The Great Escape Artist - Album Art

[thegreengrass]

"I played tricks nobody(?) even I could explain.
Rhyme came easily but reason I was unable to make.
I gorged on excitement, no memory of the profane.

Filled with excited images, no memory of the mundane.
Super happy!!
Super pissed!!
The Great Escape Artist!!¬"

[magma]

Looking at my original TIFF image, i'm able to make out what the right-hand page in the book says:


I think it says:

Filled with
excited images,
no memory of
the mundane.

Super poppy!!
Super pissed!!

The Great
Escape
Artist!!
__

I can't tell what the left-hand page says.
(Though the first sentence appears to be, "I played decks." A reference to his DJing?)

[helicine]

"supper poppy" doesn't really make sense to me

here is the book rotated and zoomed

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definitely looks like "supper happy" to me.

[magma]

"supper poppy" doesn't really make sense to me

definitely looks like "supper happy" to me.

Yeah, "super happy" makes more sense.

That's what i thought it was originally, but... then, on the image i was looking at, the "h" at the beginning of happy didn't look like the h at the end of "with". (Comparing letters from different words.)

But... now i can see that it's because "Happy" begins with a capital H.
I never imagined it'd be capitalized.

Anyway, i posted before i read helicine's post.
(His interpretation makes more sense that mine.)

If there wasn't moderator approval, i would have immediately deleted my post, to avoid embarrassment.
But i had to wait until morning to see it.

(I've been off the bboards for so long, it's gonna take me a while to get used to that delay.)

[helicine]

No big deal - it's just a 3-post process for new accounts to keep spammers from flooding the forums w/ ads. Actually, had I known your account was still tagged as "new", I'd have fixed that. Anyway, you're set now.

[magma]

No big deal - it's just a 3-post process for new accounts to keep spammers from flooding the forums w/ ads. Actually, had I known your account was still tagged as "new", I'd have fixed that. Anyway, you're set now.

Cool.

That makes more sense that you moderators having to approve EVERY post.
(I've been off the forum for so long, i might as well be "new".)

Regardless, i think i can live with the embarrassment of having read it as "Super poppy!!"

(Cringe. Wince.)

[Sojourner]

Is Perry trying to escape from his 80's persona?

Modeling his Caricature on the ritual Perry and setting it in his 80's flat would suggest so.
The new single also suggests that!!!

I think that's a safe bet.

Kinda underwhelmed with the artwork though, considering...

[helicine]

Amazon has a set list now:

1. Underground
2. End To The Lies
3. Curiosity Kills
4. Irresistible Force
5. I'll Hit You Back
6. Twisted Tales
7. Ultimate Reason
8. Splash A Little Water On It
9. Broken People
10. Words Right Out Of My Mouth

[Lance]

The cover is fantastic.

[hydro]

just noticed that the masks that are in the box on the floor under the desk on the album cover are like the same ones they are wearing in this part of the video for ETTL(just click on the link and the video starts where I'm talking about ) just an observation
http://youtu.be/BrhDs-SJdJQ?t=2m22s

(of course..after the advertisement )