Mika
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
At that point, you're like, something's up.
Something's up with dad.
Jesus.
And it was funny.
I mean, it was really bad.
It was really bad.
There was no way of knowing if he was going to survive.
And there was no way of getting messages out.
And every once in a while, magically, a fax would arrive.
And a fax would arrive and it was his, when he had a chance of sending out a fax, he would send a fax out from the embassy and it would print out on one of those rolls of kind of very thin, slightly shiny white paper.
And he would do drawings and he would send messages to all of us.
And yeah, he was careful about what he wrote.
And then these faxes would come in.
It was the most extraordinary thing.
Xerox messages from another world, while our world was kind of falling apart.
And I just remember in the midst of all this, I remember one thing.
My mother used to put on vinyl records and we would dance.
And we would dance and dance.
We would dance to Joni Mitchell.
We would dance to Nirvana.