Jim Alfredson

Stella placed all of her weight via her elbow on my throat last night horsing around. It hurts like hell to swallow. Hoping it would be better today but not really. Looks like a day of eating CoCo Wheats. Yum... CoCo Wheats.

The histrionic reactions to the satire piece on Sonny Rollins in the New Yorker encapsulates everything that is wrong with jazz.

If you are in Lansing and haven't tried Saddleback BBQ yet, you're missing out. This is the best BBQ I've had outside of Texas. No kidding.

I love my girls so much. Alison and I were reminiscing about their births tonight. They are amazing little human beings. And uber-cute.

So, the question on my mind this morning is: Vinyl or 5.1? For example, offer the new prog album on vinyl or 5.1 hi-res surround?

It's beginning to look a lot like... Fuck this.

At Sparrow hospital with Alison. She's having her gallbladder removed. I'm sure it will go smoothly.

I am completely sated with BBQ and ice cream right now. What, I have to go play? Can't I just take a nap?

When one of the spokespeople for your political party is a sociopath, maybe it's time to re-evaluate your game plan. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/excommunications/2015/03/phil-robertsons-shocking-bet-has-a-simple-answer/

Had a fun session at Big Sky recording studio in Ann Arbor with Stan Budzynski, Bob Schultz, Tosha Owens, Duncan W. McMillan, Jerome Edmonson, and a slew of horn players along with the McKey brothers. Now to play MASH at 10pm with Ari Teitel. Gonna be a funky good time.

She's out of surgery and doing fine if a little tender. In other news, as careful as I was in the cafeteria, settling for a simple salad with low-fat Italian dressing, my eyes are now going crazy. Fucking food dye.

I knew it was going to be an interesting show when we arrived and the "sound guys" had one mic on the Leslie (on the bottom louvre). The stage manager told me they just picked up the organ the previous day and it had been in storage, not run for almost 20 years. Oh boy. First, the chorus/vibrato was motor-boating, making that awful choppy sound. Then the Leslie switch began operating intermittently. The Leslie would stay stuck on fast. I then noticed the bottom rotor wasn't moving. Opened i...

"Theo is really something very original, original and without a doubt intriguing." Polish review of THEO. http://www.rockarea.eu/articles.php?article_id=4095

Tonight I'm playing with organissimo at the SpeakEZ Lounge from 7pm to 10pm. In honor of this magical holy season, a season that makes us all into anxious little kids... we'll all be wearing our Star Wars Under-Roos beneath our Star Wars pajamas and playing our officially licensed Star Wars - The Force Awakens instruments covering all Star Wars tunes. My new Star Wars Kylo Ren glasses look great with my new Star Wars haircut held in place by Star Wars Han Solo Personal Pomade. Lawrence Barris will be playing through his new Fender Star Wars Millenium Falcon Wookie Classic amplifier while sporting his Star Wars Obi Wan Kenobe Robe and sandals while Randy Scott Marsh will be hitting the Star Wars drum skins (made from real Tauntaun hide) with his Star Wars Sarlac-sticks (they're a bit flimsy but hey...).

Tonight's show is sponsored by Star Wars - The Force Awakens and will be live simulcast on The Moon of Endor to over 3 million Ewoks.

Best video editing software on PC?

Today's agenda: finishing up Chapman stick tracks on the opening suite to the new THEO album and mix some Greg Nagy tracks. Technically it's an "off day" in Pensacola.That's how I do my "off days".

You can listen to the entire THEO album for free over at ProgStreaming.

I found footage of the Trump rally in Grand Rapids last night.

https://youtu.be/8urkDqSoc54?t=148

Went to bed at 9pm due to not getting any sleep this week. Can't sleep for more than 6 - 7 hours due to my back. Result? I've been up since 4am. YAY!

You can blow out a candle But you can't blow out a fire Once the flame begins to catch The wind will blow it higher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9RDIIa0k

Good thing Stella's "ballet" class this morning was only 30 minutes long. Any longer and I think I would've died of cuteness overload.

Is the protest song dead? Have artists become paralyzed by the possibility of offending someone? Have we become so narcissistic that all we can sing about is our own love and loss? Is the corporate music machine controlling the message? Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, CCR, Bob Marley, The Clash, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, CSNY, John Lennon, Billie Holiday, Edwin Starr, Peter Gabriel, etc. Where are the artists today taking a stand? "Music can change the world because it can change people....

Two things from the drive home from Detroit last night: 1) If I never hear Me & Bobby McGhee again it will be too soon and 2) Having a box truck of the Batesville Casket Company following you for 20 miles at 3am is rather creepy.

Kind of like World Series titles. USA - 111 REST OF THE WORLD - 0. USA USA USA!