IVIV (8): Scott Oof

[Dave Monroe]

   "There were footfalls up the back steps and Scott Oof came in by
way of the kitchen." (IV, Ch. 8, p. 115)


Scott Oof

"musician Scott Oof"

Another inspired name. Scott Oof, as essentially the same character,
is in Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice which takes place about 10 or
15 years before the events in Inherent Vice. Scott is the protagonist
Doc Sportello's cousin.

http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_23

   Outside of this stylistic difference, Pynchon’s latest follows in
the footsteps of The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland, literally and
figuratively. In Lot 49, Oedipa Maas’ complicated route to discovering
why she became Inverarity’s executrix occurs slightly before Prairie
Wheeler’s instigating mother shoots some controversial films that send
her family underground in Vineland, which in turn occurs before Doc
Sportello’s investigation of the Mickey Wolfmann disappearance and the
mystery of the Golden Fang ship. These are not exactly connections but
are too close to be disconnected, and Pynchon hints at further hidden
continuities. It is the side characters who most strongly link these
narratives: Oedipa’s former husband-turned-“zombie”-turned-music
mogul, Wendall “Mucho” Maas, is friends and colleagues with musician
Scott Oof, Doc’s cousin and a friend of Prairie’s father Zoyd, who is
famous for his transfenestration acts.

http://www.criticalflame.org/fiction/0909_ruggiero.htm

Why inspired?  And no Seaman Bodine sightings?  Help!  Thanks!


"up on Sepulveda at the Skyhook Lounge"

Sepúlveda is a name of families of Spanish descent. Sepúlveda, Segovia
is the name of a village in Spain.

The Sepúlveda family was prominent in the early days of Los Angeles,
California and Orange County

[...]

and many features of the Southern California area are named for the family:

    * Sepulveda, now called North Hills, a neighborhood within Los Angeles.
    * Sepulveda Boulevard, a street in Los Angeles listed in the
Guinness Book of Records as the longest municipal street in the world,
stretching from the north end of the San Fernando Valley to the south
end of San Pedro, California, a distance of about 43 miles.
    * Sepulveda Pass, an important pass over the Santa Monica
Mountains connecting the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley.
    * Sepulveda Dam, a flood control dam in the San Fernando Valley
which regulates the Sepulveda Basin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep%C3%BAlveda

Which here?  See ...

The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/pl_print_1708

Blvd., I'm assuming, but ... "Skyhook Lounge" a clue?  Help!  Thanks!