Hey gang

[ivanquamay]

Hey guys it's mivanqua. I dropped my phone in the Mississippi river, been to Texas and New York on storm work and even spent the night in the same town as one of my heroes, David Berman in Memphis. Unfortunately though, he is deceased.

I finally have another account that I can log into. Hey, m! Hey h², and all the rest.
More later headed to work.


b

[e_poison]

Hey, welcome back! I can help you recover your old account. Send me an email with the details of the issue you’re having and I can look into it.

[herbalhippie]

Hey guys it's mivanqua. I dropped my phone in the Mississippi river, been to Texas and New York on storm work and even spent the night in the same town as one of my heroes, David Berman in Memphis. Unfortunately though, he is deceased.

I finally have another account that I can log into. Hey, m! Hey h², and all the rest.
More later headed to work.


b

Well, recover your phone and stick it in some rice because there's a text waiting for you.

I"m glad you're ok and checked in, we were getting worried! HUGS

[boureka]

I was flat out worried. Glad you're well.

[BookofEnoch1914]

It's good to hear from ya Bud, I hope you get your Phone situation sorted out. Fly Low!

[IndelibleDotInk]

How's kitty? and yourself, of course!

[CatfatherB]

Welcome back Mivanqua, you was fairly close to my neck of the woods if you were in Memphis

[ivanquamay]

Thanks all you guys and more later I just wanted to check in because I was thinking about you all. M I'm almost done an email for you and I love all of you guys.

For me it's been a bumpy road but M! GUESS WHAT? I convinced Betty to quit smoking after the pneumonia!! It's been almost four months now!! Can you believe that?

Pretty awesome.

On that other side of the coin, though...


Anyway, love you guys and probably I'll finish that email tonight. I also have like five things for you by now, I'm just stuck on the main one and feels like it needs a little bit more ..something else. I'm about to give up though and call it done. Did you guys like that Base Camp Blanchard's coffee? If so, I had another blend of theirs that was even better, I want to get you guys some. It's super duper. I haven't gotten that yet though. It's coming don't worry. Haha!

e-poison I just forgot my password log in to my account. I thought it was one thing that it's ALWAYS been, but I must have been stoned and paranoid when my phone got stolen. That sorta makes sense....?

[ivanquamay]

And indelible my kitties are ok. I'll tell them you said hi. Same ol' girls I'll send you a picture.
h² sorry to worry you, I'm trying to get back in the swing of this again. Thanks for being concerned. Sadly though, that phone is somewhere probably washed up on some shore in Central America. I never have good luck with phones but they always seem to find theiir way into my hand. This one came in the mail
Nobody ordered it or asked for.it. Weird, right?

Don't worry I'm appropriately paranoid.



Hugs back, my friend

[ivanquamay]

It's good to hear from ya Bud, I hope you get your Phone situation sorted out. Fly Low!

Im trying to fly low, buddy. Hope you two and the kitties are doing well.

I hope you all got some of that DTE Thai! Wowie Zowie!


Anyway, back to work with my ass, I'll talk to you all soon.

[IndelibleDotInk]

Man are you hooked up with our MeWe coffee group run by Beck? His hobby is coffee, so he roasts his own and started doing it for us with a large rotating menu for relatively cheap.

I'm "IndelibleDotInk ." on MeWe, msg me there and I'll hook you up with the coffee group. I've had like 20 varieties, all 10/10, except an experimental one fermented with chilies... that was a big bust, 2/10, but I knew going into it that it would be different and.

Anyone else who wants to join the coffee group, just msg me on MeWe. I am having the best coffees of my life, total gamechanger, became a coffeeophile and I sleep with my aeropress under my pillow.

To Miv - my mom's cat, who she's had for a few years now, still doesn't purr when I pet her, but accepts head scratches, mild petting, and a kiss. She's used to me now, but is affectionate only to my mom.

[ivanquamay]

coffeeophile

Didn't know that was a thing but I'm one too. Bills are so high right now I've basically been living off of crackers and Clif bars, but you already know I have three or four kinds of coffee laying around because at four in the morning when I get up for work, hot coffee +kratom is literally the only thing that keeps me from going back to sleep. None of these labor jobs would have lasted a week if it weren't for kratom killing the aches and pains, and coffee is like kratom's blood brother...or more likely sister, I'd say, and they REALLY get along...to me anyway, I know about that study, but proper opioids and coffee synergize super well with me in general. Even back in my junkie days, it was dope and coffee. Honestly, coffee is by far the worst addiction I've ever had. Through all of my drug experimentation all throughout life, coffee was there. Not just "there" mind you, FUCKIN' THERE

Know what I mean?

