Art is a field that allows for all sorts of nonsense (alongside its more serious practitioners of course). Sometimes these huge wastes of public funds are so absurd that they come full circle and cross over into awesomeness. Music Times buzz writer Joe "Samhain" DeGroot will take special interest in the latest example: An Austin citizen has proposed the city build a statue of former Misfits/Samhain frontman Glenn Danzig riding a fire-breathing dragon be built in the Texas rock capitol.
The Austin Music Commission meets frequently to discuss more mundane musical happenings in the city (rather than planning Austin City Limits), but they got a surprise last week when James Moody came to the mic. The owner of the club Mohawk, which was in the news recently for being the site of SXSW's tragic vehicular manslaughter case, proposed the very monument described above.
Alas, even if the commission took singer took sincere interest in the proposal (Lord knows we sure have), the man behind the cause was kidding.
"If they're willing to do it in gold, I'll submit it as a serious idea," he commented to a local news broadcast.
We at Music Times will be the first to suggest that Austin should follow through on the idea, which can only bring good repute to the city. After all, the city already erected a massive bat statue at the site of the Congress Avenue Bridge (which hosts the largest urban bat colony in North America). We would go as far as to suggest the Danzig statue would jump into the Top 3 most excellent statues in the United States, along with Point Pleasant, WV's Mothman and Denver International Airport's hell horse.
