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Josh Homme on SECRET WALL TATTOOS

From a German magazine: Der Arztwitz

Jun 2005 Issue

Josh Homme, the 6'4" frontman for the Queens of the Stone Age, has a new venture. Its art and mystery. Homme is known for the enigmatic, the vague and the unexplained. "We've been doing this on tour for some time. It's like crop circles, but better. I used to collect corks as a hobby, but several of us got together and started doing this", muses the rock-star and guitarist from his Berlin hotel room. "We're actually being paid to do this. It all started out in Joshua Tree at local art festivals where local artists we knew down there would do people's ranch house rooms. There's several SWTs in Rancho De La Luna."

His soundman Hutch and Wayne Sherman, a Seattle based tatoo artist Homme met while attending the University of Washington after leaving Kyuss, are the creative forces behind this work. Homme fills in as art director. "Basically, it's like a box of Cracker Jacks. You get a secret toy surprise. We have a set of patterns and each art piece is kind of a stepped up rendition in the duration we spend in a room. We spend a lot of time in museums and hotel rooms while touring. That's our inspiration."

Homme and company hope the new art-form will take off commerically in the states. "My management has been talking to the W chain of hotels and we're trying to set something up. It's sort of penance... rock bands used to be known for trashing hotel rooms, but we're in the business of leaving something behind".

When asked if he was referring to the activities of former bandmate Nick Oliveri, the red-headed artiste quipped, "No comment. Nick has definitely done some of his best work in hotel rooms. We were hanging out recently drinking beers and he actually came up with some sketches that we're gonna use'.

And how do people discover secret wall tatoos? "It's for the obsessive types who are prone to move a picture in a room that is off center, and have to dismount it and they get this little surprise behind it. It like to think it's like panties, there's something better behind the mystery, the ucovering that's even more mesmerizing"

Several Hollywood types have enlisted the services of the Secret Wall Tattoos, including Vin Deisel, Sandra Bullock and Will Ferrell.

"It's really gonna take off, as an art trend and the Queens are behind it 100 percent".

Homme finishes his cigarette and stares at the wall, the surreal and expressionist colors that were behind a mirror than now sits on the floor. "It's pure vagina... Secret Wall Tattoos are here to stay."