The only time I feel right is when I'm drawing comic books
The last time i did acid i went insane
1. The east river
2. Another girl
3. Seattle
4. The chelsea hotel oral sex song
5. Amanda is a scalape
6. Heavy heart
7. The last time i did acid iwent insane
8. The man with the golden arm
9. Springtime
10. Life
Indie-rock fortune cookie
1. The east river
2. Another girl
3. 3/4 moon
4. Life
5. Flippity- floppity
6. Everyone's honest
7. Songs about songwriting
8. Heavy heart
9. The chelsea hotel oral sex song
10. Viviane from washington square
11. Gravity sue
12. Clyde and alyda
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No picture available at this time
Reflections on tommorow thus a yesterday flower shall doom
Jeff's trip to key west
13. The man with the golden arm
Jeff's European travel diary
I am, of course, glad
The only time I feel right is when I'm drawing comic books
Born Jeffrey Lightning Lewis in New York City, November 1975, Jeff grew up with loving beatnik parents in an East 9th St tenement. Having no television in the household, young Jeff became a comic book fanatic before he even knew how to read. His brother Jack was born in 1980. After graduating New York State University at Purchase in 1997 (with a Literature degree and a senior thesis written on the comic book "Watchmen") Jeff spent the lonely winter of 97/98 starving in a 150$ a month illegal co-op sublet, listening to lots of scratchy Pearls Before Swine and Donovan records, and making up some musically
minimalist songs on an old guitar belonging to his dad. Subsequently, spring of 1998 found Jeff playing at Lach's Monday night Anti-hoot open mics, and that summer friend/mentor Whip (of Timesbold) assisted the recording of 11 of Jeff's solo acoustic songs onto a 4-track tape, to which Jeff added two bedroom-recordings of songs sung by brother Jack, who had recently picked up playing electric bass. The resulting 13-song cassette "Indie-Rock Fortune Cookie" (the title a spin-off of the 1960s Blues Magoos records "Psychedelic Lollipop" and "Electric Comic Book") was packaged with a photocopied miniature comic book and sold for $3 at Jeff's soon semi-monthly gigs at the Sidewalk Cafe. In 2001 Adam Green and Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches made a CD of 8 songs selected from Jeff's first two cassette albums and passed it along to Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records in England, beginning a chain of events which lead to the September 2001 UK release of "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and other favorites" a 10-song CD culled from 2 years of Jeff (and Jack) Lewis' DIY recordings. Jeffrey continues to write and draw comic books, spending the last few summers holed up in a primitive handmade shack in Maine for months on end working on various comic projects, some fictional, some autobiographical. He also continues to be involved in making up/recording songs, most recently evidenced on the "AFNY Collaborations: Volume I" CD (featuring songs written/recorded with Kimya Dawson and Diane Cluck) and the debut song collection by Guitar Situations, a "didactic/experimental/Prog-New Wave/naive folk-rock/Commie pedal cult" of revolving collaborators of which Jeff is often a member.
AFNY Collaborations: Volume I
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