Hello stranger, it's been a while Since I last heard your voice

Darren Hanlon - He misses you to, you know.

Even polar bears need warm hearts

"Control yourself and you will be OK. Even polar bears need warm hearts to make it through the snow."




This is one of my favorite drawlings I have done. Partly because how earnest it is and partly because in the little Bear's Ear cracks me up.

Song: Essential Wear for Future Trips to Space - BallBoy

ps. I am sorry Steve. I know how much you hate bears and polar bears in particular.

pps. This one is a self portrait.

The Modern World is Not So Bad

I titled an album of pictures on facebook "The Modern World is Not So Bad" and my cousin asked "Is that a Modern Lovers reference?" to which I replied "My entire LIFE is a Modern Lovers reference."



Song:
Modern Lovers - The Modern World


Now put down that cigarette and drop out of B.U.!

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend

I wait and see if you'll give it to me

I fell in love with the music of Mirah at a Calvin Johnson show at Keene state college. Mirah sings like a valentine. In fact this drawling was a valentine, I think.

Anyways, I had no idea that the song was dirty until after the drawling.

song: Pollen - Mirah

It's Looks like Rain

A lot happen during the spring of 2002. A lot of it was really good, and a lot was SUPER bad. I was listening to My Favorite and I was promoting shows. I got My Favorite to play at UVM, it was all very exciting. I paid their guarantee out of my pocket. This drawing became the flyer for the show.

song: Le Monster - My Favorite

i'll buy the popcorn, if you buy the drink

This is drawing was inspired by the Comet Gain Song "Movies." I kind of ran the lyrics through David filter. I think the song says "You bring the speed & I'll bring the popcorn", I changed it to "BUY" and I substituted "drink" for speed.

song Movies - Comet Gain

"I want radio that says something to me"

I did this for the WRUV spring 2003 Schedule. It is inspired by the Colin Clary song "Left of the Dail" and the mod paintings of American painter Lee.

Here are the Schedules:

And here is the Lee painting:

Twenty Three records, Twenty Three years

So I have decided to relaunch this blog. A while ago in a self obsessive moment of weakness, I compiled a list of important records for each year going back to 1985. Each record for some reason or another is associated with a certain year. Like moving from Amherst to Cambridge and obsessively listening to Tullycraft for about two weeks straight or practicing my Michael Jackson moves in my room with a one ski glove liner on my left hand.

love and records,

david

1985: Michael Jackson, Thriller (4th grade)

1986: Run DMC, King of Rock (5th grade)

1987: Velvet Underground and Nico (6th grade)

1988: the Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s (7th grade)

1989: Rolling Stones, Beggar’s Banquet (8th grade)

1990: the Cure, Standing on the Beach (9th grade)

1991: Operation Ivy, Energy (10th grade)

1992: Fishbone, Reality of my Surroundings (11th grade)

1993: Lemonheads, Hate your friends (12th grade)

1994: Doc Hopper, Aloha (Freshman year)

1995: Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle (Sophomore year)

1996: Chisel, 8 am All day (Junior year)

1997: Tullycraft, Old Traditions, New Standards (Senior year)

1998: Belle and Sebastian, If you are Feeling Sinister

1999: the Lucksmiths, Untidy towns

2000: Neutral Milk Hotel, Areoplane over the sea

2001: Trembling Blue Stars, Broken By Whispers

2002: Saturday Looks Good to Me, S/T

2003: Neil Cleary, Numbers Add up

2004: Architecture in Helsinki, Fingers Crossed

2005: Field Mice, Snow Ball

2006: Oasis, What's the Story Morning Glory

2007: Bishop Allen, Bishop Allen and the Broke String

I am in no hurry things can't get much better than they are.

Oh, the long Vermont Winter. This Drawing was is inspired by a girl, a boy in the background of an Edward Gory drawing and the Masters of the Hemisphere's Song Bats.

it's not what i was thinking.

So yeah, I never finished this one. But I still love it like this, it is kind of fitting. So yeah, this one is about a girl. Shocking, I know. Anyways, I thought we were going to fall for each other and we didn't. Neither of us did, but we are still great friends.

Too Much Info?

Anyways, the song is "Someday" by the wonderful Club 8.

Everything I have never said

This drawing is very Explodingdawgish. I love Explodingdog.com. I am not going to lie about that. My Mom really liked this drawing a lot.

trembling blue stars: Everything I have Never Said

You may know this drawing becasuse it became the cover of the Colin Clary album "100 Decembers."

hands down that was the best part of my week.

So this was the first drawing I ever colored in Photoshop. I was inspired by ExplodingDog.com. This drawing was done at some point in 2001. If you look closely there is a little light house in the background. That light house is where my sister got married.

And the Quote is from the Secrets song "The Lonelist Duet." Called the 'Lonelist Duet' because the Female Vocalist left the band shortly after the recording of the song so Isaac had to sing it alone on stage. I am not going to lie, the Secrets were super Rad. More about them here.

Calling Occupants of Interplantary Craft

In 2001 I fell in love with the "Langley Schools Music Project" I and I am pretty sure they fell in love with me. Okay maybe not but a boy can dream can't he?

So I split Coffee on my Sketch book, and I cried. I spent a long time fixing this coffee damaged drawing.

