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- From: gaile@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (Gail Edwards)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Re: Stanley Mouse's book "Freehand"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211649.23218@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:16:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.030319.1770@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec17.030319.1770@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> IWS%ssmic@cdfq.ssd.ray.com writes:
- >If you've ever wanted to see a lot of Stanley Mouse's work in one place,
- >then this book is it!
-
- Thanks for the nice review, Ihor. I got Mr. Mouse to autograph a copy of
- this when he was in the city last Monday. I also loved the introductory
- collection of short essays by Mouse. It was fun finding out how Stanley
- got the name Mouse. And fun having Stanley tell about how he decided to
- enroll in art school after getting expelled from highschool. Fun reading
- about his ill-fated trip to England and going to the hash party that
- inspired the Beatles tune "Birthday". Mouse's dedication to Griffin was
- both funny and sad: "Paint the Pearly Gates, Rick. And don't let
- Uncle Bill charge admission." Then of course, there's all that incredible
- art work. Wow!
-
- Now I'll be the first to admit to being partial to Stanley. If you don't
- believe me, just ask my friends. But well, I love this book. If
- you're lucky enough to live in the Bay Area, go check out Mouse's Studio
- in Sonoma. What I usually do is phone first and leave a message when I'm
- coming to make sure it's open. Oftentimes Stanley is there, and he's
- kinda quiet and shy, but very entertaining and you never know what'll
- happen. One day I arrived and Kelly was there with a quite unusual
- woman whose name I don't know, and the 3 of them entertained all 2 of us
- customers for about an hour with the most amazing stories of "the old days".
- Kelly introduced himself as the Woodstock Festival artist, and it wasn't til
- I got home and was flipping through Jerilyn's book that I realized this
- was Kelly of Mouse Studios. Goes to show, you don't ever know!
-
- Gail
-