Carol Lay
The Big Skinny
How I Changed My Fattitude
A little about the early life of Carol Lay!
Lay was born in Whittier, California. In
1975 she graduated with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from UCLA. Growing up in the
suburban blandness that was Orange County in the 1950s, Carol stoked her
imagination with plenty of books and great story television like The Twilight
Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Science Fiction Theatre. Later, when she
landed at UCLA, she discovered Frank Zappa and Zap Comix in the first week.
She Recalls from an interview with Jason Mallory;
"I grew up in several Southern California
towns, all pretty much next door to each other. I spent my first six years in
Whittier (Nixon — not good), moved to La Habra (can’t think of a single good
thing that came out of there), high schooled in Fullerton (Jackson Browne was a
few years ahead of me, grade-wise, but I don’t care about his work and I hear
he beat his wife). If you think Disneyland is a good thing, then that “came out
of” the area, but my favorite artist who grew up in Orange County may be Steve
Martin"when asked what the best thing that came out her hometown was.
No comments:
Post a Comment