Song:the Langley Schools Music Project's project's verison of "Calling Occupants of Interplantary Craft"

oh yeah, the girl is TOTALY Ramona Quimby. d

I thought I was adorable, I guess I was wrong.

I like this one a lot. I think of it as a continuation of "with downcast eyes..." The quote is a referance the song "Invisible Bird Sings" by the Panda Squad.

A Sketch Book Remembers

Drawn on almost a challange by my friend Joe Boo (Joe's Drawing of the Same Material is below). This is one of my favorite drawings of this Era.

The Colin Clary song "One Hundred Decembers" reference this drawing, or at least the sketch book that housed it.

that's me, walking with jesus.

It is not going to surprise you that I was listening to the Spacemen 3 a lot when I drew this little drawing. I am not going to post that song, but I am am going to post the twee cover by GirlFrendo.

Walk with Jesus - GirlFrendo

up up and away!

Inspired by the Lucksmith's song "UP!" I drew this "Super Hero." I was going to continue with this style however, I liked when eyes looked like olives rather than eggs. So I disgarded this style.

She is in love with a dead guy

the keene observer would notice that this drawing is a quote from the film Rushmore.

"I miss my friends...."

this drawing was inspired by the braid song "what a wonderful puddle." Actually, by my friend Ben (he plays under the moniker 'Kind of Like Spitting') singing the song in my old apartment in to my video camera.

Kind of like Spitting: Wonderful Puddle

"Sometimes the nice boy wins."

This is flyer features artwork for the Album "Sometimes the Nice Boy wins" by the Part-Time Losers (aka Colin Clary.)


I highly suggest that you check it out. It can be found at http://www.northofjanuray.com or http://www.emusic.com. You will not be sorry. Here is a little taste of the brillance, Sapphire.

I could not draw the perfect star.........

This was drawn on my friend Kimmy's couch in Portland Maine. Her Sister Tay and I were visiting her. We listened to a LOT of Squeeze that weekend. It took a LONG Time to all the stars. I was very Influnced by explodingdog.com at this point, as you can tell from the wide mouths.

Squeeze: Good Bye Girl

Cosmonaut #3

song: Noel Gallagher: D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman

Cosmonaut #2

song: Terribling Blue Stars: Birthday Girl

Cosmonaut #1

Cosmonauts in Love


















song: Ciao Bella: Astronauts in Love

Because he is not mouse enough.....

cowfolk!!

"put an other record on"

This drawing was inspired by 3 songs one by the Magnetic Fields, one by Guppy Boy and one by Billy Bragg.

This was drawn on the front porch of my friend Brad's in Boston. The Guppy Boy song is actually the song "Fall" which was released on the 'My Life or Is this some Dream' Brad's Club Fub Label.

pine

You know that feeling you get when you realize you are finally over some one? Well that is what the quote is referring to. This drawing led to an other drawing (which I have yet to scan) it is of a Boy with a black eye and it says "I just used you to relate to Pop Songs." That Lyric would years later work it's self in to the Smittens Song "Doomed, Lo-fi and In love"

"It's Just a Crush!"

I drew this when I was while I was Deejaying at WRUV. I was playing the Dismemberment Plan cover of the Jennifer Paige Song "Crush." I was really into the idea of having a crush and not acting on it. At that point of my life it was an oddly empowerong thing.

"Don't Say a prayer for me know"

So Yeah, there are 2 songs in this drawing. The first is "Save a Prayer" made popular by Duran Duran, but I was listening to the Push Kings verison of the song that was on the Double Agent 1980 comp on Double Agent Records. I have to say that it maybe the greatest covers comp ever put out.

At the Bottom there is a quote from a Marine Research song. The quote is "A million things I am unlikely ever to carry out/But I like the make-believe." I had changed the quote to "there a million I will never do but..." Basically, I had a crush on a girl and I didn't want to make a move. I just enjoyed the crush.

The Girl in this drawing will later resurface in a drawing inspired bu a Crabs song.

I only have the Marine Research song on vinyl and I dont quite have the paintence to rip so, I will leave you with:

Push Kings - Save A Prayer

You aint got no GAME BOY!!

no song

no explaination.

"I swear I am not as awkward as I seem."

So I so started dating this girl and on our first date I was in full Lloyd Dopper mode. This was drawn the next day. The Lyric is from a Chris Norborg song Bent and Broken (yes, bent and broken is a heart worms song, but Chris wrote it.)

"i am taking off the halo that you gave to me"

for some reason this drawing reminds me of the song "Perscription for a Saint" by My First Days on Juke. But I am pretty sure the drawing predates the song and the song does not include the lyric "I am taking off the halo...."

"You said I was a Saint."

This drawing was done the morning I found out that my granmother died.

Song: Franklin Bruno: "Then Again, Maybe I won't"

The Lapse

This is one of the first Show Flyers I have ever drawn. It is a self protrait really. Although very short lived Bi-Polar Outing was a Brilliant band. Check the song "I got it"

"She said with you there is no Use"

20 years old + Heart Break + SuperChunk = Sock Monkey!

Drawn in the fall of 1996.

superchunk: kicked in

"I don't wanna grow up"

This was drawn in the Summer of 1995. I was working in a toll both.
The lyrics along the side are the Descendents song "I don't want to Grow up."

Ah to be 19, again.