Tribute to Circus
In a recent trip to my folks’ house back in the burbs, I found some drawings I now remember doing with a particular fondness. They demand a slight preface, I think: during the summer of 1997 I was visiting my dad for a month, and my stepsister got me turned on to Circus magazine, which contained a number of steamy photos of rockstars I had crushes on. I was a pudgy kid with hair down to my butt and i HATED the summer heat. So I stayed inside mostly and drew pictures of rockstars. Over time I became adventurous and drew a variety of people I admired, including female musicians, and one comic. There are 12 drawings total. I plan on doing this in semi-weekly installments. Here is the first one, of Daniel Johns. My stepsister was madly in love with him and it rubbed off on me a little (it’s the one that got me into Special Art in 6th grade. It took me a long time to make friends).
And please, feel free to send me your tween drawings you’ve done of celebs, but I must demand that these pieces have been completed close to, if not during the nineties. Very important. frances.quinlan@gmail.com
I’m being completely serious about that too.
In other news, we have four songs in the making, and I’ll be laying down some more tracks in Headroom Studios later on this week. I’m looking forward to chilling in a rope swing for some inspirado (I very highly recommend having one of these around if you plan on making any ambitious recordings. Also a moniter playing the entire Planet Earth series. Or just the scene of the jaws of a great white closing down upon the body of an unlucky seal, showing on repeat).
