Peanuts

 

Hi Grace!  I saw that you uploaded the show on the concert stage at Bottlerock but when I tried to watch it, YouTube kept giving me the private set.  Humph.  I wanted to hear your amp.

The last batch of peanuts I roasted was so good, that I ran out quickly.  For some reason, peanuts taste the best at 5 am, and right after Mary's set.  So I roasted a fresh batch last night while watching Grace Bowers.  YouTube created a Grace Bowers mix for me.  The AI isn't very smart: I only wanted to look at Grace, but at least I could skip to the next video.  The woman in the video above washed her peanuts!  No!  Peanuts absorb water just like beans, and will lose their snap.  I get my peanuts already shelled and skinned.  These peanuts have larger kernels, and are called "Shandong" peanuts.  I toss the peanuts in palm oil and salt them.  Then I roast them in an open wok over a very small fire: peanuts burn easily.  So I have to constantly toss them like a cook in a Chinese restaurant tosses fried noodles.  This batch took over 2 hours, but they came out perfect.  Better than the last batch.  See below!  I was tempted to stick my hand in there for the sake of the photo, but no.  Those peanuts were very hot.  Want some peanuts?  They're yummy!

I don't have any guitar pedals

 

Hi Grace!  I was the first one to see your private set video on YouTube.  Looking sharp, Honey!  I had a lazy evening just watching TV.  I watched the Spider Man movie up to the point where Dr. Strange said, "If they die, then they die." Then I switched to the Knower concert in Seoul.  The Internet is truly a fabulous thing: those Koreans were singing along.  The crowd didn't do that in America.  Knower is an upbeat band, so it was weird when Louis stopped the show to do a romantic number with Genevieve.  I guess it's sweet that he's trying so hard, but that's when I tuned out to download some VSTs.  After that I went back to YouTube, and you had barely uploaded that private set video.  I'm guessing that you woke up at 9, showered and had breakfast, then got around to video processing.  Ah, the life of a rock star.  Your home is always spotless, so you definitely shower first.  Which makes you an eccentric rock star.  Or just nice and clean, which I absolutely admire.  Oh, I watch a lot of Grace Bowers!  Here's my favorite clip, back when you were jail bait:

So adorable!  Anyway, your pedal board is getting bigger.  I don't think you need a lot of pedals for your style of playing, but whatever.  I don't have any pedals.  When I get the money inshaAllah, I will buy the only pedal I have ever and will ever use: the MXR Dyna Comp.  I probably don't even need the foot switch on that thing.

Tone

 

Hi Grace.  How are you?  I'm sitting here doing my laundry while cooking up broth for my ramen.  Of course I think of you all the time, because I love you.  Want some ramen?

I don't have any nice amps.  What I do have is a practice amp called a "Belcat".  I also have 7 cats, but I can't plug my SG into any of them.  When I plug straight into the Belcat, it has to be clean.  The guy who owned my SG before me rewired it so that it becomes extra noisy when overdriven.  So all the dirt and overdrive sounds I get are post-production.  When I turn the Belcat up loud enough, it breaks up and shakes to perhaps a nice tone.  Rats!  Who am I kidding!  It's not a blessing: it sucks!  At least it doesn't run on a rechargeable battery.

Take it right to the top

 

Hi, American Princess!  There is something that needs to be done which you may not have the nerve to do, so I will start it and you can finish it up OK!  Take the photos of the 2 old men in the video above, and put them in a new video along with the photos of the victims of the Covenant shooting in the video below.  Have a guy with a serious voice narrate the video, talking about the need for gun control and the charity to give donations to.   Run this ad before and after the daily stream.  Can you do that?

It's your 18th birthday on July 30, right?  That means you can vote.  What a coincidence!

Oh... no ring now?  I asked around for myself anyway, and it will be a bit of a wait even for a coin to be shaped into a ring. What you're playing on guitar sounds very mature.  Turn that into a song, Grace.

The Italian connection

 

Grace, is that a nice ring?  I can't tell from this distance, but I suppose I will have to go get myself a ring too.  An engagement ring must be kept on at all times.  How would you gain more spiritual points, Grace?  You're so young so you probably don't know or don't care, but I will tell you: you must love your man.  Show the world you love him.  Please give him all the love you can.  After all, he's just a man.

The connection between Jewish and Italian organized crime goes back more than a century.  It's ridiculous to assume that those organizations merely disappeared.  They got smarter, and are now selling weapons in the Middle East.  Right after the Iranian prime minister was killed, Israel took Rafah.  Without Iran to supply weapons, the Palestinians had to turn to organized crime for their guns.  The Italian mob.  It was business.

Spiritual arsenal

 

That was one hell of a month for you, huh Grace?  I believe we all agree folks, she leveled up.  Now this gun control thing you got yourself into runs pretty deep, Honey.  Because we need those guns to fight guns.  For now, just focus on disarming the people who like to kill children.  Gun control, that is.  You have many friends who can tell you who would best lobby for gun control.  You don't need their permission to do a gathering of support for such persons, just tell them to show up or else.  When they do show up inshaAllah, have your gang pressure them into making a commitment to gun control.  When they make that commitment, you make a big and long lasting noise about it.  Alas, they might just be as helpless as the children we seek to protect.

Yes we have to fight for what's right, and it's best to fight with God on your side.  That is your spiritual arsenal.  The spiritual gun have right now Grace, is a gel blaster.

Leap of faith

 

Grace, I hope you have learned by now not to accept every gig offered to you.  Research your gigs.  Here, I want to plug Mary Spender on her upcoming tour.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

59.  Say, "See you what things Allah has sent down to you for sustenance?  Yet you hold forbidden some things thereof, others lawful."  Say, "Has Allah indeed permitted you, or do you invent to attribute to Allah?"

Jonah 10:59