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I tend to not like to actually talk about the music I post because either somebody else has already blathered on about it or somebody else is soon to be wax poetic on it. I find the most interesting posts are when people go on about the texture of the slice of pizza they were eating and how it made them think of the hot vinyl interior of their aunts 1973 white and red Gremlin one summer Sunday morning. Things like that make for more interesting reads to me. I'm going to have my own opinion on the album your posting about regardless, so why not take me on a trip down your memory lane.

Like you said: "the song is just an accomplice to my scattered, abstract thoughts..."

I'm digging Cut Copy...thanks for posting more tunes.

My abstract thought is I'd like to feed those boys a big healthy dinner.

: )

I love how you mix the classics with the hip.

Your abstract thoughts had me wondering about what Mark Twain said: "The classics are books people talk about but don't read." So I ask myself who has really read "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" or "Die Wahlverwandschaften." I must confess I didn't really like The "Sorrows of Young Werther" as epistolary novels are not really my cup of tea.

So are you somewhere in the "home of choosing" too?

Incidentally that picture of the Wanderer is on many book covers be it for Goethe or Coleridge etc.

Here's another painting which I think could be a remote echo to the vertigo of the Wanderer:

(Apologies this abstract rambling)

Dachmo: I agree...talk less, listen more! I love your image of eating pizza in the car on a hot day...

SunshineDaydream: They do look a little famished, don't they?

Bartleby: Haha yes, some people do actually read "Werther," I just read it for my Romantic fiction class! Which isn't saying much...I didn't "choose" to read it, and I probably wouldn't have, if it wasn't required of me! I generally don't like reading books in the form of letters either...I find that it leaves too much to the imagination and that can be frustrating. But I have to confess that I empathize with the main character in some ways...perhaps on a less life-threatening level, but his dilemma is one that is all too familiar to me. That story will stick to my subconscious for a while. Forgive me darling...what do you mean by "home of choosing?" I missed that reference completely. And who is your painting by?

I adore C.D. Friedrich's exquisitely epic painting style. This one is possibly my favorite:

Here is another one that I believe is used frequently on the covers of classics:

So sorry, I forgot to mention Léon Spillaert, the Belgian responsible for the "Vertigo" above.

"Home of choosing" is my very bad translation of "Wahlheim" i.e. "Wahl" which is German for "choice" and "Heim" is "home."

Of course! Now I remember my professor explaining that... haha, that just shows how much information I actually retain from her lectures ;) I am in my home of choice at the moment, but I think I'd rather be in Germany...