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 32-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Mecca Normal is currently working in many modes at once. We’re writing new songs and rehearsing for three shows in October opening for the Julie Ruin (Vancouver, Seattle and Portland). David continues to work (with a very inspiring, high-level of discipline) on his graphic novel about Emma Goldman’s final years, while I’ve recently started writing a YA (young adult) novel that I hope will have a positive impact (in terms of how creativity works) on my $100 portrait painting series—which looks great, piling up online, archived by month with a separate page for the ones currently available. People tell me I should put the price up, but I’m kind of hooked on the thrill of selling so many of them (80 or so of the nearly 150 I’ve done so far). Every month I make a new version of a video with all the paintings up to that point.
“His Own Madness” from the album The Observer (Kill Rock Stars, 2006) (download):
