Emma Straub

And I loved the different ways they played songs over the years.

In thinking about coming here and talking to you, I was thinking about how when we heard the song Grand Canyon start,

That's when we knew, oh, okay, sort of time to get into position because that was the last song.

And then we knew we had to sort of get back to the booth.

And I, I mean, I appointed myself the chronicler.

And so I took pictures and I kept like a tour blog every time, which are still there.

They're hilarious.

And I wrote about it.

I mean, I'm quite a messy, disorganized person, but I really took seriously being an archivist for what I was a part of because I just, I thought their music, I still think their music is so good.

important and meaningful and profound.

And I loved them.

And I was so happy to be there.

And then we got married in 2008.

And when I asked Stephen to play at our wedding, he said, not the book of love or it's only time.

And I was like, do you think I'm an amateur?

Because I answered all of his emails.

So I knew that that was what people always asked for.

I wanted him to sing as my dad and I walked in down the aisle.

I mean, the aisle, it was the side of the dining room, you know.

I wanted him to sing a Gothic Archie song called Walking My Gargoyle, which is a song that he wrote about his chihuahua, Irving.