I was talking to a cast mate who was referring to her first impression of someone’s husband: “My first impression was, ‘wow,’ he look like a farm boy from Montana.” Now, the lad is from Montana but I doubt he’s ever farmed. Still, we all mutually agreed that we had had similar impressions. I asked her what her first impression of my own husband was, (because, you know, I was curious). She said, “Well, when I met him at the cast party I was pretty drunk; all I saw were earrings and tattoos…so I just figured he was THAT sort of guy.” I said, “Earrings? He doesn’t have any earrings…” She shrugged and said, “Well, that was my impression, that he had earrings…and he has tattoos right?” I said, “Well, yes…one, but it’s not visible….”

I laughed to myself that Josh still gives people the punk rock impression after all these years. You can take the man away from the music and put him in an IT job at Boeing but you can’t take the punk rock out of the man, I suppose.