Are You A "Non-Contributing Zero?!"

We live in such a technologically advanced world where we take entirely too much for granted that maybe it's time we take a moment to realize just how good we've got it. I'm not all that old, yet I remember being a college freshman without a cell phone, that has since become a "necessity". It is crazy to think about how just 10 years ago cell phones were a luxury item and the hard drive of desktop computers back then would be put to shame by the storage capacity of today's SD cards for cameras and phones that are the size of a fingernail!

I saw this bit on Conan when it aired and thought it was hilarious. Comedian Louis CK goes on a rant about how amazing everything is today and yet nobody's happy. He thinks maybe it's time we appreciate the simpler times that were, in all actuality, not that long ago. I've seen it circulate some around the web, so I thought I'd do my part to bring it to those who haven't seen it. Enjoy!

My Diverse Playlist

Have you seen the movie High Fidelity with John Cusak and Jack Black? It is one of my top 5's. I love it. Actually, I think it may have been responsible for my realization that I am more of a top 5 person than someone who can name one favorite anything. The song "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)" by Stevie Wonder has been in my head lately. Like most things with me, I cannot explain the reason for this, but it inspired me to take advantage of my blog and post my musical playlist.

There's a scene in the movie when Rob (Cusak) is, for therapeutic purposes, autobiographically reorganizing his record collection and says, "...know how I got from Deep Purple to The Soft Boys in twenty-five moves? ...it makes me more complicated than I am. ...if you want to find Landslide by Fleetwood Mac you have to know that I bought it for someone in the Fall of 1983 and didn't give it to them for personal reasons."

My musical interests are similarly diverse and inexplicably complicated in their reasoning for being a favorite. Like how I can go from Bone Thugs to The Outfield to Maurice Ravel to Stevie Wonder. Regardless, each has some significance to me, whether it's for personal reasons or inspirational or just fun to sing at the top of my lungs. Hope you like!