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我怎么就这么喜欢这个歌词...
2008-07-08
贴上来以后才发现,好像已经是第二次在这儿贴这个了...每次听都觉得又伤感又美好的歌。今天在last fm上头一次看了mv,也很喜欢。
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
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The best of youth 灿烂人生 (La Meglio Gioventu)
2008-06-01
这个大概是我看过最长的电影了吧。有一天看见电驴首页上有这部,打开看了看好像评价还不错,于是也就下下来了。其实对超长的电影倒也没什么抵触的感觉,反正备上点儿吃的喝的在手边儿,要上厕所的时候按空格键就是了。顶多在看到头晕眼花之际起身眺望一下我14层楼下的荷兰田园风光。这样一天都沉浸在一部6个小时的电影里,也是个挺理想的周末。
然而万万没有想到的是,该在手边也备上一卷手纸。涕泪横流得让我自己都觉得邪乎。
随着片子从60年代的意大利一直到21世纪,从翡冷翠一直到西西里。历史片,风光片,亲情片,言情片的资格都够了,却让人义无反顾地认定这就是"A simply great movie"。不论抱着想看那种类型片的心理去看,都是绝对不会后悔的。
要说有哪个片子能大言不惭地感叹出“生活如此美好”这句话而不会让人觉得有一丝丝矫情,舍此无他。
记得第一次去意大利是和小一同学。在罗马的时候,站在游人如织的Fontana di Trevi,背过身去,傻呵呵地朝喷泉里抛了一只硬币,据说就此就许下了“此生重回罗马”的愿。然而第二次再到意大利时,却并没有到罗马。看完了这部,才恍然醒悟,片子里反复出现的关于罗马的景象,谁说不是那“此生重回罗马”的愿的灵验;)?
除却罗马,现在又添了新的向往地。要去Torino,要去Sicily,要去Palermo!!!
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Sorry but I just can't help laughing...
2008-05-25
"Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled."[1] Examples of rights and freedoms which are often thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education."
One hundred people will have one hundred (or even more i bet) kinds of explainations of the concept - "Human rights", and I seriously doubt how many of them could correctly refer "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)" in their explainations.
It seems for some people, if you don't express your deep concern about the human rights condition in somewhere on the earth once a while in your conversation, you'll be seriously considered as a "non-civilized" human being.
As an ordinary people, i think, what we should try to do is, concern what we should concern and shut up when we should shut up. Because when you published some irresponsible comments, then you should be responsible for the good or bad results since they came from your mouth (This could be explained way clearer and simpler with old Chinese sayings but i guess this way is more understandable for most of the "civilized" people who've been governing in a better way which they like very much). Most possibly, you'll ask what the word "should" here means exactly. Well, like the term "human rights", "one hundred people will have one hundred (or even more i bet) kinds of explainations";)
I'm starting right away my journey of "searching the real explaination of human rights"! Woo-hoo!! (Maybe i should start from Europe and the US? Oh man, I really don't know...maybe i should? 'Cuz apparently they're much more "civilized" and certainly their values, cultures and governance are superior!! Let's get this started and...wish me luck!)
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上海的风和雨 · 扑面而来的贫与富
2008-04-26
窃以为,上海是个适合作为终点而不是起点的城市。
沉浸在毛毛细雨的季节里,在这个难得的半阴不晴却无雨的小天儿里,和亲爱的某胡同学坐在港式茶餐里大啖芥汁海螺肉。正值正午,窗外三五成群飘过俨然是刚从写字楼里解放出来的人儿,不乏老外混杂其中,却也貌似被这个城市磨练得颇有沪上味道而不再出挑打眼。显然都是奔着某个商务餐场所而去。紧接着一溜貌似刚收工的民工师傅顾盼着走过,不经意间几乎与他们每一个人四目相接,感觉那一扇巨大的落地玻璃窗瞬间变成了一堵透明的“厚障壁”。那种直勾勾的,却似乎在其中某处闪烁着不易为人所察觉的光芒的眼神,让我无法自拔地感到一股莫名其妙地辛酸猛涌上心头来。于是我试图说服自己,不要总以这种“阴暗”的小心理看民工师傅,明明就是一种对自己所谓优越心理的反射而已,没准儿人家过的比俺们都幸福开心无忧无虑呢。但是甭管怎么自我暗示,那种莫名其妙的辛酸就是挥之不去。
也许这就是上海。 这样的风和雨,却模糊了扑面而来的是贫还是富...
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这次的戛纳似乎有很多想看的...
2008-04-24
(大吼一声与题无关:俺南巡回来啦!)
如题 (没想到打个Cannes的中文还挺不容易,我怎么就一直没想到这个字会念jia而不是ga呢...汗)。好像每次都大言不惭地这么说过...不过这回是真的!
主竞赛单元
小贾:二十四城记 24 city (cities?) - 从没真正好好看过小贾的片子,这次貌似是关于城市的了,要看看
小索:Che (切 格瓦拉) - 冲着小索和Che的名字去看
小维:The Palermo Shooting (帕勒莫枪击案) - 冲着小维的名字和Palermo这个一直挺想去的城市
小查:Synecdoche, New York (纽约提喻) - 小查+纽约=必看
小伍:Vicky Cristina Barcelona (午夜巴塞罗那) - 小伍长期保持稳定出片,这回貌似不是纽约的事儿了...?
还有个叫刘奋斗的拍的王朔那个“一半是海水一般是火焰”,小说囫囵地看过一遍,有点儿期待电影会怎么样。
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Riot in Tibet: True face of western media!!
