[Jandek] Quimby's Address
Lauren Ciechanowski
ciechano at stolaf.edu
Fri Sep 8 06:17:27 PDT 2006
After growing up in Chicago I was reading this messages thinking 'where
the hell is North...?' until I remember I lived four blocks from it, on N.
East Avenue (north portion of East, NOT Northeast Avenue). North Avenue,
of course, runs East/West. Western runs North/South, correct? Funny how
stuff like that just becomes a part of the scenery for locals.
And you also get shit from out-of-staters for referring to the Chicagoland
area.
Less than two weeks!
> 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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