I got an excited phone call from Mom a couple hours ago: she asked me if I wanted to go with her to see Chris Isaak in Minneapolis July 20th. Of course I said yes! I'll have to delay reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (it comes out the next day), but it'll be totally worth it! Forever Blue was one of the first CDs I ever bought, and it's accompanied every heartbreak I've had since. After that, I went and looked for all his old CDs (this was before eBay).

I obviously played it enough that Mom finally noticed what I was listening to, and she remembered liking the song Wicked Games and bought some of his CDs as well. So since I (re)introduced him to her, she immediately thought of me when she saw a deal for tickets. We're going to make a girls' weekend of it, and stick around to shop at the Mall of America the day after.

I'm going to have to get re-listening. There's a lot of CDs to remember!