Message-ID: <000b01bf8552$932744e0$59721597@t1i4t6> From: "Alessandro" To: Subject: at the zoo Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:53:05 +0100 Good evening, I'm a new subscriber. I recently read a review about Jandek's works. I heard something about him some yeras ago, maybe in between the lines of an interview about J Mascis... I'd like to get me the 20 cd's box for 80 $ so I'm looking for someone to tell me the right place where i must send my money, of course if I have to put it inside the envelope or if i have to pay another way. I'm also sending to this address found on the review Corwood Industries p.o.box 15375 Houston Texas 77220 USA a copy of a digipack i released one month ago. I noticed some analogies on the review. My work is a cd recorded in the open countryside 3 years ago about trees and forefathers with a 20 pages booklet with spooky microstories and the photographs of my ancestors. It's english translated and I'd like to give a copy to mr.Jandek if he's really supposed to be the little queen of lo fi. True lo fi is like a funny pilgrim on a crazy cruzade a saucy chaucer a sorry chapter mislaid whittled with an exacto knife. Or something like that. alessandro italy Message-ID: <20000306224708.21706.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> From: Bradley Be To: jandek list Subject: Re: strange currencies Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:47:08 -0800 (PST) Check out the catalogue if you don't have 1 handy (it's a little out of date: http://corwood.com/catalogtext.html I recently ordered 20-$80. I asked for 1 of this one, 2 of this one, 3 of this one, etc... #0739, 0741, and 0761 through 0766 are all shipping now. He sent me all of these titles I ordered. #0740, 0742 & 0743 are all backordered. I will post to the list when he sends these titles. So to sum up: you can ask for 1 or 2 of each title and to mix & match for any titles that aren't ready yet. You don't have to order 20 CDs of one title. However, if you want to pay $3000 for a 1000 LP/CD pressing of one title, you will only get 1 title. I hope this clarifies rather than confuses! ===== http://www.geocities.com/bradleybee Message-ID: <20000307003323.19649.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.com> From: Danen Jobe To: jandek list Subject: Re: strange currencies Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:33:23 -0800 (PST) hi all, Good to be back on the list! I was on here for quite a while on a different e-schmail account, but now I'm back. Old timers may remember me as the guy who transcribed the New Town lyrics and is working on a piece of fiction (it started out as a play, its changed) off and on about Jandek. but getting to the point... > #0740, 0742 & 0743 are all backordered. I will post > to the list when he > sends these titles. WHOAH!!! So it appears to me that he is rapidly reissuing all the old albums on cd. What a trip! Man, he must be made of money to do that. Those things cost to make! But I'm happy about it! I have none of those! I'm using lots of explanation points! I just went to Forced exposure and they do not list the above titles so apparently they are not 'backordered' (which is what they are when they are already released but the label is out of stock and more are being made) but rather have not come out yet. I wonder how quickly he will release the others (the sooner I can listen to 'Blue Corpse' on my car cd player on a nice spring morning the better)and if they will be in order. I mention this as 'Later On' came out before 'Six and Six.' Odd. But then, this is Jandek... anyhow, good to be back. seems like a very cool time to be into Jandek! Yours from the spooky hills of Arkansas, Danen Jobe Message-Id: From: Rockermann@brown.edu To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:44:11 -0500 I apologize for my ignorance, but I was wondering if anyone knows when "Ready for the House" was re-released? Was it in the last few months? -Sage. Message-ID: <20000307035029.31724.qmail@cs.nwu.edu> From: Seth Tisue To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu cc: Rockermann@brown.edu Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 21:50:28 -0600 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:44:11 EST." >>>>> "Rockermann" == Rockermann writes: Rockermann> I apologize for my ignorance, but I was wondering if Rockermann> anyone knows when "Ready for the House" was re-released? July or August of '99. Seth Tisue s-tisue@nwu.edu http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/ "The Tao of progress appears as retreat" - Lao Tzu Message-ID: <20000316091831.65813.