Jim Alfredson

Performance art! I think I'm over it, although eating some of the mac & cheese I made for Zora tonight probably wasn't a good idea.

Let's just hope I'm over this stomach bug by then and don't have to run off stage (twice) to go throw up... like at Baker's this past Saturday. Boy, was that really really not fun.

Did you guys check out the clip below of the really big guy that literally just broke the damn molds!

My wife sent this to me... I could not stop laughing. http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/10/24/i-...f-human-tetris/

Where's Johnny E?

Damn... I've had a nasty stomach flu bug for the past few days, but that pie looks really good! Okay Mark, now you know what your mission is.

We've been looking forward to it! It's gonna be a good time, I guarantee!

Goatee?

I ain't got no use for no alphabet!

Maybe, but is it too much to ask for an adult response instead of a "who fucking cares, dude! fuck you!" type of reply? I'm getting tired of the childish postings around here. How about a little respect for our fellow posters?

Well, it's not very hard to do, that's for sure. And audiences do seem to like it (because it's an easy way to create tension as mentioned). I would consider it part of showmanship. When I hear it done on a live recording I can excuse it, but on a studio record it's a bit cliche.

This just in: Dumbledore and Tinky Winky have been seen together at a posh London gay nightclub.

Forest will grow back... A better question is whether it makes sense to have people living in a tinderbox. A tinderbox that also has floods & earthquakes. One could argue we shouldn't be rebuilding New Orleans, too. And people do. I'm not one of them.

Fuck me.

What's stopping you? Let's see it.

UP, because I'm just wondering how our friend Jim Anderson is doing. One of these days I'd like to make an AES convention and meet face to face. Jim, you'd probably find it funny that I now have an old Scully 2" 16 track machine to go along with my digital recording rig. I'm gearing up to engineer the next organissimo album myself. FUN!

I have not read the books; I think I've seen two of the movies. I can't recall. Give me Tolkien over Rowling any day.

Well, you can press 1000 discs nowaways for what, $1100? So that's $1.10 per disc. If you do larger runs you can get them even cheaper per disc. Should they then be sold for $15 a pop by labels, independent musicians, etc? In other words, is the value of the product directly related to the medium it's on or is it related to the music that's on the medium? Ultimately, the value to the listener of the musical experience is probably incapable of valueing. However, I think the point (as someone else suggests) is that the retail value necessarily has to include the medium as well as the value of the packaging and anything else that is included in the physical object that is purchased. If the cost to produce the object is reduced, is it unfair for the consumer to expect some or all of that cost reduction to be passed on? The cost of producing the actual physical medium might be reduced, but what about studio time? Mixing time? Mastering time? Paying the talent? The fact that hardly anybody buys jazz CDs in the first place? Sure, if you're selling 750,000 copies of an album, there is no good reason for it to cost $17.98. But what if you're barely selling 1,000? To put it in perspective, our last CD cost us $10,000 to make (out of our own pockets). In order to just break even, we need to sell at least 700 of them or so at $15 a piece (we actually sell most of ours at gigs for $10... the second highest number of sales comes from CDBaby and we only make about $10 per disc there as well). But of that first run of 1,000 we gave 500 or so away for promotion (to radio stations, clubs, festivals, etc.) So then we have to print up another 1,000 at $1500 more. Now we're up to $11,500. But wait! When we started recording the last CD we were still $2000 in debt from "Waiting For The Boogaloo Sisters..." So now we're up to $13,500! Then we ran out of "Waiting...", so there's another $1800 (digipaks are more expensive to print than CDs in jewel cases). Etc. etc. etc. Take out $150 a month for this site, subtract the $1500 or so that Artist1Stop never paid us for distribution (and never will), the money CDStreet never paid us (and never will), throw in some gigs where the CD sales basically paid for our gas because we made no money from the gig itself (like 99% of our east coast trips) and you can see how hard it is to break even when you're selling to such a small market as this one. We still owe about $2000 on the last CD and one of the reasons we haven't made a new one in 2 and 1/2 years is because we're trying to pay that debt. What about iTunes? $0.99 per tune. If the album has 10 tunes on it, that's almost $10. What's the difference between that and buying a CD-R for $10? At least with a well-made CD-R you're getting some artwork. And that's another thing: Yes, blank CD-Rs are cheap, but if the label has any tact, they'll include a printed booklet of some kind. Printing artwork costs money. The case costs money. Printing on the disc costs money (inkjet printer ink isn't cheap!). By the time you add it all up, they are probably paying the same per disc that they would pay if they had it pressed; the difference is that they can print up only as many as they need, instead of having to pay for 1,000 or 2,000 discs that might never sell. I've seriously considered making the next release either CD-R and/or download only. In this market, it's about cutting costs.

Again, maybe, maybe not. I've never read the books, so I don't know. But it seems to me that if it's part of the character's backstory, then the author would make decisions on how the character acts in certain situations based on that backstory; so therefor, it would matter.

That it doesn't matter to the story? Perhaps not, but as has been explained elsewhere in this thread, it does matter to the character's background and why he is the character that he is.

Then why are you so upset about it?

Well, you can press 1000 discs nowaways for what, $1100? So that's $1.10 per disc. If you do larger runs you can get them even cheaper per disc. Should they then be sold for $15 a pop by labels, independent musicians, etc? In other words, is the value of the product directly related to the medium it's on or is it related to the music that's on the medium?

Yes, because when I burn a copy for a friend, I need to know if I'm burning a burn or not.

I had no idea she was 51. Damn, she looks great! The new record is nice; I've heard bits and pieces.