today

 03.09.2026 am

Well, I didn’t get an evening post up last night, because I was too damn tired .. Been laying track for months hoping to start making money again … I still need to figure out the html scripting to get a digital currency app to open and my profile to be the landing page on my web link button coding, pain in the ass. I’ll add that to the “to-do” list and text my buddy Art.

The modern age is mind numbing sometimes. Some of this shit is outrageous, like taking to AI on phone calls … or sometimes talking to people on the phone, seriously. On to better things, like mindfulness or NA beer, or CBD lotion or anything else.

It’s important to thank God for being alive, I usually try n’ tackle that right away in the morning … yep! It’s also important to brush yer damn TEETH! Especially if you eat a bunch of processed sugar, dig? I’m listening to a rasta vibe song at the gas station right now and I’m digging it! Thanks God. Yep. It’s also good to take time to actually breathe in and out and appreciate the little things like coffee and a smoke.

The other thing about being an adult is to do the opposite of adult things and blow kids minds! Damn Skippy, rest in peace Aaron. I talked to a friend via text recently who I haven’t thought of as a healthy connection and I’m happy we re-connected. Fer sure! I’m also happy that the Minnesota Twins are going to kick ass all over Chicago this season. Take that George!

So, on to other things, like washing your hands in time of stress! Grounding the static from your body is as easy as running your hands under the faucet, I prefer cold water without water softener salt, but you do you boo! That’s right sun crackers, it’s gonna be a kick ass day sea-bass! So, go out there and kick some ass!

• AC

 03.08.2026 am

One time we were in central Wisconsin and Johnny, Mom and I were out at the Silverdome Ballroom … Johnny and Kris and I and some randos in search of experience or a good time or whatever were remodeling my detached garage around this time. Johnny and I found out that the guy who owned the sawmill next door was a big Crankshaft fan.

As we were chatting with him, Johnny and I, we asked if he happened to have 4” crown molding at his place to purchase.. He said, yeah, I’ve been sitting on 4” crown molding that’s walnut for almost 15 years if you think you can use that.” So, we negotiated a merchandise trade for the wood even up and strapped it to the roof of the band van. It was awesome, one of those random events that make you smile. The photo of that day after we drove the band van home with the lumber on top was the highlight photo of that era for me.

Johnny was wild to travel with, he always said “Hey, Alex, if you get pulled over, I’m running.” or “You can’t go straight, you have to go forward or you’re gonna bump into something.” or… if something was really wacky that we were trying to deal with, he’d say “I’m glad I’m not trippin’!” 

Eventually moods shift and times change, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst and sometimes for the better. Those days were pretty crazy and fast paced. The economy was poppin’ and people were going out to celebrate. Now we’re dealing with a downturn and artists are having to make up for that kinetic dissonance, so if you see an artist that looks spent, give them a hug. Seriously, it’s a hard life for uprisers currently, I feel.

The thing that I can’t seem to find is the charge I’m looking for these days, people seem a little (or a lot) disconnected from the hive mindset and finding some to party with as a single stranger seems harder than ever sometimes. I don’t know, I guess I decided to delete all my social media to become more authentic and in the moment and what came, seems to be, is feeling more “outside” than ever. Sorry to sound grim, I need to get some fresh coffee and finish my smoke. I’ll be more peppy on the evening post, hopefully. Turn up the tunes and get some sun on your face, sun cracker, it's gonna be almost 60 degrees today says the people!

• AC

03.07.2026 am

Last night the audio recording for the podcast was wild, I was too boisterous. At least it happened, some people just talk the talk about something and it never happens. For real. I need to remind myself to try to remain humble.

For the first time in my life I can live like a king and I’m still walking the walk of the gesture. I should be recording or at the very least practicing this song I wrote in jail called “It’s My Time,” ironically enough.. or at the very least putting moves on forward movement in pulling in finance again. Self employment is a bitch, especially being hard wired to the hustle of it for 23 years now. Still chained to the idea that I need to tune to my own tune and drive out all the people who don't think I’m making appropriate moves. It’s time to start living like a steward of the blues instead of a gesture of the reds.

