Invitation Letter to local sheriff to mask up and play Piano with Masked Man on guitar in safe secluded church dining room after hours...
Okay so keeping on the theme of 'Working with others virtually and remotely' here's another attempt to arrange things from a safe distance in advance online setting boundaries for those like me that like to plan out masking and precautions in advance...
Its' an online invitation letter..I'm trying to make arrangements for to play music with somebody. My local sheriff likes to play piano and he helped end some out of control party/riot/raves in my neighborhood which consisted of tons of out of town drunks attending after game football parties ..it was totally out of control as that house hosting the event did not have the capacity to hold such large amount of people and events on my street.
I try to get the local sheriff to mask up to play piano in an empty church dining room with me the Masked Man on guitar. I feel this is a gift I can give the Sheriff after he helped me on my street... I also explain to him a little about my pre pandemic days at the farmers market and my successful post pandemic present Masking days
"Dear Sheriff,
"You put on n95 mask for me.. find a place like a nearby empty church that has a piano, I'll ride my bicycle with guitar around my back and we will jam for an hour or so man. Ive played guitar with anybody and everybody at all levels.Music is my life and music saves my life...Whatever you play I go along for the ride and improvise. I always enjoy playing. You arrange that to happen where there is no gathering , just you and me wearing masks somewhere like an empty church with a piano and we'll jam! I'd just use my nylon string guitar so I don't have to plug in or carry anything heavy... we'll just get lost in the sounds messing around ..super relaxing.. music soothes the savage beast... music lifts the spirit ..so keep that in mind if you ever need to alter reality or do something different to keep sanity that you can go jam on piano and if you arrange it I'll jam with ya too!
Have a great day brother,
Masked Man
You plink and I pluck...
I'm not too keen on playing indoors but I'd probably be the most comfortable at
D**rfield United Methodist Church
1**4 Deerfield Road **ne, NC 286*7
Pastor W*s A*stin would probably unlock the door for us.. there's some tall ceilings in a large dining room like area and a piano in there.. The ceilings are pretty high and it's spacious in there so we'd feel fairly safe jamming in there if we both wore masks ...
Pastor W*s A*stin would let us use that whole area to ourselves.
Here's some footage of old pre pandemic farmers Market days... You probably aren't as good on piano as this kid is on kazoo..lol
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U_Vd82pZ8lQ-xSdUaLx24Sr0BAJR5hv_/view?usp=sharingHa! Those were the pre pandemic days for me anyway.. a mixed bag of thorny roses … On the one hand it was an incredible experience to be a part of something .. the farmers market was very special and meaningful for me because it was beautiful and meaningful to me but on the other hand after so many years it was bearing us up!
That was super hard being a baker .. My loved one and I would lose two nights a week baking all night only to transport all those goods and pitch tents the next day.. I started to get scared her little heart would give out staying up all night then staying up the next selling baked goods all day in all weather. My loved one is getting up there in age (77 years old now but in relative good health)
Farmers market was very special it was like my family. Very special but even behind the pictures those we’re sleepless nights of pressure to bake enough goods and it would have killed her at the pace she goes… I dare
say thank god we don’t get everything we wish for in this world because if we did it would probably kill us. Aren't ya glad ya don't get half the things you wish for in life because half the times we are wrong? lol Secretly it’s good covid came along forcing me to rethink our hard path and making me realize we must retire. We wouldn’t have stopped otherwise and my loved one would have overdone it and also caught covid.
imagine if, you will having the Midas touch.. that’s what we have: everything we touched was turning to gold.. well we simply had to stop touching everything.. lol.. That's too much success! So we retired.
That was then; that was the old days the pre pandemic days before I masked:
juggling for the people
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19sEimjGBJunKnGb4Iy3esUgah_0qNQm_/view?usp=sharingI got to be a wildman and dance in the parade(pre pandemic days before I started masking)
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/184dJ6ZZ97ExFk6aNEMizhrwqJfsFpACN/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1U6AscZkTpe5hO2rxpfMoN878y20Rv30f/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1CunXkYCBh1eTsMucPC8bF3vU869gLLD9/view?usp=sharingI'm grateful but now I move on towards the sunset and stay close to the one I love ...
… I had a calling... I retrained myself in the mask , for a while people wore masks.. I delivered baked goods in my mask until others stopped wearing masks. People care more about appearances and their looks than their health.. then I bought everything in bulk so almost overnight … had to draw the line and create boundaries with overly friendly pushy neighbors and had to lay down the law .. I unlearned all the things mom taught me like being too nice to strangers .. simply created psychological boundaries probably similar to boundaries law enforcement might have to embrace when dealing with parties that are in conflict with one another… pretty tough I guess not being able to dance and play with the others .. had to cut off anybody and everybody who didn’t take my personal boundaries as seriously for my sake and my loved one’s sake.
D**rfield United Methodist was my loved one's (Masked Woman's) church where she sang in choir.. that was her extended family we had to give up when covid hit .. she had to give up swimming.. but she's alive and kickin! we Dance and walk and sheprobably has more energy than me!
We do the best we can brother! I became a protector.. found the inner discipline to not be a sitting duck and not take crap off anybody.. no superficial b.s. so far I created a pretty good system for us that’s worked thus far I am healthier now even more before! . I look forward to meeting others who take advantage of the mask and honor and share similar values and a code of conduct that I embrace.
So let's rock! and be grateful that you're not my pal in the pen but that Ive got you for a pen pal
So this is now:
I have clarity now and so much to be grateful I get to rock out from my safe den... This is awesome brother..
A quadruple shot of wild electric blues to get the sheriff through his weekend:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ppWVw2tlIp0ZHdzbB-P0OPH9QDF8WSqB/view?usp=sharingGotta be tough but true to yourself...
Masked Man chops wood and builds a fire and sings "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver, "Light my Fire" by The Doors, and "When You're Hot You're Hot" by Jerry Reed in this Music Video
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z9GttP5Q8vt0uJKQ9Q5RIqPNacnLYtSg/view&
gotta whistle while you work ...
Masked Man sings Up On The Roof and Cleans His Gutters Music Video:
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N-q1vg7VRbpkM4KKeNBw5XhXDZ4yk8vZ/viewHave a great weekend my friend,
The Masked Man
