THE PHOTO: MTV Europe Music Awards, 2001
MICHAEL STIPE SAYS: ''This is my travel shirt for the year 2001, and it has all the airport codes written in Sharpie [ink] of the places that I have a memory of, even if I only slept there one night. So there's Miami, Rio, Buenos Aires, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Athens, Athens, London, Hamburg, Paris, Athens, London. The red 'NYC' was supposed to indicate that my apartment had finally been finished, but then 9/11 happened, so it has a bad memory to it.''





