Archive for December 2001

Daddy, and doing my duty

Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.


Sorry I haven’t written in so long.  Things have been going pretty well.  Daddy hasn’t been feeling very well… he went home from Oregon and then got an infection; his latest wound wasn’t healing properly.  He went to see a surgeon yesterday, got the wound treated and has another checkup tomorrow (Friday).  He says he feels like shit but that he’ll live.  (If he was going to die, he’d tell me!)

Now Daddy wants to know what I want for Christmas, other than money!  Gawd.  I didn’t know what to tell him, my mind has been so wrapped up in getting my damn taxes taken care of.

John and I bought a fake Christmas tree today.  :-)

The Hideout (Chicago, IL)

Opened for Archer Prewitt at the Hideout

My band: Jim Becker (guitar, violin, keyboards), Mark Greenberg (keyboards), Ryan Hembrey (electric bass), Archer Prewitt (drums)

Mentioned in The Stranger

One of my songs made an appearance in a playlist / article by Sean Nelson which appeared in the December 6-12, 2001 issue of The Stranger (Seattle, WA). The list is called LIFE DURING WARTIME: Mix Tape for a Season in Hell.

"Calling over Time," Edith Frost (Calling Over Time):
"Now you are in paradise…." This haunting campfire lament sounds eerily like a suicide bomber’s widow testifying to faith against hope. "Loving hand turns burning sand to water."