Ep. 5: She Will Punch You With Her Gun
Episode 5: She Will Punch You With Her Gun, 02/19/2021
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Episode 5: Extras
Check out my “Drinks Outside” playlist on Spotify!
An Old-school R & B, Soul, and Funk playlist for some virtual sunshine or something to play when you finally get to lay out in the sun.
This week’s episode features a (silly but i love it) “poem” from my sister @layfad who also happens to be a really fucking amazing photographer. She did many of my portraits for my website, including these! She’s sometimes reluctant to call herself a photog, but uhhhh check her instagram out and you tell me! She’s talented.
Layla, who isn’t my biological sister, but trust me, we’re sisters, took these pics in Detroit, mostly in West Village. Although, the one on the upper right was taken at Hart Plaza, where Movement Electronic Music Festival is held yearly (save for 2020 and 2021, thanks Covid).
Okay she also didn’t take the bottom right because she’s IN the photo with me. Just had to show you a little taste of our personalities together, lol.
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Just had to remind you all again how cute my cat is.
Okie, transcript and track list for today’s episode can be found below, ya cuties.
Ep. 5 Transcript
Hello. Hi, what’s up everybody? It is me, Sally, you’re best friend each and every Friday. How are you? Did you get any rest this week? Have you been taking care of yourself? Drinking enough water? Doing your skincare routine? That’s for all of you regardless of gender because it’s 2021, we all take care of our skin now, because this is our one flesh suit that we get so we’re gonna take care of it.
Hey, did I sound sad on Episode 4 last week? Listening back, I realize I sort of did and I want to take this moment to express my assurance that yes, yes I agree I did sound sad. You thought this was all fun and games, hey? For those of you who do not know, I’m a sad bitch, okay? I promise you it would be very weird and off-brand if I didn’t sound like a little sad every now and then.
But okay okay I gonna turn this ship around. We are doing motha-fuckin’ west coast vibes in this joint today because it’s been like 2 degrees in Detroit all week. 2 degrees, snowing constantly. And also my car’s battery died twice this week, two days in a row. Yeah, I did get that replaced, I went to Auto Zone on Gratiot, they were awesome and they replaced it for me. And you know what, we need some sunshine and scorched earth up in this bitch, I need it as soon as possible.
Well, listen we did pass the halfway mark of February so I feel like Spring is really on it’s way. And I gotta say, I love Springtime and I love Springtime and Summer in Detroit. Like Beautiful here, like Belle Isle, the walks here are amazing, Dequindre Cut, you know, do you guys say DeQUINdre or DeKINdre, I don’t know, somebody who is in Detroit tell me cuz I’m not sure which one it’s pronounced and I swear I’ve heard it both ways and I wanna stop sounding dumb as soon as possible.
But yes, love Detroit in the summertime. I feel like everywhere you go someone is having a party, the music-so good, speaking of, I actually have a really good playlist that I love to play outside when I’m you know just chilling in the summer, it’s called “Drinks Outside,” and it’s like R and B and soul, old school R and B, funk, of course, it’s you know my favorite stuff so if you like what I play here, you’ll like that playlist. I’ll post that up on the blog and on my Instagram story today, and I hope you enjoy it!
Anyway, I am so happy you are here. You are listening to Sally Whoever Does Whatever, a show where I do whatever I want.
Can you believe I’ve managed to keep this project up for 5 weeks straight? Can you believe it? I guess I can. I can believe it because I am one of those people who doesn’t generally know how I feel about something in any given moment. I need time to let my feelings marinate. I can definitely tell if there’s a feeling happening but I don’t know what it is. And I feel like I need to take time to process to know if I actually like something or not.
I’ve found that can be really good because I tend to just be a really forgiving, not judgmental, like an open person as a result of that because I just don’t quickly make judgements based on how I’m feeling….however I do think that I will stay in bad situations like a lot longer than I should. Dangerous situations, relationships, jobs...I have a habit of staying with things past their expiration date. So like who knows if I’m actually enjoying this. Maybe I hate it, maybe I’m not having fun at all. You’re guess is as good as mine.
Oh my God, I went sad again! Lordy. Okay, listen, I promise I mean most of that as a joke. Okay? Self-deprecation is really soothing sometimes. And really, I’m having a blast and yeah, no, I’m a little surprised I am still going and that’s like surprised in the BEST WAY. All you listeners out there are making me so happy - I promise to throw you all a party post covid days. Okay? Because this is like the light of my Fridays.
