GLEE, vol. 1

Hmm...not too much going on today except...

GLEE Soundtrack, volume 1 

is now available on iTunes!!!

I don't know about you, but I LOVE GLEE!!!  ...if you haven't noticed already.  I listened to the whole album--or so I thought.  Upon further investigation, it was brought to my attention that I am missing 3 songs.  I pre-ordered and pre-paid for the album a little more than a week ago.  What gives, iTunes???  FOR WHY?!?!?!?!

Aside from this major discrepancy, the album is AMAZING!!!  The cast of Glee does exactly what any and all glee clubs should do, which is take great songs and make them incredibly awesome!

::sigh::

Well, enough of Glee.  Sorry...I get a bit carried away...

Oh, so I finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a few weeks ago.  It's really a great read, for those of you looking for a thought-provoking book to pick up.  It follows the lives of citizens in a seemingly perfect society.  I've found it often compared to 1984, but instead of curbing and restricting the desires of its citizens to maintain passions for a war used to keep the economy going, Brave grants every pleasure and desire to their people in order to maintain peace.  The people are pacified by soma (a drug given to induce calm and lowered inhibitions; like alcohol but without any negative side effects) and kept in specialized fields and castes in order to better control them.

Listening to the news on the radio, I was reminded of the 'world peace' in Brave and of the lack thereof in our current and past realities.  Sure being completely controlled by the government and kept in a drug-induced happy-stupor goes against all human rights, but what if the society of Brave is the only way we could truly attain 'world peace'; end famine, disease, war and suffering altogether?  What if the freedoms we are constantly fighting for are the exact reasons for why we may never stop fighting?  What if the only way for us to live in harmony is for us to deny our humanity...???

Bottomline, read the book.  You'd be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't.