Backward to the Future

We need to get back to eating foods that kept our ancestors healthy for thousands and even millions of years. There's a lot we can learn from the past and those who don't learn the painful lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. So here's a little retrospective music for looking back to learn our lessons to help us cope with the future.
(click the small arrow on the lower right of each video for full screen)


Live the Life.

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

Viva la Vida - Coldplay 2008



If you love someone, don't forget to show it.

When the future's architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You'd better lie low

Violet Hill - Coldplay 2008



Horrible History. Let's not repeat it.

If I were your appendages
I'd hold open your eyes, so you would see
That all of us are heaven sent
And there was never meant to be only one
To be only one

Megalomaniac - Incubus 2004



More questions than answers.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That's burning in it's greed

Questions - Moody Blues 1970



Sometimes you don't know what you have until you lose it.

Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world

The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana



To be or not to be ... selfish?
Does it really matter?

Nothing really matters
Love is all we need
Everything I give you
All comes back to me

Nothing Really Matters - Madonna 2006



And here's a little tribute to modern medicine, drugs, and poor diet.

I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look into my eyes
I'm not coming back

Knives Out - Radiohead 2008



And running the rat race.

Find out who you are before you regret it
Because life is so short, there's no time to waste it

Run Baby Run - Garbage 2005



But don't panic.

And we live in a beautiful world
Yeah we do, yeah we do

Don't Panic - Coldplay 2001



Who makes up all the rules?

We follow them like fools
Believe them to be true
Don't care to think them through

They - Jem 2005



To our children's children's children.

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning 'round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope
Of a love that exists
In the eyes of a child you will see

Eyes of the Child - Moody Blues 1969



A celebration of femininity.

Wherever, whenever
We'll learn to be together

Suerte - Shakira 2004

I view the list
And take my pick
I view my fate
And make a choice
'Cause it's nobody else's but mine

Breathe Your Name - Sixpence None the Richer 2006



And masculinity?

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest, there is no test
But this is what you're craving

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1999

Who knew the other side of you
Who knew what others died to prove
Too true to say goodbye to you
Too true, too sad sad sad

Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006


And now for a lighter note or two.
We need more sun and fun. Get that vitamin D!

It's not having what want
It's wanting what you have

Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow 2002

On an island in the sun
We'll be playin' an' havin' fun

Island in the Sun - Weezer 2001



A little dancing is good exercise.

Casino - Acoustic Alchemy 1992



With a love like that, you know you should be glad!

She loves you/I want to hold your hand - The Beatles


Don't take it for granted :)

Happy Holidays !


P.S.
Thanks to Wildernessgal for the inspiration for the title to this post.