The redhead is sick.

And of course the reprecussions of being sick is sitting alone and thinking.
Today while being alone, I read half of "Death of a Salesman", which is quite a deep, but rather sad play. I like it though, I hope to see it performed one day, that would be interesting I think. I also loaded five youtube videos from my crazy Austria skiing trip... (which you should go check out by the way..)
And eventually I decided I needed a little poetry, so of course I looked up some Goethe, because, well who doesn't love old German rhymage? I'll admit that I reaaaaallllly love spoken poetry, and of course it always helps me to understand german when I have text and audio so I looked up the poems in youtube as well to see if they had any really good recordings and I made a magnificent discovery that most german kids my age probably know already and have known for a while, and that is that Disney Fantasia's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" was inspired by a Goethe poem!
I guess I'm not shocked, I mean a lot (if not all) of the Disney tales are "inspired"/copied from old folk tales and disney-fied. It crazy to think that without old folk lore like the Grimm Brother's Stories or stories like Aladinn Disney would be nothing, absolutely nothing. I suppose it isn't exactly a bad thing, I mean it's almost like exposing the world to other cultures.... sort of, in a way. It just sort of surprised me to realized how in my early childhood I would watch fantasia and without knowing it I was learning the story of a classic German work by a man I knew nothing of. The original poem if anyone wants to look it up is called "Der Zauberlehrling" (click here to see german text). And here underneath is also a really great video I found combining the two. YAY!

So I'm reading, reading away, hope you have a pleasant day! I'll be back again real soon! Long before the next full moon!