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There are some days in your life when there is every reason to be happy.

It is the case that I draw lots of portraits, and as of yet, more portraits have been drawn of Tori Amos.  On Tuesday, September 22, 1998, I went to see her in concert.  I brought some copies of my Tori drawings to give to her at the Meet & Greet, as well as the original of one of my nicer ones.  For her to sign.

It was rather exhilarating seeing her in person for the first time (this was my first Tori concert) and she spent most of her Meet & Greet time talking with the Really Obsessed fans who hogged their way up front in line.  I’m actually surprised I got my stack of papers handed up to her, but they then got buried among all the other crap people brought to give her.

I’m snapping away pictures when all of a sudden Tori looks up and out toward the crowd, holds up my drawing, and asks who did it.  The next few moments were a complete blur as Tori commented that I was extremely talented (the only coherent part of the “conversation” I seemed to have remembered), signed the drawings, and handed it back.

This photograph was taken by another attendee of the Meet & Greet named Jessica.  It didn’t come to my attention until years later.  She happened to come across an earlier incarnation of my Tori site, The Other Side of the Galaxy, wherein I had posted original scans of all my Tori drawings.  A particular drawing looked familiar to her and it came to be discovered that she recalled taking this photo with a drawing, held by Tori, from before some concert, that was the same drawing that was scanned on this website.  Wow!

Long story shorter than it could be: I was mailed this photograph and was very happy.  And here is a scan of the signed drawing, with the ticket stub as well.