Maybe you are watching creepy movies as a part of your Haloween traditions. Here is a video I made in tribute to Peter Lorre.
If you enjoyed this, I made more
for Bette Davis, Cary Crant, and Toshiro Mifune.
I started one for Humphry Bogart, Norma Shearer, Marcello Mastroianni, Fred MacMurray, Audrey Hepburn, Samuel L Jackson, Javier Bardem, Jean Harlow and Clara Bow and but never finished them. I suppose I ought to get around to that sometime.
The Boreal is a fun all ages venue in eugene with local art and zines and anarchist books for sale. It isn’t lit well, but I suppose that’s part of the charm.
This is Chris from Paleons. He plays a modular synthesizer. The kind with a dozen cables to connect the modules. The band has been going through changes and now includes a lap steel player.
The Long Hallways play beautiful shimmering Post Rock.Their bass player plays bass like its a lead instrument. Through strumming, tapping and virtuosic abundance of notes, he clearly is not content to have the bass stay in the background and establish the root of the chord. Hell, they could add a second bass player to do that, but their songs are fine just the way they are,
Then we heard the droney shoe gaze songs of The Union Trade. Keyboards are a nice addition.
Finally, a fourth post rock band played, Coastlands. This one had some loops of hip hop drums and ethereal noise samples. I think they play ebow guitar drones into a loop pedal. Their drummer was very tight. They eschew having a bass player at all and just bring on the full sonic assault if three guitars.
I tried out putting shadows behind their heads. I think their album art is beautiful and very fitting for their sound.
I took these photos of my drawings at the venue and just gave the drawings away. The bands were very pleased/ flattered. A member of coastlands saw me drawings long hallways and specifically asked me to draw them. I thought I probably wouldn’t have the energy or time to take them home and color them. My photography sucks of course, the room was poorly lit.
Funny Times cartoonist Dan Piraro came to Eugene to give us a lecture about making comics… er, except he didn’t at all and gave us a 2 pm stand up comedy show that included playing a cardboard guitar, drawing audience member portraits, many silly puns and harming ” behind the scenes” hints about some of his best cartoons projected on a screen.
Check him out online here.
i draw nearly every show I attend, but sometimes I never have time to ink, color, photograph and post them here. These drawings are old, but the bands are still good.
I caught Nellie at The Shedd and her show was delightful. I love her bravery for being a prominent performer with a powerful (if sarcastic) anti war, feminist message.
She played “The Dog Song” and “Mother of Pearl.” As well as covers from her new cd from artists as diverse as Frank Zappa, the Kinks, the Cyrkle, the Doors, The beatles and other more obscure 60s artists.
Here are a few of my drawings, I gave them to her and she was gracious and friendly. She told me Rufus Wainwright was her nemesis but I forgot to ask if she knew Jason Trachtenberg. She was flattered by the drawings and said she’d listen to my cd in the car driving between gigs with her mom! What a class act! (and what a goofy, charming smile!)
Regarding this drawing she said “ooh, I’m a ghost watching myself.” and she kept asking, “You drew these tonight? How?”
I started with this adorable photo… Oh, fifty hours or so later I got this print out of it. Their names are Gonzo and Poe. Yes I could do a portrait of your animal for a special christmas gift or something.
ERA CODA plays beautiful complicated music. In the vein of Maps and Atlases and Thought trade. I also hear echoes of Danny Elfman, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Radiohead, Frank Zappa and Morricone Youth. They haven’t recorded yet but dear god their songs are amazing.
They shared the stage with Beef Bottom, an excellent bar band who plays covers of Queen, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John and coolest of all, The Band.Now just learn some Traveling WIlburies and some Black Keys buddys.
Lojia are very heavy dark funk with elements of metal.
Naomi, Isabelle and Kenny put on an awesome show and they dress in all white! Naomi does her best Barbarella impression while Isabelle slams the drums and bangs her head throwing her long black hair everywhere!! Meanwhile Kenny plays synth and guitar with his hair in his eyes!
Fun band !! Cd review coming soon.
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 