Jim Alfredson

The Hopcat Jam last night was a lot of fun and a nice mixture of young and older musicians all enjoying themselves and learning from each other. That's one of the great things about music! Highlight of the night for me was seeing and hearing my mentor, Doug Decker play the organ. He's a bad man!

I'm on a Dan Simmons kick again, reading some of his horror novels I've not read before. I finished Carrion Comfort last week; that was scary. But Summer of Night? Wow. Horrifying and extremely well written. Fantastic characters. Good stuff!

Anybody in the Lansing / Mid-Michigan area have a set of octobans I can borrow / rent for a session Monday?

Today's fun: Experiments in Leslie surround miking. First picture is one Leslie with six mics panned around the 5.1 field. Second picture shows two Leslies with three mics each, one panned front, the other panned rear. I can't decide which sounds cooler!

Nothing like realizing you messed up and something is due TOMORROW. Busting butt to get three short song demos and 9 sound demos done tonight for a soundbank that I thought was due next week. Shit.

I just paid $16 for a shitty egg salad sandwich with dry bread, a bag of kettle chips, and a 6oz Chobani yogurt. Welcome to La Guardia!

It's May! My favorite month of the year. It is the month that the lilacs begin to bloom and also the month of my brother's birthday, my birthday, and my childhood best friend's birthday. Spring is a bit late this year, but the lilac bushes in the front yard are finally showing their buds. Can't wait!

"It's fuckin' nonsense." Funny... I thought the same thing of his music.