You’re creative, right? I mean, you use fisheye lenses, don’t you? And didn’t you write out your last birthday party invitations (to a vegan cookie tasting at a lofted art gallery) in haiku trains? And when you found that roadkill outside on your street, you grabbed your camera and filmed it, right?
Well, then get your game face on, David Lynch, because this past weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported that none other than Thurston Moore might be interested in being your very own personal arts patron! The SY mainstay has, of course, put in some good hours in the past co-writing art and photo books like Abby Banks' Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy and Michael Lavine's forthcoming Grunge. Now, he’s branching out even further into the realm of liberal arts guru with the launch of Ecstatic Peace Library, his very own boutique publishing house that savvily builds off of his already swingin’ Ecstatic Peace! record label. Creative synergy at work.
Anyway, catalogs of Ecstatic Peace Library's first releases were distributed at the New York Art Book Fair this past weekend to kind of prime the pump. They'll also be available via the Ecstatic Peace Library’s website on January 1. As of now, Moore is planning to release books from wife and bandmate Kim Gordon (insert emasculating “whip” noises here), Goo cover artist Raymond Pettibon, and 1991: The Year Punk Broke director Dave Markey. According to the L.A. Times, the books will be accompanied by recordings made by the authors. Sweet. Oh, and the books will all be distributed through the, uh, much more established and legit D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I've got a photo book of dirty diapers, odd coffee stains on paper placemats, and ironic-out-of-context vanity license plates to make. I smell a best-seller, Thurston!
