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David Lester

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About Me

I play guitar in the underground rock duo MECCA NORMAL. This year we released an album on Kill Rock Stars called "The Observer". You can buy it buy clicking the tab on this page. You can also hear tracks from it (and see videos) by going to the Mecca Normal myspace page. I also do t-shirt designs (see the illo on this site). I paint and draw cartoons and illustrations for magazines. Later this year, my book The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism will be going into a second printing (I'm currently updating it). With my musical partner Jean Smith we also do a lecture/presentation called How Art & Music Can Change The World. You can check out these various projects online at:
"Actually, I like crap"
for t-shirts and art
Mecca Normal on MySpace.com http://www.myspace.com/meccanormal
Mecca Normal NEWSLETTER
Main Mecca Normal website http://mecca_normal.tripod.com
Artist Talk & Classroom Presentation:
"How Art & Music Can Change the World"

David Lester's Paintings -- mostly 12 X 12" canvas
"The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism" -- a book by David Lester. Available in the US through AK PRESS
Art, Music, Books, Posters, Postcards and T-shirts available at buyOlympia
Click here to buy the NEW CD

My Interests

I'm interested in art, music, politics, bike riding and reading.

Music:

I like Mikas Theodorakis, godspeed you black emporer, Phil Ochs, MC5, Poison Girls, The Slits, Gang of Four, Wax Mannequin, Unwound, Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Fugazi, Neil Young, Jean Smith , Paul Robeson and Wendy Atkinson .

Movies:

Strozak, Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Herzog version), Missing, State of Siege, Z, Touch of Evil, The Birds, and Innocence.

Television:

TWO FILMS BY DAVID LESTER GRUESOME ACTS OF CAPITALISM WATERFRONT

Books:

The Conversations by Michael Ondaatje & Walter Murch; Hockney On Art: Interviews with David Hockney; I Can Hear Me Fine by Jean Smith; The Trial by Franz Kafka.

Heroes:

Diego Riveria (Mexican muralist); Ben Shahn (painter and social activist); John Heartfield (used photo montages against the rise of Nazism); George Grosz (paintings and drawings satirized the Nazi Party, fled Germany in 1933); Judy Chicago (artist created The Dinner Party). Clarence Darrow and William Kunstler (both activist laywers).Profile Design by
Stew Ellington

My Blog

Art, Music & politics

Interview with David Lester by Visual Resistance David Lester knows that art and music can change the world, and I believe it. His projects are rooted in radical history and punk rock, ranging from th...
Posted by David Lester on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:37:00 PST