It's 1990ish and a friend, whose name I can't remember, and I are in my truck driving from Monroe to Tallulah for the wedding of a mutual friend whose name I also can't remember. We're indulging, enroute, in a substance -- I wasn't a saint and I'm not seeking absolution -- and we're listening to "Just Say Mao," one of the Sire records comps from the "Just Say..." series.

On this compilation is a remix of the song "Dizzy" by Throwing Muses and there is a thrilling ascension in the chord progression that in our current state causes that friend and I to simultaneously utter a low, narcotic "woah." I didn't know it then but I'd just met Tanya Donelly.

When we got back into town after the wedding, unable to find any Throwing Muses albums, I bought "Just Say Anything," volume 5 of that compilation series and it included the song "Not Too Soon" and I was hopelessly smitten with Tanya from then on.

It would be years before I'd learn that she was, for a few minutes anyway, also in the Breeders and a year or so again before I heard "Gepetto" for the first time. I had an on-again/off-again girlfriend at the time that was in love with Belly. To be coy I pretended I wasn't.

Today marks the 25 year anniversary of Last Splash and the 25.5 year (6 months older to the week) of Star. I don't know what happened to the friend with whom I drove to Tallulah or where the friend whose wedding we were attending ended up, and that girlfriend and I drifted apart as young lovers will, but Tanya Donelly, well I still have funny feelings for Tanya.