I Think We Are Alone Now

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.--Kenko Yoshida

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.--James Russell Lowell

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.--Albert Einstein

More solitude

Music for Young Ears

My 10-year-old cousin wanted to hear songs that I like because she doesn't know anything other than Brasil's style of country music (Sertaneja). So I played her Alkaline Trio's "Don't Say You Won't" (got a bounce and some air guitar) followed by a-Ha's "Take on Me" (excitement).

I'm now going to show her some music videos and ask her to rate them from 0 to 10. First three up are:

- A-ha's "Take on Me"
- The Cure's "In Between Days"
- The Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"

Which videos do you think she MUST see? Is the PG rated version of Gaga's "Telephone" appropriate?