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 29-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Excerpt from Obliterating History – a guitar making mystery, domination and submission in a small town garage , a novel by Jean Smith
When Frank calls a painting Pointy White Mountain, Gordon has to ask, “White mountain, Frank? What am I missing?”
Frank, sitting in the director’s chair in Gordon’s studio, shrugs and says, “I forget.”
For all the hoopla surrounding Gordon Sheldon MacLean, the brilliant young art director at O&M and promising new abstract painter, one important fact about him remains unknown – except to Julia and then to his son Frank, in whom Gordon confides, drunkenly waking him up to ramble at him after coming home late from the Hickory House.
To his eternal consternation and shame, Gordon Sheldon MacLean has no mind’s eye. He is officially a fraud.
“Ice Floes Aweigh,” from The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars, 2002) (download):