It’s complicated, I know. I’m short on coffee in me and I’m going to keep after this instead of going out to get a coffee somewhere.. This morning is kind of grim and doomy-gloomy, I need to talk to Shaunna. I text her, it’s 7:30am on a Saturday so I’m guessing that she’s not awake yet. She’s a friend I’ve had since high school. Whenever I over complicate my perspective about my own self I usually need to chat with a Woman that I’ve known for a long while. I’m in a funky mood.

I heard it was supposed to be in the 60s this weekend from multiple people and now I’m looking at fresh snow on the ground?! Oofta. Whatever, I need to get on with a bigger project before I loose my shit again, and it needs to be something that actually earns me financial compensation, I guess I should start by texting Bill the booker. I also need to settle up with another booker Luke, which I’m going to try to do today. I’m also going to be fine with the snow. 

There are so many ways to exist here and so many ways to behave that life gets overwhelming sometimes. I need to get elsewhere and on with something that’s less annoying. I’m tired of being on probation. It’s too many boundaries pushed and then I get in trouble again. No more trouble please. Cool and easy takes the prize, and nothing is free. Every effort recycles back to its maker eventually. Yep. I guess I need to have a glass of water and say good morning to my own self. 

Life can be a disaster sometimes, all you gotta do is clean up the damn mess I guess. I gotta take a day for myself and think funny. Love and respect.

• AC

03.07.2026 pm

So, birds, what’s your favorite kind? I’m a hawk and crow and eagle guy myself. It’s all about evolving, and then you’re dead, pretty much. So might as well live it up .. and get shit done. What about colors? What one makes you pop? Bingo comes to mind. Birds are more evolved than we are, obviously.. They can fly!

It’s all good. Everything’s peachy… Now I’m sitting next to Justin the Barber, at Dano’s … or whatever it’s called now.. We cool! 201 is tard core … max is Misfits fer real, fer real! Thanks Anoka and Minneapolis PD and Hennepin County Sheriff's Department .. Buster Talbot in spirit thanks for the blessings and the forwards in this generation … God help us all!  

I guess I just need to mention that Matt the Hobbit is on my other side, yep, met 18 years ago in this same bar where I was playing every Monday night. Kendrick was mentioned and Clint ghosted me from the county phone, numb nuts. Now I’m thinking about a girl in Albert Lea, whatever again … gypsy trapped in easy easy ….. Five Bullets  by Anders Osborne is poppin’ this season, yep yep! 

Now Justin is talking about traffic laws… apparently the speed limit on any state road that is dirt is 55mph unless otherwise posted, for the record … that usually applies to county road dirt roads too, for the record … unless that corner is marked, it’s likely 55mph, for the record ….. Input? Guys? I plead the first..

What is your opinion of front wheel  drive cars? Mine is they are shit. Matt says rear wheel drive is more fun, so does Justin. On to better things about today's eara, we have many challenges and I love that. Thanks god. Boogie Chillin’ ….those Detroit cars are in like Huck Finn this coming season, buy a classic car bozo! Tune it up! Rip it old school! What’s your favorite mussel car? Matt’s fav is the 69 Chevelle or the 69 Judge .. I’m a GMC guy personally ,,, rip page, tune into spirit and into the easy light and hues yoyo! That’s the way you do it! Cars are rad.

I like cool stuff like firecrackers and m100s and hopefully a show in Wisconsin next week, geeze what a 365 ,, this time last year I was getting out of treatment, I miss Lake Elmo and walks in repetition, honestly ,,, I need a harmonica and some Wisconsin time, please! I’d like to snowboard soon too please, I’m taxed and need relaxation yo! Let’s enjoy Saturday night ya’ll boogie boogie light it up!

• AC 

 03.06.2026 am

Good day ya’ll, glad you’re reading this! It will be an extremely WET day in the Twin Cities, rain, rain, rain, rain, WET RAIN! Where’s my leatherman? I gave it to a homeless guy tramp grimly, that’s where it is! Good day sun crackaz!

