Music – Swamp Things

Happiness, welcome heavy ghosts, and Neutral Milk Hotel

Posted on February 22, 2014July 26, 2014 by jess

Caidy took this picture and I love the blurry darkness since it matches my feeling of joy and melancholy watching them play.

I felt good heavy weight of love for people I know would be there in spirit if such things were possible. Happiness and thanks for such wonderful artists. It was nice to see them again.

The Last Loose Caboose T-Shirt That Never Was

Posted on January 4, 2009October 6, 2018 by jess

Old Loose Caboose T-Shirt Design Cleaned Up

So it’s been over 10 years since the Loose Caboose Coffee House shutdown and stopped making all that racket in West Monroe & Monroe, Louisiana. I thought it would be fitting to post the artwork for the t-shirt that I was working on that final year. Before the Loose Caboose was morphed and resold to become the University Pub, then Atomic Coffee & Tea, then finally Cottonport Coffee. I hear the espresso machine is somewhere in Ouachita Parish.

My wife thinks it’s a pseudo-self-portrait. It might be a little. Inspiration for it actually came from a Billy Goat performance at the Caboose. If you drank coffee, went to show, or loitered at the Loose Caboose in the 90’s you might understand.

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Blue Monday & The Howard Shaft Horns

Posted on October 22, 1994December 12, 2011 by jess

This was a quick logo done for a collective group of Ruston, Louisiana based musicians. It was just a very quick logo to help them promote their gigs as a collective group comprised of two normally separate bands. This was completed sometime in 1994 while I was still enrolled at Louisiana Tech.

Inspiration was the center label for classic blues vinyl records. This is the color version. The logo was mostly used in black and white for fliers.