I've been trying to repopulate my iPhone with a usable music cache but I have just become so sick of music I once really enjoyed. So getting to the gist of this blog, I was doing a "best of *" search on my favorite download site and came upon a Best of Prince. I wouldn't say I am Prince's biggest fan but he has some great songs, do a google seach, you'll notice you like more than you thought too.
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Remember his song 1999? Tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1999. That song came out in 1982, I was 7. I was primed for pop music and that song was primed for it too. It became on of my favorite songs. I'd daydream about partying in 1999. It was 17 years away and my mind ran wild with what that would look like. I pictured lots and lots of neon. Robots carrying cocktails trays. Flying cars would be zipping around while we all danced on a platform high in the sky. Picture the rebel alliance partying on Coruscant and you'll get my drift. Side note, don't Google "star wars celebration" if you have any deep seeded fascination with the Princess Leia Bikini...
Alright, so for 17 years, that was the mental imagery conjured up by Prince's 1999.
What does that song do for me today? Tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1999. As we both know, no flying cars. But 1999 was great, everyone had a job, everyone had money, terrorism was something that happened in our countries, not ours.
Prince has given us an interesting inflection point. As I impatiently awaited the oncoming of floating travel, roads, where we're going we don't need roads some may pine for the glorious bubbles at the conclusion on the 20th Century.
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1999 notables:
January 1 – Euro is established. - I wonder what Germany think's about that song...
March 21 – The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Shakespeare in Lovewinning Best Picture.
March 26 – The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
April 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves. - I never realized this happened on 4/20, f'n stoners...
May 3 – 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado slams into Moore, Oklahoma, killing 38 people (the strongest tornado ever recorded in world history).
May 7 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show deceived Jonathan Schmitz into appearing on a secret same-sex crush episode.
May 19 – Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters. It becomes the highest grossing Star Wars film. - destruction of the Star War franchise begins
June 1 – Napster, a revolutionary music downloading service, debuts.
June 12 – Texas Governor George W. Bush announces he will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States.
June 19 – Horror author Stephen King is hit in a car accident on Route 5 in North Lovell, Maine by Bryan Smith.
July 16 – Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes, killing him and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedyand her sister Lauren Bessette.
July 25 – Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.
October 12 – World population reaches 6 billion people, as the 6 billionth person (according to the UN) is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board. When the pilot leaves the cockpit, the co-pilot causes the Boeing 767 to enter a steep dive, resulting in impact with theAtlantic Ocean.
November 18 – The Aggie Bonfire collapses in College Station, TX, killing 12.
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