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dear NYC,

Jul 27, 2005 15:07

Pretty please, if one of you beautiful folks could possibly run an errand for me on August 8, that would be fab. That errand is to go to the Anthology Film Archives or Other Music and purchase a predetermined number of tickets to see mother fucking Jandek on September 6th.

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kellianne July 27 2005, 16:47:33 UTC

how many tickets? can it wait until this weekend? how will i pay cos i got no money?

tabletop July 27 2005, 17:13:56 UTC

it can wait until a week from Tuesday! I can send money too. Not sure how many tickets yet, as it depends on if anybody else has a hard on for Jandek. They're just not selling any tickets online and shizzle.

WE WILL DEFINITELY HANG OUT AT THAT TIME and it will be bitchingly awesome.

xoxoxox

kellianne July 27 2005, 17:24:37 UTC

ok send me money tomorrow so that it's here by monday. i can go on monday... or i can actually go the monday after if that's ok. so.

will i like jandek? should i be going to this show with you? it's good to have me around these days. i'm a good luck charm if you're needing anything.

tabletop July 27 2005, 18:55:45 UTC

the tickets are not on sale until a week after Tuesday, so we've got a little time. Also, they haven't announced the price yet. So basically I posted this to help myself not forget that it is happening, hahaha.

you can definitely come to the show with me, but I think you would probably not enjoy it. I think I will probably come up there for at least the Sunday before and stay for a couple of days...hopefully!

kellianne July 27 2005, 19:09:58 UTC

what sort of music is it?

westbaymonument July 28 2005, 05:52:33 UTC

It's...interesting. Not sure how to describe it. Interesting music from an interesting dude.

vena_cava July 28 2005, 06:22:22 UTC

I always point people who are curious about Jandek this way...I think Wolk sums it up as well as anybody could.

The operative paragraph being: vena_cava July 28 2005, 06:23:24 UTC

And what does his music sound like? Like pure desolation. Jandek is not just solo but profoundly alone on most of his recordings, picking distractedly at a guitar tuned to no particular notes, moaning in no particular key about thinking and love and wandering around and staying in the same place and God. Beyond that, there's just emptiness -- each off-key ping floats out separately into black space. Sometimes Jandek sounds as if he'd internalized the grimmest death-letter blues of the '20s and is pulling them back out of himself, thoroughly dismembered, hair by hair. His songs have no choruses, no hooks, no melodies, no rhythms, no internal progression, nothing but the inexorable Chinese-water-torture plod of Samuel Beckett's The Unnameable: "I can't go on, I'll go on."

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