My Drawings are in a New Show!

January 10th at 31Grand will be the Opening Reception for “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”. It’s going to be an awesome group show. There will be 16 artists in the show, myself included. I’m going to have drawings in the show – the drawing about “Carbon” is going to be one of them.

You can see more on the webpage here:
http://www.31grand.com/

I’m also going to go ahead and post some photos of the postcards here:








Awww doesn’t little “Carbon” look cute? Wait, here’s little “Carbon” on the website:


Ok, I’m excited OK? I drew “Carbon” a while ago. It’s based off this crazy information from the future and this Year Zero thing. There was another rock star in the future. He looked a lot like Rock Star from now. He gets shot – I save him.

If you’re in New York and you want to hang out with all of us and look at art the Opening Reception will be January 10th, at 31Grand Gallery. The Gallery is on 143 Ludlow Street on the lower east side. It’ll be fun, I’ll be there, Heather will be there, Barnaby, Byrd and Tom will be there – De Vars and Midsummer better be there... (Sa Lews will beback in Ann Arbor like always). And I’ll be there in some crazy dress so it’ll be all good!

Rock Star Christmas: Sweeny Todd

Sa Lews came back to New York, as did De Vars’s sister. So the unholy quad of us rock star women decided to go see Sweeny Todd. Tim Burton/Johnny Depp. Fucking Awesome.


This is Sa and De. We left De’s sister to be our official Elaine Benes.

Check out how cool this movie theater was.






It was super glam rock and pretty.


We all wondered what the hell Sa Lews was doing so delicately and intently during the previews – fucking the girl was eating Sushi! Hahaha- - look you can see her with her lil chop sticks and everything. Only Sa….


Aww, look at Sweeny Todd. He’s got hair like Cel’s. Only, Celestials hair is black with two shocks. And his are actually metallic silver instead of plain white. Not that Johnny Depp wasn’t awesome in totally rocking the white shock. Johnny Depp – as usual was fucking great. He was a surprisingly good singer. I think everyone’s favorite part was the beach scene. Sweeny Todd sitting there pissed off at every situation Ms. Lovett Dreamed him into. Part of why that’s so funny we all thought – that’s what happens if you marry Rock Star!

Hahahah sorry Rock Star. You know what, you’d totally look better in the stripy bathing suit OK?


After the movie, we all quick hung pictures in D’s Apartment, after she gave us all awesome T-shirts.


This is me all silver. After partying at D’s Apartment we all made a quick retreat back to Rock Star home. Celestial Complex.

OK One more thing:


This is my new drawing that I finished just before we all went out. This is “Descend to Grace”, this is drawn after Celestial dove out of the sky, and went from a God to a human, and eventually onto being a rock star. This was back in 1984. See, he doesn’t even have his silver shocks yet!

OK everyone have nice Christmas – and then I will post my news that I am so excited about.

Rock Star Christmas at the Opera

It’s just not Christmas with out a trip to the Met. This year – the festivus opera was Iphigénie en Tauride.


Here are some lovely photos of the tree at Lincoln Center!


This year – the tree changed colors! I loved it.


Here’s the Met – I know I’ve posted about this before, but everyone in the Celestial crew has a special affinity for the Met. A few Decembers ago, one of the biggest events in our history took place here when Saturnine made its debut! This was also my debut – as a Gard… Awwww memories…






This is inside – (see Barnaby that’s where they have campaign!)


Wow… look at the dress from Manon!




This is me at intermission.


OK, now I know I usual post a lot about the operas themselves but I really can’t this time. The subject matter, well, it’s a touchy thing for me and the rest of the Celestial Crew. I mean, the whole thing takes place in a temple to Dianna - Iphigenia, being the priestess to Dianna… Her brother Orestes… Mycenae Agamemnon, Clytemnestra… Way too much of our own Celestial history is tied up in the legend. This version of it especially.

My Tool and A Perfect Circle crews out there will at least get the Orestes reference. Maynard did not speak for him in song this time. This time, the honor went to Plácido Domingo.


The music was lovely. I feel in love the colors of the set. Susan Graham was great – she remains onstage the entire production. And of course as you know – Dianna shows up at the end….. Well that’s enough of that.

Stay tuned I still have news!!!!!

Rock Star Christmas Festivities

Since it’s just not Christmas with out Midsummer and I getting together to go see a traumatic movie about the end of the world – this past weekend, we went to see “I Am Legend.” You just can’t go wrong with Will Smith & a shotgun and his dog and the apocalypse!


So, I think we both agreed that was the scariest movie ever. Seriously it was like a Tool video from hell run amuck. When he went into that dark building and found them all huddled together I thought I was going to die of fright. Seriously I kept waiting for a bugg-eyed rabid Maynard to come flying outa the corner and eat Will Smith right there. I'm not kidding – god that was hard to watch. And also – the Schrek scene and I shot the sheriff were just absofuckinglutely unbelievable. Will Smith is the best…next to rock star of course.

