I remember the day I first heard Peggy Lee sing "Is That All There Is?" I was eating a bagel at the corner of Davie and Denman in Vancouver and I was flabbergasted. I couldn't believe the song had been recorded. It seemed so... immoral. It seemed to be pulling back the curtain on how the world worked, showing something dark and then, perplexingly, celebrating it. I still have a problem getting my head around it. Is it satire or philosophy? Are we meant to take the chorus as a consolations for life's disappointments or are we meant to roll our eyes?