Anniversary Post
Special post alert! Over-affectionate Nausea Warning! Stop reading now if you can't stand public displays of digital affection.
Today marks exactly 5 years since I left work as per our usual half-day Fridays and headed to the N train back to Brooklyn. On the way home however, I bumped -- literally -- into a girl who was delivering compost to the Union Square Green Market at that same instant. The pretty face didn't register immediately but after a few seconds I quickly realized that this was Andi, the girl I had taken on the single most extravagant college date of my life (by extravagant I mean over $50. But it was in two countries. Go Sabres). Less than a week later I was on a plane to London for a semester overseas, quickly killing any potential of further dates, and I figured it was yet another good thing sabotaged by poor timing.
Editor's Note: I bumped into TWO pretty girls that day, but remembered knowing one of them. Sorry Jen.
6 years later, we bump into each other, both recently single, and make plans to head together to the 1st Annual Siren Festival where Superchunk is scheduled to play. Long story short: She never showed (and I was really late but it didn't matter.) But of course there's a happy ending -- we went to a premiere of Wet Hot American Summer a few days later and hit it off. Since then there's been 9/11, deaths, births, vacations and distances, but it's amazing how quickly 5 years can fly by. Today's posts are not only two of my favorite songs but also commemorate the day by going back to the beginning -- I was pushing Superchunk on her 10 years ago and still do it today. Since then she's become a big fan too. And these two tracks make a long distance relationship all the more endurable.
Superchunk :: "On the Mouth"
Superchunk :: "100,000 Fireflies"
