I have been going through another posting dry spell lately. Maybe it’s the lack of time I have to sit and think out some well reasoned thoughts, maybe the idea well has run dry, what ever it is, it’s infuriating. So in typical ‘Chris’ fashion I will bring the ideas to you and ya’ll can help me brainstorm.
Idea 1
I recently read an interview Jonathan Power did with Zbignew Brezinski in the World Policy Journal. Brezinski is one of the more credible and outspoken critics of the War in Iraq. I say credible because he was Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser and the man who started to lay the groundwork for the conclusion of the Cold War (when it ended, around 1989, it was the Reagan Administration that took the credit). The Reagan Administration at the time went through 6 NSA’s. 2 resigned because of the Iran Contra debacle and one LTG Colin Powell has the dubious honor of being the last NSA for Reagan.
Currently Zbignew Brzeinski is whispering in Barack Obama’s ear as his policy adviser.
I did some research into Brzezinski and I landed on the doorstep of the webpage;
You have 7 days to sign up and all sign ups must go through Control.
http://mog.com/Control
The reason is simply to keep all information centralized. Control will also be the default address for Mog Death announcements and reported kills. In time it will become an obituary page. It is strongly advised that you make Control a trusted with notifications.
After sign ups have ended and the names gathered my son Alex and I will be randomizing the old fashioned way (with 10 sided dice) and pairing each person with a victim/killer. It is at this point dossiers will be coming to your Mogmail from Control, I am, or Anna.
Important: This is where time is of the essence. If you do not respond to the dossier MOGmail within 3 days TO SAY you accept your mission/victim, we are going to assume that you are not playing and you will be disqualified, your victim will be spared. We are going to try and have a last person standing and this is one of the ways Anna and I came up with to achieve that end. Plus it works for expedience.
After you are cleared to send your hit do so at your earliest convenience (remember, someone with be sending you a hit also) speed is crucial if you want to survive.
When you receive your ‘hit’ you must inform Control immediately ABOUT your death and if you had the time to sent out your CD before you died. This means you are dead and you will be expected to post your Mog Death announcement on your page. We will also announce the hit on Control’s page. At this point you are done and your killer moves on to the next victim. If you ‘the dead victim’ didn’t get to send off your cd I ask that you sit on it until the end so we can send these cd’s to the last person standing.
Important: When mailing your cd try to send it so it will reach your intended victim within a week for oversees mailing and 3 days for domestic mailing. This is so there is no grousing about how to mail the cd. You have a time frame, try to adhere to it.
If you have a problem with making a death post, I ask that you don’t participate. These rules are for everyone playing and it is only fun if everyone goes along for the ride. Just a warning; Anna will be on you like ‘white on rice’ if you don’t play by the rules. Trust me you don’t want that. I have seen her make grown people ‘e-cry and wet their pants’. Plus I will be clogging your Mogmail with nasty-grams and commenting on your page with terribly inappropriate responses.
There are other rules for us (Anna, Chris and Control) but you don’t need to worry yourself about them.
Just,
* Sign up through Control * Answer your Mogmails on time * Be honest and let us know about your death * Make a death post when it is time. * Send your cd in a timely manner * And have fun
For those who don’t know what MOG Wars is here is a detail from Dale’s post:
Here’s the basic idea of how this works. At a predetermined date, you will receive a MOG-Mail with the MOG nick, full name, and address of your target. Also, the MOG-Mail will include a theme for the mix CD that the target has requested. It is then incumbent on you to make a mix CD for them, that meets their theme as closely as possible. Slip the mix CD in the mail, and wait for them to receive it. Once the target receives the CD, they’re dead. w00t, you are l33t assassin! You then get a MOG-Mail with your next hit, which will continue until there is but one assassin standing atop the pile of “dead” MOGgers.
We trade cd’s or ‘hits’ with one another in hopes of having a last person standing. Trading the cd’s helps facilitate in bringing our community together over our common love of music. If you want to participate all you need is,
a cd burner and blank cd
a decent collection of music
ability to write on an envelope and lick a stamp
There are other links at Control to help explain the process.
Questions? Ask them here.
Woah! Hendrix on a Sunday morn. Does it get any better?
Lately my writing has taken a sinister bend. Okay, maybe not that sinister. Still I have been getting into punk and older hardcore. Must be the ’summer energy’ I’ve being soaking up. Birthdays, weddings, festivals, and a thousand other celebrations that go on when the weather turns warm, then hot, then molten. Dogs are running more, the kids are losing the fat they stored up for the winter, and I am happy for the extra hour and a half of daylight. More time to get things done and go swimming.
In that vein I would like to make a few general announcements:
Mog Wars is a go. I will be posting a ‘Stone Tablet’ of rules within a day or two. Some of you cats have already signed up, Thank you, but all open sign ups haven’t really begun yet. Anna (the Bringer of Pain, the DJ of Demise, the mostest hostess, the Grecian of Deletion) has graciously consented to help bird dog Mog Wars and use her phenomenal cosmic powers to get the word out. I had hopes for a video kickoff (might still happen) but time and inclination divided by the sum of ability and constraint equals, hopefully. I just want to get the party started.
My car was broken into. The crack head perp got my Ipod.
Alex turns 9 on the 27th. Happy birthday Alex. What a little man you have turned out to be. Keep up the drawing and never quench your thirst for knowledge.
I will be driving south come January. Down 95 to Walt Disney World. Any Moggers in my way or close to it, give me a shout. Maybe we can can hook up for an hour or so. I am sure I will need the break.
Chalky white toothpaste is one of the best remedies for poison ivy and mosquito bites. Apply liberally.
I just found this video on Youtube. It’s a fan vid for the song ‘Ha Ha Ha’ by Flipper. The song is awesome and the video just works.
