As I mentioned earlier, I'm in love with the defunct band, the Werewolves. They've been my only ONLY listening choice for weeks.  I googled the name of one one of my favorites among their songs, Dora Gerson.  Here they are performing it for the first time live:



A week or so ago, I was listening to a CD of Japanese songs from the 60's and a song came on that I recognized from my childhood.  My Pop used to sing it while playing his guitar to me and my sisters as we were falling asleep ... one of my cherished childhood memories, those nights of singing.  It took a bunch of googling to figure out what song it even was, because they were singing it in Japanese and I hadn't heard it since I was about 5-years-old.  It was Dona Dona.  Here's Donavon performing it:



And not long before that, I learned that Neutral Milk Hotel's album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (one of my favorite albums) is inspired by Anne Frank:



Sometimes the sadness walks up behind you silently and taps you on the shoulder and you turn and see it as if for the first time and it says, "I've always been here, and I'm never very far away."