As long as I can listen to Sum 41, eat Turkish Delight and hold your hand, life will be worth living. Sum 41, Wheatus, Angels And Airwaves, Blink 182 - any of those bands with repetitive melodies, heavily accented vocalists and slightly annoying discrepancies in tune. Despite the fact that we love to hate them, they communicate something simple and powerful about life and its beauty that no one else can. Life is gritty and dirty, it drives us crazy and it tears us down, but it lifts us up too. Sometimes it gives us a perfect moment, caught out of time - a tiny slice of eternity.

And they each have a song that does it.

Sum 41 - With Me
Angels And Airwaves - A Little's Enough
Blink 182 - All The Small Things
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

Farewell the present, bring on forever.