Remember that kid in grade school that had the really obscure lunch boxes and backpacks (the New Monkees!) with cartoons and bands you’ve never heard of? If you knew a kid like that, it wasn’t until high school when he cashed them in on eBay that he got cool. Until then it was a hard times for the kid with arty parents.
Let the evilness continue. For his final project in undergraduate studies at England’s Huddersfield University, Illustrator Andy J. Miller turned in an “Indie Rock” coloring book and affiliated it with the HIV / AIDS organization (Red). Book activities include helping James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem through a maze, coloring Beirut’s carousel, connecting the dots on Panda Bear’s Panda Bear and finishing a drawing based on a Joanna Newsom song.
For the time being, these books have not been mass produced but there is still time and opportunity for that to take place. Soon, some poor, lonely child will break into tears in his kindergarten class because he can’t find a way to reunite Sufjan with his banjo. And the other kids will laugh because they think Hannah Jonas Montana Brothers are all that matters and the lonely kid will be left to look for Feist lyrics in the word search portion of the book. And the other kids will laugh and point and point and laugh and never allow him to eat lunch with them.
No but I used to steal his pudding when he wasn’t looking and one time, after recess, I pulled his chair out when he was standing. I also made fun of his stutter.
