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"FacebookPinterest\n\nAs much as we love Adam Green's old band, The Moldy Peaches, and his new solo album, Minor Love, what we here at GQ are obsessed with is Adam Green's blog, The Lake Room. The Lake Room is mostly just iPhone photos of what Adam's been up to. No big deal, right? Well, actually, what Adam's been up to is way more wild and illicit than anyone else we know\u2014and the kid just loves to share. In following the blog, we noticed that Adam had been doing a lot of visual art\u2014painting and sculpture\u2014so we whinnied like delighted ponies when we found out he's finally showing the stuff at the Bowery location of NYC's Morrison Hotel Gallery. There's a private party Thursday (April 22nd), and then his first ever art show, which he's calling \"Teen Tech,\" opens to the public Friday the 23rd. You can also catch him playing live at The Bowery Ballroom this coming weekend. Anyway, we called Adam and asked him about paper-m&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA2;ch&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9;, Dr. John, and the universe's greatest Tumblr.\n\nWhere are you right now?\n\n Driving to Cleveland.\n\n Your solo art show opens Thursday. Did you make the art while recording your latest album, Minor Love? \n\n No, after I was done with the record I had some time, and I was doing the drawings and sculptures, and at some point I wondered if I could actually pursue it full time. My manager said I could take six months.\n\nFacebookPinterest2.png\n\nWhich six months was that?\n\n I think it was from May to New Years 2009. Then I went on tour for this album.\n\n The sculptures are paper-m&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA2;ch&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9;. Did you already know how to work with that material?\n\n I ended up hanging out in this dorm room with three kids who were at NYU summer school. We read how to do paper-m&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA2;ch&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9; on the Internet, did the initial prototype in the dorm room, then I took the technology home to my apartment.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nWere you using chicken wire, like in elementary school?\n\n A lot of Styrofoam, actually. I have a Styrofoam guy--good deals on cheap Styrofoam. Actually, when you carry as much Styrofoam as me, it's backbreaking labor. My arms wouldn't even move for days. They were just like wet jeans. It's helped on tour, because I'm like a stripper on stage. It got me in good pole-dancing condition.\n\n You should use \"Cat Head Totem Pole\" for stripping!\n\n \"Cat Head Totem Pole\" is fuckin' fragile. Plus it sold already.\n\n Who bought it?\n\n I can't say. It's a very famous person.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nHow did you meet the NYU people who helped start the paper-m&amp;amp;#xE2;ch\u00E9 project?\n\n It's funny, I always couple art with Lolitas\u2014I learned that from Picasso. I learned you're supposed to have little girls around when you do art. They were going to run a little art factory in my apartment.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nSo how did you link up with The Morrison Hotel Gallery?\n\n I got turned onto it by Dr. John. He was like, \"That's the best place to see rock-and-roll photos.\"\n\n Why were you talking photography with Dr. John?\n\n I did a concert with him at High Line Ballroom. I really like all that Voodoo stuff. I want to try Jewdoo. Or not Zulu, but Jewlu. I want to be a Jewlu man, although it's hard to cast magic when you don't even believe in souls. These are the challenges I've been facing this year. I spent a while on the couch in a clinical psychotherapy situation.\n\n Did it get psychotropic?\n\n The results were inconclusive.\n\n Let's talk about your blog, The Lake Room. It's like a traditional blog\u2014iPhone photos of what you're up to\u2014but there's fiction mid in too. \n\n The things people assume are fiction are real, and some of the mundane details I've chosen to make up. At this point I'd say it's 80-percent true.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nCan we play \"Real Or Not Real\" in regards to The Lake Room?\n\n Why would you think I have to make it up, anyway?\n\n Then you can just say \"real\" for all the questions!\n\n Fine.\n\n Okay. Real or not real: Drugs.\n\n Real.\n\n Real or not real: Lolitas.\n\n Definitely real.\n\n Real or not real: Adam Green nudity.\n\n Real.\n\n Okay cool, I just wasn't sure if it was a Boogie Nights situation.\n\n [Laughs] What's so funny about my dick is that it's like a wine cork. It's ridiculous. Like, because I'm nervous right now, talking to you, my dick is retreating.\n\n Like a scared turtle.\n\n Exactly. But then when I woke up that morning, I was like, \"Wow, yeah. Take a picture of this.\"\n\n Good timing. Well, I'm looking forward to the show.\n\n Come to the art show, man. The most important aspect of the show is the collectability of the different items in it.\n\n Maybe one buyer will collect them all.\n\n That's what I'm hoping\u2014that a high-roller comes in and buys everything. An Alec Baldwin-type with a cool voice who will whisk in and pony up all those greenbacks. I'm going to have a girl walking around with a credit card machine hung around her neck. We're gonna get everyone drunk and have a buying party.\n\nFacebookPinterest"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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