How about them Germans, eh?
I mean this in a rhetorical, musical sense, since the new rockout song of my roommate and I (previous rockout songs include: Letters to Cleo – I Want You to Want Me (and yes, we can and do quote the movie), Tracy Bonham – Mother Mother and Puddle of Mudd – She Fucking Hates Me) is Möhre – 20 Zentimeter. Lyrics in German, and a machine translation to English from Google. I’ve also been listening to a nice little track with words by Goethe, and music composed by Schubert. It’s called Gretchen am Spinnrade, or Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel. The words, as my mother commented, are “over the top,” but it’s from Faust, it’s German Romanticism, and that’s the way it was. The cool part is really Schubert’s piano representation of the spinning wheel.