Because I don’t know how to deal with things any other way, here is the first early release of a track from the Peasants & Kings album I’m doing with my friends in the TickleBomb Orchestra.

http://shanehall.bandcamp.com/track/mother-early-release-bday-special

I’ll never forget, she died an hour after Thanksgiving came to a close in 2010. I had a studio session with my dear old friend and New Alliance’s audio ninja Jonathan Taft the next morning. I got there and said “My mom died last night”. He said “What the fuck are you doing here?” and I said “What the fuck else am I going to do?”

I love and miss you every single day, Patricia Hall, you’re the best person I’ll ever have the pleasure of knowing and I still can’t imagine my life without you EVEN WHILE I’M LIVING IT THIS WAY.

It was strange, it was confusing, but really - what would we change? Still don’t know whether to call you my mother or my grandmother. I remember where I was standing when I explained that challenge to you. Thanks for trying your best to give the tools to fight a crazy world, within and without.