A Jejune Star

zacknipper:

The photo taken for the cover of Fevers and Mirrors shows my friend Jamie taking the picture. (She’s in Tilly and the Wall, by the way) She was reflected in the mirror, and you can see the camera on a tripod with a cable release. This was before any of us had digital cameras, so it was all old school film.

I hung that wallpaper on one wall in my basement, and got the mirror at the thrift store I worked at at the time. A couple years ago, I used a saw and cut the drywall off that wall in my basement, so I could keep and display the wallpaper. The big section of wall with the mirror is now on display in the Saddle Creek record shop.

The promo poster for Fevers actually used this image with Jamie. I like that it’s kind of ghostly.

Conor and I went to the wallpaper store and he picked out this pattern. He liked that it shows a guy playing guitar to a woman. I should have bought extra rolls… I think it would be cool to wallpaper an entire room with this, but I don’t think they make it anymore.

My friend Matt was playing drums with Bright Eyes at the time, and he was living with me. They had band practice in this room of my house where the wallpaper was hung, while they were getting ready to go on tour. I think there’s a brief clip of it in the Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek DVD… it’s my laundry room :)

That’s beautiful, man. I love the stories behind these!

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