Album Of The Week: Grant Green, "Visions"

Starting today, I'm going to start posting links to downloads some of my favorite albums.

Of course, the purpose of these free downloads is so you can preview them, and then purchase the music through legitimate means. I would never encourage anybody to subvert the music industry. There it is, in writing. That's exactly how I officially feel.

So to start things off, check out Visions, by Grant Green.

Grant Green is one of my absolute favorite jazz guitarists, and despite increasing posthumous fame, he really never quite got his due as one of the supreme players from the halcyon days of Blue Note. If your a jazz snob, that is. And if so, well fuck you. Shouldn't you be busy getting me kicked off of your precious usenet boards??

Anyway, Visions isn't THE quintessential Grant Green album; in fact, aside from his unmistakable tone, this record is kinda unique compared to the rest of his musical canon.

But it's hot as shit, sho nuff muthafuckah!

(hint: click on the subject line of this blog to download. I promise, no viruses, etc)

Here's a sketch I did of Grant Green:

Random Sketchbook Shit

Disturbing Childhood Drawings

When I was a kid, I used to write and draw a comic book called "Oswald."

Here are a few random, out of context panels from some of the issues I was able to reclaim from the school psychologist.

Eazy-E & The Mystery Of Blackbeard's Treasure

This is the cover of the first issue of my latest defunct zine.

Not Garfield

High School Hi-Jinx

Not Peanuts

Excerpts From "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad"

These are some random panels from one of my never-to-be-published graphic novels, entitled "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad."

Imagine a 200 page comic strip, with fifty or sixty panels per page, drawn by a young man in the throes of a serious drug addiction.

Then imagine being that very man, years later, doing some spring cleaning, and suddenly discovering a box of drawings and stories created under the influence of Class A drugs... a box that you had every intention of setting on fire, but just couldn't bring yourself to do it.

I'm glad I kept it, in hindsight.

If anything, to remind myself that coke turns me into David Lee Roth, except if everything David Lee Roth touched turned to shit.

Bill Chambers, keepin' it real for everyone who never ever reads this blog.

Desperate Stalker Crack-Ups

Acid Farm

My Two Kiss Dads

Goofus & Gallant

Crazy Homeless Veteran Comics

Peanuts, featuring Eazy-E

The Fold-O-Chair

A low-resolution scan of something I invented a while ago.

I really think I'm on to something here.

Do You NOT SEE The Social Commentary Here?

More random image manipulation, inspired by WWII.

Don Nazi

Based on the lamp from "A Christmas Story."

The Schadenfreude Of Painting

But Is It Art?

Here are a few examples of random photoshop stuff I do for kicks when I'm passing time.