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Normal History Vol. 300: The Art Of David Lester

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 30-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.

Sean Michaels, the winner of the 2014 Giller Prize (Canada’s most lucrative literary award at $100,000) recently reviewed a song on Mecca Normal’s new album, calling it “a masterpiece of story and manifesto, a lesson in life.”

The lyrics for “Odele’s Bath” are directly out of my recently completed novel, The Black Dot Museum Of Political Art,  in which a museum curator discovers her uncanny ability to cure narcissism.

“Odele’s Bath,” Michaels continues, “ … doesn’t need me to scatter it with glitter. Shut the blog down, fire the staff, bin the servers. Light the house on fire, in an empty lot, with Mecca Normal on cassette and a boombox turned to high.”

Sean Michaels writes about music for Said The Gramophone, named by Time magazine as one of the 25 best blogs of 2009.

“Water In A Bucket” from Water Cuts My Hands (K, 1991; Matador, 1991; Smarten Up!, 2003) (download):