[Jandek] Quimby's Address
Allen Rendel
arendel at ripco.com
Thu Sep 7 16:49:33 PDT 2006
Mike Hagler actually still runs Kingsize, but I think I heard that they
recently moved, so they may no longer be able to make that confusing claim!
Allen
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Greenberg [mailto:mark at mayfairrecordings.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:39 AM
To: Allen Rendel
Cc: Danen D. Jobe; jandek at mylist.net
Subject: Re: [Jandek] Quimby's Address
Ha! Yes... There used to be a studio in Chicago called Kingsize... their
letterhead said "We are south of North...east side of Western".
-Mark
On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Allen Rendel wrote:
It took me awhile after I moved here to get used to directions like, "Go
east on North and then South on Western..."
Allen
-----Original Message-----
From: jandek-bounces at mylist.net [mailto:jandek-bounces at mylist.net]On
Behalf Of Danen D. Jobe
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:16 PM
To: jandek at mylist.net
Subject: [Jandek] Quimby's Address
As a Chicagoan, I must point out that the address given for
Quimby's is
incorrect. The correct address is:
1854 W. North Ave.
This is how you know I'm not from a big city - even in Fayetteville, if
you
said "Northern" (and I have no idea why I put that there...oh yeah, it
was
the two glasses of wine I had before I could write the email) people
would
know what you mean. There probably is a Northern street and a North
street
in Chicago, an entirely foreign concept in this part of the world with
less
than a hundred thousand people in the area. Sincerely, thanks to both
of
you that pointed this out! I imagine people arriving in a very bad
neighborhood going, "is there a reading here?"
I promise, Chicago, I will make it up to you.
Danen
From their website:
"Quimby's is located on North Ave. and Wolcott (two blocks East of
Damen
Ave.) between Zen Noodle Restaurant and Nola's 32nd Ward Seafood
House. The
smell of garlic butter from that place is inescapable. Geez."
Larry Epke
From: "Amy Frushour Kelly" <akelly1971 at gmail.com>
To: "Danen D. Jobe" <djobe at uark.edu>
CC: jandek at mylist.net
Subject: Re: [Jandek] Jandek Fictional Biography
Forthcoming;Author to
Read/Sign in Toronto & Chicago
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:15:36 -0400
No way I can make it to either of your readings, but
congratulations.
Sounds
wonderful. (Will they be recorded?) After reading your e-mail, I'm
definitely buying at least one copy.
Cheers,
Amy Frushour Kelly
On 9/1/06, Danen D. Jobe <djobe at uark.edu> wrote:
Okay.
So I've sent out dozens of press releases and spent a solid year
now
working on this, and yet this is the email I've had the most
difficulty>>composing. Really - started and stopped it six or seven
times in the last
three weeks. If you want the short of it, skip a paragraph or
two. But for
THIS list - people I genuinely care about and trust - I want to
give an
idea
of what writing this has been like. So here goes:
As a few of you know, I've been working on a fictitious biography
based on
Jandek, written with Corwood's cooperation and approval. It uses
the
Jandek
name, song titles, lyrics, album covers, music descriptions, etc
though it
in NO way is to be mistaken for the REAL story of Jandek.
Rather, this is
culled from - literally - HUNDREDS of hours of listening to the
music,>>discussions with a few people involved with Corwood at one
point or
another,
numerous back and forth letters to and from Houston, a chapbook
publication
that caused me to destroy (by fire, thank you) EVERYTHING and
start over -
this being exactly one week before my thesis reading at the
University of
Arkansas (which I've been writing this project for). Coming up
with the
RIGHT story, finally, for said reading and then spending the
summer
hammering out some 200 pages of sprawling story, followed by me
asking>>Corwood if they thought it might be a good idea for me to
read in Chicago
and Toronto (they agreed), an
d me thinking, "you know, it might be nice to have something
published,">>followed by the WONDERFUL folk at Single Cell Press
(out of Glasgow - so
fitting) agreeing to publish this first installment in what I see
as a
"Jandek trilogy," three weeks of editing, re-writing, re-thinking
and>>ultimately agreeing on 63 pages of content, coming out this
month on
Single
Cell Press, and which I will be reading from the day after the
Toronto
show
and the day before the Chicago one.
