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TheBadMentors

Piano, drums, and other business currently under review.

WE OBJECT
TO OUR
OWN ADVICE

Help has been
administered.

We offer advice that starts out useful, remembers you are listening, and follows you home in a slightly worse shape.

Please do not use it as directed.

One new album.
Not completely announced.

Ten slots. Titles pending.

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The meeting is protesting itself; nobody has approved the agenda.

02
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The car has its souvenir; the route is still being reconsidered.

03
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The nest is quiet; the ground has not cleared the exit.

04
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Radical acceptance arrived early; the front desk will not buzz it in.

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80%Almost there

The bicycle keeps practicing freedom below street level, almost ready to ride.

06
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Unmeasured
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A yellow square is waiting for morning to sign off.

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Unmeasured

This may or may not be real. (You decide.)

Field
dates.

Where the work has shown up—or will, once it has somewhere to be.

Field setRoyal Room / Seattle

A public room. A short set. The first witness statement.

Field setRoyal Room / Seattle

Two things were tested in front of people.

Field setRoyal Room / Seattle

A return visit. The evidence remains inconclusive.

Next appearanceLocation under review

Recording days and music-world gatherings will appear here when they are real.

We take the
keys personally.

A musician in glasses striking keys on an electronic piano in a bright room.
Exhibit A: a reasonable response to a piano.

Some feelings arrive with their own instructions. We hit the keys until they consent to exist.

Then we file it under “a joke.”

A hooded musician playing an electronic piano beside tall windows.
Supplemental evidence. Hood optional.

Six members.
One alibi.

Not all members were present
for group photo.

Acting band leader: Leadership under review / expires in 0:00

Six people sharing a face, a keyboard, a few borrowed outfits, and one increasingly specific alibi.

  1. 01
    Not present
    for photo

    Uncle Pretzel Eyes

    He enters with field gear, a small kindness, and a joke that lands one inch too late.

  2. 02
    Not present
    for photo

    Kellen Devan

    He was told he was chosen. He has been carrying it carefully ever since.

  3. 03
    Not present
    for photo

    Popcorn

    He performs happiness for people who have not asked, then acts surprised when it does not reach him.

  4. 04
    Not present
    for photo

    Double A

    He has a plan, a logo, and the confidence to begin before the plan has agreed to be one.

  5. 05
    Not present
    for photo

    No-no

    He makes the joke early, leaves before the apology lands, and returns when nobody is looking.

  6. 06
    Not present
    for photo

    Hammer Hands

    When a feeling will not cooperate, he plays it until it gets a little embarrassed.

Names and likenesses may be revised by the person who needs them most.

Semi-official
guidance.

01

Set boundaries.

Then make sure no one can get out.

02

Trust the process.

It has already started trusting you back.

03

Be yourself.

Keep everyone else guessing which one.

04

Listen to your inner child.

They have been approved for a leadership role.

05

Nothing lasts forever.

That is not permission to rush it.

06

Take a break.

We will keep talking until you do.