[Jandek] what is the status of his health?

[alextl at fsmail.net]

the guy is 60 (if the birthdate of 1945 is right). I think he looks good for his age. Maybe people are confusing Good Health with Bad Health. 





> Message Received: Nov 22 2005, 04:49 AM
> From: "Thierry Bissonnette" 
> To: jandek at mylist.net
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> Subject: [Jandek] And the winner is......?!!?! (JANDEK TOP10 2005)
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> Listening to 'When I took that train' and I'm just convinced that this whole
> Top Ten thing is just incompatible with Jandek's creative process. Choosing
> is killing the obsessive wholenesse diffused here, as different periods
> reflect into each other and are part of a monist transformation. Late Jandek
> seems an equally important part of the body of work as early or mid-period
> for me, in fact, I feel this is one of the 'rules' of the game J.'s
> directing in our listeners minds, and none of the arguments discrediting mid
> or late recordings appears convincing to me. I just think people project
> their listening history/context, and their Top Ten would probably change if
> doing the same exercise in a year or two, even if limiting to the 43 first
> discs.
> 
> Anyway, I just dig SHADOW OF LEAVES, WHEN I TOOK THAT TRAIN and other late
> period albums as much as older discs, but above all I'm interested in the
> whole thing as a holistic revery. Every album has its flaws that become
> qualities when considering them in the jandekian system. One great
> installation/composition, not singular albums.
> 
> Thierry
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> [Jandek] And the winner is......?!!?! (JANDEK TOP10 2005)
> Yuval Legendtofski legendtofski at gmail.com
> Sun Nov 20 15:01:53 PST 2005
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> Firstly thanks to the 17 Jandek fans that kindly gave me their top 10.
> 
> I used a preferential system based on the order of albums given.
> 
> This isn't a DEFINITIVE Top10, as people's tastes seem to change, but as you
> can see some titles were way more 'popular'
> than others. So, drum roll please.......
> 
> Blue Corpse 15 Six & Six 12 You walk alone 12 Ready for the house
> 8 Intestellar
> discussion 8 Glad to Get away 8 Telegraph Melts 7 Living in a moon
> 7 Whitebox
> Requiem 7 Glasgow Sunday 7
> A diverse voting spread: 38 out of a possible 42 albums recieved votes.
> Hard-listening titles like the ACapella albums got votes, as did his latest
> 'Khartoum'!
> Those that completely missed out were '
> 'The Rocks Crumble', 'the end of it all', 'the door behind', and when I took
> that train'. But at least there is representation from each decade of the
> man's great work.
> 
> Thanks to you all!
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