Also, I just gotta say noticing how sad I sounded makes me really laugh because I legit re-recorded the speaking parts on that last episode because the first run through sounded too sad. It was too sad and too real, like I know I said I get introspective but my first run through was like a monologue I could have given or recorded after a half bottle of red wine, like smoking cigarettes with a girlfriend on a balcony. Like it was so sad sounding. And I re-rocrded it! So you guys got the best version! Okay and even listening back I was like “wow, damn, Sally, so sad, so sad.”
But you know what, I’m an emotional person, I am very much okay with it. I’m pretty reasonable, I just value emotions as messages even if I don’t recognize them right away.
I think people mistake emotions with weakness far too often and while I have definitely learned how to better compartmentalize and rationalize first before like reacting to how I feel in any given situation, I’m still very much proud of my more emotional aspects.
It doesn’t make me weak, to me, in fact I like to think I’m kind of a tough bitch. So don’t fuck with me, okay? And to quote from my sister friend, Layla, hey, what’s up? She knows me too well, okay? She’s seen me in all of my worst moments including the throws of PMDD. So, she knows me. She wrote me a poem and it said:
She is honest
she is fun
she will punch you with her gun.
I love that so much, I want it embroidered and framed, and I wanna put it on my door so that anytime someone comes to me door they know what they are getting into. Honest, super fun, I’ll fuck you up, so don’t try me. But it’s gonna take a lot for me to get really mad, like I said, I try not to be reactive. I think I just really value sorrow, most of all. And I always have, like I have always romanticized sorrow and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. I think I’ll make a whole special set for this. Just sad shit. We’ll See.
Oh my gosh, that kinda reminds me of this one time when I was living in Brooklyn on the Bushwick/Ridgewood border; my girlfriend Hanna and I were at this bar on Wyckoff Avenue...I don’t think it’s open anymore, it was only open for like a minute. I wanna say it was named after the Virgin Mary which is pretty iconic since she’s a sad babe too. I mean, think of all those crying statues, I mean she cries blood. That’s a pretty sadbabe way to you know, move through this world. Is that bad, that I just said that? Sorry guys, I don’t mean to be sacriligeous at all. (Meow) Aw, my cat is meowing, hi buddy! (Meow) That’s Dilla, he’s my studio cat. He’s a very good boy.
Anyway, we were at this bar and it was kind of dead in there and convinced the bartender to let us play music. So we just played sad songs back to back to back. And let me tell you, it got lit in there. It got really lit in there and let me tell you people love a good sad song. People love to wallow and all the girls in the bar loved it and I’m telling you that shit kinda popped off. There was a crowd of us just getting turned up to sad shit. And I love that about us sadbabes. I love that we can get lit just by (meow) getting sad.
Speaking of, why does my cat sound so sad. He won’t stop. He needs to relax, he’s eaten, although he didn’t eat as much dry food as normal this morning cause we were out so I gave him some wet food so maybe he’s being picky, I don’t know. Cats are weird.
But yo, okay, listen, I’m not gonna take you into a sad space today, okay? We’re gonna stick to some tough shit, some west coast gems \ because I can do whatever I want and I feel like we all need the warmth. So that’s what’ we’re doing!
Hey, welcome back. Hope you liked that. That, uh, Koreatown Oddity track, Weed in LA, if you hadn’t heard it before. That was dedicated to all of you who stan Kamala Harris. Okay? Listen to it again if you need it repeated. Um, let out everybody for marijuana charges, okay? If we’re gonna be legalizing weed, in Michigan and LA, hopefully all over the country, you need to let out a lot of people from jail. Cuz that shit is just straight up ridiculous, okay?
Alright, thank you for joining me, once again, this is Sally Whoever Does Whatever and I’m here every Friday, and I’m loving it! Please, please, please follow up on Instagram: @Sally.whoever. Drop me a note, say what’s up, let’s hang out.
One second, my cat is trying to--what is he doing? See, this episode has been totally derailed by my cat, I’m so sorry. He’s just being like super needy, I don’t know what’s happening. Dilla, come here.
Anyway, follow me on Instagram. If you need a transcript to today’s episode, you can find it on my website at sally-rashid.com. And, I’m looking forward to connecting with ya’ll. Alright, have a great weekend, see ya next time.
