Cover art for Charity EP – June 2023
Digital – texture, color, building and graphics
This is definitely one of my favorite projects and I got there in a roundabout way.
In December of 2022, the show The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, that is part of AMC+ and streams on the Shudder network had a charity auction.
My husband, unbeknownst to me, had somehow managed to snag me the item that I thought was the best idea: a custom song by the music supervisor at the time of the show, John Brennan.
Subsequently, the producer and director of the show got in touch with me through email, and put me in touch with John Brennan.
We had some crossed wires with emails and finally John set up something and I forget how it came about but he ended up just giving me a call.
We talked for a long time about the songs, convention experiences, and film and had so much fun when I tossed out that the topic should be “cheese” he came up with the idea of expanding it from one song to a 5-song EP.
I didn’t have the ability to travel to John to play any instruments or a setup at home to record myself, so he offered for me to design the cover.
John is prolific as fuck and he and Liz put together five songs in styles of bands I like and thus Cheese for Charity was born.
We ended up getting the okay to sell the expanded collaboration as a charity during a time frame for St. Jude’s Hospital. I produced one song, he made four more, and then we raised more money for charity!
John is fantastic, tells awesome stories, and has the best New York accent. He’s always kind to me and fun to talk to when we chat or text. He had a bit of a rough time in the fall of 2024 with an apartment fire and some project changes. I definitely look forward to supporting him in the future!
Some day we’ll do that puppet music video together.
This was so much fun and I got a portfolio piece for it.
Thanks Austin and John!
John Brennan’s Stuff
Music
https://johnbrennan.bandcamp.com
Podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/c/yukiandjohnspatreonbuffet/posts
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