Pinball … I need a place to temporarily stash a fricken slick pinball machine, after I get it fixed that is.. Yep, yep! It’ll get used, and abused, hopefully. A is the deal with all this got’damn RAIN!? It’s so fricken wet! All I can say is, thank god we ain't dealing with a drought! Stick a fork in that dinner tonight and say, “this is scrumptious, thanks god, this I can deal with until I swallow it whole!” If it stops raining by your afternoon brake, then shim sham your car and call it your workout ‘er something? I don’t know. If the trees start budding in March, it’ll mean that everything moving beyond will hopefully fall to the ground and piss off your OCD neighbor. Rain.

Anywho, I wonder how the Twins are gonna fair this season? Also, I wonder who’s gonna win the Baja 1,000? Third thing is, my mom is embarrassed by my podcast, so I must be doing something right, right? Crickets …. She’s a bartender way up near MN HWY 95 and 47, biker chicks, be ready, summer is coming THIS WEEKEND! Tune up that biker jacket with some oil and get on that damn motorcycle asap, before you’re DEAD! HURRY! Rubbin’s racin’ yo!

Now, here’s the thing kids, in life people will challenge you away from your truest self if you decide to be a full time artist in the United States of America! Forkman, basically, more or less told that to me when I was a 20 something buck in Clarksdale, Mississippi after I gifted him a CD and he gifted me a life-long lesson “If you’re an artist in Europe you are commended and if you’re an artist in America they’ll tell you to get a job.” What the heck is art anyway? Something for others to appreciate or something to embarrass your mother with? I really don’t know at this point.

I hope you got a laugh, I know I did, boogie healin’ in the North Metro..

• AC

03.06.2026 pm

So making my brother laugh on the jail phone is my new fun, it seems. Hope you had a good day sun cracker! People fuck up, it’s just that simple, and YOU need to be easy in forgiving them when the time becomes present and appropriate. I’ve had experience with said practice, it ain’t easy sometimes. Usually it means you need to learn how to keep your temperament coolin’ not heatin’, dig?

So, anyway, It pretty much did what I thought, it stopped raining around 2pm, did yo shim sham yer rig between coffee and a smoke ‘er did yeah poop out? Rain days can be good, lot’s can be accomplished from a good rain day. I’m doing my laundry currently and catching up on my text messages. The rain can be annoying too, especially if you’re not into being wet.

I’m planning on buying a Ram Sprinter soon, the name says it all, there’s one up north I got my internet eyes on and I’m hoping to make that happen asap, to be fair, I should have gotten one in November, but don’t judge. Life happens at its own pace and so do races, one time I saw a video of someone who slowed the pace of the entire racefield only to pass like six bikes in the last ¾ of the race loop, which was rad to see and I’m sure it was rad for them too. I’m sure my van will be pimped out on the inside too, like I do.

This is pretty much my way of downing tea and smoking and waiting for my laundry at this point so I’m gonna throw a curve ball on ya: People put weird shit up their butts! I heard from an ex-ray tech that she inspected an ex-ray where some guy put a frozen water bottle up his ass and it got STUCK in there! What the fuck?! Seriously guy?! 

Anywho, back to my brother, people do stupid shit, and it wasn’t my mom’s house (for the record). Monkey see monkey do type shit I guess, maybe. He should have known the outcome would be the same as my house, but I would guess it didn’t even cross his mind, maybe? I don’t know. He’s a south side punk tard is all that guy told me at the Schooner about two months ago, and that keeps cycling back around to even me too. Guess it’s hard to be humble when yer part Swedish, as my grandpa would have gloated. I think he’s still lingering in that damn retirement home, honestly. One time a Mustang print fell off the wall randomly in that house and I seemed to be the only one weirded out about it. Geeze.

