Sometimes the world just makes me emotional.
This is part of the liner notes for Our Lady Peace's 2005 album "Healthy In Paranoid Times":
1165 days were needed to record Healthy In Paranoid Times...
Within these 1165 days...
43 songs were written and recorded
220 hours were spent on flying in airplanes
10 different studios were used
2,000 hours were spent both discussing and playing music
6,000 gigabytes of hardware storage was needed for recording
58 packages of guitar strings were used
11 thousand dollars was spent on food for the band
30 active wars were fought across the globe
Iraq was invaded for a second time
9.8 million people died from AIDS
19.2 million people had cosmetic surgery in North America
2,000 American soldiers died in Iraq
300,000 civilians died in Darfur
2 million were displaced in Darfur
30 billion cases of soft drinks were sold
6,708 hours of T.V. was watched by the average child
4,042,030 people died of cancer in North America
40,000 hybrid vehicles sold
118,000,000 gas vehicles sold
3 trillion dollars was spent on global arms trade
138 million people ate at McDonalds
38 billion dollars was spent on pornography
815 billion dollars were profited by pharmaceutical companies
54 million people died from extreme poverty
Apple iTunes sold it's 500,000,000th song
0 weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq
42 insects swallowed by the average person while sleeping
6 billion people walked on the planet
3 billion people lived on 2 dollars a day
9 billion dollars was all that was needed for all the third world to have clean water
27 billion was spent on music in the US
30,000 animal and plant species became extinct
1 billion metric tons of hazardous waste was generated
29 billion dollars was spent on video games
400,000 dollars donated by Paris Hilton to charity from sales of her porn DVD
4.8 million children taking Ritalin
This was 5 years ago; reading it again today makes me curious about what's different now.
