ILV clubhouse

This is reflected in the skyrocketing value for vinyl records over the recent years.

:(

it's the little things dept.: a new shelf has opened up, getting stacks off the floor. yet another benefit of the empty nest.

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd412/flatofangles/DSC_0536_zpsac7cd2db.jpg

more exciting premiere: game of thrones s03 on 3/31 or mad men s06 on 4/7?

GAME OF HTRONES BRO.
i gave up on mad men halfway into season 3. soap opera snoozer, no matter how babely the cast.

agreed, although we made it thru S4 of MM.

im sayin both

fuuuuuuuuuuck dudes worst night weird run-in w our passive aggressive neighbors.

bluhhhhhhhhhh

in situations like these, i generally ask myself WWJJWD? and listen to five years gone.

what was the prob?!?! records too loud!?!

no they annexed both garden plots, and we emailed to be like "oh we want some of that space!" and they copped a weird attitude about how we never engage with our property (?), and so i politely pointed out that theyve regularly ignored our requests to clean up their dog's shit from the backyard, and how "engagement" seemed like a moot point for us after that.

anyway, it all seems fine now, but UGH. these PEOPLE.

my pals bev and shannon are having a rocking house party. ian's wife will be there. ya'll should come:

Metal Mountains
Willie Lane
Samara Lubelski
Red Favorite
Josh Burkett (reading)

i'm gonna be there too i think. unless i have to stay home to keep the cats fed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aVkultzJ0I

Ian, please, pull some strings. Send the Metal Mountains to Boston.

is there somewhere they can play and get busted by cops? they have barely done any shows outside of ny tbh, it's kinda tough to get the three of them to coordinate schedules. but i'll tell helen you want them to come there

Didn't understand scott's post at first cuz I was like, I should be seeing Samara at the Chelsea Light Moving show in Chicago tonite!

bev and shannon are two of my best buds around here. love those guys and its always such a good time at their place. and their band rules, by the way. bunwinkies.

Beatles acetate with different version of "I Saw Her Standing There":

http://www.ebay.com/itm/350755370246

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELYSE-WEINBERG-Grease-Paint-Smile-LP-unreleased-2nd-album-test-press-NEIL-YOUNG-/350755249198?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item51aaa45c2e

saw that one yesterday. the jerk face funkyou sure has a nice set of rock/ssw obscurities up right now... lots of wants but i have a hard time giving that carpetbomber/earth-scorcher my not-so-hard-earned coin.

curious to hear that, though. i guess he just lists too damn many things to make mp3s? or maybe this has been passed around digitally for a while and i just was out of the loop?

really dig her first LP, always wondered why it's not more of a $$$ record. i know it's not uber-rare but i've still only found it twice in like 10 years of looking...

yeah, i like the record on tetragrammaton. not the best thing in the world but at least as good as the first couple of karen beth lps or ellen mcilwaine or someone.

i admire/am jealous of anyone who can get 12 to 15 bucks for 2 dollar records. he's a lot like my pal from west virginia, vinyty. i wish i had the time to build up a dedicated following on ebay, but sadly i own a stupid record store which takes up a lot of my time. otherwise i think i could. their averages are really high.

that said, both of them always have tons of stuff that i want.

i dunno, he seems like an over-grading parasitic bottom-feeder to me, but maybe i'm just a jealous hater.

i guess i'm just bitter that he put up a bunch of "we buy records" signs on my block and around my 'hood.

you are bitter that he buys records?

shit, over-grading? i just bid on a chilliwack record...

haha. i'm bitter that he lives in st. louis and buys records in oakland! THOSE ARE MY RECORDS.

anyway, i realize i sound a bit like a baby and i've had this argument about him a million times so i probably don't need to get into it again. i just feel like he's turned something i love into big business and, irrational or not, that burns me a little. he just feels like the giant corporate behemoth of records, and i hate giant corporate behemoths.

not to mention the fact that the signs are as much of an eyesore as those "WE BUY HOUSES" ones and, shockingly, only appear in under-served minority neighborhoods.

