Be My Little Baby

A week of Seattle love found at the Preservation Pub.

Meet Matt and Mike. Mike (left) Matt (right) sandwiched between my room mate Katy & myself. One random summer night, early June 2008, we ran into these two boys at a show after Sundown in the City at the Preservation Pub on Market Square. We began to chat with them and discovered they were from Seattle, on a road trip. We were at Town Mountain, which is for the most part a bluegrass band. I'll never forget the moment when Matt looked right at me in wonder and said, "I've never been to a hoedown before."

They ended up staying at a friends house for the evening, we were a little sketchy about letting these 2 dudes come stay at our house so soon. But we ended up talking to them later, and met up at Kari's 21st birthday party a couple of days later (above). This is when I discovered Mike's massive amount of records he was toting along with him across the country, and his record player, which just happened to be the same as mine.
It was love ever since. They stayed with us for the rest of the week, and it was a week filled with guitars, keyboards, Velvet Underground, Big Bill Broonzy, home cooked meals by chef Matt and of course some Motown. They opened up/enforced a whole different musical aspect for me.../freedom of meeting & loving new people.
The crew even went with me to my interview at Party City--ha! What a nightmare that job was.
Haley, Mike, & Matt at Liz's 22nd birthday party. Everyone called them the "Seattle boys".
Mike with the records. They would wake us up in the mornings and we would play Nintendo & drink coffee & spin countless records. We laughed. We danced. We took millions of pictures. We didn't want them to go home. Here's we are the day Matt & Mike left to head back to Seattle. We were sad. Our house felt empty after they left. Its weird how much you can bond with a couple of people just over a few days time. It shows how many people are out there that you're meant to be friends with---even just 2 boys from Seattle we picked up randomly at a bar. We still keep in touch, talk of us visiting Seattle and them taking us to the most badass record store on earth (or so I hear...). We even talk about the same things we talked about when they were here in Knoxville---us 4 all moving in together & getting a loft (who said we can't dream right?) They drove away this day, with a driving kit we made them, numerous Knoxville stickers on their car, a lot of new t-shirts, a whole lot of new friends and a better understanding of the south, and left behind a couple of Katieys that will never forget them!