song of the week: j s bach, sicilienne - vladimir horowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxwm9jjZuY#t=53m09s
reading the last post over again, part of me wants to explain why i went all academic on that one, and the other part is mostly nonchalant. i guess i want to know what it was to feel nostalgic, and not only to feel that way. to think it out like that would in a way insulate my state of mind from nostalgia's blighting effect. and i think it could use an added paragraph or too after the romantic consequentialist part - to explain how we could regret the choices we make, either because we know better now or, more interestingly, at that time. but it will suffice - i think one could detect implicit sympathies to those arguments in the writing as it already stands.
and although it lacks substance - it is not for my own want of it. indeed, to want to write about something, one is doubtless already under its influence. but i thought to go against the flow there - not to write about how i felt, but about how one could approach the feeling. and i think it basically works.
but enough about that. the things that are filling up the interwebs lately are full of nostalgic stuff anyways. i feel them, man, i feel them.
i've liked a few girls in my time - and it occurred to me the other day that each of them have a song attached to how i remember them. it's really... nostalgic, for lack of a better word. the songs carry little ideas that i found really fit how i thought of them. it's sweet and old and a little bit sad in a way. heh.
barenaked ladies, call and answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8XLMxeWLk
i think, it's getting to the point
where i can be myself again
i think, it's getting to the point
where we have almost made amends
i think, it's the getting to the point
that is the hardest part
and if you call, i will answer
and if you call, i'll pick you up
and if you court, this disaster
i'll point you home
i'll point you home
aerosmith, angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTOGVb_cQg
god, this one broke my heart. haha, oh boy.
michael stipes with chris martin, in the sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix77YY2ggjg
michael stipes has that voice - that strange faraway and familiar voice. the voice of your best friend and your dad and of someone you love.
张学友,只想一生跟你走
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbXpDTaSek
共你有过最美的邂逅
共你有过一些风雨忧愁
共你醉过痛过的最后
但我发觉想你不能没有
hmm then again, maybe it was wild horses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVLiHPUOIM
for what it's worth, what i wouldn't give to have sung one to each of them.
