I love this article, excerpted from Paul Rossen’s webpage. Pauline Kael, Harper’s, February 1969.

Like those cynical heroes who were idealists before they discovered that the world was more rotten than they had been led to expect, we’re just about all of us displaced persons, “a long way from home.” When we feel defeated, when we imagine we could now perhaps settle for home and what it represents, that home no longer exists. But there are movie houses. In whatever city we find ourselves we can duck into a theatre and see on the screen our familiars—our old “ideals” aging as we are and no longer looking so ideal. Where could we better stoke the fires of our masochism than at rotten movies in gaudy seedy picture palaces in cities that run together, movies and anonymity a common denominator. Movies—a tawdry corrupt art for a tawdry corrupt world—fit the way we feel. The world doesn’t work the way the schoolbooks said it did and we are different from what our parents and teachers expected us to be. Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. 

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There are 3.6 billion orgasms every night. Ashley is looking for one.

I recently edited this for my friend Andy Irvine. As is the case with all of his work, it was a pleasure to put together.

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Voyageur Press in New York recently contacted me about an illustration I did of The Dude and Walter Sobchak of The Big Lebowski. I gave them permission to publish the piece and it looks like the book will arrive Fall 2012! Very flattered and excited.

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Here’s another illustration. This is Luke Wilson’s “Baumer” character from Wes Anderson’s Royal Tenenbaums. Click on the thumbnail to download the desktop wallpaper!

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Here’s a portrait of Clint Eastwood’s famous Man With No Name character. Clicking on the thumbnail will lead you to a desktop wallpaper!

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