Happy Independence Day

 

It's not a train

 

It's an ark.  Hop aboard if you want to survive the flood.

Hey, that's a fast moving song!  I used to play this as cover in a band, a long time ago.

Coincidence

 

Going to a very snooty restaurant after the punk rock show.

Meeting some fans at the snooty restaurant.

What?

Belief

 

Folks, I'm afraid Mary's sick right now.  Chest congestion destroys her voice.  But she still has to work, even though she sounds and feels awful.  It's our covenant with Allah, it must be kept.  But unlike Mary, I sound absolutely awesome when I'm sick.  Don't worry, folks.  She's overcome this many times.  The voice will reappear suddenly, InshaAllah.

Mary singing on a tune with Mein Seer.  2 years ago, I think.

Meanwhile in Turkiye

 

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

27.  And those who disbelieve say, "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say, "Verily Allah sends astray whom God wills and guides unto Godself those who turn to God in repentance."

The Thunder 13:27

Who's the boss?

 

The old time gangsters were so flashy.  They would flaunt themselves like celebrities, but they figured out that it made them easy targets.  So they just conveniently vanished from the face of the earth.

No, they didn't.  Once upon a time, the Jewish mob had a great idea: why don't they get their own country?  That way, everything they do will be legal, and they will be the cops.  There you go, it's legal to kill Palestinians in Israel.  But the idea had a fatal flaw: it gave people something to bomb.

The Italian mob had a more efficient technique, to be invisible.  Sure some Italian mobs still have Sicily and such, but they're so hard to pin down.  Plus, they're just a tentacle of the octopus.  The Italian mob and its partner the Jewish mob, have always been the go to gangs for organized crime in America, nay the world.  But since the Jewish mob has confined itself to plots of land, makes the Italian mob the more powerful of the two.

Make no mistake Muslims, "Rum" is the Italian gangster network including its subjects and soldiers.  A lot of people.

Cut and paste

 

You can't be loud all the time.  It will ruin the tone!

We need bags!

Halal

 

99 US dollars per plate, folks.

But I wish I could have it once.

Dogue magazine

 

Hey Grace, get George, Lenny and Lucy in here.

Lagerfeld didn't have a dog.  You cat haters better have a magazine about cats!  "Catue"?  How about "Le Chat Blanc"?

Folks, I've finished the instrumental tracks for Shadowplay's next album, "Greatest Hits".  I wanted it to sound live, as if the band were in the same bedroom as you, especially when you turn it up loud.  For example, during the guitar solos there is only the guitar solo and no backup guitar.   And everything is dry, dry, dry.  It makes your ears pop!

When Mary gets her voice back inshaAllah, we'll start putting down the vocals.  When the album is done, I'll release it here on this blog.  Shadowplay is free music, so you can download, copy and distribute it as you please.

Be kind to animals

 

What, no cats?  How dare you!

Mama cat Lookie has cancer.  There's a growth the size of a golf ball mutating her 4th nipple.  She's 14 years old now.  But she hasn't slowed down despite her age.  Her energy and appetite hasn't changed.  I only have 15 bucks, so I can't afford a vet let alone a surgeon.  The lump wasn't always that big.  But I was stupid enough to think that she's mature enough not to make it worse.  Eventually she made a big stinky mess, and I had to clean it up.  Now she has to wear the Collar of Shame indefinitely until Allah grants me the money to pay for a surgeon.  InshaAllah.

The Legacy

 

Aw, he wants to be remembered.  But vandals have an easier job now.  Instead of destroying the whole word, they can just remove the "T".  And that will be the legacy.

Computers in the hands of the mad

or artistic?

Coffee!

 

Rock Star girlfriend

 

I guess you're the Rock Star.

Don't get plastic surgery

 

Yuck.  Stay the fuck away from me.

Expectations

 

Looks like most of your fans are men, Grace.  What would you expect?

I'm trying to analyze this.  Most of the men who are your fans used to follow you for your blues.  Now you've dumped the blues, they don't care and just follow you for who you are.  I would say that the average Grace Bowers fan is the average white trash male.  You're a tomboy, so I guess you bring out the gay man in them but since you're female, it means they're not gay.  Please stay chaste!

Me, I would rather you dress like a girl.  I chose you because you are modest, even though those kinky shorts are not modest.  Just be who you are, for now.  I'm kind of a slob myself, but that's because I don't have the money for maintaining my own clothes.

Private party in Dubai!

Political organization

 

Oh, you got to open for Guns & Roses?  Well, Public Enemy did, but you were there.  Did you meet Axl Rose?  Lol!  No, I don't want to meet him, but you go right ahead.

You know something?  A stadium concert doesn't look good if there are a lot of empty seats.  Even though there might be 40,000 people there.  But they just couldn't get a smaller venue...  Politics, huh.

Dubai!  That's apple juice, folks.  The girls aren't allowed to drink alcohol or do drugs.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

78.  Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you even if you are in fortresses built up strong and high! And if some good reaches them, they say, "This is from Allah," but if evil befalls them, they say, "This is from you." Say, "All things are from Allah," so what is wrong with these people that they fail to understand any word?

The Women 4:78

How to spend your time

 

"Now make sure you sleep all the way through the night, and don't hide the phone under your pillow, OK!"

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

183.  Those who said, "Verily God has taken our promise not to believe in any messenger unless he brings to us an offering which the fire shall devour." Say, "Verily there came to you messengers before me, with clear signs and even with what you speak of, why then did you kill them, if you are truthful?"

