Spinning around in circles

I’m super nostalgic (if you hadn’t already picked that from this third incarnation of the old blog thang), so I always love to delve back to things I had back in the past. I think the key things that trigger nostalgic moments for me are:
- Cars: I can always associated major events in my life to cars that were around at the time (mainly what my parents were driving)
- Photos: Going back and looking at old photos is always a good trip down memory lane
- Crushes: I seem to think of old crushes then fall back into them. Then realise that is perhaps the most daft thing ever, then fall out of the, but they’re a good insight back into that time!
- Books: I remember events by what I was reading

The major one though has and always will be music. I can go back to really obscure moments by listening to music. That’s not the reason I thought about writing this though. I thought about writing this because lately I’ve made a point going through my old CDs and listening to them, and I’d forgotten how much I loved so many of the albums. Then I started to wonder why I stopped listening to all these great records, and I realised that it is mainly because of a few factors:

1. I’m always keen to hear the next new thing. I guess everyone likes what’s new, so there’s not much harm in that, but you need to be content with what you’ve got, and Ben Kweller is pretty great
2. People ruined their reputation, in my eyes, with poor follow up albums, so I stopped listening to their good stuff. It’s sort of a case of cutting off my nose to spite my face.
3. MP3’s have sort of killed off the CD star (BAD pun)
4. You do need a change sometimes, but given the number of CDs I have, there is more than enough to change things up!

So the answer, really, is just to take stock of what you’ve got more often, yeah? Yeah!