Brat Pack America

For some reason, Quadrophenia—even now I try to think, what was it about Quadrophenia that made me feel a little better, and part of it was that song “I’m One.” Which we later used in Freaks and Geeks because it captured exactly how I felt. Like, How am I gonna get noticed? Why am I getting treated so badly? Why am I invisible at school? But I was

The year was 1983. Pac-Man was president of the United States and it was illegal to not be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube. I was a young lad of thirteen or so. By this point in my life I was a rabid music fan, buying albums and poring over old issues of Rolling Stone and Creem as if my life depended on it.