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Hey again. Happy New Year to everyone. I’m hoping for us, personally, a healthier new year. Trinity caught a virus at school. Elemetery school is like a germ factory. First Jonathon caught it, then I caught it. In fact the adults are still not over it, though of course Trinity is. Is it just my imagination or do the kids that bring in the germs get better quicker than we do?
I actually wrote a scene, chapter, in the book while running a fever over a hundred, and didn’t realize how sick I was until later. When INCUBUS DREAMS finally hits the shelves in October of 2004 I’m thinking we’ll run a contest and see who can guess which scene it was. I don’t know, I have to talk to Darla and Jon first. Especially Darla, since she’s the one that bears the brunt of any contest. So don’t quote me on it, but it’s an idea.
Right now, I’d like to thank the person who gave me a copy of Evanescence’s debut album, “Fallen.” I get a lot of people sending me music, and most of the time it’s like so not anything I can listen to while I work, if at all. But I had a lot of people recommending it to me, and then one interprising fan, actually gave me the album. Thank you. I wanted you to know that the gift has been well recieved. About the paper you gave me with the album about which song you thought was which person, some of them not close for me, but you were right about Nathaniel and Damian, and some of the Jean-Claude and Asher. Thought you’d like to know.
Cool music. My favorite song is got to be “Tourniquet”. Followed by “Hello”, “Haunted”, and then everything else on the album. There isn’t a bad son on here. I do not say that about many albums. Jonathon and I looked up Evanescence web sight up. Okay, he did, and I watched. I found out they are originally from Little Rock, Arkansas. I liked them even better. Little Rock was a little too much big city for my family, we’re from Shirley Arkansas which is a tiny town in the hills. But I was born in Arkansas, and got to revisit every summer of my childhood. It’s got some lovely countryside, but I understood entirely when Evanescence’s sight said that they didn’t really fit in in that part of the mid-west. To most people Arkanasas is south, not mid-west, but oh, well. I still understood the whole not fitting in. Though to be fair to the mid-west, I’ve lived on the west cost in El Segundo, which everyone just lumps into Los Angeles. Trust me when I say, I didn’t fit in there either. I’ve traveled to New York on business, and now all across the country on tour, and again, it’s not a locale that makes you not fit in. I think it’s just harder to hide that you’re not like everyone else in a smaller pool.
Though the Bible belt can be a hard audience for the kind of thing I do, and the kind of music that Evanescence plays so beautifully. I could go over some of the comments I’ve had from people here, but why? Stupid comments from stupid people that don’t understand that different isn’t evil, it’s just different.