[Jandek] re:The Real Reason for the Catalog Number Choice

[Daniel Marks]

oh, I think it was a random choice too. but sometimes
weird coincidences happen and they're too good to let
go unnoticed.

D.M.
--- "benny at waferbaby.com" <benny at waferbaby.com> wrote:
> Have you seen the movie?  It was probably some
> random-as-fuck number, like
> the number of pennies he had in a jar or his license
> plate number or maybe
> that's what time it was when he looked at the clock.
> 
> I seriously doubt we'll ever know.
> 
> But like I've said in the past, half the fun of
> listening to Jandek is
> trying to figure out the fucking mystery behind it
> all, so.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From:  Egg1000 at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:03:55 -0400
> To: jandek at mylist.net
> Subject: [Jandek] re:The Real Reason for the Catalog
> Number Choice
> 
> 
> I had posted this to the list years ago, and I
> remember it being met with a
> general laugh as response... nonetheless, I still
> think that the
> aforementioned "Real Reason for the Catalog Number
> Choice" has something to
> do with the following:
> 
> On "First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely" from the
> Ready For The House
> album, we get the following cryptic line:
> 
> "Three Times Four Is Twenty-Seven"
> 
> which we all know it is not, yes?
> 
> now follow my stoner logic a few steps down this
> path... 3x4 is not 27,
> it's 12... add the incorrect (27) and the correct
> (12) answers, and you get
> 39... now, instead of multiplying 3 and 4, add
> them... you get 7... cram
> the two results together and you get (roughly) 739,
> or 0739...
> 
> go ahead and laugh... makes sense to me (at least a
> tiny bit)...
> 
> have a good one...
> 
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