Make it Simple and Grand

If I were to compose a music CD, I would name it "Make it Simple and Grand."

At least that's what I would name it tonight. Tomorrow I'll probably have a new idea like, "Spitting on Sleeping Penguins."

But tonight it's "Make it Simple and Grand." I think this phrase does a good job taking what I want out of life and transforming it into five words.

Complexity drowns the soul. Human civilization has advanced at a much quicker pace over the last few centuries than it ever had before, and I'm not sure our human pschye is quite up to the tempo. Legato to allegro. Village to city. Business to Corporation. All giant changes for a five feet and some odd inches tall animal.

This is not to say that we should all run from the future. It wouldn't work because the robots would be too fast. We just have to build hoverboards that are fast enough.

Which brings me to the grand. Makin' the money can be a good way to be popular and attract the ladies, but makin' the meaningful would be an even grander venture. Plus, as movies tell us, the guy with meaning always gets the even sexier lady (maybe not hotter, but sexier, which lasts longer). How to achieve this meaning is the question I am working on. And to start, I have compiled a music CD entitled "Make it Simple and Grand."

Tracks
1. Come Clean - Hilary Duff (A standard)
2. An Apology - Me (Here I apologize in song for starting off my CD with stolen music from another artist.)
3. A Letter - Me (Here I sing the letter I receive from Disney telling me I am being sued for copyright infringement.)
4. Throw Away the Key - Me and the Ball and Chain Gang (Here I am accompanied by an imprisoned barber shop quartet as we sing about our woes in the slammer.)
5.) Third Shelf, Part 1 - Me (I find a Mark Twain book on the third shelf of the jail library.)
6.) An Apology Remix - Me (I apologize for forgetting to sing the last song. This track is sung.)
7.) Third Shelf, Part 2 - Me (I sing Track 5.)
8.) The Road to Fulfillment - Me on trombone (This purely instrumental number reveals nothing but everything about this CD and the future. Why did I stop at Track 8? Did finding the Mark Twain book help guide me? Did life make it both simple and grand? Do the robots catch up to the hoverboards? And more.)