So... some of you might know that I dabble with the musics.
I pick up a guitar when I'm trying to distract myself from painting, while paint is drying, and when I'm alone. I write little songs I call ''poem tunes'' cuz sometimes there's just a few lines of rhyme and sentiment and then we move on.

So... some of you might know that I have incredible stage fright/performance anxiety.
I have played a handful of times in public in the last few years and I attribute most of my anxiety to forcing myself to play in public when I was first starting out... in the wrong clubs... to the wrong people... at the wrong time. Now I break out in hives, I start sweating, I lost my hand strength, and sometimes I can't breathe. 

So... some of you might know that I have secret soundcloud accounts where I store my poem tunes for posterity. 
I don't want to forget my words or forget the moments of those words so I record them on my shitty little smartphones and store them in the sound cloud. I've gotten a little more gadgety over time... as in, I now have an iPhone and iPad with garage band. I don't own a microphone... and my 'Tar isn't a plug-in... and I just make do. 

So... some of you might know that I did a NPR thing recently. 
I don't know if other band folk are half as shocked at his or her or their participation in this as I am, but I AM. Not only did I play my guitar and sing in my tiny basement apartment in the middle of the day where people can hear me, I learned how to overlay the audio and edit video and make an intro and etc etc etc (insert Yul Brynner's King of Siam voice here).
Not only did I make a video... I actually followed through... and sent the shit in. I mean, I posted it on youtube for the world to see... and sent the link! I even recorded a second video and found myself torn between the two!!!
What the heck-o-la, Mallory Kate???

Who is this new easy, breezy, beautiful, clothed camera girl???

So that's where my heart has been the last week. Wrapped up in this new moment of wanting to share my poem tunes with people. 
Heck, I could even play in public if I won I'm pretty sure. 


Let's not get ahead of ourselves ;)
Thanks for everything, friends. 

So, here we go. Sharing here as well, I give you:
Mallory Kate's Star Wars Love Song 
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any of you ever listen to tilt?


when i was in my junior year of high school in catholic school i rocked the fuck out to tilt on the regular. i loved the strength and diversity in her voice and her/their lyrics.

in my drama class the teacher invited students to share a song... or a prayer at the beginning of class. guess what i chose?

tilt. 

oh, what song?


this one. 

TILT---Pious
(linked at bottom)

well, long story short, i shared this delightful tune. the lyrics are fantastic. i'm pretty sure it was one of my many first acts of rebellion against everything (ha) and... prolly put me on the school's suspension list. well, again. 

so the moral of the story is... listen to TILT