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Ok, so we’re still here.

It’s been a while, but I just wanted to write and let everybody know we’re still going. I (Mike) moved to Belgium a few years back, but came back last year. We played the most awesome Fort Reno this year, and got to see so many of our buddies there.

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We’re in the studio. I’ll post pictures soon!

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Our friends Ted and Sheryl cut the idea to put together this compilation during all the hate and attacks against us. We were very honored to be asked to join and contribute.

https://www.tedreyes.com/post/stop-aapi-hate-the-benefit-album-is-here

We’ve had our song, Fault Lines, in a unfinished format for a while, but could never quite figure out how to center the lyrics. Only after witnessing all these attacks against our elders, and our community did it help coalesce the idea properly.

My parents met in America, went back to the Philippines to start their life, and had me and my brother. They weren’t cowed by the legend of an American existence, because they had already experienced it. Unlike my peers, we were never told that we had to shut up and just get along. So I’m thankful for that. Growing up in America, I assumed that Asians weren’t meant to be part of the conversation. It was weird enough to just grow up here but not be born here.

I’m worried that nobody cares about us here, and that we only have ourselves in the Asian community that cares. I’m hopeful, but don’t expect it.

I’m playing a show this Saturday! You can register here and check in and say hi.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-ria-porch-fest/1

In the context of our falling apart country, I worry that music feels very small, but I think this is a little of what I can contribute.

I’ll be on the RIA Main Street Virtual Porchfest next week, so the picture above is me just testing out the tech for it. Should be great. I’ll send out the link eventually, or you can follow at this link:

In much more mundane matters, we are back for a bit. I’m going to avoid doing the apology of not updating this thing and just get on with it. Now that COVID got us, I’m sitting here catching up and going through things. Let’s update the website, why not?

Me and Emil are writing sporadically, and I’m doing some writing with a few friends, putting together beats and what not. Also, I moved to Belgium! They speak Flemish and French here. Which have a lot of vowels. I’m not used to that.

So 2020. This is really happening. Crazy people protesting staying inside followed by the same exact crazies saying black people are overreacting. How are we going to make it through this? I can only hope that our not to be named leader gets voted out.

I don’t really feel qualified to speak about the systemic racism against the black community in our nation, but there would be no United States without them. Period. It’s unforgivable that a nation who claims to be “under God” would let this inequality continue. Thank you to the protesters that are out there speaking the truth to a monolith that’s ignored them for so long.