Letter to Julia 20120319

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

YOOOOLIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!

How are you today, my love? I'm sure you are staying busy as usual. I pray you are eating properly and maintaining your prayers. I've been on sort of a diet, well, mostly because I've had less money for ingredients. I need to spend more time on the Internet, just "being there", y'know. Work, work, work. Also, I've been adding more time to my rehearsals. Trying to push that stamina, y'know. Call me Karen Carpenter, I suppose.

I sure don't look like her. You look like her more than I do, but much healthier of course. Singing-wise, I relate most to Karen over the others. We're both Pisces, if you believe in that shit. But besides that, we both have soft, resonant voices, although mine is bassier even at the same pitch. I couldn't always capture Karen: I was once a screamer type screecher. But I mellowed out. Then I knew that I had access to Karen years ago, but I didn't have any control until Allah allowed me to stay on the bridge between 1st and 2nd voices (to the amateur, it is between real and falsetto voices). Once one is able to stay on the bridge, then all voices are real, and none is falsetto. The secret to chick singer vocals! Of course it goes deeper than that, namely the purity of emotion. That too is a gift from Allah, also known as spiritual enlightenment, or it can be, as in Karen's case, natural ability.

Of course, she lost a lot of strength from overwork and dieting, but there's nothing anyone could have done about that. That was between her and God. Fame drains, but so many people crave it. Could there be something sinister involved? So many celebrities are found dead in a similar way as Karen and Janis, face down in a bedroom. Evil abounds, but Judgement Day is more than real enough to pay back acts of evil. Until then, we Muslims are commanded to defend ourselves only when we are unjustly attacked. And certainly Karen could afford to buy herself the best ingredients, and so can you, I'm sure. If you don't feel like cooking, then go out to eat at a nice restaurant with your buddies. I think tonight I'll go to the night market and buy some fish, white meat and produce.