All of that being said, I DID quit drinking coffee for about a week when I quit smoking this last time (hopefully THE last timebefore COVID, so it's been around five years now.) That was short lived and a half-baked idea at best. I was back on with no regrets. It was really hard to separate coffee and cigarettes in my mind and just be able to enjoy the coffee AT FIRST.



So, to everyone, I have been playing my new music to a person (never done that before, just thought I'd try it out) and they said it was "pretty good"
SO I was thinking of, like, actually trying to put more than an "in passing" kind of effort into trying to get some of them down and figured out some, usually I just do little parts or something and just move on, but I think I'm going to make a full and proper instrumental set and try to drag a few folks in (maybe...I would have to leave my house to do that though )

Neither here nor there but it would involve getting a computer to mix down the four-track, and that would mean I could dump it onto a free site like Bandcamp or something if you guys are ever interested.

I'm not at all confident in my lyric writing prowess or my voice at present to incorporate either)

More on all of that later.

I will say it's going to be percussion based at it's core. I'm thinking in rhythm, not so much in "riffs" per se. Some of it is going to be out there for sure. Hopefully it will be fun at least.


I've also been obsessed with Fela Kuti lately so all of that makes sense to me. The downside to Fela is it makes me want to FUCK SHIT UP! It really speaks to my rebellious nature and I'm not sure that's so great, but whatever. It is what it is.

[boureka]

You shouldn't be cowed by your doubts as a lyricist. You definitely have a unique and clear VOICE.

[ivanquamay]

You shouldn't be cowed by your doubts as a lyricist. You definitely have a unique and clear VOICE.

I'm eventually making 45 rpm records of these, there's a guy on Etsy who does it in Eastern Europe somewhere, and sending them to my estranged daughter.

R uhemember the blotter I sent her during the you know what?

https://ibb.co/ykyBRT9

In the only conversation Betty had with my "mother," she said "the stamps were pretty!" Hahaha!

100% that's hanging in her house somewhere.

As you can see here, I finally found a frame for my 90 hit Banksy blotter. I love this so much. It's pretty small, that's what's so cool about it. I got this for myself on the exact same night.

https://ibb.co/Kr7C5w4

Just a funny dot in a sea of sorrow for you.

Nothing has changed in that department of course.

[ivanquamay]

Now I've been to SC for a couple.of.weeks after Helene, and Northern VA, and until today, no matter where I tried or when, I couldn't get past the screen that verifies me as a human (I don't know about you,.but when it doesn't verify me, I start to wonder myself. Haha!)

Now I'm home for two days and back out again, I think back to NOVA.

Some pics for fun :

https://ibb.co/t37NqrD

Me standing in front of a giant toppled tree in Asheville. In this neighborhood, a tree oddly fell on every single house for three blocks. Seems...uh... weird?

Apparently the storm knocked this tree over which, in turn, knocked this bronze statue into the ground. Looked hilarious to me.

https://ibb.co/J3wLhB6

https://ibb.co/0ySdwd6

Funny thing someone did at the gym we and about two hundred other tree people and linemen were staying.

The parking lot/staging area with hundreds of trucks
.

https://ibb.co/PGBP1TY

Not the most fun I've ever had, but I met some really fun people along the way.

I hope everyone is well and maybe I'll be able to hop on more than this once.

Love you guys.

Fucking bummed about Denette,.though.

We lost a good one there, guys.


b

[herbalhippie]

Now I've been to SC for a couple.of.weeks after Helene, and Northern VA, and until today, no matter where I tried or when, I couldn't get past the screen that verifies me as a human (I don't know about you,.but when it doesn't verify me, I start to wonder myself. Haha!)

Now I'm home for two days and back out again, I think back to NOVA.

Some pics for fun :

https://ibb.co/t37NqrD

Me standing in front of a giant toppled tree in Asheville. In this neighborhood, a tree oddly fell on every single house for three blocks. Seems...uh... weird?

Apparently the storm knocked this tree over which, in turn, knocked this bronze statue into the ground. Looked hilarious to me.

https://ibb.co/J3wLhB6

https://ibb.co/0ySdwd6

Funny thing someone did at the gym we and about two hundred other tree people and linemen were staying.

The parking lot/staging area with hundreds of trucks
.

https://ibb.co/PGBP1TY

Not the most fun I've ever had, but I met some really fun people along the way.

I hope everyone is well and maybe I'll be able to hop on more than this once.

Love you guys.

Fucking bummed about Denette,.though.

We lost a good one there, guys.


b

Hey b, I'M HUGGING YOU.

Stay safe