And now for more specific details: in Toronto I'll be at Circus
Books and
Music on Monday, September 18th at 6 PM. This is located at 253
Gerrard>>Street East (I'll give better directions and a phone
number in a following
email as I figure it out myself) and should be a blast. From
there I get
to
make a maddash back over the border to read at Quimby's Books in
Chicago>>(154 W Northern Street, Chicago - more info
www.quimbys.com) at 7 PM
Tuesday the 19TH at 7 PM. I can promise the best excerpts I can
come up
with
from the book, which is closest to dark Southern Literature (it's
what I
write), tracing the future Corwood Rep's life from childhood to
his garage
band days, growing up in the Ozark Mountains admist much family
turmoil
(his
mother and father leave him to care for his developmentally
disabled
brother
at one point - his mother moving off to Kansas City and Dad going
on a
six-month bender). There are also other fictiionally recast real
people>>here, most significantly one
Frank Stanford, whose poetry you can check at www.alsopreview.com.
Stanford is the young narrator's shadow twin, so to speak, and
also the
person who gets said narrator to take his musical roots and do
something>>with them. Frank happens to be married to Nancy, who
ends up singing for
the
original garage band (and John, the drummer, lifts many of the
instruments>>from "people who won't miss them). It includes
sections of the narrator
developing the guitar sound (which, by the way, I picked out
myself on a
40's era black Gibson acoustic, picking at the strings over
Charley Patton
songs until it emulated what Jandek does on the early acoustic
albums) and
falling in love - not with Nancy, but with Frank's fiery sister
Jessica.>>There's also "fictionalized' versions of Son House (he
gets a great scene)
and a poet/novelist named James Whitehead who's well worth
checking out.
Okay, that's enough. If you want more I've got a few excerots up
at the
Myspace page I've created for this puppy:
www.myspace.com/niagrablues.>>I'll keep updates going there. Also,
please check my publisher's website
at
www.singlecellpress.co.uk, as this is where the book will be
available>>(unless you buy it direct from me). While you're there,
pick up a copy of
Jackie Gilroy's slang-crazed "Thugs and Thieves." The writing
style of our
books couldn't be any more different and yet there's a communal
spirit>>there. But seriously, Gilroy is the rightful heir to
Bukowski, and I mean
that lovingly. My book is probably closer to Carson McCullers'
"Ballad of
the Sad Cafe" or maybe a bit of Cormac McCarthy, but I've worked
hard to
have it be it's OWN thing first and foremost. Hope anyone who
reads it
feels
the same.
Anyway, PLEASE contact me for more info. Now that I can relax
(having>>finally written this) I can say that I hope at least some
of you can
attend
these events - I intend for it to be a pretty wild tour: Jandek
on Sunday,
my reading on Monday, another reading on Tuesday, Jandek on
Wednesday and
then I sleep for a week. Somehow my employer at the University
has decided
this is a good "academic" thing and is supporting this, so I feel
all>>"official." I don't know. Books will be dead cheap (I've got
to move them
-
you knew that was coming, right?) but the readings are free. And
hey, I
intend to max out a credit card buying pitchers afterward.
Seriously.
Also,
if anyone has floorspace in Toronto or Chicago let me know. This
was going
to be a family trip but looks like it's a solo thing now (a cost-
efficient>>idea - got the wife and kids' support but this is gonna
be a bit intense
for
young ones), so I find myself in need of floor space. I'll even
bring my
own
pillow and free books
a'plenty. I also make a mean coffee.
Oh, and finally, there is a tour "pre-launch" radio show at 88.3
KXUA>>radio from the University of Arkansas next Wed night at 9 pm
CST. Fear
not,
non Arkansans (which is what, all of you?) - it will be streamed
on the
net.
I'll get details for that in the next few days, but PLEASE, if
you happen
to
listen in, call and request. It's going to be a very loose show
covering>>what I feel is his key moments mixed in with some of the
Summersteps'>>tributes (including stuff off the new Corwood
Variations handmade - I
think
the "Om" is a must) and a few "Corwood influences" like Blind
Willie
Johnson. This is going to be three hours long and something
special
indeed.
I'll also read a few short passages from the book.
Whew! Okay, I've done it. Thanks for your patience (those who
made it this
far) and I hope a few of you can make the readings. I think you
all know
the
great respect I have for this artist so please trust that I've put
TREMENDOUS effort in making this as good a story as possible,
staying true
to the roots of Corwood Industries.I'm proud to say that I got
the "thumbs
up" from Corwood last week in a lovingly detailed letter that
gave what
may
be the world's first lyric correction from the source: the
opening passage
from "Niagra Blues" should read: "Sometimes go to
Niagra/sometimes go the
grave/crazy 'bout your dreamer/crazy 'bout your dark night." And
here, for
thirteen years, I've thought the "uh" after dream was an
inflection. Wow.
And again, any questions please send my way. As I said, more
detailed maps
and such as we get closer to reading dates. Books will be for
sale until
Single Cell Press is so tired of me they toss the rest in the
ocean.
Thanks
again for listening, all!
Danen
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