[Jandek] how to 'do a jandek'?

[jesus kenievel]

Can there be another Jandek?

Of course. In fact, I wish there were more.

I have always seen Jandek not so much as a musician, but as a genre.

 

In your blog post you talk about things like record companies and Lady Gaga.  

These things are so far from what Jandek is all about (as far as I'm concerned) that your post becomes incomprehensible.

 

What is it that you want?  To make music or to become famous?  These are two very different things.

I think that the aims of something like Lady Gaga and Jandek are much different.  Lady Gaga isn't an artist, she does not produce art, she creates a disposable product.

I believe that in 100 years people will still be listening to Jandek, maybe even less than the number of people who do today, but someone will be.

I doubt that Lady Gaga will be anything in 100 years, except maybe an example of our culture's obsession with instant gratification.

 

The Rep just made his records and put them out there.  I have no evidence that he had any inclination to become a celebrity.

There's no reason that someone else can't do the same thing.


 


Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:33:33 +0100
From: restlessboy at gmail.com
To: jandek at mylist.net
Subject: [Jandek] how to 'do a jandek'?

Hi all,

first post to the list - recent convert etc...

Just wanted to share a blog I wrote just as I was first becoming interested in Jandek. It's less about his music, more about his approach to releasing it - and whether such a technique would be possible in this web 2.0 information-overload age. I'd just post it right here but it's a bit long.

Interested to hear any of your thoughts anyway....

http://paganwandererlu.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/how-to-do-a-jandek/

thanks,

rb.x

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