Chapter 133 . Music, Friends, Lies & Video Tapes

Betty Kate

I haven't draw recently...
I haven't really taken any semi serious pictures recently...
I have not done a lot of image processing recently...
I have been doing music, recently...

Among waves and tsunami of drama, about a month and a half ago, my very good friend Kate went to visit.
She usually lives on Earth, and I have been trying to convince her to come down to Victoria to record some good music!

She is a Rock Star.
That is really the only way I can fairly describe her.
The way she chooses to live, the way she naturally is, and where she is going, all of those make her a true Rock Star.
This, I knew...
But what I wasn't fully aware, even though I could somehow feel it, was that she could actually write freakin' fantastic songs!

She came, dropped pages of poetry on the table, I took my guitar, and the first song was born.
Then a second one.
Then a third one...
And now, the latest one...

I write the music, and she, oh so magically, sings some beauty on top of it, and bang, a good tune is born.
And sometimes, an awesome composition...
It is, mostly, her music. But we are able to work in an awesome cohesion, a collective I would say.
Here is our contract:

Contract

We then went on to record all the songs live, just so we could practice, and get ready for the next step, the studio recording, which we are in the middle of doing presently.
Needless to say, I have a lots of work to do...
- smile -

Here is the list of existing songs:
- Alone Again
- Closure
- Oxygen
- Simply Complicated

I would love be able to share some of the recording, but, he he he, it doesn't depends on me, the lady is demanding, so, it'll come in time.
- smile again -

One of the most wonderful thing with our collaboration, is the fact that we can talk to each other without talking when we play, it's an osmoses, we are, mostly, 100% on the same page, when it comes down to our music.
That complicity is a must if you actually want to make some kind of decent music, it's what make it all fascinating, people become one through the music...
Exceptional...
It is almost impossible to capture such state with an image, but, even though of terrible quality, this illustrate what I am trying to express:

Betty & Sergio during a Recording Session

Some things need to be put out there...
What is friendship?
What does it means?
Not the concept, but the reality of the everyday friendship...

I don't want to be hurt anymore by people that I love as much, if not more than my own folks, for whom I have dedicated years and years, of soul work, ressources, my life, my life...
If you hurt me, you are not my friend.
If I hurt you, I am not yours.

We all make mistakes.
I am an expert at it.
And that, is ok.
It's life.
But life brings us all the consequences of our mistakes, of our lies.

I lied.
Many times I did lie.
Just like the rest of us, just like you.

What matters is the complete picture, all the actions we ever did put together, and here is who you are.
And I like who I am.
Someone told me it's arrogance.
But I have reasons to be arrogant.
And when you have reasons, it's not arrogance anymore.
Take that!

And last, video tapes...
Watch porn.

That's all for now Peeps.

Sincerely,

Serge
28th of July 2014

ps: Don't push two individuals away, it brings them together.