17 February 2003: King of the Boogie

I'm having a good day.  It's supposed to be a catch-up-on-my-homework day, but since I'm an art student, my homework tends not to suck.  One of Geminica's recent journal entries has inspired me to take up the practice of Artist Dates - weekly solitary activities designed to feed one's muse.  Today the weather is beautiful here, and I decided that it would be a perfect time for a first date, so to speak.  So off I went to Piedmont Cemetery, with my camera.  Bringing the camera made it productive homework time as well as muse-wooing time, since the resulting photos will eventually become school projects (which also makes it productive share-art-with-friends time, since the better school projects will eventually make their way onto this site).

Anyway, I had a marvelous date, and just inside the doorway of one grand mausoleum, I found the gigantic slab of marble behind which rest the ashes of John Lee Hooker.  Bronze plaque with Hooker's face in bas-relief, wearing a blissful lost-in-the-music smile and a porkpie hat.

John Lee Hooker

August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001

King of the Boogie

When they inscribe "King of the Boogie" on your tomb, you know you did something right.