"When I lived in Austin in the early 90s, Daniel Johnston hovered over the place like a ghost. He made his name there in the 80s but had since been institutionalized after clubbing a friend with a lead pipe or baptizing himself in a fountain on campus. Equally felonious, perhaps. But I didn’t know any of that back then as I puzzled over his hand-labelled cassettes in the local music section of Tower Records on Guadalupe. I couldn’t be bothered at the time. I wish I had."
Read the whole story at Phawker!
http://www.phawker.com/2019/09/15/in-memoriam-the-devil-and-daniel-johnston/
Best,
Jon Houlon
Artwork by Daniel Johnston