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "mikko kuorinki" To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: here's some pictures taken under the influence of jandek Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:18:31 GMT http://wintercow.homestead.com/ready.html ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Message-ID: From: Neonrace@aol.com To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:56:57 EST Hey, Bagsleep, thanks for the cool link to the photos. Nice work. It reminds me of My Bloody Valentinme cover art. I thought I would notify the newsgroup of a Jandek omission and comparison in the February MOJO MAGAZINE. It lists "100 Essential Cult Heroes," but does not mention Jandek (thank God). However, in a review of "Unaccompanied Accoustic Guitar Improvisations" from Loren Mazzacane Connors, MOJO compares the sound to Jandek as well as Son House and Derek Bailey. Do we agree with the comparison? I think that Mazzacane Connors has a very "lonely" sound, but is a far cry from the psychosis I hear in Jandek's mystery. Let's hope Jandek's name doesn't creep any further into mainstream press. David Message-ID: <015e01bf8f82$242b4840$2b69a8c0@garzan> From: "DAVID WILLEMS" To: Subject: Re: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:59:25 -0500 Yeah, let's hope he never gets to make a living at what he wants to do and dies in obscurity. Message-ID: <20000316200916.9456.qmail@web1002.mail.yahoo.com> From: Matthew Perpetua To: Neonrace@aol.com Cc: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:09:16 -0800 (PST) > Let's hope Jandek's name doesn't creep any further > into mainstream press. not to beat a dead horse, but why not? Jandek makes really good music, and I think a lot of folks who would really like it have no idea it exists because it is so painfully obscure. There's no way Jandek's music could ever be popular, but it would be nice if more people we aware of it, and it was acknowledged for being as good as it is. -Matthew ===== DIG THE RIPPLES CAUSED BY THAT... Message-ID: From: eric weddle To: jandek list Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:17:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: > Let's hope Jandek's name doesn't creep any further into mainstream > press. Below is a nice little blurb on the "Later On" reissue by Billy Kiely at Forced Exposure. I think it answers the question about comparisons to LMC's early work - which I agree with and have been made numerous times, even in LMC's "Come Night" liner notes on OO Disc - and it also takes a nice swipe at "members of the Jandek community" which I bet was written due to comments like the one above... eric. "Another installment in the digitization of the Jandek back catalog, and for those who have never heard his earliest records because of their scarcity, you can now own another piece of the Corwood catalog without having to fend off those cutthroat members of the Jandek 'community'. This record, like Jandek's first (Ready for the House), is comprised of not just basically one chord throughout, but as far as I can tell he barely even touches the fret board of his guitar, using his instrument more for atmosphere and percussion than anything like a 'song'. The usual lyrical motifs of the blues are all over the place, including women, roads, death, and even janitors, which in my tweaked view of the universe hearkens back to Howlin' Wolf's paean to a custodian on his last record ca. 1972 ('Watergate Blues'), and much like the Loren Mazzacane Connors Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vols 1-9 1979-1980 box set reissue on Ecstatic Yod, this is proof that something that might be called the blues can be non-formulaic, just undiluted expression, and actually just a skeleton on which to drape a very whacked universe of your very own." Message-Id: From: "John Schoen" To: Subject: Re: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:16:50 -0500 >in a review of "Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations" from >Loren Mazzacane Connors, MOJO compares the sound to Jandek as well as >Son House and Derek Bailey. Do we agree with the comparison? I think >that Mazzacane Connors has a very "lonely" sound, but is a far cry >from the psychosis I hear in Jandek's mystery. I gotta agree with MOJO on this description. The box set contains some of LMC's earliest and starkest recordings. He doesn't really sing anything, he kinda moans and howls along with some very fractured guitar strumming that is very Jandek at times. Anyway, the LMC box is I believe on par with Jandek as far as being a snap shot of a brilliant artist sharing very personal feelings thru music. John. Message-ID: From: "b&p" To: Subject: FW: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:37:43 -0500 Bagsleep, Nice photos--captures the mood perfectly. Hereare some conundra for us all, posited after reading David's posting: if Jandek would be able to retain his authenticity, would we want the rest of the world to "discover" him or not? Would we wish success upon him? And assuming he was successful, could he retain his authenticity? Paul Message-ID: <20000316221051.29412.