― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
It's turned into something more involved and interesting than I expected, and is definitely no longer trying to be an exact portrait like the earliest chapters try and be. Somewhere between fanfic and psychological study, eventually. Or so I hope.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
I'll have to set aside some time to read your stuff, Ned...
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link
1)
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
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― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 8 November 2003 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Irv Beevlefetzer, Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Jandek is a box of smoke. Open it and...*poof*.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
did you call me a poof?
― electricsound, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Twenty years ago I came across Jandek records and was naturally pretty miffed. Then I read some short article in Option, I believe. Seemed like an interesting oddity. Then lost touch with it. Then ran across that Jandek on Corwood film, which I thought managed to express both a sincere appreciation and still keep its wits about the situation. I thought Doug Wolk did a very good job balancing his analysis, as opposed to the Half Japanese movie The Band That Would Be King where Cosloy and Coley came off like pompous assclowns (OK, Byron you don't own any Beatle records, you're really cool) and Half Japanese sounded like a bad joke.
But then I read that Jandek was out performing and it seemed so wrong. As if the concept finally ran its course and was now something else that didn't quite work. I dunno. I'd be curious how others see it.
That's my longwinded way of asking: how do you feel about Jandek in 2007?
― smurfherder, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw a show, it was fair, but ultimately kind of boring (though I am very glad I went). But I have been listening to Manhattan Tuesday though and it sounds pretty nice.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
McJandek.
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm fucking greater than Jandek, and I can't play much either. Here's a whole album on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVfydUa-I78
I don't get Jandek.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree, it would've been much cooler if the man just had quit at some point and enter total obscurity (again) (not even reprinting sold out records)
― Ludo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"cooler"
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
surely you are also greater than jackson pollock and william carlos williams
don't sell yourself short
xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
:)
― Ludo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm humble by nature.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
so much depends on my wallowing in internal whimsy I again
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
is this ilm jandek street team day or somethuing?
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 9 February 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
there are jandeks in my area. my favourite jandek lives in a house in the middle of nowhere with all the windows boarded up. there are rusty old instruments everwhere, red lights, the place stinks of chai tea. 100s (maybe 1000s?) of cassettes of stuff he's recorded. lovely guy. listens to a love supreme a lot.
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 9 February 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Glasgow Monday is surprisingly good....some nice (dare I say pretty?) piano playing by Jandek, creepy bowed bass and percussion work for that "signature" skeletal Jandek sound
only record of his I find enjoyable to listen to, at least in certain contexts
― Malcolm Money, Saturday, 9 February 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Choice quotes from a recent Jandek concert review (appearing in full at http://blogs.denverpost.com/reverb/2008/07/29/jandek-the-bug-theatre/)
"He didn't seem like someone who enjoys humanity buzzing in his ear. When performing, it seemed as though he was unaware that he was standing in a roomful of people."
"The formula, if there was one, reminded me of childhood, when I would make up a tune with friends and we'd sing along in sentences, giggling because we weren't rhyming and weren't trying to. This was adult playtime, and with feeling: the scatterbrain rhythms and breathy backing vocals didn't make much sense, but they held a world-weariness that children can't fake."
"You should have seen the veins bulge and quiver in that skinny man's neck every time he prolonged a note. But the voice was just a voice, neither husky nor high, and the words hung dead in the air, chilly and flat against the fuss in the background. Suddenly, he began to smile and move in the direction of Ms. Gould, who I could see was also smiling. The two smiles became grins; they held for a moment, and dissolved as the slim figure slunk back to his post."
― zero of the signified, Thursday, 14 August 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the "jandek vs. mariah" comment below the article.
― get bent, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
jandek is awful. what is this guy's appeal? you know, beyond the 'mystery'
― res, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
some of the best depression music i have ever heard!
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Well he's not exactly a mystery anymore...
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol that comment should have ended with "you never her."
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
eh?
In a gray, discordant, and broken sort of way there's a lotta feeling here. If you're into gray, discordant, and broken music. There are times and places where I really enjoy that. Sometimes he reminds me of very early Fall, like some of the murkier bits on Dragnet, taken several steps farther.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread is helpful
anyone out there familiar w/ jandek?
― Edward III, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i meant the mariah comment on the article page, not yours.
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2384/2447563431_0548976d42.jpg?v=0
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
miniature family anecdotes
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
hoos how is that applicable here
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure 90% of that interview was total BS
BS as in it was deliberately trying to twist the tail of Wire-reading chins-strokers? Or BS as in made up?
Either way it was kind of a drag
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
completely made up, imo
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
he had an amazing band (Loren Mazzacane Connors, Matt Hecker, and Chris Corsano) but played synth and recited poetry all night instead of going improv noise-jam like you normally would if you had those three behind you.
this is the jandek way. he's not going to ride the wave, he's going to try to fuck it up and be alienating wherever possible. and recite poetry.
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
about to start marathon listening to entire corwood discography, one LP a week. groovy! who's in? ...anybody? ...
― maelin, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
I'm in for a while, first 22 at least
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
I would be very down for a Jandek listening thread/discussion
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
I'm in
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Jandek...the book.
Jandek New BOOK Release:0127 The Rays Of Light That Did Not Illumine https://t.co/s2obsK93TT pic.twitter.com/SLwvEDCEIR— Sheila Smith (@veganloca) May 17, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
I'm assuming poetry...but hoping for confessional autobiography.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
Then it turns out it's just nothing but accounting figures.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
"1990, good year."
Hoping for horror stories, expecting lyrics
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
hoping for political cartoons
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
given the title and shape I'm guessing LP cover photobook
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
friend of mine got it20 page prose poem
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
only $10 on the website!
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link