如菲尼斯般，復活了。
沒錯。
我會好好疼愛你的，小寶貝。
- Nov 02 Wed 2005 21:09
火盃的試鍊。
- Oct 31 Mon 2005 18:42
掛起來。
化名Esther的心／性靈教母新單曲首週挺進比爾伯前二十名。我只能說一位年近半百的女人還能引起那麼多人興趣，真的挺叫人意外，尤其她上張專輯誤捋虎鬚，惹火了愚蠢時最危險的米國民眾，導致演藝生涯最低潮的成績。
由此可知對米國民眾而言，政治禁忌大於性禁忌（他們唯一的性禁忌只剩下攣童癖吧？）。
此外，是否也可以推論有著聖母名諱的絕非處女大嬸，其光環越來越聚焦於其Queer Icon的身分上？畢竟，到底還剩多少正常性取向的米國白人男性會去買她的ＣＤ呢？
- Oct 27 Thu 2005 18:34
草莓、香檳和棉花糖。
吾人中意的橫田進2005年新作。
電幻為底，古典為體，調入弦樂和人聲，差一點點就會變成……嗯，百貨公司電梯裡很恐怖的那種電子合成器演奏古典音樂（我居然馬上想到William Orbit的Pieces in a Modern Style），但幸好沒有。
光是讀曲目就決定勝負（雖然橫田君玩弄的也是古典Top 40曲目 – 德彪西的＜＜月光＞＞、柴可夫斯基的＜＜天鵝湖＞＞、馬斯康尼＜＜鄉間騎士＞＞間奏曲云云）：
1. Long Long Silk Bridge
2. Purple Rose Minuet
3. Traveller In The Wonderland
4. Song Of The Sleeping Forest
5. The Plateau Which The Zephyr Of Flora Occupies
6. Fairy Dance Of Twinkle And Shadow
7. Flaming Love And Destiny
8. The Dying Black Swan
9. Blue Sky And Yellow Sunflower
10. Capriccio And The Innovative Composer
11. I Close The Door Upon Myself
12. Symbol Of Life, Love And Aesthetics
13. Music From The Lake Surface
彷彿故事接龍，你可以照著這些章節標題自己寫出一本奇幻小說。說不定還能大賣。
Susumu Yokota, "Symbol"
順便回頭聽：http://www.wretch.cc/blog/trackback.php?blog_id=urlicht&article_id=1754929
- Oct 27 Thu 2005 13:46
四個人的電影院與焦黑的倉庫。
上週末，不顧似乎永遠進行式中的拉丁影展，前往改頭換面中的華納威秀看了場午夜電影。難得的大放映廳裡面 -- 「有沒有搞錯，就我們兩個人……還有另外一對，總共四枚。」我索性脫了鞋子，翹腳平躺看電影。
這證明了一件事，真正好看的電影，不必靠滿場觀眾炒氣氛，依然能讓人笑到肚子痛。
從當年跑影展時期，在短暫成為藝術電影院的光復戲院裡才看得到的短片系列（把月球當成大乳酪的Wallace是嗜吃cheese and cracker的英國佬），到現在登上跨國連鎖影城的全美賣座冠軍片（Gromit依然夠酷，沒像哥吉拉一樣淪落為侏儸紀公園走失的恐龍），最令人佩服的是製作班底依然堅持英倫原味，繼續掰他們的英國式冷笑話。幸好Gromit沒變成史奴比或叔比狗，不然我可能會在戲院裡嚎啕大哭，緬懷那走味的……香肉？
……一看到片中大家為了種出超大畸形蔬果而絞盡腦汁，我當下放了五百個心，這果然是英國人拍的片啊。
不過這裡要附上一則令人悲傷的消息：http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/，一場大火把製作公司Aardman的倉庫燒個精光，所有Wallace & Gromit的布景和道具都沒了，連>的也一樣……
- Oct 26 Wed 2005 23:15
Too marvelous for words
某日下班後，循例迷迷茫茫走入某間唱片行，在意識飄忽之際，突然在架上一堆CD中發現了彷彿騙人的一張夢幻CD：Buena Vista Social Club 名伶 Omara Portuondo 和當紅古巴爵士鋼琴手 Chucho Valdes 合作的 Desafios……喂，有沒有搞錯啊，真的有這麼夢幻的逸品嗎？
