ASK SCOTT SEWARD

should i get that 4cd of dissevelt and baltan related dutch stuff on basta?

should i go to LA, SF, Miami or Lisbon next?

is it silly to spend a large amount of money on a 19th century upper class SF style suit?

jo stafford was a world-famous jazz/pop singer. i haven't seen bummed for a dollar anywhere yet. get the dutch thing and then never listen to it. go to SF, better record stores (maybe). it isn't silly if you can afford to spend the money. money is silly.

i got the music emporium, and mesmerizing eye albums

boozy jo?

good morning gareth!

i mean "captain!"

gareth, buy the suit. it's so fancy.

Daerest Scawt Sewerd:

What can you tell me about The Hobbits Down To Middle Earth LP? I saw you mention it on some ILM thread. It's at the record store, but it's sealed so I can't listen to it. If I buy it, it would use up the remainder of my credit there. But... is it the jam?

One love,
Ian

It's creepy exploito-psych-pop. studio band pretending they are hippies on acid and being way more sickly and bizarre and twee then real hippies. if yoo get really stoned and listen to it you might feel funny. They had another album called *Men And Doors - The Hobbits Communicate* that I am also quite fond of. The song "Men & Doors" is great and the song "Feelings" is total creepycrawly acidbummertrip.

i just always liked those albums made by studio hacks for a quick buck that made drugs seem really SCARY, you know? Plus, "Let Me Run My Fingers Thru Your Mind" is such a great song-title. You know? But for true psych-snobs the hobbits are just kidz stuff. fuck them though. they pay way too much for bad private-press boogie-rock rekkerds.

dear scott:

why have you brought the noise board themed "ASK [x]" threads to ILM?

bad form!

You know, I actually thought about that. And I do apologize if I've gone overboard, but to be fair, the "ask..." format precedes the noize board if I'm not mistaken. ILE was doing them long ago, no? Maybe I'm wrong. And I have only started Anthony Miccio and a Dan Perry threads and they are both noize-friendly. I would never start one for a real lame-o. Both Dan & Anthony are really fuckin' funny. You know? And they are both kinda crazy too, which i like.

sadness is ordering the bobb trimble cd and then being told by forced exposure that they are out of stock and that its out of print.

And, you know, if it makes yoo feel any better, I've considered curtailing my ILX activity to the noize board and the noize board only. I'm kinda sick of normal people lately. I like hiding out down here. I don't, as a rule, enjoy people very much at all. ILX sucked me in somehow.

SCOTT JUST PLAYIN U MY BOY 4 REAL

yoo should be able to find it somewhere, jack.

your enthusiasm for music is REFRESHZING.

yeah, but you know, it's funny, i actually DID think twice before I started that Miccio thread. Isn't that crazy? I kinda like the seperate identities of the different boards.

i found another trimble in the UK -- my fingers are crossed.

when I first discovered ILX Dan wrote this post about some random late-period Genesis track (!) that was seriously one of the best things I ever read.

i should check Bobb Trimble, shouldn't I? I've never heard him. He's one of those crazy outsider touched by genius doods, right? I love those guys.

hi scott
once i saw a copy of "heavy rock spectacular" by bram stoker on the marble arch label for, i forget how much but real cheap, & i didn't buy it & never seen a copy again since of course...did i fuck up bad?

same qn as above but re: "cool living" by john ylvisaker on the avant-garde label

DUANE!!! You are back. I miss you dude. Let;s stay in better touch...

ok!

i'm not really "back" 'cause i didn't go anywhere & also i never posted on this board much anyway

it's the best one outta all the ilxs tho, do you not think

yeah, I do. I feel pretty alienated by a large portion of ilx these days. I can't really get into the whole "ILE" thing anymore, I really can't. but I do love people! I am a man of the people. I just can't get into to some that stuff that goes on over there. but yeah man, I miss you ... let's chat soon. I ain't gonna go on AIM right now 'cuz I am about to go to bed in like one minute. soon tho! I need to send you some tapes.

yay tapes! that wwould be ace. i can't make tapes from my records at the moment (tape deck = rooted) but when i can i will hit you back......i don't know what i got that that you haven't that y'd want (lotsa NZ stuff, i guess) but i know you got lots stuff i wd want....yeah let's talk! later!!

"same qn as above but re: "cool living" by john ylvisaker on the avant-garde label"

"Don't Cut The Baby In Half" by ylvisaker is rarer, but near mint copies of "cool livin'" and the bram stoker together would probably set you back a couple hundred bucks on the interweb.

Dear Scott Seward,

I enjoy your work. At the Salvation Army by my house there is a lot of vinyl from the seventies with ugly teenagers pictured on the front (or sometimes the back). Upon closer inspection these records all seem to be regional christian-themed folk. I have resisted picking any up so far because I have Peter Paul and Mary records and I don't even listen to those. Are these types of records very common because I haven't run across them before. Worth listening to? Also what if God was one of us?

sincerly,

chris

Those doodz like pictures too much. It takes me too long to load pages on my crappy connection. So I just imagine the hijinks and leave it at that. I think I get the general idea.

-- scott seward (skotro...), June 30th, 2004. (scott seward)

chris, just look for cool covers/song-titles. do they look like hippies? do they live in a "planned community"? i usually go for most stuff at the thrift store if i think there might be the least bit of a chance that it might be weird/cool. 99% of most Xian stuff is not that cool. Okay, maybe 95%. Yoo have to go thru 500 bad Xian rekkerds to find one good one. And even a good one might only have a couple good songs on it. You are better off with weird eastern/B'Hai/Eckankar/Krisna hippy stuff. And even a lot of that stuff isn't that great. Of course, like most things, the further you go into the 1970's the dicier things get. Some dood put out a Xian-Psych reference guide a while back, but I never bought it.

