Music.

Looking at my iTunes Top Rated and Most Played lists, you'll see 22 songs (only on the Top Rated list) from the last 15 years...all other 88 songs are pre-1992. My favorite CDs have included The Beach Boys - The Sounds of Summer, which is currently one of the few CDs I'll listen to the whole way through. When growing up all I'd listen to is popular music...now I find myself repelled by almost all of it. (Evanescence, Disturbed, System of a Down being the most recent bands I've liked.) The only thing I'm looking forward to musically is Evanescence's new CD. They say the music industry is cyclical but hip-hop has not only dominated the music industry but popular culture for the last 10 years, outlasting punk and boy bands and Britney/Christina/Jessica and permeating the other genres (see Linkin Park and Jay-Z). I've been expecting a backlash for years and it still hasn't come.

Where do you stand as far as where music was, where it is today, and where it is going?

Jam it back in, in the dark.