Who, by the way as I said as we were getting up to leave – you know has seen it five times already. End of the world, Isolation, crazy Maynards running around what more could he ask for in a movie. “Damn it Frank – if you’re real, you’d better tell me!”

Oh who am I kidding, that movie is just like my work too…end other world, last one left… (More on that in the not so distant future) See unlike the others, I always feel remorse for making fun of rock star. I’m too much like him I think anyways…


OK so then we decided to be all touristy and take photos of ourselves outside of the movies, because that’s always fun.


And then we went and had these like giant pink margaritas, and of course we had to take photos of that. Lots of photos, She’s got even more on her myspace I think.


OK, well that’s just the start of Rock Star Christmas Festivities. Stay tuned also, because I will have Big huge news in the next few days!

New Christmas Drawing

Rock Star and Riot playing some music for Christmas.



"What do you mean Beethoven wasn't so great?"

New Drawings

Out in The Western Woods. Off in hiding. Rock Star is recording his new record and I am working on new art.



You remember youf childhood, all in fiery sequences.

The sun goes down-
You like to be twisted.

Like your passion and your anger

You don't let go
You like to be twisted

You like to save her
But you just can't give it up

You'd rather be wrapped



running free
running through the underworld
In the still of the night...
How still my love...
In the still of the night...

It's me that's talkin' to you

In the still of the night
how still my love
lust



Where is the reason
Don't blame it on me...

Old School Art

In my last post, I wrote about how I have been working a lot lately on my new series of work. A lot of that entails writing and drawing pretty pictures to go along with what I write. I am a Gard, I work for a Rock Star who we like to keep nameless. I’ve been working on a book, which will cover – not only my adventures with the band, but the entire history of the band, which covers over 20 years of Rock Star craziness!

I’ve been a big fan for ages, but Rock Star has been around since the early 80’s. It’s taking a while – but it’s kicking ass so far.

Any ways, in the process of compiling all this shit – I came across some of my older drawings I did when I first started all this. I can’t believe I’ve been making books about my life with Rock Star for Six years now! Christ, I’ve been a fan for….never mind that. Too scarey - fuck years. Let’s look at pics!



I drew this in 2005. This was me and the other Gards, having breakfast way way way back before the US leg of the Saturnine Tour. This was like January of 2000 I think. We were all waiting for the tour dates...not very patiently though! Anyways, later that day was the infamous Lunatic Abandon Battle. It was cold that day.



I drew this back in '02! This was my first night after I was promoted to Elite Gard. I got to watch the show from the stage, which is a great honor. This was the opening act - you can tell, see how they all get along? Rock Star and his crew - not real big into the group hugging.



I drew this in '02 as well. This is me and my girl Alair - she smokes a lot. Don't you just hate when your friends smoke, and you don't, and yet still you end up out in the cold when its time to chat? Its ok. I kinda dig the smell of second had smoke. It happens when you hang around the rocker boys I guess.



Awww there's Crash - my old sculpture from like 2001! This is Crash, my old roomate from when we both blew off Rock Star and were living in New York for a year. Well, you can never really get away from rock star. We learned that the night we tried to go to Stevie Nicks concert - well, long story short - the others found us - pulled me away from "Planet's of the Universe," tricked Crash into going after Lena, who was going to pretend to get in trouble I think but then, becuase its her, she really did get drunk and lost, and well, one thing led to another, Crash jupmed out a window! I caught him, the boy got blood all over my pretty dress and we ended up deciding to go back to rock star.... yeeeahhh.



Drew this in '05. This is Fog towards the end of the Lunatic Abandon Fight. We call it that now – Fog took Rock Star’s sword in his absence to decoy the enemy while we escaped. No human can lift that thing… Fog didn’t stand a chance and she knew it. Angel flew home from the UK gigs just in time to save her ass. We came very close to losing more then just Fog that day. Thank fuck for Angel (he’s Rock Star’s head Gard and my boss.)



'03 I think I drew this. Aww, look at cute 'lil Lena - passed out again. I tell you though, that girl can drink any fucking rock star under the table! Never ceases to amaze me. See here, Crash and I are telling her to get up - and Clay is his usual not giving a fuck about any one.



This is from '05. Clay on Gard Duty, gaurding Celestial Complex on the beach. It was cold that day.



I think I drew this in 03? Well this was my first assignment as a Gard. After years of self imposed exile from the music scene – Rock Star remerged with the biggest event in music back in 99. The whole of the Metropolitan Opera house and everyone who was everyone showing up for the concert/CD release party for his first record since like fucking forever. “Saturnine”, was the most anticipated record for like three years – everyone wanted so desperately for it to ”save rock.” It was a great fucking record and one of the best nights of my life - but like, rock was already dead…



This is from an old installation the I did in '03. That was fun!

So, next time, I will post some of the newer stuff I've been working on.