle. I was in over my head.
Albo: You always have to look ready for your album cover shot.
Linter: Okay, fine. [Laughs] Whatever.
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Albo: We were trying to boil down our expression to little New Yorker poetry squares.
Linter: Vogue sent me flowers. And we were in. We ditched the false eyelashes.
Albo: Yeah. We never learn our lesson.
Linter: I did, but it would be many years later when the two of us kind of forgot all about it.
Also: I have a lot of sympathy for people who write promotional copy and magazine captions.
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Linter: For me, it was a half a Quaalude and maybe a line of coke a little later on.
Albo: That's what I do on stage a lot.
Linter: As you know, no cell phones, no computers, no nothing. That was it. Unimaginable. It was getting to be a lot of frosted shimmer shadows—very vibrant. They hate getting it on their clothes.
Albo: They're usually a series of vignettes that don't last longer than ten minutes each.
Linter: But I was selling like hotcakes.