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My First Time... and our relationship since

I was working in a radio station in Amherst, MA as an intern.  It was a 
small radio station, just outside of a smaller town.  Our format was AAA,
but that probably matters little to most of you.  One day, I was set at the
task of emptying the new cds from the Program Director's table.  There,
liing with only it's naked back exposed was a new IRS album.  Now, I
understand the problems with IRS, but let's face it they manage to find some
damn tallented musicians and give them national distribution.  They are/were
my favorite label of all time.

Excited to see a new album from my favorite label I pulled it out to have a
look-see.  There was this portrait of a man staring back at me.  A beautiful
picture, and the words, Over The Rhine.  The paper was high quality stock, a
far cry for your typical glossy crap that comes with most cds, so I ran down
and through it into the cd player.  I think that we all know what I heard.

Ever since then, I have loved this band.  I wrote them early on, and I
remember that I received a personalized reply.  It was a post card written
to me from Washington, DC (my home town).  The syncronisity between me and
OtR has never ended.

When I went to The Savannah College of Art and Design, I booked them for a
show.  I had never seen them play live, and I was diing to know what I was
missing.  I had the privellege of meeting the band members that day, and the
"honor" of running out to by batteries for their equipment not once, but a
total of three time.  Which earned me the bestoal of the dubious title,
"Battery Boy" by Karin.

I have fallen out of touch with OtR, and on the same day that my ex-gf
tracked me down and emailed me hoping to break our silence, OtR has come
back into my life because a signature quoting Grey Monolouge on the bottom
of one of my emails was recognized by a fellow fan, who thankfully pointed
me to the subscribe page.

To my dear fellow fans and friends, I say... hello as I pull up a chair
round the table and try to join in the conversation.

Brian

--
    "Entropy comes from physics.  It is the assertion--established logically
and experimentally--that the universe, by it's nature, is "running down",
moving toward a state of inertia uniformity devoid of form, matter,
hierarchy or differentiation.
    That is, in any given situation, less organization, more chaos, is
overwhelmingly more probable than tighter organization or more order."

-Malcalypse the Younger, "The Principia Discordia"