a new genre in collector-dom?

A few years ago a friend of mine who frequented a closed password protected punk record collector board (why?) told me about the phenomena of people posting pictures of their rare records. Granted, why have rare records if yr not gonna show'em off, right? She then tried to get me to do the same on a email list we both frequented. (no i didn't do it)



And then the other day I was looking up jandek on youtube and found these videos. maybe it says something about me, but i found these very watchable. Of note 1) this dude is from Maine 2) his looks (and tattoo) make him look like a recovering punk rocker, how'd he become Big Deal jandek collector now? There's a part where he shows off his wall of Jandek correspondence but doesn't want the camera to disclose the contents of the letters. What could be personal in a Jandek correspondence, is this DEAR JANDEK time?



D) its seems like it's his GF doing the filming who also made him the Jandek cake and also gave him a Jandek related stuffed animal present. V) why does he have records framed and put up on the wall? who does that?

and most importantly WHAT HAPPENED TO PART 4?

two faces of the coin:

Fahey Folk Fuckin'

Something that I haven't gotten into before, but now is opening my cranium to the light of truth = John Fahey, and in a farther extension, folk,blues,americana. This is not something that a music snob college rock'n'roller would listen to in 2000 (at least I didn't). This is moving into the realm of record store nerd, record collector delving that the last 5 years has seen move into the mainstream of (or periphery of) hipster parlance & paraphernalia. or perhaps I have moved more into the periphery or more into the realm of record collector nerds & snobs.



Oh, Well, it don't matter. Point is, this is what I've been exploring lately. Not just Fahey, but the whole sort of (for lack of a better classification) Sun City Girls realm. Fahey, obscure Americana, Sublime Frequencies, Mississippi records, non-"world music" world musics.

Is it weird that Mississippi records also release Animals + Men & Clean represses? I SAY NO. This the realm of what is good therefore true (actually inverse) that is obscured by a lot of what gets talked about in music. This isn't crate-digging (well, it is) but the criteria is not obscurity (well not the only one) but closer to what is not heard, and what can be heard/made/expressed, in what the LCD of music, even hipster music HAPPENS. If a cultural signifier of anything (I do not pretend that it is decloaked of distracting who does it & why we do it & what that says about us & what that says were trying to say about ourselves) but at least it is more honest about that (or was Madonnnnnna the honest one about that, or SY? I always forget.)

Not to belabor the point, but Ravi... but Fahey & Raga & Ravi, that's one thing to listen for no?



There's a lot of problems with that too (yeah for closer to 20/20 hindsight!)