Finding a Way Out

"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!"

This quote comes from Homer in the episode "Homerpalooza" in Season 7. This episode features many great guest appearances from music stars, like Sonic Youth, Peter Frampton, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Cypress Hill. Homer is musing about why people need new bands and how he got out of the loop in the music world. He later laments, "Now I'm lucky if I find half an hour a week in which to get funky."

I could use this to talk about how I got out of the music loop while on my mission. I could use it to complain about tween sensations like Justin Beiber (I don't even care if I spelled his name wrong. Just deal with it). I could use this to explain my sudden desire to listen to stuff I did when in junior high. But I won't.

I'm mostly using this quote because I'm feeling stressed for some inexplicable reason, and sometimes writing helps me to chill out or to at least put off studying for a test that I have today. I have to run off to my Microeconomics class in just a few minutes, but I felt like writing. And I haven't done it for a really long time.

I've had a strange desire to listen to the likes of Credence Clearwater Revival, Three Dog Night, AC/DC, Led Zepplin and the like lately. Maybe it's because I'm sick of the stuff I've been listening to. Maybe it's because it reminds me of a younger, simpler time for myself (you know, before I became an adult without signing some kind of waiver or application. There really needs to be one of those). Or maybe, it's because rock attained perfection around that time. If that's the case, Beiber just needs to go away.

Oh, by the way, if you're wondering why I capitalized Microeconomics, 1) you are too cerebral for this blog and 2) I'm hoping to appease the Economics gods by always capitalizing pronouns whenever I speak about It.