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Campbell&Diane ... Gordon Productions" To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Cool Photos, Bagsleep! Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:10:51 NZDT I don't think I have a problem with the comparison of the LMC box - it is a pretty surprisingly fractured, fascinating set of blues in a different language that works for some of the same reasons as Jandek does but hits a whole lot of different buttons - but I don't really know if I like the way the term "Jandekian" or whatever gets applied to so many other things which are just slightly odd, as if its a kind of "weirdo paint" for lazy reviewers. Message-ID: <38D1B3B4.78B6@earthlink.net> From: awa To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: what he wants to do Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:25:24 -0800 he's making a living in other ways and doesn't need any promotional machinery to help him make a living at what he wants to do. that independence is part of the whole jandek presentation. jandek, as a concept and as a product, is complete and no outside source is needed. this is proven in the choice of photos, fonts and the overall minimal packaging with maximum impact. he'll die a little bit obscure and a little bit known. he doesn't give interviews and he doesn't promote. word of mouth is his way. i think that this sterling smith/jandek fellow fills a void in this way of doing things. i mean, think of how exhilerating it is to "stumble upon" these strange lps and cds for the first time and not knowing what or who they're all about. --alec p.s.--then again, there's scott walker. Message-ID: <20000317055316.48703.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Jason Cooley" To: errora@earthlink.net, jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: what he wants to do Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:53:16 PST Does anyone have any ideas as to what "Paint Your Teeth" is all about? What a great song. Shit. I'm interested. Message-ID: From: R Joseph Wright To: Jason Cooley cc: errora@earthlink.net, jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: what he wants to do Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:09:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20000317055316.48703.qmail@hotmail.com> > Does anyone have any ideas as to what "Paint Your Teeth" is all about? > What a great song. Shit. I'm interested. It's obviously about dental hygiene. When I tell my three year old boy to "paint his teeth", he becomes an eager participant in tooth brushing. I always loved the line where Jandek blurts out "Karl Marx painted his teeth!" Then there's the part where the song gets out of control and you can hear the background laughter of his sidekick. It is truly a great song. Message-ID: From: Markus Metsala To: Neonrace@aol.com cc: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: LMC vs. Janky Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:03:12 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: Concerning the similarities/differences 'tween our hero and Loren Mazzacane Connors (another hero of mine), I definitely see some connection between the two guys. I don't mean that the music in itself is somehow similar, but the overall atmosphere and just the utter strangeness (and I don't mean "weirdness") of it all somehow justifies a comparison. I mean, both Jandek and Loren sound in some way _totally_ outside rest of the world. No man is an island perhaps, but some come close. So, the analogy in my opinion would be that, both of then inhabit a different universe from ours, but they both have their own. Or does that sound preposterous? Like I care... Markus (hi mikko!) Message-ID: <20000330065604.24299.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> From: Bradley Be To: jandek list Subject: CD re-release Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:56:04 -0800 (PST) Greetings Jandekians! CD of "Living in a Moon So Blue" arrived in the mail today. All acoustic guitar & vocals, with one song guitar-harmonica-vocals...Dylan style :) The songs have that swingin' bouncy tempo; Jandek is finger-plucking the strings so hard that the pitch of some notes bends up & down. Some of it is quite agressive... The new catalog sheet has a hand-written note stating that "Chair beside a Window" is delayed. There is no notice of a re-release of "Six & Six." That one may be delayed for quite a while. Who knows though, really... ===== http://www.geocities.com/bradleybee