I've really gotten used to using a PC, Cutty. We have a cable-hookup. It works pretty good. I was sad when my Imac pooped out on me though. But I like being able to download stuff. video, MP3s. I almost feel 21st century. Between that and finally using the *show last 50 answers* option on ILX i am lickety-spit! I used to use my Mac in the kitchen with a shitty dial-up connection and never use Maria's speedy computer in the bedroom. how dumb was that? I still can't make heads or tails out of SLSK though. It is beyond my puny brain.

there was also this (from aquarius):

http://aquariusrecords.org/images/varesurrcd.jpg

V/A Resurrection (Second Coming) cd 16.98
Subtitled, "The Amplified Side Of Heavenly Grooves". This ain't your momma's gospel music. Nope, this collection brings together some bizarre, funny, and downright groovy '60s/'70s tunes by/for Jesus-loving hipsters. Everything from garage rock to folk to lounge-jazz, and more, including some hilarious spoken word from the "Sunworshippers" (Jesus Freaks up in Eureka, CA). Then there's John Ylvisaker's demented "A Gay Cliche", a song so bad yet so good that it sounds like it belongs on "The Beat Of The Traps". Pat Boone and Dick Hyman also make appearances. Righteous. MOJO writer Will Hodgkinson makes a good point in the liner notes: "I've always maintained that the finest psychedelia is created by people who have only imagined what drugs are like rather than experience them first hand, so who better to make groovy acid rock than Christians?"

http://aquariusrecords.org/audio/resurectiongay.ra
http://aquariusrecords.org/audio/resurrectionknow.ra
http://aquariusrecords.org/audio/resurrectionsun.ra

"so who better to make groovy acid rock than Christians?"

Old, bald seesion hacks in some RCA recording studio cranking out product for the kidz, that's who.

see my Whatchu beeeen buying post from today

dearest scott seward,

whom do you prefer to honor: cthulu, god, satan, or another such deity?

Mithra? Odin?

OOH, I do love Satan. The idea of Satan. The character of Satan. You know? Probably the best thing to come out of Christianity. But then I love horror movies and heavy metal a ton. And I didn't grow up Christian. Neither of my parents really believe in God and that rubbed off on me. They both believed in Art. Yeah, they used to take me to a Unitarian church when I was a kid, but that was just so they could hang out with lefty types and drink coffee. In fact, I learned sex-ed in the Unitarian sunday school! I like the creepy godz. Trickster monkey gods and goat-headed godz. Gods that ancient civilizations worshipped that look suspiciously like aliens. I should read more Lovecraft, cuz I do love the idea of Cthulu. Odin I only know from Marvel comix and metal rekkerds. I love Amon Amarth and they are all about da Odin.

Scott,

recently Fred Durst wrote this on his band's blog: we have gone to the other side a few times with absinthe to discover the unknown. as it seems the unknown is quite demanding these days.

Have you ever gone to the other side with absinthe to discover the unknown? and would you agree that the unknown is quite demanding these days?

Fan 4eva,
Anthony

absinthe kinda tastes like licorice, so it never takes me to the other side, just the toilet.

i have seen the unknown on jagermeister. and rumplemintz. and crazy horse malt liquor. and powermaster malt liquor. and gin. and acid. and opium. and weed. and mushrooms. and thomas hardy ale. and rebel yell whiskey. and vivarin (overdosed a little when i was a teen. threw up for 12 hours straight. they had to give me an anal suppository to stop the vomiting. i told my folx i ate a bad hotdog. i wasn't TRYING to overdose, just took too many during my double-shift at the supermarket where i worked and where i would later get caught trying to steal a cd player in the middle of the day when i was high on codeine-laced pain pills.) and valium mixed with wine and weed. But, surprisingly, never on absinthe. I hear it's overrated. But you never know what will take you anywhere. the unknown demanding? nah, only if you want it to be.

I DONE DRANK SOME REAL ABSINTH......................IT FUCKIN PWND.

It's big in teh Europe now but it's not the old school absinthe yo.

ddb, did you see shit or did you just get wasted? do you still have both ears?

i drank some in prague, but only one shot and so whatevs

Okay, scott, dude, what the fuck.

On the ILE Thread http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=3594959 you state:

i'm willing to lose any and all cyber-respect that anyone may or may not have for me by simply stating that i have a crush on bobby flay. i think he's cute. and obnoxious. i have felt this way ever since his immortal show with the most obnoxious restaurant owner in all of philadelphia, jack mcdavid(um, that would have been chillin' and grillin' with bobby flay and jack mcdavid) but then i also have a crush on whatsherface-the british babe who licks her fingers all the time. so go ahead, sue me.

-- scott seward (skotro...), June 6th, 2003 4:04 AM.

Do you still feel this way? Bobby Flay is clearly a dangerous man.

he's creepy, isn't he? i just saw him on a reality show where you have to be the best martha stewart-style home designer/hostess on earth. i think i admired bobby's certainty that propane was the way to go on the chillin' & grillin' show. that was the only show i ever saw him on. i never saw his solo show or his appearances on the american iron chef showdowns. he kinda grosses me out now. i liked his accent. as a chef, i have much more respect for mario batali. and, it goes without saying, i still want to lick the egg yolk off of nigella's fingers. raaawwwwrr. i think i just wanted to be the only one on that thread who had anything good to say about him.i really don't get people's likes and dislikes on ILE. They are weird. I was like the only person who would stick up for Mad T.V. on there. They can be kinda snooty about comedy (and movies too.) and, yeah, watching that reality show the other night made me realize that if you knew -or worse, had to WORK for - someone like bobby flay you would want to die and kill them all at once.