The Family of Imran 3:183

Don't let kids play with your toys

 

Short

 

I'm sorry Grace, but it doesn't seem like an empowerment song.  It seems like a song about eating poop.

Are you sure you want to eat that?  You're wearing white!

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

64.  Say, "O people of the Scripture: come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partners with God, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides Allah." Then if they turn away say, "Bear witness that we are Muslims."

The Family of Imran 3:64

Chicken and white rice

 

Dr. Tubio seems like a really talented chiropractor to me.  In this video, he has to deal with a bloated, autistic boy who got his bloatedness from his mother.  Dr. Tubio tries his best to be nice, but can't hide his disgusted look from me.  Freeze frame!

Dr. Tubio seems like a really talented chiropractor to me.  He uses x-rays and medical mumbo jumbo of course, but mostly he makes direct contact with his patients, feels the situation and waits for the right moment.  This and the positive results means he's a natural healer.  Natural healers absorb the sickness of their patients, Dr. Tubio.  This will affect you and your offspring.

Mexico City!  What a gorgeous outfit, Mary!

Prank culture

 

I'm so glad I don't live in a prank culture area.

By the way Honey, that playlist idea of yours is brilliant.  I don't see any way of major labels controlling people's playlists.  Keep it up!  Explore the possibilities of playlists...

What a serious audience!

Ghost town

 

I forgot to add, Mary and I are servants of Allah thus not allowed to ask the humans for money.  So if we get killed or wiped out financially, that would cause a lot of dead air.  Don't you agree?

Where are they going to put the stage?

Take the high road

 

Walk the path of honor and righteousness, Honey. 

Let's talk about dead air.  What we're doing with you is international business, and it's never been done before.  Mary is essentially an Acapella act despite singing along with the monitor, so there are millions of followers out there who don't care about the dead air.  They will wait for her to speak again, no matter how long it takes.

When you tap into her stream then restream, it makes you her accompanist.  It is then your job to fill in the blank spaces, it is your job to have Mary's back, because it's become your stream.  People are watching you react to Mary's emotions, and that's where the money is.  After all, there are many other accompanists who jam along with Mary.  The difference is that I endorse you as my wife.  The other option is to play over Mary.  It could bother some people, but it will work because she's there.  You still have to fill the blank spaces, though.

The dead air could be many things.  Mary needs to breathe, or rest, perhaps there is an instrumental section, and so on.  A couple of times, I was so spaced out that I didn't see the buttons in the Twitch app go from red to blue.  Otherwise, Twitch is supposed to be reliable.  What's left is the Internet itself, which behaves differently at different times over on your side or mine.  It could be saboteurs, but most likely we are at the mercy of God.  So go with the flow, and pray for stability.

P.S. please don't smoke 

The Possum Queen of Tennessee

 

I nominate Grace Bowers for Possum Queen of Tennessee!  Make sure you claim your weight in possums, Grace.  You and Granny have similar personalities.  You're definitely the same size.  But Granny is fearless, and she knows how to cook.  Possum.

The expensive dress goes well with the possum, don't you agree?  You can tell Mary had a tough time singing.  Good thing it's just a photo shoot.

Better than smoke

 

Mary doesn't smoke or drink, folks.  There's a frog in her chest that won't move out.

Here's the latest single from Grace Bowers.  Isn't she beautiful!  She sounds so major label.  Don't sign, Grace!

The red carpet at the Audrey Hepburn tribute.

Bass

 

Where does all that bass come from?  Too bad her English is poor, but that can change with practice.

Moon River!

What an amazing job the stylist did.  She totally looks like Audrey!

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

11.  And when they see some merchandise or some entertainment they disperse headlong to it, and leave you standing.  Say, "That which Allah has is better than any amusement or merchandise!  And Allah is the Best of Providers."

Friday 62:11

Normalize

 

Look, they're trying to normalize cannibalism by repackaging it as a prank.

But what really caught my eye is that one of the tasters looks like Laufey.  Another major label task, perhaps.  So what does that sausage taste like?

Latin jazz

 

Oh Honey, I forgot to tell you.  I added a Laufey song to Mary's playlist.  I was watching "The Devil wears Prada 2", I heard this song and really liked it.

How do you pronounce Laufey?  I once had a cat named Floofy, but she passed away.  I loved her so much!

Laufey's song reminds me of "Besame Mucho".  Latin jazz!  Mary was there once.

Without a computer

 

You don't need a computer to make art.  Just make sure it's good....

Before computers, I used a cassette tape 4 track to produce music.  It was fucking awful.

Dance it

 

It's funny how your skateboard is more luxurious than your car!

We are all on the edge, so welcome to life on planet Earth.  Look at all those abandoned houses!  May the billionaires find a malignant virus in their underground bunkers.  Or a nice earthquake.  Go with the flow and have faith.  Pray.  Faith is crucial, so don't be unfaithful!

Everyday

 

Uh oh.

It's always nice to have faithful fans.

Managing a chick singer is so time and soul consuming, that I've become so rusty on guitar.  Sure, I can still do chaos licks.  Who can't?  But 2 bars of organized picking is a monumental effort.  I've run out of time, now I have to spend the time to catch up.  Plus I can't seem to hit the "one" anymore because I'm so used to Mary's oppressive timing!  Then I have to mop the floor and feed the Zam!  Sheesh!

Mary's tired.