(30-11-02) whiling away the hours with pretending to create songs for an album called "The Inexhaustible Quest For The Cosmic Cabbage" which I shall record in 2003...

(2-1-03) I've just recorded "Why Not Use A Shopping Basket?" onto the "Ideas for QFC" tape, which until today I'd not used since November 15th, the day I took the frets off my guitar & recorded the first QFC song "Smooth Away".

(3-1-03) When I woke up this morning I had the idea, probably inspired by the title, that "QFC" should be a concept album, a space opera about the search for Utopia in space.

(10-1-03) I recorded an instrumental on "Ideas for QFC" . Two days ago I forgot to mention here that I did a couple such.

(15-1-03) I recorded 2 'QFC' instrumentals & called them "ditto" & "whistlin' ditto"

(23-1-03) 'QFC' doesn't have to be super-fantastic words or super-fantastic music, because such things belong to the Cosmic Cabbage itself, whereas 'QFC' just describes the Inexhaustible Quest for it, the search for it. So now it's no longer a Space Rock Opera, it's a No-Space No-Rock No-Opera & the words can be absurds & the music can be as Madison as the Mashed Potato.
I recorded some more instrumentals for QFC, including one I titled "No Space, No Ritual"

(25-1-03) I recorded some Zoom606 noises on the 4-track for QFC

(25-2-03) Today I recorded some Casio tunes at the end of side 1 of "Ideas for QFC". I'm going off that title "The Inexhaustible Quest For The Cosmic Cabbage" , I think it's the Cosmic Cabbage bit that's wrong. "The Inexhaustible Quest For..." is good, but needs something mundane at the end. Hey! That's an idea: " The Inexhaustible Quest For Something Mundane" Or maybe "Something Dull" would be better.

(27-2-03) Recorded "Something Dull, Where Are You?" on "Ideas for QFC"

(26-4-03) Today I finished the "Ideas for QFC" tape with a piece called "Fibonacci" (which I managed to play up to 233)

(27-4-03) yesterday, after having created "Fibonacci" I met a bloke on the bus to Hereford who had been playing the Fibonacci series on his piano around the same time as my guitar version. Synchro!

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TRACKLIST:

Side One:
1. a matter of scale 2. too much sand 3. word up 4. a souvenir from hell 5. at the hop 6. get back back back 7. yesterday 8. happy days are here again 9. mmmmorning 10. dogs 11. tea towel blues 12. headstand jeannie creek 13. achives gone to waste 14. young bones 15. the tomorrow show 16. 2 big D's 17. towel mentality 18. never guessing geller 19. dogs over bast 20. 2000 pieces 21. no chords for now 22. who do you thinkhayum? 23. now here man 24. ten years working as none 25. longer days 26. the egg 27. God bless tiny Tim 28. the scribbler 29. live at the Victoria 19-2-14: Intro/sonic attack/a lot of repitition makes a really really really long song/instrumental/how many times can I get away with this?/outro

Side Two:
1. plane 2. stay in tune 3. how to fake your own life 4. kitten song 5. nepotism song 6. small & green 7. long lost puzzle 8. ideas for QFC 9. Cabbage leafs 10. cameo guests 11. I think I'll have another try at being insane 12. the guarding of another change 13. smooth away 14. I get scared about not being cared about 15. why not use a shopping basket? 16. no ideas 17. change the subject 18. even with no shoes on 19. holes come together 20. rewrite, you stupid bugger! 21. something dull, where are you? 22. Ricker Murry Uvonne

Side Three:
1. dryer 2. pe squad (the doodoo chasers) 3. 400 days 4. golden slum 5. calamity slaughter 6. fibonacci 7. scatter cushions 8. full moon 9. another morning 10. landscape hardening 11. I think again 12. does your mother know? 13. more water 14. no feelings 15. lunatic genius 16. noswad sel

Stewart Treize - Ideas for "Q.F.C." side A:
1. smooth away 2. instrumental 3. why not use a shopping basket? 4. hello this isn't joni 5. instrumentals 6. instrumental 7. ditto (ditto) whistlin' ditto 8. instrumental

Stewart Treize - Ideas for "Q.F.C." side B:
9. some more casio tunes 10. something dull, where are you? 11. Ricker Murry Uvonne 12. (ditto) more casio tunes 13. callamity slaughter 14. fibonacci [NOTES ON BACK OF INLAY - unclear to what they refer exactly] "No space no ritual" 1. a chord sequence 2. (ditto) 3. a concept album about concept albums 4. some casio tunes]

Side Four - (Farm Filler):
Tape filler recorded while I lived at yoke farm

Download includes scans of the cassette inlays and bonus artwork by Stewart Treize.