ASK SCOTT SEWARD

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.

"as a chef, i have much more respect for mario batali."

Um, i'm not a chef. i have more respect for a chef like mario batali. or that weirdo wylie dufresne.

My favorite food network personalities are probably Alton Brown and Iron Chef Sakai. I really like Mario Batali too, but I haven't seen his show in a long time. I despise Flay, clearly. Mark Summers's show can be interesting sometimes, but is mostly boring and he's not a very interesting guy to watch. I just remember him asking Double Dare questions. Rachel Ray is kind've irritating but sometimes she makes yummy things or goes somewhere neat (see upthread.)

you know though, for real, on chillin' & grillin' he wasn't that despicable. that was when the food network was just starting out. they hadn't made all their stars yet. and bobby was just a big-shot chef in new york. nobody knew who he was. plus, he was paired with the even more despicable Jack McDavid who came off like a witless hee-haw reject. i think he bacame more gross as time went on. or showed more of his true grossness as time went on. and the zenith of that grossness is Rocco and The Restaurant. (which was highly entertaining.)

I haven't really watched the food network in years. i kinda wish i had seen some of those extreme cuisine shows with Anthony Bourdain. I really liked Kitchen Confidential.

the 2nd cosmic michael lp is on ebay for $99! the first one is the one to get though

I don't have 99 dollars anyway. Hi, Gareth!

neither do i.

well, ok, i do, but not to spend on a record

scooter,

have you heard of The Speakers? Columbian psych group from 68. the record is wacked. sounds like mutantes, with worse song writing but crazier effects. tons of fuzz & echo.

toodles,
j

No, I haven't! But that only makes them the 595938382992922,9292842444444422 latin american psych band that i haven't heard. i mean, the originals are rarer than a pair of panties on paris hilton and when they show up they cost zillions of dollars and when someone puts out a boot or a reissue they end up coming from Japan and they STILL cost an arm and a peking duck leg. so, i end up not hearing a lot. when will sundazed start their sundazed espanol imprint already!! or if rhino would like to put out a latin nuggets box, i would be up for that too. it's a crying shame i tell you.

check yr email yo!

Great album title: La Conferencia Secreta del Toto's Bar by los Shakers. That's one I'd like to hear.

Bobby Flay just got married. the announcement was in the NYTimes last Sunday. His wife looks 15.

I was just listening to Aguaturbia last weekend. Freakin' awesome. I was considering a track of theirs for that ILMiX project but I didn't use it.

mystic siva is no good!

agauturbia is the psychedelic drugstore record ? ive never liked that much really. in fact, the mystic siva record reminds me of it, a little

i would like to hear turn of the century, i think they are ranwood related

do you like Le Cirque - Land of Oz, on buddah?

how about laurent garniers man with the red face?

Scott,

Are there pictures of your celebrity paintings on the internets?

Tim

scott do you know what that horn sample in j-lo's 'get right is from'?

maceo parker/jb's - soulpower 74

no, tim. not right now. i'm thinking of selling some on ebay though.

scott,

do you prefer charles fox or hal hester?

i had to google these people. charles fox the t.v./film composer? i don't think i have much of an opinion. i do own a copy of hal hester's Your Own Thing soundtrack and i've always felt it was pretty horrible. i think i've only been able to find one song to put on mix-tapes in the past. i also think the privilege soundtrack is pretty horrible. not that they are the same thing, but i felt like going on record about that.

yea, that charles fox. im not sure i have an opinion either, i need to hear more. i havent heard hal hester, but a friend was talking of him the other day

i really want to get the stu phillips soundtrack to Follow Me, that looks crazy great

did you know, there has never been a thread on stu phillips! i guess his book title, "stu who?" tells its own story...

Hi dere Scott, could you recommend some Sun City Girls releases? I'd just jump in and buy whatever I find at the record store, but that stuff is expen$$$ive down here in Melbourne.

gareth, do you own a copy of *awakening* by the mystic moods? it's before they got all goopy with groovy cover versions. or maybe it was after. it came out in 1973. i love that record. one of the most amazing breakbeats on earth on it, but the vinyl goes for chump change. it's like a way more fun and dancier and funnier moody blues or something. someone should reissue it. plus, it's a cosmic concept album.

sun city girls! hmmm, you might wanna go to the source for those. they sell cds on their website. and they had different "periods". i like almost all of it. a good place to start might be *torch of the mystics*. if you like that, then proceed forward.

mystic moods? no, were they on ranwood?

im seriously considering blowing a large amount of cash on this Moggi record, on omicron, from 1971 italy. i just cant afford, but i love eurospacefunkelettronixx