Craving the 90's Beats

I have always believed in being present.  You know...in the moment.  Loving each day, loving the evolution of pop culture, loving the time, place and moment I'm in.  I remember in high school my very best friend was into antiques, vintage collecting, swing dancing...anything that was from prior generations.  I vividly remember thinking I certainly have an appreciation for those things, but feeling a very strong commitment to the day and time we were living in.  I felt pride about representing our age and era.  Not thumb my nose at the things my generation brought to the table as "main stream", "unoriginal", or that it lacked the rich complexity & history of prior generations.  Even when she announced the birth of her twin boys, she sent out a family photo set in the 1940's, including the texture and pigment of a photo that had been taken during that time.  I actually felt a twinge of sadness.  You look at that picture and it has zero representation of our current time.  Those boys will reflect on that picture and later years and it will not mark the time of their lives.  For me, I love seeing older photos of my family and seeing the markings of pop culture during that time.  The 70's sunglasses, bell bottoms, afros, Ford Pinto's.  The 80's perms, neon geometrical prints, robins egg blue eye shadow and Pontiac Fieros.  The 90's combat boots, bobs, flannels with floral prints, Geo Prizms and Toyota Celica's (oh how I LOVED that Celica!).  Lay them all together and you can see the chronological evolution of style, manufacturing, color schemes (remember when EVERYONE's house was dusty rose and powder blue?!?!?  If you were alive in the 80's, you know exactly what I'm talkin bout!), hair dos and labels.  Man.  I love that.  Living in the moment gives you a chance to represent the times.  It also gives you a chance to reflect and remember what was going then.    

​Even now, I stay with the times (albeit age appropriate).  Call me trite, I don't care.  I want to evolve like everything else.  I don't want to get "stuck" in an era whether I lived it or didn't.  I may offer a nod to another time, but I will mix it in with current trends.  Steam punk accessories meet clean line tailoring and monochromatic schemes?  Yes, please. 

​That said, I'm not sure what's happening to me.  I am CRAVING 90's music.  It may just be nostalgia and I'm sure it's normal.  I mean, it's normal, isn't it?  I don't want to rewind the clock or discount the music I love today.  But if you get in my car right now, you'd ask me "you going through something?".  Maybe I am,  Maybe I am.