Jim Alfredson

I did my whole family (my wife and Zora) the other day. Funny stuff!

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Man, if he goes before I have a chance to see him live, I"m going to be pissed. C'mon Joe, pull through and make some more music!

A little bit more; I read an article in Time a few years back that said in comparison to wages, the price of a home has risen 77%.

Yep, with only ONE person working. Now days most homes have TWO people working full time and yet with those combined household incomes, the price of a home is still three times what the home brings in. Do you see the difference?

I don't know where you're living, but the median price of a home in the US is around $200,000. My grandparents paid under $10k for their house in 1950. That's about $80,000 in today's money. Then consider that they bought it with only one person earning an income. Try doing that today. That's why all our kids our growing up in daycare. The bullshitters like to say that if you adjust for inflation, the average household income has gone up since WWII. But what they don't say is that now we have both parents working full-time just to make ends meet. The average wage in the 1950's was around $3000 a year. That's about $25,000 in today's money. Could anyone making $25k possibly afford a new car, a new house, and live at a comfortable standard of living now? But my grandparents did it. Again, the middle class is slowly but surely disappearing. The gap between the rich and poor continues to widen. And it's going to lead to serious trouble for the country.

It's also kinda unreal to expect the average American to buy a house that costs a minimum of three times what they make, yet that is where we are today. The price of homes across the country is insane compared to what we make.

As usual, Kunstler is spot-on. You need money to make money and unfortunately for a lot of people, they don't have any to begin with. The gap between the have's and have-not's is widening and that will lead to a lot of trouble.

Don't you mean TOO DAMN HOT?

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense considering regular tickets are going for $200. Brilliant!

He should have been imobilized and placed on a stretcher. The fact that they let him walk away is S-T-U-P-I-D.

Best in the business? I would've put him on a stretcher just to be safe!!! Sweet mercy, that was insane!

Ok, who's going to be the good capitalist and start selling "James Brown is my daddy!" T-shirts?

Just saw this. Nice work!

I'm doing that at the next organissimo show.

My mistake. She did those classic albums for Atlanta in Muscle Shoals. I thought they were at Stax. Oops.

Good thing the Iraq War is costing us $600,000,000,000!!! (That's $600 billion for those who can't read that many zeroes.)

Very cool, although I wish they would've gone into some artist bio's a bit more (like Al Jackson, Jr.) And why no mention of Aretha? I realize she was on Atlantic like (technically) Sam & Dave, but she did her best recordings in Memphis.

A likely story.

The host had power troubles last night. The server came back up but MySQL was funky for some reason. I got up a bit late this morning and had to call tech support.

Where were you when WE played the Jewish Mother?!? Yeah, definitely go see the Dr. He's the man!

Most ordinances state that anything between 8am and 6pm on weekdays is fine (the times shift a bit for weekends). Think of how many times you've been awakened by road constuction crews or the neighbor's leaf blower or someone doing work with power tools. Why is practicing an instrument any different than that?

When I lived in Ann Arbor, we were in this shitty apartment on the ground floor. One night I came home to 2" of water in the entire apartment. I had vinyl records on the floor, my Hammond C2 and Leslie, etc. But that's another story. Anyway, yes I had a Hammond C2 and Leslie in the apartment to practice on and I put the Leslie in the corner, one wall of which was the "shared" wall of the apartment next door. The folks that lived next door were a pair of 70+ year olds that never left their apartment and their total loser of a son, who had to be approaching 40 but lived with his parents and smoked pot all day. But man, did he have an awesome Camero! So all day, every day, all I heard from their apartment through the walls was the TV. It was always on and it was always blarring. One afternoon I'm practicing the organ and they start yelling at me through the walls to stop. It is 2pm in the afternoon. I keep playing. They start getting mad and pounding on the walls. I yell, "What's wrong? Can't hear the goddamn TV?" Then I play even louder. They threaten to call the cops. I said, "Go ahead! It's 2pm in the afternoon!" This went back a forth a bit but never really escalated. A few months later the flood happened and we got the hell out of that place. I always wanted to wake up really early on a Sunday morning (like 5am) and start playing church hymns extremely loud for them, but I never did.

I'm debating seeing them at the Palace in September. I caught the "We Can't Dance" tour when I was 15 and a HUGE Genesis fan (basically all I listened to) and it was AWESOME for teenage Jimmy. Don't know if I care enough to shell out a minimum of $60 per seat now.