Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 29-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
An excerpt from Obliterating History – a guitar-making mystery, domination & submission in a small town garage, a novel by Jean Smith
If Frank saw a hint of displeasure that the evening’s protagonist was going to be a heavy drinker, he’d rush to the end and describe Pollack’s tragic death so fast it would make anyone’s head spin if they were paying attention—and Carol was paying attention, and she laughed to prove it. Pollack would be driving off the road and Carol would be laughing, not at Pollack, but at Frank as he turned on a dime to talk about Pollack’s wife, Lee Krasner, an influential painter in her own right. Frank kept watching Carol’s reactions, and the story would continue like so. In this way, they built it together.
“Attraction Is Ephemeral,” from The Observer (Kill Rock Stars, 2006) (download):
