四菓冰

好期待廣仲的新 EP 四菓冰
要過一個好冰冰冰冰涼的夏日
有四個冰！因為有四菓冰！
（這是什麼 tag... 科科... XD)
真有衝動飛去台北
看人肉 3D 之 Morning Rock
不戴眼鏡真的會很立體嗎？

盧廣仲創作 EP 四菓冰 8/16 正式發行!!!!!!!!!!


是平常都穿 tee 的原故嗎？
很清楚的看到肩膊跟手臂的顏色是不同的
要謝謝太陽公公了 XD

MIKA

MIKA 是近年炙手可熱的 pop star
一向不算太留意他的音樂
只知道他好會飆高音
直覺他的音樂好繽紛快樂好有活力

但今天聽他的歌
再仔細留意歌詞
發覺蠻有意思的
有宣揚正面訊息的
有諷刺畸形價值觀的
有挑戰 social norms 的

dance, dance to the life you wanted

模糊

最近有一個賣手錶的廣告
感覺好台灣 feel 的
老實說，我看完廣告也不知道想 sell 什麼...
只知道那是講愛情的

但有一句對白，聽了倒有一點淡淡的無奈
「我們走得愈近，卻愈模糊」

我想不只愛情吧
世上的東西也是如此
感覺是越去了解
越發現自已根本不了解
或是不能了解

黑與白之間
都是模糊的灰色

前度

上星期五其實想看飛砂風中轉
但落畫了
於是去看前度
老實說男女主角並不是吸引我進場的原因
吸引倒是導演麥曦茵
看戲時才發現有周俊偉和曾國祥

前度
即使分開了
或多或少總會有點感情吧
回憶就是會存在
很難說走就走

最觸動我的對白
不是男女間情情愛愛的對白
反而是母女間的對話

女跟前男友和現任男友
總在旅行出發最後一刻吵架
旅行總是去不了
而媽倒喜歡一個人飛來飛去
自由自在的旅行

女問: 媽，可唔可以帶我去旅行呀?
媽答: 女，去旅行係唔洗人帶架，自己去都得！

對，人就是要成長呀!
沒有了誰，你也得活下去，走自己想走的路

quatre juin

quatre juin
是法文六月四日的意思
六四自八九以後都是一個傷痛的日子
每次看到那些歷史片段
心裡有說不出的悲和憤
不斷問為什麼?為什麼?

好像每年也會跟朋友一起討論六四
有人也許會認為幹什麼也是徒然
但我知道有些事情是要堅持的
從法國革命到現在
要走多少路才走到今天?
我們今天擁有的自由
是昨天許許多多革命烈士用血汗換來的

想記住今天講過的話

We can't tell if this is useless at the present moment, but tomorrow's history will give us the answer. Long time ago, people were ruled by queens and kings, they won't believe there would be republic that time. But look at what we have right now. Therefore, I can't say everything will be in vain.

每當看到有爸爸媽媽帶著小朋友進場
倒覺得世界總是有希望的



薪火是要相傳
希望這一點點心火能繼續燃亮開去
星星之火可以燎原
被火燒過的土地
土壤會更肥沃
長出的會是更多更美的自由花

我又將逃往何方

最近在看張煒的《我又將逃往何方》，文字寫得很美，也找到很多讓我共鳴的句子。

「時至今天，似乎更沒有人願意重視知覺的奧秘。人彷彿除了接受再沒有選擇。」

「他穿越了憤懣，這才有了痴情。愛一種職業、一朵花、一個人，愛的是具體的東西；愛一份感覺、一個意願、一片土地、一種狀態，愛的是抽象的東西。只要重頭走過來，只要愛得真摯，就會痴迷。迷了心竅，就有了境界。」

「臆想的極限超越之後，就是實實在在的觸摸了。」

「人需要一個遙遠的光點，像渺渺星斗。我走向它，節衣縮食，收心歛性。願冥冥中的手為我開啟智門。比起我的目標，我追趕的修行，我顯得多麼卑微。蒼白無力，瑣屑庸懶，經不住內省。就為了精神上的成長，讓誠實和樸素、讓那份好德行，永遠也不要離我，讓勇敢和正義變得愈加具體的清晰。那樣，漫長的消磨和無聲的侵蝕我也能夠陪伴。」

書本說的是作者對野地（亦即是我們口中的大自然）的熱愛。
野地就是他的信仰，他的太陽。

No Distance Left To Run

No Distance Left to Run is one of my all time favourites. Just love the melody and the way that Damon sings. Sometimes, I'm, in a way, tided to melancholic melodies. I feel good about it, that's strange.

I finally got the documentary dvd of Blur, which also called No Distance Left to Run. I watched it twice in two days. I'm happy to see the four members getting back together again. Just as what Damon said, "all that rubbish from both sides seemed to have evaporated" and "all I can hear is the echoes of all the times we've played in the past. It's like going back to where you were born or something. It felt like that streets that you haven't walked for ages, triggering... bizarre flashes of forgotten moments."

It is amazing going back all these years. I really like quite a lot of their quotes. Kind of touched and amused by what they said. I spent some time in recording some of their quotes.



[the early days]
alex: He (graham) was getting out of his parents' car holding a guitar.

graham: My gosh, what an amazingly confident performer (damon). Gosh, what a show off.

damon: Your (graham's) shoes aren't as good as mine, mine are the proper kind.

damon: He (graham) was much more mild, whereas I just seemed to irritate a lot of people.