How ya doing? It’s been a while, 10 years at least. I know I haven’t written in a long time. I usually don’t need a reason to drop you a line but I felt this was a good time.
I don’t know if you heard, though you probably did, Carlin died this weekend. Heart failure of all things did that bastard in. Funny he went that way. I thought for sure he would have croaked on the golf course, or hit a tree at 75 mph while drunk outta his mind, or choke on a freaking asparagus stalk, but heart trouble in a hospital, who knew. He left his wife and kid behind to clean up the mess. Sally will do alright and I know she’s thinking “he is with Brenda again”.
Christ dude I’m bummed. He was doing some lame things lately, TV spots, Green campaigns and he had a tour in the works, audio books, regular books. I didn’t even think he knew how to write. Fuckin’ guy was always working and pissing some one off. If he knew he could get under your skin that’s what he did. He shut out everything else just so he could make your life a miserable hell,… well you know how he was. I half expected him to be shot by Dick Cheney but George didn’t give him the chance and kicked the bucket early, probably just to cheese Dick off. Ha, Dick cheese.
Man, do you remember the time he got carted away with you after refusing to surrender an ID to the pigs? “I don’t believe in government ID’s”, he said. With that they hauled you away for obscenity and him for some lame ass charge. Chicago wasn’t it? That was some deep shit for you and he got to walk away. George always said that night changed his life. I can tell it did. George took your ideas and ran with them. He went a little farther than you did, if you can believe that. His legal battles even out stripped yours. Shit, you don’t get to go to the Supreme Court because you have thing for black robes. No kidding he cried all the way to the top. What year was that? 1978 I thought. Shame he didn’t win. I was rooting for him. Took his ‘7 words’ to the highest court in the land. Bruce, if you were there, you would have jumped up and yelled, “Fuck! Quit dancing around, say the motherfucking words already, Jesus!” What cracks me up is someone actually said those words with a straight face in the Supreme Court chambers. Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. I always said this was Georges best PR stunt.
Did he ever tell you how much he toiled with those words? He was saying them over and over for 3 days straight just so they would come out right. Cunt, cocksucker, shit, piss, motherfucker, tits. Tits, motherfucker, cunt, shit cocksucker, piss, fuck. Over and over. “A fucking nightmare” he called it. “I just wanted to get it right.”
George loved you man, hell we all did. It’s a shame you cashed in your chips early. That’s right, you didn’t have any chips. Lenny, your the only Jew I knew who was born in the 20’s who didn’t know how to squeeze a dime into 3 nickels. Man, you were always broke.
Well soup is on and the family is waiting for me to come to the dinner table. Buddy, I can’t tell you how much I miss you and and now I am missing Carlin too.
If you see him, smack him on the back for me. Then yank down his pants and yell, “Jesus man, you really did have your balls laminated!”
Nobody really knows for sure. Some say he a musician living in the Houston area. Some say Jandek is a group that keeps its secrets well kind of like the Residents (in fact the mystery is a lot like the Residents and the early days of Ralph Records). And one thought is Jandek is one man who plays with a few different musicians. The last one is my favorite so far, the reason is that over time you can hear the music change in a way that seems to have included others in the recording process (This album is considered the first of the electric LP’s).
Jandek may use the name of Sterling R. Smith. When you paid for records by check to Corwood Industries, the cancellation on the back would be signed by Smith. This is only sepeculation though because this sort of thing only happened after 1981 (Jandek started selling LP’s, under Corwood, around 1978). There is a ton of evidence pointing to the fact Jandek is indeed Smith, but Sterling R. Smith smacks of an alias in my mind. A paper trail tells us that Sterling Smith is copyright holder for the Jandek records according to the Library of Congress. More grist for the mill.
For the sake of argument I think we should refer to ‘Jandek’ as a he, meaning one person.
So who is Jandek?
Nobody really knows and if somebody does/did know, they keep a damn good secret. John Trubee (of The Ugly Janitors of America non fame, shame) did an interview for Spin Magazine in 1985 which is held like a Holy Grail for those who love/like Jandek. In the interview Jandek reveals he is a machinist by trade. A flippin machinist! You have to listen to the interview. Thankfully they have them on Youtube.
This is a short version, 10 minutes tops.
And the full interview, this cashes in at 50 minutes. Yeah it’s long, but how many times have you downloaded a podcast or interview that was less than an hour. Check it out.
Trubee says ‘uhuh’ too many time to seem intelligent. Yet he was the guy who got to talk to Jandek. Go figure. Thankfully he has some good questions. I guess a pig steps in shit all of the time and in the end Trubee is telling it like it is in the record biz while helping a cat he happens to like.
Did you listen to one of the interviews? If you didn’t this next bit might be disorienting.
So what do we have here? A man who is (sort of) shunning fame. A deep individual who is going on with what he wants to do. I see a man who stayed away from notoriety, a man who liked notoriety, a man who had the moniker of ‘legend’ placed on his head, and a man who is loving every minute of the journey.
You have to give him props.
Spin started in 1985 and at the time it was hands down one of the greatest music mags to come out since Rolling Stone (relax UK, NME is not in this discussion). That is before they went the wrong way on Relevancy Road.
Still they had some good years.
Honestly folks, there is a mountain of info surrounding the name Jandek. Wiki, personal blogs, and news articles. Today he is everywhere, in 1985 he was nowhere. Being so anonymous is what made him ‘cool’.
Google the name Jandek. You can follow the conjecture till your eyes and ears bleed, in this case, to much is way to much. His myth has been dispelled.
The Internet Killed Jandek!
This is a recycled track. Easily my fave off of ‘You Walk Alone’. Side 2 Track 1. Great anger management song. If you need links, give me a shout.