i don't quite understand when someone is called a 'parasitic bottom feeder' what does that mean? exactly?
isn't the whole notion of buying/selling records to uh, buy records low and sell them high? i'm not advocating ripping anyone off here -- but if i see a record at a thrift/flea/store/record fair that i know i can sell for more money, at this pt in my life i am going to buy it and sell it (or try to, or horde it until it's time to do a record fair.) does this make me a parasite?
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i've noticed a shocking dearth of 'we buy records' signs around my neighborhood in brooklyn. i've been tempted many times to put one up at the grocery store and the few coffee shops with bulletin boards, but i really don't know if anything worthwhile would come of it?

he's got an eye though! most corporate behemoths don't. he has a good niche. which is why i'm jealous. cuz i could try and sell the same promo and get 5 bucks and he'll get 20. but he has built the audience. something i haven't taken the time to do. that's pretty crazy about putting up signs in different cities though. but i don't think its a bad thing really. and those records might be yours but do you advertise that you buy records?

oh, boy. here i go again...

no, i don't advertise that i buy records (though i have plenty of local friends that do).

i'll preface this rant by saying that i realize it's a bit irrational and that i may sound like a jealous hater (i probably am to some extent - i'd certainly rather be selling old records for a living than what i currently do).

but...

funkyou leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. i realize that we all try to buy records low and sell high, and that sometimes that involves withholding information from the owner of the records. i have no problem buying $100 from the goodwill, or from a store for $1, and i'm certainly not about to tell them they should price it higher (unless the store owner is a good friend). i do this even though the store might need the $100 a lot more than i do and i realize this is a moral grey area and my hands aren't 100% clean and glass houses and blah blah blah...

but the dude specifically posts signs in lower class black neighborhoods. and his postcard marketing campaign specifically mails out to zip codes with similar demographics. i've seen his signs in vallejo, west berkeley, west oakland, north oakland, and east oakland (but shockingly never in montclair or piedmont or marin county). maybe he's the most fair record buyer of all-time, maybe i'm just an asshole, but his entire business operation appears to be targeting an already marginalized subset of the population.

ppl have been going to 'marginalized' (read: black) neighborhood since the dawn of record collecting!

otoh, when ppl were buying old blues 78s for $1 or $0.50, no one would have known their value would skyrocket in the decades to come. which makes it easier to stomach for some people.

in non controversial news,
i have to do laundry today. i hate doing laundry. it's not so bad when you're doing it, but getting started sucks. and ending sucks. cuz then you have to make the bed and put stuff away.
while things are drying i'll probably go to the post office, even though i was hoping to get a few more payments and minimize trips.

i mean, i get that swindling poor people is the oldest trick in the record collecting/selling book, but it still bugs me.

and maybe he's not a swindler, maybe he's totally fair. i'll just go back to the position that his signs are an eyesore, and leave it at that.

there ya go. nobody likes an eyesore.

i just ripped the sheet taking it off the bed :\ bad husband.

sorry, guys. i didn't mean to get riled up in the clubhouse.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GEORGE-HARRISON-SCRAP-BOOK-By-A-Teenage-Girl-42-PAGES-The-Beatles-/161002563687?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item257c802867

just got invited to visit the home of world-renowned 78rpm collector and current yazoo head honcho Richard Nevins in a few weeks! A whole day of listening to some of the best records ever made!

I hate laundry

i did the laundry.
i really hate folding laundry. i never folded or put anything away until i got married and now it's compulsory.

if that guy is trolling black neighborhoods, where's all the funky stuff? just went and looked more closely at his listings and it is sir nose devoid of funk. looks like he raided my house! seriously you have no idea how many of those albums i've owned. hundreds of them. its eery. i even own the national ski patrol record he has up with the one cool popsike song on it! maybe he does separate funk and soul auctions. i haven't seen one of his big auctions in a long time.

he's got two different ebay handles. not sure how he decides what goes where, but this sure looks a lot more like his standard auctions:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/funkyousounds/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

aha, okay, definitely seen that name too. makes sense now. dude definitely gets some great stuff with those wide-ranging tentacles.

WHAT'S UP GUYS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6q0i4smVs

Laura Thompson 9 months ago
One of the members of The Red Fox Chasers was my paternal grandfather; the guitaris A.P. "Fonzie". He and his wife Effie Callaway had four children, Pauline, Ralph, Fred, and Ruth. All have passed but Ruth who remains in her hometown in North Carolina. There are many great memories of my grandfather, father, aunts, & unlce standing around the piano, while others played the guitar during family gatherings. My father Fred continued with music as a part of his life until his death in Sept, 2008.