Like Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Tielli is one of my obscure-musician PBs who is difficult to icon. I put mine up not because they're that great (they're not) but because nobody else is going to do him. You want a unique PB? Here you go.

I've seen Martin live a number of times with the Rheostatics, and unfortunately photos don't capture it--spacey, cute Italo-Canadian with a strong Toronto accent, a weird pre-war-looking wardrobe, a shy reticence talking to strangers and a bizarre energy performing to them. He paints (Thumbelina illustration; old thumbnails found on Google). He was in a pretty bad Canadian movie, although they're all pretty bad, but he was interesting to watch as always. He has yet to complete a project that fans paid for four years ago, and his apology is worth reading on its own for the weird writing and punctuation. He's starting to look a lot like Andy Kaufman as he gets older. All this means I fangirl him quite a lot.

So here are some icons.



( I've got a dream, I've got a plan: I leave this world, live off the land )