July 31, 2008
Meet the Flockers: Amanda Mae Meyncke
I am the commenter formerly known as jandek. One day I believe someone asked “Dear Clusterflock, what is your fulltime job?” and it struck me that it would be funny if Jandek answered the question. Things sort of kept going from there.
I live just outside Los Angeles, I just graduated from a small private university with a B. A. in Film and Radio Production. I spent most of my time in college designing and taking small classes on Flannery O’Connor. This year, I had made plans to move to Iceland, and to work for NPR, but as of right now, neither of those things have happened.
Los Angeles is wonderful, and I couldn’t hope to live in a better town. I mean that.
I screenprint, embroider, sew, karaoke, produce radio segments now and then, freelance write, garden occasionally, and I’m excited to be a part of your lives, and loves.
This is me looking serious… Seriously awesome!
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welcome,
Jandek, Amanda Mae! it’s great to have you along.So happy you walked into the party, kittentits.
(And me, I like Los Angeles, too. Most everybody thinks I’m funny for saying that, but I Do Not Care.
Eh . . . do you know Van Dyke Parks — or know someone who knows him?)
The only Van Dyke Parks trivia I know is that Joanna Newsom played her entire album “Ys” for him without stopping, and at the end of it, he was so impressed that he agreed to do the orchestration for her for free.
MEBBE IT’S TRUE, MEBBE NOT.
Welcome Amanda…
Great to have you aboard. I love California and Los Angeles is in California, so I also love Los Angeles.
On a side note, I’m a little sad this Jandek mystery has been solved.
Y’all got me missing California now.
Andrew, you could always return. It’s not like they hate you out there.
The overall Jandek mystery still has never been solved Michael, don’t worry. He’s better at not being found. Cindy figured out who I was in a matter of minutes I think.
It’s true. I can definitely walk into a job back in the Central Coast if I wanted it. Just not yet. I need to be in St. Louis. for the time being. All is not clear why but it feels right.
Whenever you’re ready, Andrew, we’ll take you back.
wherever you go, there you are?
Amanda Mae, now you must say your last name out loud so we’ll know how to pronounce it. In my head, first, I said “MINE-i-Key” on second reading, “MAINkey.” Am I close? I suspect your name said out loud is a poem.
And Welcome!
Hee. It’s MINE-key. Both of your guesses were the two closest ones I ever hear.
Kittentits MINE-key.
Amanda Mae Mine-key. See, I knew it, a poem. The jist of which is Mmmmmmm. Welcome again. I know your contributions just make us all richer.
Welcome, Amanda Jandek.
I imagined you being much taller or shorter.
Just for you, I googled “jandek” to figure out what the hell I was missing. Nifty.
You should know better than not to tell these people who you aren’t.
But then this is how welcome sounds.
It’s spelled “kittentits” but pronounced “glad you’re here.” I reckon.
Oddly enough, I am both taller and shorter.
Thanks, all, you are tout sweet!
Sorry I’m so late to this–I’ve been in a self-imposed state of unpluggedness for most of the week.
Amanda Mae, it’s a thrill to have you here!
You’re right, I figured you to be Jandek right quick, but I was careful not to ruin it for anyone. Well, I guess I ruined it for Sheila. Shit, Sheila, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to ruin anything for you. I’m just, you know, curious. Like a cat.
Carry on, kittentits.
Well, you know, Cindy (and Amanda Mae), once “Jandek” had been posting comments for a bit, I’d pretty well figured out — at least to the extent I could — that there was a distinction between Jandek-as-impersonated-by-Amanda Mae and Amanda Mae-posting-as-Amanda Mae. That’s what studying rhetoric in college will do for you. Or maybe just having a good ear. But I was just too damned lazy to do the obvious in order to solve the mystery. So nothing was ruined by your revelation, Cindy.
And I too am happy to have Amanda Mae here. She is — to borrow a phrase from a friend in Bath (that’s in England) — “smart as a sack of stoats”. And cuter’n a bug, too.
Yes, yes, I know I am terrible at pretending to be Jandek. Especially since I know almost nothing about Texas or the sorts of things the real Jandek might loved, and I feel certain Jandek would know very little about the sorts of things I have some vague familiarity with. I’d be much better at pretending to be Alex James from Blur, I promise you that.
Oh, no.I thought that your faux-Jandek posts were fine. Only when you began posting as yourself, though under the cognomen of Jandek, did I say to myself, “A-ha!” Your Jandek mimicry had me buffaloed for a while.
Amanda Mae, has anyone ever told you that you bear a resemblance to Ethel Barrymore?
No…? I think maybe my nose comes off more prominent than I intend it to, if this is the comparison that is drawn.
More of a general likeness, based on more than the one photograph.
As to noses, well . . . they are the largest things on our faces and insist on commanding attention. It is a battle that I fight with mine. But yours is a lovely nose.