就算當下把它搶下來買回家，至今我依然疑惑不已……
- Oct 26 Wed 2005 17:09
純然少年人的氣味。
聽到Mylo 的 "Destroy Rock & Roll" 一曲中反覆召喚的名字而不血脈賁張者，你的80年代真的是白活了。
All perversions of the third eye
through distorted and exaggerated images,
perverted movements of the body and breakdancing,
and other forms of dancing,
and we especially call for the judgement in this hour
and the destroying of rock music directed
specifically against children
through the videos that were portrayed,
and working specifically through these individuals,
for whom we call for
the judgement of the sacred fire of this hour,
before the throne of almighty god,
Michael Jackson,
Prince,
Bruce Springsteen,
Tina Turner,
David Bowie,
Van Halen,
Madonna,
Huey Lewis & The News,
The Cars,
Herbie Hancock,
Bonnie Tyler,
Stevie Nicks,
Men At Work,
ZZ Top,
Paul MCartney & Michael Jackson,
Weird Al Yankovic,
Cyndi Lauper,
Pink Floyd,
The Pretenders,
Billy Joel,
Billy Idol,
Elton John,
Neil Young,
Sheena Easton,
Patty Smith & Scandal,
Fashion,
Big Country,
Morris Day & The Sign,
John Lennon,
__?
Audio speed wagon,
David Gilhorn,
The Rolling Stones,
Pat Benetar,
Hall & Oats,
Wham,
Randy Jackson,
Adam Ant,
Bananarama,
Christine Lavin,
Queen,
__?
U2,
Spheres,
Fleetwood Mac,
The Alan Parsons Project,
Bruce Springfield,
The Thompson Twins,
Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,
Breathe,
Eurythmics,
Culture Club including Boy George,
Band Aid,
Relax,
[Repeat over again up to......]
Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,
Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,.....
(Repeat......)
Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran.......
[Repeat over again from Michael Jackson......]
Culture Club including Boy George,
Band Aid,
Relax,
Stevie Wonder........(Fade Out)
不過這首歌顯然是要撻伐MTV文化對搖滾樂造成的摧枯拉朽效應，但擺在這麼純然80年代況味的舞曲專輯中，誰管得了那麼多？反正當年大家都陪雷根演了一場太平盛世的戲，不是嗎？
- Oct 25 Tue 2005 17:44
Misia。
我得承認，敝人當初受到唱片公司行銷手法的誤導，以為這位米希亞也是那種扯著嗓子假裝是女高音的所謂跨界名伶，向來沒瞧過正眼。
但是我也得向大家坦承我錯了。說起來也好玩，這位米希亞因為這種操作手法，似乎也是台灣最容易接觸到的葡萄牙Fado歌手了。相較於Fado界江惠Amalia Rodriques的草根性濃烈，Misia其實比較走文藝路線。在下圖第一張>（隨便翻的，我也不知道這是什麼意思）中，當代古典音樂界葡萄牙籍女鋼琴家第一把交椅（這很明顯看得出來是被側標污染過的文字，嗚呼哀哉）Maria Joao Pires也前來助陣。第二張Canto中則是獻唱作曲家Carlos Paredes的作品輯。
最下面一張封面是2005年最新專輯Drama Box，這回Misia拓寬觸角，除了拿手的Fado，也選唱了Tango和Bolero等曲式，整張風格更為多元化，她的嗓音也變得更加沉鬱。其中穿插了Misia用各種語言唸出的口白，其實我覺得她口語的韻律甚至比歌謠更為迷人……最後Misia也挑戰了Piazzolla的”Yo soy Maria”，但我覺得不算特別成功，我老是覺得她的探戈快要脫拍了 – 說到這，倒是提醒了我12月我愛的Gidon Kremer來之前，把他主導的那套Maria de Buenos Aires再拿出來複習一下。
對於這位被我誤解許久的歌手，看來我只能以看到一張買一張來表示歉意了。
...the world is much bigger than you'd like to think...
...不斷增殖中。
- Oct 14 Fri 2005 15:12
布蘭登堡城門雞蛋糕。
我真的得大力表揚下段Guardian上的樂評：
And while there are plenty of other equally first-rate versions of the Brandenburgs on period instruments around, none surely has such a baffling cover illustration as this - a stag walking up the ramp of a multi-storey car park.
（出處：http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1591481,00.html）
沒錯，看到封面那頭停車場車道上的雄鹿，你捨得不買這張ＣＤ嗎？什麼？我又被行銷手法吃定了嗎？
這是張很搖擺的Bach，灑進了一絲低緯度的和煦陽光。還送一張DVD呢 – 你說啥？我又因為貪小便宜敗家了嗎？
- Oct 14 Fri 2005 13:13
關頭。
我常覺得，當初沒因為討厭葛萊美獎而錯過Bonnie Raitt，實在是人生中很幸運的事。
若是沒有她，真不知道該怎麼度過許多了無生意的黑暗時刻。
只要聽到開頭隆隆的節奏，我就知道又能漸漸拾起勇氣，血液繼續從左心室流出心臟，打進流通全身肢體的血脈。
A friend of mine she cries at night, and she
Calls me on the phone
Sees babies everywhere she goes and she
Wants one of her own.
