I thnk i'ts because he get snout outs on the Fader's blog. Chicanos luurv glossy Brooklyn "indie" lifestyle Mags.
http://www.thefader.com/tag/jay+howell
:walking through heavily lationo heavily family grammaed out excelior district, garage is opean full of hot rod mexican style cars and soccer jerzys and a jay howell painting is on the wall of the garage. wtf???