![]() Though Mark couldn’t sing a note & didn’t care how square he looked Then they settled on “The Fall” after the Camus book He was gonna dress up & they were gonna call themselves “Flyman and the Fall” Mark and his friends bounced ideas off the wall The “documentary” consists of twenty-odd panels drawn by Lewis himself, that were concocted to accompany amusing doggerel of rhyming couplets that Lewis had written describing the tumultuous history of the Manchester band. Panel #16: “.who worked hard writing, touring, and recording….” The title of the piece is “The Legend of the Fall,” and if that puts you in the mind of a certain Jim Harrison novella that was turned into a Brad Pitt movie, you’re not alone. In 20 Lewis was given to a quickie “documentary” (his term) about the Fall that he would do in his live shows maybe he’s done it since but he was definitely doing it at that time. You can buy that at his website, and it even comes with a key so that you can test your Fall knowledge. Lewis has fashioned a kind of “Where’s Waldo” poster involving many, many, many Fall tracks, under the title “100 Fall Songs,” which actually contains visual references to 112 Fall ditties. One senses in Lewis’ love for Smith a respectful acknowledgment from one ultra-prolific artist to another. Lewis tends to celebrate his artistic heroes in his songs and artwork some of his song titles are “Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror” and “The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song.” I learned recently that antifolk musician and comix artist Jeffrey Lewis is a huge fan of the Fall, which, as it happens, I am as well. Panel #12: “And Mark said the three R’s were ‘Repetition, Repetition, Repetition….”
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