Jandek, Our favorite Al Jazerra anchor lookalike has just emitted <a href="http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0781">Khartoum</a>
into the collective consciousness.
<img src="http://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/thumb-0781.jpg">
Posted by frame609 on 2005-10-25 18:48:17 +0000
The check is going into the mail circa: pronto!
Posted by rladew on 2005-10-25 19:01:50 +0000
I hear MF Doom is scheduled to be a guest on corwood 0800...
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-10-25 20:01:54 +0000
God (sorry, Allah) help us all.
Posted by rladew on 2005-10-27 15:39:22 +0000
my check and envelope left Rhode Island this morning. Since it is a check (give an extra week or so for clearing purposes) and not a money order, I'm guessing I wont have it until Nov 28th (Monday) or so...
Damn 'Dek!
Lets get some automated web e-commerce shit going! This is punk rock mailorder circa the '70s... (I guess many would advocate that that is part of the charm)
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Posted by rladew on 2005-11-04 00:33:23 +0000
Received exactly 1 week from mailing... I stand seriously corrected.
lemmeknow when yrs comes frame
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-04 04:45:03 +0000
Mine came today. I wrote a chatty letter (as I alwasy do) talking about how I was at the Austin show, his use of Muslim imagery, and the Astros. I asked if there would be videos of the shows, and whether he had converted to Islam. I also re-issued my request for the man to play Boston. I got this response:
'Videos we hope
Photos nothing to do with pilgrimage
or tourism'
Fucking right on!
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-04 14:41:32 +0000
Listened to it on the way to work this morning. Very percusive guitar (even more so than usual to my ears). Severely lonely... (see/hear 'I Shot Myself' for example)
'I shot Myself' may become my new 'getting ready and commuting in the morning' anthem. developing...
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Posted by tgl on 2005-11-04 14:51:46 +0000
That's grim.
How about: "I('d like a) Shot (or two of espresso) Myself"
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-04 16:23:12 +0000
works for me, although Jandek hasnt ever been Mr. Sunshine.
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-04 16:26:55 +0000
I am listening to Jonathan Richman right now, who certainly doesn't need any more coffee.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-04 16:27:25 +0000
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. Not in New York.
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-04 18:57:07 +0000
He was only five foot three
Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-04 19:35:17 +0000
So the guitar on 'Khartoum' sounds a lot like the other recent albums, except more in tune and less distorto, vocals sharp, unslurred.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-04 19:35:17 +0000
'I Shot Myself', for the record, is fucking awesome.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-04 19:53:04 +0000
very percussive, no?
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-04 20:11:36 +0000
It is, yeah- his guitar playing is always pretty amazing on acoustic.
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-05 02:22:27 +0000
I keep wondering what would happen if I peered over my cubicle walls and actually tried to play or tell someone at work about Jandek.
Id probably be walked out by security...
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Posted by frame609 on 2005-11-15 08:03:13 +0000
<a href ="http://users.belgacom.net/portfoliomp/Jandek_in_Belgium/"> More live photos! </a>
Posted by rladew on 2005-11-15 12:48:28 +0000
I listened to Khartoum while doing dishes last night.
I'm not entirely covinced that everything Jandek plays is improvised. Some of it sounds composed. The more I hear his guitar, the less it sounds like a little kid strumming with no rhyme or reason.
Hearing 'I Shot Myself' while scraping off caked on grease is quite an experience.
(Headphones were used BTW - otherwise Im pretty sure Jackie and I would be getting divorced right now)
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Damn 'Dek!
Lets get some automated web e-commerce shit going! This is punk rock mailorder circa the '70s... (I guess many would advocate that that is part of the charm)
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lemmeknow when yrs comes frame
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'Videos we hope
Photos nothing to do with pilgrimage
or tourism'
Fucking right on!
'I shot Myself' may become my new 'getting ready and commuting in the morning' anthem. developing...
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How about: "I('d like a) Shot (or two of espresso) Myself"
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Id probably be walked out by security...
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I'm not entirely covinced that everything Jandek plays is improvised. Some of it sounds composed. The more I hear his guitar, the less it sounds like a little kid strumming with no rhyme or reason.
Hearing 'I Shot Myself' while scraping off caked on grease is quite an experience.
(Headphones were used BTW - otherwise Im pretty sure Jackie and I would be getting divorced right now)
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