[Jandek] Janky Cockroach Story

Daniel Marks alfredggnome at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 30 14:11:13 PDT 2004


YES I remember that. What a great story. Perhaps the
J-man will write a song about it---

He fell down
into the carpet
with all the bug spray
all over his clothes

D.M.
--- Gogs C <gogs_cun at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Found it, April 2000 on the mailing list:
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is my first posting to this message board. Just
> got a box of 20 cd's
> from Corwood (very well packaged and only took a
> week and a half to get
> here). There was also a copy of the current
> discography with 2 notes on it:
> 
> 1.) "0740 will be out in approximately three weeks"
> -- that's six and six
> for those of you that don't know.
> 
> 2.) When I wrote Corwood to place my order, I
> mentioned that I had been to
> Houston once in the summaer, and remembered these
> large bugs all over the
> place. They looked like cockroaches, but they could
> fly, and I never learned
> their name. My response was:
> 
> "The common name is 'Tree Roach' They normally live
> deep in trees in winter
> and eat wood, cardboard, paper but will get in the
> house also. They
> definitely fly but usually only when provoked. I saw
> someone swat one on the
> ceiling with a newspaper and it flew in his face and
> he fell of his chair to
> the floor."
> 
> Thae latter is not really news, but I thought that
> some of you would find it
> amusing.
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Mike Graham" <thedeadlygame at hotmail.com>
> >To: jandek at mylist.net
> >Subject: [Jandek] Janky Cockroach Story
> >Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:59:44 +0100
> >
> >I've heard a story about Jandek which involves a
> fan writing to Jandek and
> >asking about a species of cockroach and Jandek
> replying with a cryptic and
> >odd (in true Jandekian style) message. can anyone
> give me some more
> >information on this?
> >
> >M.L.G.
> >
>
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