Goal Of The Week:

My 14-year-old kid sister Caroline is obsessed with Kid Cudi. In fact, this past Mother's Day when we talked music, she pined over tickets to his show on June 19th at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF, which of course, are sold out. This is while now family-favorite Florence + the Machine is playing on the stereo out on my older sister's deck, where we all share homemade sopapillas and good drink. 

I was already hoping to scoop some tickets off Craigslist to Florence for the June 12th show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley and taking Caroline. This of course, to solidify my standing, as all-time best older sister #1.

With tickets soaring to over $75 a pop (I'm not desperate, I've seen Flo twice already), the odds of purchase are not good. Especially when there's a consellation like this track - a fantastic mashup by Riley Keating (known as R3K), fusing Cudi's verses off Dan Black's "Symphonies" with Flo's "Cosmic Love." 

By the way, when I sent this track to my sister, she replied, "oh...my...god! i LOVE it! LOVEEE ITTTTT!!!"

what are you thinking about right NOW? miss you.

I'm thinking about how time is grace. And I'm also thinking about an iced Americano and where I'm going to get it.

I was always thinking of games I was playing...

St. Etienne, the early 90s English indie-dance act that inexplicably covered a Neil Young classic and garnered their first and only US club hit. Here's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart."

"...while these dreams turn to stone in spite of me."

this song is close to heaven. 

this is your brain on music.

I swear to god, songs follow us.

I moved. I like the scenery. While settling in, I stumbled upon this appropriate gem: RAC's mix of Washed Out's "New Theory." 

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