Dream Compass' Inspirations
Sunday, July 15, 2007 by Jason
I got this email from Chris Stevens today, figured I'd share it. I'm editing (and pitching) Chris' Dream Compass, a graphic novel illustrated by Art Adams, Jae Lee, Farel Dalrymple, James Jean, and more. I always love to hear artists' musical inspirations - maybe I'll try to compile some of mine for a post this week.
As you put the pitch to bed over the next few days or whatever, I thought this might go well with a few glasses of wine or what have you....
King's Crossing
Tangled up in Blue
I am a Patriot
How to Disappear Completely - Wow, I wrote "Heaven" to this, played it on repeat for 3 hours, drank rum and cokes in a sticky attic bedroom summertime after making cheese steaks all night, and I had my Jae Lee story afterwards...you should hear it with those pages playing as a slide show, it's pretty fucking right.
My Old Addiction - Very much part of what I did with Farel, or, more precisely, why I did what I did with Farel...first heard this when I was 19, it was on some obscure radio stationcompilation...recently passed this link along to James Jean, who is, by all accounts, an amazing horn player.
Rid of Me - Sounds crazy maybe but the raw drive here has captivated me since the early 90's...
Kerouac reading 'Sax' excerpt - Heard this first on some stitched together VCR tape I paid 20 bucks for on my 2000 trip to Cali, same trip as the CBLDF cruise--actually bought it at the Henry Miller museum, which is a small hut on the PCH in big Sur...I'd read the sax stuff, and been absorbed into it, several years earlier, so hearing this reading was revelatory, no BS. Having long since lost the tape--why do we lend precious things to friends?--I was thrilled to discover it here on YouTube.
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Dream Compass is a graphic anthology written by Chris Stevens and illustrated by Art Adams, Jae Lee, James Jean, Farel Dalrymple, and more. Edited and packaged by Jason Rodriguez, the all-ages appropriate 
