ILV clubhouse

is that like a comedown thing?

its for when i need to get right with god

god i love that rekkerd.

never heard it, so abashed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bx-_YgTucg

Happy Birthday, Jacob!

Thanks Scott, enjoying a glass of Old Overholt to celebrate my 36 years!

i am playing records at a gig tonight.
it always makes me nervous playing records in a bar cuz i have no idea what the quality of the set-up is gonna be like. even at the radio station i sometimes worry abt fucking up my records with worn out needles.

fuck RIP bob welch. "future games" all night.

i am playing records at a gig tonight.
it always makes me nervous playing records in a bar cuz i have no idea what the quality of the set-up is gonna be like. even at the radio station i sometimes worry abt fucking up my records with worn out needles.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't really play records out anymore but whenever i do my new, diva-ish request is just to have a solid, stable table, away from anywhere where people are standing. it is not even the idea that the equipment might be less than ideal, just that someone is going to spill drinks over all my recs. how did it go, anyhow?

oh, it hasn't happened yet. we'll see! i've played at this place before and the turntables have been a bit dodgy. this is zebulon fyi.

anyone interested in splitting a table at the WFMU show? (NYC Nov. 2, 3, 4) I was thinking about Sunday - price of one table is $144.50 if you pay before 25 June.

details:
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/LB/Mara12/2012_Record_Fair_packet.pdf

oh, it hasn't happened yet. we'll see! i've played at this place before and the turntables have been a bit dodgy. this is zebulon fyi.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah. okay. hope you have enough light to see.

by the way, entering into a contract with someone from a semi-anonymous message board is always a good idea

maria got up really early to sell at the flea market.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/282911_10151032480340908_1927500133_n.jpg

entering into a contract? i... i don't know.

p.s. i would sell w you at the fair perhaps..

i dunno if J&R means anything to anyone outside of new york, but they're blowing out a ton of 70s/80s dead stock (sealed!) for $0.99. I bought about fifty records today. Tons of sealed late-era Waylon, Willie, Jerry Jeff. A couple latin records. Bluegrass records. A couple of those Golden Groups doo wop comps.

TWO copies of Angel Alley by Linda Cohen, friend of Skot.

We were driving around Del Rio just now and found two large flea markets and more resale shops that we'll have to visit once they are open. I'm excited about looking for records in west texas this summer, lots of sunday drives to different towns, and there's Mexico! I need to renew my passport.

my next door neighbor sold his house and is moving and i bought his records today and he had this and i have never seen it and it is bonkers end of the world apocalypse electronic audio play musique concrete private press dementia from 1973 that begins and ends with completely funky drumbeat funk band action. i take back anything bad i ever said about that guy.

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20111025/230690320236.jpg

Hey Ian or Scott, have you guys heard or seen a record by a group called Snail self titled on Cream, or Lenny Zakatek's self titled? Very interested in hearing/finding these. I know there are copies on ebay, but that's no fun.

i have the snail record. or two snail records actually. i think they had two. jaxon likes snail. his mom knew a member of snail? i remember that from an ilm thread.

That's cool, Jaxon's cool.

I lost my wallet last night :(
Had no cash in it, but driver's license/atm card.
Cancelled card, no big deal, but getting a replacement license is gonna be a biiiiittttcch. AND I"m supposed to drive upstate this weekend to go to a wedding.

Fingers so crossed that it is at the car service lost & found.

oh wait, records, yeah...
i got my country 78rpm discography yesterday.

this-is-the-oldest-vinyl-album-in-the-history-of-the-world

http://gizmodo.com/5922410/this-is-the-oldest-vinyl-album-in-the-history-of-the-world

it's weird to me that they keep calling it an album.
that's technically incorrect innit?

okay.

so i try not to complain much about the customers at the record store, but one of my absolute pet peeves is ppl who don't know how to use a turntable just fucking with it without any care in the world. twice today i had to yell at people for just putting down the needle onto the slipmat without a record. what do they expect to happen? are they genuinely expecting to hear something? do people have no concept of taking care of a record needle? it's really infuriating. we spend hundreds of dollars a year replacing needles & headphones at the listening stations--when the needles get shot, people complain, but it's really frustrating to know the needles would need MUCH LESS REPLACING if people could just ASK FOR HELP and NOT BE STUPID.

It's forgivable if you're a toddler or something, but we're talking about 20 year old kids who do shit like this.

Animals.

truly the most disgusting savages.
if i go to a photocopy place, not knowing much about fancy photocopy machines, i'm just just gonna jam the parts together until they work. i would ask for assistance.

someone had this totally rad 60's-era scifi stereo they wanted to sell - big black bubble top and it was on a long stand and came with futuristic speakers and it was in really good shape and they wanted a hundred bucks for it and i was tempted but didn't buy it. kinda sad. then my friend X came in and she is a groovy artist and she is looking for a groovy stereo for her studio space and she totally would have bought it from me! argh! never seen one like it. usually only see stuff like that in fancy old fashion pictures of groovy scifi apartments. kinda like one of these:

http://modernicaprops.net/images/products/electronics/stereos/624.jpg

feel like a dope. i could have tested it out and everything. some fancy design store would sell stuff like that for $$$$. i mean it would have just looked good in the store even if X didn't buy it. oh well. i'm cheap unless we are talking records.

i mean they probably would have taken 75 for it. they were just dudes. big tattooed dudes. they just wanted to get rid of it. and X came in like ten minutes later! you win some you lose some...

can u run after them?

write a missed connection?

A friend of mine is St Louis is selling this thing, he says it all works. Not sure what he's asking
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/578758_441459372544218_1330101118_n.jpg

whoa! o_O

that some jetson shit

Hey Scott, I want to by Elmer Bernstein's Staccato OST, but I see there is a Capital mono with only 4 songs on each side that I think is broken up into 2 volumes and there's a stereo capital release and a 82 reissue. Should I fork out the money for the two volume mono sets, or the stereo, is there a difference? Btw this is for my wife who really digs the idea of owning this soundtrack.

putting momus records out cheap just to get them out of the store

where i'm at:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-store-in-july.html

man, I wish I had a store just to have an excuse to buy art books. what's the deal with that huge pink & brown painting in jpg 21?

my friend lance did that. he's a great painter. some day he will get his due. i don't know when. he doesn't push his art. he just works steadily for decades. he'll let history sort it out.

http://lancevaughan.com/

he hasn't updated his website since 2007...

he is also responsible for my favorite website ever:

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

now kindertrauma THAT he updates. always so impressed by how hard he works on that.

bestfriendsforever since high school. sadly i haven't seen him in years cuz he refuses to ever leave philly and i never find time to go down to philly. philly always seems like that extra mile to me...

we are both lazy, basically.

Are there any labels or other places that do a subscription service where you receive surprise records in the mail on a semi-regular basis? I want something like that. Maybe one of the record store dudes here can do that for me.

there are still a couple of labels that do singles club type things, though that might not be what you mean

Hey guys tell me about Jimmie Spheeris, which records should I start with?

get them all. will set you back like five bucks.

I've decided to collect private lounge records!