Waking up to Thomas Crown

I woke up this morning to Bill Conti and the piano. A Juilliard graduate and recipient of an Academy Award and five Emmys, you may know him as the composer behind The Thomas Crown Affair, which, in my rarely humble opinion, is a perfectly scored soundtrack. I've spent every day since its release in '99 trying to emulate Mr. Crown's life. Watching him sink his catamaran was too much... I fell in love with his recklessness right then and there. He gave me permission to be aggressive. I get that he's a fictional character, a reincarnation of Steve McQueen's original 1968 version; I get all that – it matters not. To see your future life on screen as a young man is exciting – scratch that – it's positively intoxicating. And THAT is why I wake up to The Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack. It sets in motion a marvelous day.