The first 'fruit' from this whole reconditioning exercise has presented itself. I got to thinking about the songs and movies during the list creation over the last week or so and the theme of my birth year kept cropping up. From that nugget came a little research into the general 'look and feel' of April 1973, which spun into the eventual idea of assembling what would be an ideal cross section representing life and times in that period. Basically a reverse time capsule comprised of items collected from all facets of life in an attempt to get in and crawl around my birth month and year. From music to fashion, fiction, non-fiction, entertainment, media, politics and every other conceivable piece of the daily life pie would be represented.
I'm sure everyone eventually starts looking at their life and who/where/when they came from and this is nothing new in the grand scheme of things but it's a personal revelation and a new branch of personal evolution so I thought it noteworthy enough to give it it's own entry.
It gets a little more sinister though, as most thoughts do. My cynical self also wants to track the descent into spun, revised, mis-reported and blatantly (brazenly?) tainted media over the years. I'm looking into collecting samplings of life from 1950 and 51 (parents), 1968 (wife), 1973 (me) and 2006 (son). The whole project should be quite interesting. Thank whatever god/thought/idea you believe in (but continue to keep it to yourself) for Ebay.
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