[the birth of BritPop]
To me, Damon's idea of British Pop is cool. Blur did raise a lot of attention for British music under the "dominance" of American culture at that time. I see this act as a kind of identity recognition process. Their songs really speak a lot about modern life.

damon: So much of our culture is sort of American culture now, and it would be... I think it's important to make a connection.

damon: Nirvana and that whole kind of disgusting movement that came over from America. I mean, Nirvana were not disgusting... but in their wake was just the most awful shit.

dave: British popular culture was being pushed aside in exchange for American.

alex: Britpop was 100% Damon Albarn's idea.

damon: But they (Oasis) put this sheen on it, and waved flags and called it Britpop.


[blur and oasis]
As what Graham said, the battle of the two bands was actually cheap. But somehow, the resentments between Damon and Noel were just too hilarious for audience to follow.

damon: If someone saw me from a house, they'd open the window and put on Oasis... we kind of seemed to manoeuvre ourselves into a position where everyone hates us, from really everybody loving us. And it's at that point that we're at our best, I think.

graham: I just found it very cheap, the whole attention that was put on it. That sort of focus, that sort of "Battle of Britpop". Working-class northerners and shandy-drinking Southerners, you know, battle it out for the number one slot. Come on, do us a favour. I love the idea of a number one, but I just wanted a really decent number one, without all the BS, you know, I want a number one that bands had when I was a teenager.

damon (years ago): I think this (award) should have been shared with Oasis.
damon (now): Oh God. What did I do that for?


[graham and damon]
Maybe it's really hard for 2 talented people to stay in the same group for a long time. Seems like it's the inevitable rule for bands. And I could understand why Graham felt so out of place at that time. I could feel his tiredness and helplessness. It might sound silly that Graham hid from Damon and Alex in the London Zoo. But, yes, cos this could be so weird and that reaction was actually normal...

graham: No Distance... it became apparent when we were listening to the lyrics of that. And again, it was a reminder at that point for me that Damon wasn't just a ruthless careerist maniac, you know, who had no feelings. He was actually flesh and blood and was hurting quite a lot, and, yeah... that sort of thing makes me fall in love with him all over again, in a way. "Crikey. He is actually like me, he just does it in a different way."

damon: I can't quite believe what an important song (Tender) that is, now, you know?

graham: It's a very difficult thing to balance. How to keep yourself in a reasonable state of mind, and still... and still do the work.

graham: There was a lot of resentfulness about the fact that I'd... And a lot of miscommunication, I think, about why I'd gone into the Priory, really. I think the group were under the impression, really, that I was being deliberately destructive, but I wasn't, I really didn't have any choice.

graham: It's like your girlfriend saying, "Look, I'm not chucking you, but I don't want to see you for a bit, and, you know..."

damon: Well, from my perspective, young man, not only did I not want to do this, but I'm doing it because I felt the commitment to us, because, you know, we're like brothers, but also, you just haven't turned up. And you didn't even tell anyone. Well, you know what? I really have had enough.

alex: Think Tank is a good record, but it wasn't the same live without Graham, and it wasn't the same dynamic.


[indie vs pop?]
alex: We're not gonna spend ages and ages... doing lots and lots of these (TV ads). Cos it's soul-destroying.

alex: Pop stardom wasn't the thing we were after.

dave: Everything about indie disappeared and indie became the new pop music.

graham: It was quite a relief that British music was suddenly being appreciated again.

graham: I didn't like being called Britpop. Or Pop, or Brit. Or PopBrit. For me, Blur is an Indie band, really.

critics: They (blur) started off as a reasonable indie band. They've become a huge teenybop band. The reverse to what the Beatles did.

graham: I think I'm in a kind of mid-life... mid pop-life crisis. Pop makes me very sick. I wrote Damon a letter, something about the music and everything being... getting a bit, "We're tired, we need a rest". I wanna make music that scares people again.

damon: It wasn't a very nice night, because Graham... He tried to jump out of a window at one fucking point.
graham: I just thought that me doing that would remind a lot of these people that there was sort of human beings involved, and it wasn't just business and backslapping.


[after all these years]
damon: purely because I'd just seen the world from many perspectives and realised that, you know, this little island is, in fact, a little island in the northern hemisphere.

graham: music is a big part of the healing process.

alex: what did you say? "we've become...?"
journalist: kind of like more of a collection of evolved individuals
alex: ...??? y-e-a-h

alex: I didn't feel any kind of bitterness towards anybody.

graham: I missed Damon quite a lot. But I started to miss the side of him that made me laugh.

graham: I knew it would make me happy to get my friends back and everything, but I really was grinning from ear to ear for days and days, it was absolutely brilliant.

damon: it didn't feel like work, it felt like play. It felt like it did at the very beginning.

graham: I think Damon is possibly closer now to when I first met him. I think we all are. I feel almost a lot more innocent now that I did during my 20s, when I just was feeling so much resentfulness and cynicism. I feel a lot more pre-mid-'90s these days.

alex: We've made mistakes, like everybody else has made. And I just wanted to show the best of Blur.

damon: At the end of the day, what we have done, which so many bands who split up didn't do, is we managed to come back, intact, and do the best gigs we've ever done. And, you know, that, for me, is what is different about us, the fact that we did that, I think is a testament to our original friendship. That was my reason for doing it in the first place.



I think this is a must-watch for all the Blur fans.