love at first sight

3 years ago yesterday was when i first laid eyes on my teddy…i know, i know, i tell this story every year…but for those of you who’ve never heard, i first saw teddy while he was setting up his drumkit at a show at the empty bottle…the band he was with at the time (watchers) was opening up for duvall, which was the band i was planning on seeing that night…

i credit numerous people and forces that be for making it possible for me to see and meet and eventually start a family with teddy…

first, my cousin ike…he got me into the whole indie rock thing when he made me a mix cd years ago with music by the likes of the innocence mission, over the rhine and johnny cash on it…

then there’s the garden coffeehouse curated by my friend chris langill, where i went to see miranda stone play one night and was introduced to pastemusic.com…

pastemusic.com introduced me to the music of denison witmer, pedro the lion, bill mallonee, damien jurado and many others…

i went to see denison play live at a little coffeehouse in rockford, il…he invited me to his show the next night at schubas…i was hooked on chicago’s live music scene ever since…

then there’s my friend matt d. who i used to go to church with…i ran into him one day in the city and we chatted about bands and music, and he told me i should check out a band called duvall, which was made up of former members of the smoking popes…

and then there’s bill mallonee, who i went to see play a show at the abbey pub, where i met his manager tim white of the wildwood agency…

that led to one having coffee with derek becker, who was about to come on board with wildwood agency, one august 24th morning…as we were finishing up our meeting, i mentioned i was going to see duvall at the empty bottle that night, because my friend matt had recommended them so highly…derek told me that a coworker’s band called watchers was opening up and that i should go check them out too…

and it’s a good thing he did, cuz i was hanging out w/ my friends connolly and olarn at greekfest that evening and may have skipped the opening bands if derek hadn’t given me the heads up about watchers…and that’s when i first laid eyes on teddy setting up his kit and i thought to myself, ‘oh my god he’s hot how am i ever gonna talk to him?!!’ luckily, his frontman came up and talked to me after the show, and he introduced me to teddy a couple weeks after that, and the rest they say is history, and it’s still in the making!

YAY!