On to better things like auto-correct and waiting for my laundry to finish and my tea to steep. This is my life currently. It’s good. And I feel like my laundry is almost done. Tonight will be a good one, thanks for tuning into my new podcast and for reading this, much love! 

• AC

03.05.2026 am

One time I lost a guitar amp for like almost a month or maybe a little more… It was because the band van was a shitshow of a mess of “this this this, and now everything is out of place and I need to move it around and get it re-organiziz-ed because otherwise every time I turn left or turn right or hit the breaks or slam on the gas the PA speakers slam around into each other and I’m tired of listening to it .. just like the other day with my guitar amp..

I was with traveling nurse motorcycle Sammy and I was also under pressure because we were heading there in some type of hurricane or something to that effect anyway and I felt like everything needed to happen “right quick.” That’s usually when things go really sweet or really out of whack. I jumped out of the van and started hurling gear into the street to get everything tighter in the packing department and everything was sitting on hard pack snow. I got all the pieces seeming to fit in there good after a couple minutes and I seemed to be content with the process because I definitely shut the rear hatch myself.

THEN, two mornings later I got to a studio session in South Minneapolis at Signaturetone and I opened the hatch and was like “Where is my guitar amp?” In my mind, I had only one place in mind, the street corner in Uptown that I re-arranged the gear at.. I literally went back there after my session was over that day and no surprise the guitar amp wasn’t there either. 

I made a social network post that got some traction and eventually I got a call from my friend Jeremy who had heard something about an amp from a group of guys talking in his recording space, Barking Jack Studios in North Saint Paul. He was like, “Hey Alex, Harold said your amp might be at the 331 Club” and to me I was like “331 Club?” what the heck? So a couple days later Harold called me.

“Hey, I’m pretty sure there’s an amp like yours behind the curtain at the 331 where Jason keeps the chords and stands” He told me.. I was like, well this is bizarre and made a trip to the Club to investigate. Sure as shit, there it was and Alicia was like “I’ve been telling the sound guys that they can’t take it, they want it for their rehearsal spaces or whatever. “No, someone is definitely missing that and eventually they will remember where they left it.”

I had zero recollection of the reason why for a few days, a band I played a show before rushed the stage with their gear and I didn’t have the energy for dancing around a bunch of guys that were setting up gear so I left it on the stage with the intention of getting it after they were done and totally forgot .. Life is weird, I’m glad nobody stole my amp, I’ve had that one since I was 17 years old. Guess good people do still exist. 

• AC

03.05.2026 pm

I just put another $15 in tow again, here’s to hoping boi! I’m in a stall until Dad and Mom change their tune with my brother it seems, because this all started out with an attitude problem, is what I’m forgetting. Yep!

So, anyway, here I am writing a blog entry when I could be enjoying the balmy weather in Minnesota. Still hopeful I guess. I should be on a skateboard, really. Or doing anything more than stilling here, I drove in the truck too much today so I’m way overloaded in the “sit” department. Gonna call a buddy, hang on …..

Friends can be weird sometimes, hard to say where he’s at currently. I’ve burned a lot of bridges in my life and it seems that pattern continues into middle age, or whatever. Tony D and I are still good so that’s good, and I’m good with Jonah L too which is rad so I should be looking on the good foot. Yep.

Yeah, so now I’m like I need to be getting this show on the road because it’s 11pm .. sorry, short entry tonight.

• AC

03.04.2026 am

OK, so I have an hour to do this before lunch and my flip phone is at the bank and I need a dog. So, last time they denied me at the pound because I was dealing with a pit-bull bitch that wouldn’t listen fer shit .. New Orleans coming soon ,, thanks to Mom …. Just say “NO” to those who drug … we ain’t bitches Carlyle .. just about it ….. Time to drink WATER … Tap or whatever, yep!

