Ha?

 

That's not her native language!

Mary in New Orleans.

Ha?

 

This area used to flood badly, because of the river by the mosque.  Then about 15 years ago, the local government dug up some extra drainage.  The floods stopped until Monday, so obviously God can overcome any amount of drainage.  At least I only have to deal with a couple of inches of water in the house instead of a couple of feet.  There's still water coming in.  It must be coming from far away.

Pool party with Gwen.

Flood!

 

It really did flood here!  The water came out from the jungle in my backyard, after a heavy bout of relentless rainy days.  What you see in the video was only the beginning.  Sorry I cancelled the stream folks, I had to prepare for the flood and make sure my cats were situated well.  I had to mix the boys and girls due to the emergency.  The boys didn't worry too much but the girls were pretty spooked and are fasting, just like me.  Mary is doing OK.  She should be on schedule to stream, inshaAllah.

Here's Mary being the entertainment at a pool party.

Lost work

 

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

136.  Say you, "We believe in Allah and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the descendants and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to all prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them, and we bow to Allah."

The Heifer 2:136

Mary had Gwen come on stage for this number.

Cruising

 

Here's Mary chatting with hair and makeup backstage.

I love this song so much

 

I can still vividly recall how I felt when I first heard it.  I'd never heard this Allman brothers song, and Google didn't know about it.  But it was so good.  What I felt was innocence.  I listened to it over and over again, and I couldn't stop crying.

I can't expect you to be the same person you were when you wrote it, but you are the one who wrote it.  You may think you have outgrown this music but this music is so high and if anything, you may have fallen down from it.  I'm so scared that you churn out filler just to be social or get back at society.  I want to hear music that touches my heart so much, it makes me weep.  I'm scared that you would rather be mediocre than creative.  And a lot of rock music is mediocre.

Perhaps it matters not to people who love you but your vocals are not strong enough to lead, so it's important that the guitar overpowers everything else.  If you were looking to be punk rock then your vitality/power is nowhere close to Amyl, and she's not playing an instrument.  Hide behind the guitar Grace, and make sure your studio guitar tone is better than everyone else's.  Better meaning bigger.  Everyone else meaning Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rhoads, etc.  You might become a better singer if you put in the practice and gain maturity.  As it is now, you might as well go look for haunted tunnels.  Don't rush the next album.  If you study music history, you will know that musicians spend 24/7 at the studio when they're serious about the music.

Here's a snapshot of Mary and Gwen after the comedy club gig:

Local cheese

 

What I really miss is cheese.  The West has so much cheese, and the tradition to back it up.  But I did get a block of cheese today at no cost to me, so I'm going to review it.  It's local cheese.

How hard is it to make cheese?  It's not hard, it's tedious.  Then there's the issue of rennet, the enzyme you get from the stomachs of calves that curdles milk.  This cheese isn't bad.  It tastes like mozzarella.  Now I have cheese for beef taquitos.  Alhamdulillah.

Does anyone remember this performance?  Mary doesn't like large crowds, but she agreed to do this gig.  So she went up unannounced, sang her song, then disappeared.  The crowd didn't know what the hell was going on.  After that, she went to the comedy club and sang a few songs there.  What a night!

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the rejected.

22.  Say, "No one can deliver me from Allah, nor should I find refuge except in God."

The Jinns 72:22