This was at an open mic called Showcase Onstage:
I’m so happy I was able to do this.
-Allēna
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The podcast had to reschedule 😭
However, Laz came out and kinda went ham this evening to make up for it. Emerson was speaking at a panel to educate kids about queerness and sexuality, and the fourth speaker couldn’t make it at the last second. So Charisma McGee stepped in in the other person’s stead and taught a bunch of kids about…. polyamory in a very blunt and honest fashion.
This was apparently not frowned upon, and was, in fact, encouraged.
The absolute motherfucker also found an electric piano in the basement and apparently he can play. Really, really well.
He ended up recording an arrangement he’d cooked up on the fly of a song Allēna had written a couple of days ago, as well as a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and something Allēna wrote so long ago we can’t even remember the name of it anymore. All we know is that she was approximately 13 when she wrote it.
He surprised the hell out of everyone, including himself.
On that note, I’m going to sleep here shortly.
Goodnight.
-Ashley
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Be The Fletcher To My Island
Sometimes having DID and headmates that are JUST as talented as you at both the same things – and different ones – is a fuckin’ gas, y’all.
Back in 2014-ish I wrote a poem that turned into one of my better-known songs about a crush of mine. It was called “My Island”. I was obsessed with the Mutiny on the Bounty for reasons I still can’t quite articulate, and the second verse contains one of my favorite lines I’ve ever written:
“Be the Fletcher to my island, be the Fletcher coming coming home”
I’m not entirely sure why that line gets me so bad more than a decade later. It may be the fact that it’s a reference to Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, choosing the South Pacific over duty, country, etc., and settling with a few members of his crew in one of the most remote places on Earth, Pitcairn Island, after mutinying, and wanting to feel chosen like that. Maybe it’s my love for history references in general. Maybe it’s that I still yearn for people like I did when I was 14-17 and I struggle to express it now, and I love that line so much because it’s My Peak Teenage Yearning, something I feel like I can’t verbalize anymore, even though I’m arguably more safe now to do so than I was then.
Anyway, here’s the original take as it appeared on our first self released EP Fletcher Coming Home: Good Stuff From 2014.
A different cut appeared awhile later on our first album The Mellon Session as well:
But my favorite version of “My Island” came much later when Eight was host and he snuck into a church while bored out of his fucking skull to record this absolutely achingly beautiful take of “My Island” for his then-partner Juneau.
I can still feel the longing even now, and his arrangement is so fucking beautiful.
Holy shit.
-Allēna
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Well, Ashley decided to be a motherfucker.
He went through SEVERAL old accounts and dug up THE ABSOLUTE MOTHERLODE of old music (we’re talking like 5+ years old) and elected to post some of his finds on social media like a gremlin.
So, fuck it. I’m gonna post something he dug up.
This is a rework I did when I was 19 of a song from my EP Nothing Will Keep Us Together.
This is the ✨electrified✨ version of “Pull Us Under”. Enjoy.
And to my family members who called it boring, they can suck it. One day I’ll finish electrifying this extended play and it’ll be over for you motherfuckers.
-Allēna
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So I performed at the Woodland Pattern poetry marathon tonight!
Here’s a short clip from it.
If you want to watch the full performance, I come in at 2:43:10 thereabouts.
-Allēna
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I performed a very old song of mine tonight.
This is “I Was The Sun” from my record Primrose Path (2017, rerecorded 2023) live at Poet’s Monday.
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My new headmate has a villain song.
I wanted to post it here now that things with Zelda have gone…south, as it were.
It is titled “Australis.” Eight wrote it a year ago. Enjoy, along with a bonus meme.
-Allēna