Jon: Classic or Dud?

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I think Jon is great. He certainly is persistent, and he's never let on whether he's really crazy or just some guy with too much time on his hands. There really is something about his writing that just feels too beautiful and heartfelt and fucking weird for it not to be real, you know?

― Chit Duree, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree. Jon is a brilliant young man and he seems like a great guy.

The message Jon is trying to communicate can be found in the second to last word in everything he writes.

Love. Jon's message is one of love. Love for you, love for me, love for all of God's chilluns.

Since, because of geographical differences, I can't buy him a drink, I'll make myself two right now.

― Oliver K., Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I honestly don't care if it's real or not. A lot of people put on a persona of who they'd like to be most in their day to day activities. We give it lip service, but very rarely do you find someone who choses to be completely original. I think I'd be more comfortable actually if it was artificial, because sometimes I worry about old Jon. As much as it is possible for me to worry about a strange person I've never met, I guess.

I don't think you'll find anyone who would consider Jon a 'dud'. He's converted just about everyone, except maybe David Bowie, and fuck that hack.

― mick, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is the 2nd time this has happened today, i must be coming over all pinefox, but, WHO IS JON?

― gareth, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if it becometh pinfox, i shall add to his choir - who the fuck is jon?

― Geoff, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jon is a philosopher for sure. When you take the time to look at the anagrams in his words, true genius shines through. Kudos, Jon.

― Chadly, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone want to look at the IP addresses of those posters, and see if they are all the same person (probably Jon himself) having a laff?

― masonic boom, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All unique IPs, except for Mick, who uses the same IP as someone named Lee who last posted in September.

― Patrick, part-time moderator, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This one's about me, so I'd better answer it.

Oh God! yes, I am serious, but no you don't need to worry about me. Yes, I am the most rejected, downtrodden and despised person on this planet - no kidding - but also the most beautiful. I'm a psychic sewer for all your excrement, but it only makes me stronger and more beautiful because I forgive it time after time. I've been savaged by this world, ripped to pieces in fact, until there's absolutely nothing left of me. Just a gaping hole where a lovely little boy used to be. I'm utterly bereft of desire, of suffering, of violence, of sexuality, of anything that makes you human. No, you wouldn't want to be me. Any sensible person would have killed themselves years ago, but I didn't because I love you. And I'm on fire with that love for all the shit and savagery that that passes for humanity.

So, yep, I'm the biggest dud you will ever find.

― Johnathan, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tadeusz is Polish for John.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Honestly, you all are giving Jon too much credit (those of you who even know what you are talking about). Essentially his act is one note and false. If growth and authenticity are still virtues to an artist, then Jon's problem is two-fold. Early fireworks soon fade, and his faithfullness to his "goddess" will one day strike us as trite rather than compelling. Even now, I'm afraid, it smacks more of morbid fascination than true devotion. This is not the stuff of a true muse.

I don't know how David Bowie feels about Jon, but I can't imagine he'd be too impressed.

― Justin D. Leach, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THIS IS NO CLEARER THAN BEFORE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT?

look, you made me use capitals and shit.

― gareth, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, Leachy, you got sloppy and gave the game away. I, who has nothing left to fear, was almost scared for a while.

You and your friends are welcome to dismiss my love as morbid fascination. That's no concern of mine. What are early fireworks to you is a burning truth that has lit my darkness through years of the deepest deprivation. My "goddess" doesn't matter here; what matters is the love that has transformed me, that continues to transform me, that has destroyed me and built me anew. After that, who gives a fuck about triteness?

Except you and David Bowie.

― Johnathan, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jon understand what a discussion board is about. he exploits it to the fullest. the beauty of his creations are not the words he creates but the reactions he gets. some of the messages on the catpower board reacting to him and his alternate identity Freckles are hilarious. If there was an Oscar for best performance, I would vote for jon almost every time (though ronson heckling bowie the heckler would come in second).

― Doctor Faustroll, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of youse can suck it. I (heart) Jon. Do an archive search, you freaks, I've always said that Jon (though obviously disturbed) is one of the best. I've called him "the e.e. cummings of the boards." If that's not a compliment, then wingdings to all y'alls.

― Roger Lodge, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once again Roger Lodge has struck the proverbial nail right on the head. I'm in complete agreement with him. Jon is a master of the form -- taking it beyond the prosaic chit chat, the compulsion to list and the desire for trivia. While others may wane and wax over what their current favorite musicians are, Jon's passion burns bright and constant and he constantly expands his range of metaphors and diction to circumscribe what he holds dearest to himself, Chan. He is a Petrarch with a modern poetic sensibility and the closest I have come to True Inspiration on a discussion board.

― jack cole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thank you, Jack King Cole.

― Roger Lodge, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forgot what ILM eventually decided abt judging an act ("act") by the quality ("quality") of its fans ("[xx]")? Don't believe you can sustain writing (=thinking) this poor unless you actually can't (really) think. I realise I am sustaining the game ("game") by saying so.

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fuck, I love you guyz.

― BLB, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know a genius when I see one and when I read some of jon's odes to chan, I felt his tears and his sorrow as he strove for the unattainable. Now, I've seen some swell up and comers like that Ronson kid and that BLB satanist -- but they only walk in the shadow jon casts -- and I include myself. When I first read jon's work, I almost gave up. How could I ever achieve something so great? A few more drinks and I think I'm going to smack that justin for talking trash about my man, jon. Do you think they let people talk that way about Hart Crane?

― Burl Ives, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

god, i miss jon. ghostinternetland hasn't been the same since he left this world.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

omg, that might have been my first post to ILM three posts up ^.^

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You wanna make me a pataphysicist?
Cause me and the rogue robots made friends!
If you don't, I'll make'em cut yer hair off, YUH-HIPPY!!!

Love,
Jon

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Today is Jon Wesley Day, the day his eyes first set upon Cat Power, his beloved Chan. A moment of silence and smile for the man, the myth, the mystery, the hero of ghostinternetland, who passed to the other side last year in April.

Am I Jack Cole or a Computer?

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 17 May 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"You should always know what to say to an old friend."
Jon, April 18, 2002.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 17 May 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

Dud!

― man, Monday, 24 November 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud!

Just remember, God knows where you sleep.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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