She's waited long enough she says
And still she can't decide
Pretty soon she'll have to choose and it tears her up inside...
She's scared...scared she'll run out of time.
I see my folks, they're getting old, I watch their bodies change...
I know they see the same in me, And it makes us both feel strange...
No matter how you tell yourself, It's what we all go through...
Those eyes are pretty hard to take when they're staring' back at you.
Scared you'll run out of time.
When did the choices get so hard?
With so much more at stake.
Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.
Hummmm...Scared she'll run out of time.
Just when I thought I'd had enough
And all my tears were shed...
No promise left unbroken,
There were no painful words unsaid.
You came along and showed me
How to leave it all behind....
You opened up my heart again and then much to my surprise.
I found love, Love in the Nick of Time. 3x
講得好像我常想自戕的樣子。有時候說不定只是吸收了過多的咖啡因吧。
又搞笑了，真不好意思。
我只是想表達，一生中能認識某些人、遇見某些事，上天實在待我不薄啊。
- Oct 13 Thu 2005 17:10
鳳還巢。
還認得這位大娘嗎？
度過８０年代香江影業榮景長大的同學們一定看過她的片子。
她後來到哪裡去了？
老實說，我還真的想過這個問題。
前幾天做了一集這幾年熱門的改造秀節目，羅芙洛（沒錯，就是她）負責在３０天內將一名芝加哥網路程式設計師變成練家子。
這才發現原來８０年代稱霸香江的洋鬼子功夫皇后（在這領域應該也沒人跟她競爭吧？）飛回了太平洋彼岸的另一座影城，依然活躍於武術教學與影片拍攝工作。
只是，我一直有個疑問。
她，應該是猶太人吧？
節目最後打出一行字幕，來自芝加哥的網路程式設計師舉家定居那座據說不下雨的城市，準備在武術這一行打出一片天下。
我只能說，給予人不切實際的夢想真是天大的罪過啊。
- Sep 30 Fri 2005 12:54
忍。
有沒有注意到，英文片名叫做”Heart Under Blade”？倭國人真是得人疼，不過他們認識的漢字也有限，難怪能這樣拆開來慢慢玩。
當年我還青春年少時，在海濱的圖書館辦了個系學會展，主題呼應當年熱門電影（其實是因為我愛吃……）-- 反正呢，兩個在樓上國際會議中心開完會的倭國教授經過會場，看到海報仔細端詳一會便開始竊笑。我上前盡責地介紹本次展覽的主題 – 才怪，當然是問他們在搞什麼鬼。教授這時點出「飲食男女」這四個字的奧妙，原來在他們的拆字理解中，這四個字讀起來像「飲」「食男」「女」，“man-eating woman” – 把男人拆食入腹的女子啊。
- Sep 30 Fri 2005 11:56
某日，晨。
有一度，每天早上得用上全部的力氣才能起床，說服自己今天還是得過下去。穿著昨天前天大前天穿過的衣服出門前，我會從許把即將烤得過乾的土司丟進烤麵包機，用海灘少年時期某年生日收到的咖啡機煮著廉價的昆蟲牌曼巴咖啡，打開音響消滅宿舍裡無言的晨光，呆坐著打開無聲的電視，看著新聞裡我完全不想參與的世界，或看著晨間重播的>或>裡不屬於我的人生，配著洗碗水搬滋味的滾燙咖啡把乾澀難嚥的土司沖下喉頭，這時CD走到第3首曲目：
Lisa knows a girl who's been abused
It changed her philosophy in '82
She's always looking for a fight
She keeps the neighbours up all night
I go to her when I'm feeling slack
The girl's using me as a punching bag
I think that I could help her out
But the girl's got a lot to be mad about
But in the first moment of her waking up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing
Yeah she's losing it
Lisa met Chelsea at the knocking school
Chelsea didn't feel like following the rules
So they left the place for another school
Where the boys go with boys and the girls with girls
Chelsea was the ONE who's been abused
It changed her philosophy in '82
She says, "Inch for inch and pound for pound"
Who needs boys when there's Lisa round?"
BUT in the first moment of her waking up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
She goes to the mirror to put on her stuff
She knows she's losing it, oh yeah she's losing it
When she doesn't speak to anyone till four o'clock
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
Oh yeah she's losing it…
「原來你也是這樣啊。」闃黑的夜路上突然亮起一盞微黃閃爍的燈，「不然先走到下個路口再說吧。」
背起袋子，轉開門把，迎向朝陽。這，又是另一首歌的故事了。
