Own your master

 

Ghost Riders going into Soul Sacrifice, dahlink.  I love that black outfit by Dick and Skip you wore in your fashion slideshow.  Those boys do great stuff.  I'm glad to see you go easy on the live venues.  I don't like the thought of your commuting over ice and snow.  December, though...  You know you could just stream your band playing live, and actually make a profit as opposed to hazardous travel to live venues.  Aw, I wanted to see some BBQ!  Did you have chitlins?  What a great concept: Roy's Meat Service lol.  You should have had everyone (including the boys) wear slutty dresses for the occasion of"Madame President".

Here are a couple of videos to study.  Arena shows are predictably monopolized.  The video at the top of this post is old news, you own your own master.  But more interesting to me is the guy's reference to Israel.

Hot sauce

 

Of course I look forward to hearing your latest project.  It sounds mellow as I hope your heart is, and I'm sure it be absolutely fantastic.

I spent last night in the kitchen, listening to your debut album and making sauces.  I have little time to cook during the day, because I've become slower and busier.  So I just cook rice, bread or noodles with meats and veggies plus a quick sauce.  Last night I made pasta sauce and 2 hot sauces: a chilli garlic and "sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and fermented shrimp paste fried until saturated).  The pasta sauce was basically the hot sauce base plus fresh tomatoes.  I have to make my own hot sauce because I have a sensitive stomach.  So you should be able to stomach my hot sauce, too.  Mold is a major hassle in the tropics, but I think I found a way to suppress it from my sauces inshaAllah.  I sure hope so, because I made a lot and I only have a small freezer.

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

154.  After that of the distress, God sent down calm on a band of you overcome with slumber, while another band was stirred with anxiety by their own feelings moved by wrong suspicions of Allah due to ignorance.  They said, "What affair is this of ours?"  Say, "Indeed this affair is wholly Allah's".  They hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to you.  They say, "If we had had anything to do with this affair, we should not have been in the slaughter here".  Say, "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death".  But that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts, for Allah knows well the secrets of your hearts.

The Family of Imran 3:154

The big guitar sound

 

Honey, let's talk about musical growth.  Have you added more songs to your set list yet?  From what I see on YouTube, you have had the same list since January.  Then I look at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2024 lineup:

Dave Matthews Band

NEEDTOBREATHE

Better Than Ezra

COIN

The Band of Heathens

Sierra Hull

Lukas Nelson

Charlie Worsham

Celisse Hozier

The Brevet

Noah Kahan

The Cadillac Three

Chance Peña

Illiterate Light

The Brook & The Bluff

Lamont Landers

People on the Porch

Willi Carlisle

HIPPIES AND COWBOYS

Allison Russell

Stephen Sanchez

Myles Smith

Do you make better music than them?  Or did you just want to play alongside them?  Are you a musician because you want to be social?  It's just a gig?  It's not a competition?  What about the music?

You're only 18, so you should be growing musically.  Sure some acts play the same song(s) over and over again, but those people are old and those songs are all they have to live on.  The people you really should ask about your music is your band.  Ask them this question: "Am I boring you with my music?"  Of course, nobody is going to tell the boss lady that her music has become dull, because it hasn't.  There's just not enough of it.  Playing the same few songs over and over again is like being broke and having to eat the same meal over and over again.  You're not broke!  You're not even musically broke.  You're only 18!

Another thing is that the "Hodge Podge" isn't necessarily going to contribute original music for "Grace Bowers and the Hodge Podge", because the vision belongs to "Grace Bowers".  The burden of creativity is yours, because it's your band.  Write at least 30 complete songs with lyrics immediately!  And they better be great.

Ramen

 

I have to admire how hard you work at your social media.  I simply can't be bothered, so I put in the minimum amount of work.  There's a lot going on offline.  There's always someone plotting something at any given time like right now, so I try to stick to my schedule.

I'm sure you like ramen, especially when it's done right.  I suppose ramen would be OK for you to check out in Japan.  I posted the most touristy one above.  The Japanese like to put pig in the broth, so I can't eat any of that.  I used beef bone, salted fish, home made fermented miso, seaweed and garlic to flavor my ramen broth below.  Along with the seasoning packet.  There's an egg at the bottom, and a dollop of hot sauce on top of the fish cake on top of the noodle brick.  ¥50,000 for a bowl of Zam's celebrity ramen!

Bah humbug

 

"Don't cry, don't raise your eye, it's only teenage wasteland".

Nice hair, Honey.  Very professional.  Nice riff, too.  You're definitely not the type of guitar player that needs to hide behind your gear.

So I converted my music production pc to replace my primary computer that died.  Unfortunately, it can't handle modern graphics.  The last computer couldn't handle graphics either, but I was able to push it to the edge.  I guess it fell off.

Anyway folks, no Twitch stream, no Second Life, no TikTok and no girlie pictures until I get a nicer computer.  Mary Unknown7 will only be available on the Free-Shoutcast stream.  I'm going to revert my music production computer back to how it was.

Diva

 

Uh oh, looks like that storm yesterday fried my PC.  Until I can find a solution folks, Mary will only be on the Free-Shoutcast stream.

You think you have problems with jealous people?  You don't have to sing!

Let's say for example, you wanted to please someone who's jealous of you, and you would do whatever it takes so that person would stop being jealous of you.  First you would give it your money, and all the material possessions you have that you value.  Next you would be its slave, do whatever it wants you to do and be thoroughly humiliated by it.  Finally you would allow it to torture and kill you in the most brutal way.  Perhaps after all that, it would stop being jealous of you.

"Not going to school to tour at age 18". Lol that's the attitude of a Rock Star.  Enjoy travel while you're young, Honey.

Economics

 

You love them, but they don't love you.  So keep your circle of trust small.  You have your family and your band, who more do you need to be intimate with?  When you get scared, just stay in the house.  You can have whatever you need delivered.

I want some BBQ too!  I'll have to cook up my own so it's halal.  That block party is a very political thing you're doing.  I noticed that you updated your "live music and stuff" playlist, so I watched it.  I'm guessing that you like the guitar tone best.  That Tyler amp is nice.  Any tube amp would be nice for me.  The "Lenny/Skuttle Buttin" performance is better produced by Western AF.  Nashville Heatwaves production censored out the drummer.

Oh yeah, economics.  Not a blessing for most musicians, so understand their envy.  Jealousy is Biblical, so don't expect to alleviate it with bribes.