That’s why we build SAILS not SNAGS in the LARSON clan ….. ! Yep, KEYTA NEEDS SWIFT AND KETA KEYS in NE yo, we cool .. downtunin’ the coon toon on the 6.2 yo .. it’s chill in Coon Rapids currently at peace with peace … time for more learning and building choppers fer youngsterssssszzzzzzzz bikes without peddles gen Z .. boogie !!! I’z be snag free soon hopefully, and... I Need To Get There … All Crankshaft music is cleaned up thanks to DISTROKID yep yep yep yep ……… Boogie help me now guys …. Please!

Need an intern asap gotta cool for a minute here … Spanky was a great two dogs, and that’s a beautiful story for a morning tune .. WHERE’S MY Bluetooth Speaker, it’s probably in the work truck (Spankies Squaired) ooofta, what a day it’s gonna be ya’ll yep you’s guys yo? Happy days are here, and snowballs are coming soon in Minnesota!! BOOOGIE! Come back old man winter! I need to find one of those maybe? Cool, cool, cool, we work easy and hard in America themsizies?!?

I’m too wired hot-ville like those sick pickups in that ol Kay that Uncle Kirk gypsy hugged me with last weeks ago …. Boogie Chillin’ - John Lee Hooker – Turn it upppp! I know I’m gonna be doing that in a minute here … It’s about grounding ya’ll group in crew crow and run electric solar in your yard on the states dime yo …. Tuning it uppppp boogie boogie bo, bo, bue, beu, pew pew! I gotta fire to put out and it started with the sound of a coin … doubles are in tune ya’ll it’s hillbilly north reporting on cooling post star-bucks .. she was wrong, Kena — that’s all no … fer real HOT HILL COUNTRY Lake George …. bonfire on it soon please … DIESEL!

Anyway, so teddy bears are cuddle buggles and lizards up near Saint Francis have gills ya’ll yep yep yeppp! Family cousin kissin' cousins bullshit … head slap, grounding South Sioux up-tender in processes, as we all ……. Bands are necessary! … Tattoo work soon please …. I’m done here in 15 min …. Thanks, I’m should be playing guitar left handed ALEX HANSON AND WALLY AND PATRICK, any hooooo! Crow hawk 6.2 blue live …. Thanks Daniel and Carpenter Mike and all my neighbors in Slabtown Proper Anoka Minnesota … Bocephus Wane is hot on streaming ya’ll, we be risin’ up the ground here please … boogie?

Off to go to work, blues-man AC out, 201 codes family ,,, - Craig

03.04.2026 pm

So, it was a pretty damn successful day I’d say, I got a bunch of shit done and so did you I’m sure, good stuff the best brand tobacco and I ran short because I gave a nigga a big pinch and a non bleached paper before I left the pharmacy fer truth yep yep yep! Word, boogie! 

I wonder when it’s gonna cool down so all the lollies complain? Anyhow, you be good now you hear? I’m just a dumb amebia in jellyfish season, looking out for stingers everywhere I go, honestly.. Yup, yup… we cool, we cool ,l bugger.. Blow that shit out dummy! Snot rockets fer life! Let’s all have a snow dance pleeeease? 

So, friends die and then eventually things get better and better .. Thank god, and God Damn It! I’m not Jesus lady, I’m fuckin’ bauld all around, a freak of nature fighting dissonance up hill bitches! Offta, damn it I need a vacation kids …. It’s fine, we’re all fine here… how are you? Loves! They’ll be back eventually, if not here, elsewhere, how could it be any otherwise, dog?

And onward and upward, Nolan Ryan fer ever?? Nahhh, he’d get board eventually I bet. Bo Jackson, who’s that in the 21st century? I wanna know, email me! Sports kick ass yo, let’s play kickball ‘er somethin’? Oooor hackysack! Yeah, hacky sack! Remember? I knocked him sensible, that Erick geeze dog, you were too hot! Whatever, we cool dog! Yep, cool, cool, cool, that sun be settin’!

Desperate for something real good, shouldn’t we all be? Honestly, what’s your opinion? Tell me yo! Deam it up and bottle it for next summer or the spring after that, will ya? Give it! Yep! I’m just ready to cut loose on Wednesday night ya’ll Wednesday night! 

• AC