What is it? What is happening here? What is this thing that happens when, with all of the technological future-thinking power and potential we have, we continually go back. Any entepreneur who is trying to go where everyone is eventually going [before they all get there] should listen to me. I feel like those Wall St. guys who know something about the direction of the market and make decisions that no one else saw earlier, reaping the profits of it all. But not Madoff style. I'm talking legit.

I noticed during the production of Rooftop how people were visually enthralled, not because the set looked like Starlight Express or Xanadu, rather, it looked exactly like the world they live in or used to live in. Producing a 70's inner city urban vibe brought more smiles and reflective moments than anything present or futuristic. Andre Vazquez' lighting treatment in Man In The Middle had the same effect as he created street lighting that was nothing short of depressing in the actual, but mesmerizing at that moment.

In a conversation with Eric Veras on the NYTimes' One In A Million series, we noticed that what fascinated us most about this incredible online exhibit was the fact that it brought us back to the days of kindergarden when we would watch those slide shows on a record player that, when the beep went off, the strip would move to the next slide. Remember those?

How about our iPhones? The pic above is what I have been looking for my whole iPhonogrophical life. That border around the pic stirs up so many emotions. And every app that is being produced with any real success are those that recreate the hideous film and pics of those instamatic cameras that you'll only find on eBay or a museum of photography.

Musically speaking, I want Albert Knowles to play the Fender Rhodes. Lately I don't want to hear anything else. It's a mono instrument that weighs 100 pounds! But there is nothing else like it. Nothing. Any synth reproduction just falls short. Maybe you're just never gonna get that sound unless you suffer by carrying that thing. Yeah. Maybe the back injuries that come with it is all part of the sound.

What does this mean? What should we do with this? Should we be paying closer attention to it? Even Solomon told us to be careful with too much talk about "how good the old days used to be". For some its not good at all. I understand. But why is so much money being made on recreating the past? Why are we going in reverse? Why are we using technology to help us go back? I feel like the Back To The Future movie has bigger implications emotionally and psychologically than we think. ~I'm just sayin'~. Help me out folks. Post your comments.