I have reached that time in my life where when listening to music or watching movies leads to me thinking...  Well that front man is dead or that actor died.  Seriously, the other day I was listening to music I love, well I love a lot of music, I like to think that I have a very eclectic taste in music.  But anyway I was listening to the playlist that Apple Creates for you based on the music that you have been listing to the past year, "Replay 2024" and let me just give you an example:

• In the End - Linkin Park = Front Man Dead
• Big Me - Foo Fighters = Drummer Dead
• Like a Stone - Audio Slave = Front Man Dead
• Change (In the House of Flies) - Deftones = Bassist Dead
• Dreams - Fleetwood Mac = Keyboardist/Vocals Dead
• Big Bang Baby - Stone Temple Pilots = Frontman Dead
• Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio = Dead
• Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf = Dead
• Linger - The Cranberries = Lead Singer Dead
• I Got a Girl - Tripping Daisy = Lead Guitar
• Unbelievable - EMF = Bassist
• Almost Easy - Avenged Sevenfold = Drummer
• I Stay Away - Alice In Chains = Lead Vocals and Bassist
• Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers = Namesake Dead

When you consider that the playlist contains multiple songs from each artist.  Matter of fact the list contains 100 songs in total from 40 different artist.  I listed 14 bands out of the 40 that have lost members to death since the song I listed to was released, that is 35% of the bands from the latest playlist that I have been listening too.  It's the same for movies, most of the movie I love or have watched recently all have actors that have passed... 

I am one of those people that like to look things up as I am watching movies or listening to music and that just happens to be one of the things I look up when I find out or know someone has passed...  The thing that gets me is that my age is ether getting closer to theirs when they passed or my age has passed theirs.  Mortality is definitely something that I am thinking about more and more.  I lost my father when he was 57, to me that was young but then I consider that I am 46 (closer to 47) and I quickly realized that I am just over 10 years away from being the same age he was when he passed.  It's crazy how that changes your perspective.

Now I totally plan on outliving my father by quite some and I have the advantage that I have not beaten up my body as much as he did his.  But still, I feel like I have to get my crap together because the clock is literally ticking.