2008-03-21
Tibet has been part of China since Yuan Dynasty. Tibet was, is and will always be a part of China just like Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. If not for British colonisation, Tibet would never have had gone into slavery under the Dalai Regime. Western media has been brainwashing people into thinking that Tibet had been a sovereign country throughout history before 1950's. This is simply a lie!
"Freedom and Human Right":
Before 1951, Tibet was under a feudal serfdom characterized by the dictatorship of upper-class monks and nobles. The feudal lords who constituted only five percent of the population possessed 95 percent of the means of production. Tibet serfs were even more miserable than the black slaves in the United States before the civil war. Tibet was at that time not peaceful at all because the struggles between the slaves and their lords were very fierce."Tibet to China"
= "Texas/Hawaii to USA"
= "Bavaria to Germany"
= "Corsica to France"
= "Basque to Spain"
="Scotland/Wales to UK"
= "Punjab to India"
= "Okinawa to Japan"
= "Quebec to Canada"
= "Sicily to Italy"
="Kosovo to Serbia"
= "Chechnya to Russia" ...
Now, friends, let's talk about a solution together!Riot in Tibet: True face of western media!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcKas
Tibet WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QNKB34cJo&NR=1
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Simply...heavenly
2008-02-28
David Archuleta...that pureness in his voice...makes people so believe that it can only come from heaven, even for a not religious person like me. I'm just glad that i watch THIS season of AI. Listen to him singing 'Imagine' or 'A Thousand Miles'. -
另一个我们的梦想
2008-02-02
昨天和小一同学忽然聊到了男人和女人的梦想(指那种可以不用考虑所有现实问题的梦想,没有生计压力,不考虑虚荣,没有社会压力等等),最后发现这些梦想的本质竟然有着惊人的相似性。男人普遍有那么一个最终“归隐田间”的梦想(例如,我爸,小一她爸,法国人维维安和绵羊等等等等),而女人的终极梦想往往都落在一个事情上--“开个小买卖”。具体是什么样的小买卖因人而异,爱衣服的想开服装店,爱吃的像我跟小一这样的就想开饭馆或者小吃店...总之,这是一个非常有趣的发现。 -
提前想一想总不过分吧...
2008-02-02
Song for wedding: "Real love"
Song for funeral: "In my life"
N年以后再回头检视一下,看是不是改主意了呵呵...
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致某fairy
2008-01-22
Everything will be alright...eventually. Keep on trying. That's all i got... -
Into the wild
2008-01-22

礼拜六下午在布市看了。绵羊不断提起说想看这部,结果到最后我变成比较积极的那一个...总之,首先,极讨厌中文翻译的名字,什么“荒野生存”,听着像某过气儿美国真人秀节目一样,完全和电影或者说原著要表达的不靠谱儿。当天晚上睡觉之前躺床上翻来覆去想了半天结果也没想出来一个更合适的名字,估计这中文翻译的名字也是在这种无奈中诞生的产物。
我之前没好好看介绍或者说成心没好好看剧情介绍,就知道是个特牛逼的美国年轻人抛弃“远大前程”和要继承的万贯家财一门心思只身踏上了去阿拉斯加回归自然之路。
我要推荐一下这个片子。但是绝对不是因为拍得有多好多好。相反,Sean Penn拍出来的这个样子实在不咋地,风光无比优美,主角一律俊秀,可惜故事被斩得七零八落,我想激动结果刚有点儿感觉上来就被镜头生生斩断,严重影响我的思绪万千...推荐的原因只有一个--这是一个非常震撼人心的完完全全真实的故事!而且因为我之前没好好看介绍的缘故,结局更是把我给震得一直到走出三条大街还没醒过闷儿来。这个绝对是一部让人在看了以后会一直思考的片子。我就忽然觉得时不时地如果不把自己的人生活得极端一些就会越来越麻木下去。这个年轻人异常勇敢地追求了他的人生理想并且最终达成了。这世界上有几个人能做到这一点?有几个人能泰然说出"Don't worry, I am living like this by choice."这样的话??而且在最后他顿悟了人生真正的幸福来自于分享,只可惜...总之又总之,就单凭这个故事,这个电影一定要看。我想原著也一定会更震撼。
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Muzique Publique 志愿者生涯
2008-01-20
昨天今天连着两天晚上去了Brussels的莫里哀剧场给Muzique Publique当志愿者,在楼梯口检票查会员卡。志愿者的好处就是可以免费得到一张9欧的会员年卡,能在吧台随便喝不要钱(这个值...)。操着那两句现学来的法语在那儿现卖,貌似还被大家都听懂了哇哈哈。其实就三句最常用:“晚上好”,“会员卡”,和“对不起我的法语说的不好(同时将手指向对面讲法语的姑娘...)”。偶尔混杂在满是讲法语的人群中冒出一两句弗拉芒语的“晚上好”,就感觉又回到荷兰了还挺亲切呵呵。
这个叫Muzique Publique的组织是两个比利时人创建的,专门包下剧院一类的场地给广大布市的人民群众提供又便宜又好的音乐类演出。两个人合作了十多年经营得有声有色直到现在。不过确切的说两人一个是西班牙lady,一个是弗拉芒语区的gentleman。西班牙裔的lady性格开朗火爆,在中场休息的时候还兴致勃勃地讲了她自己的故事。原来她父母都是communist(!),二战的时候从西班牙莫名其妙的来到了“据说能找到工作”的比利时(大汗)。结果多年以后,她的父亲现在已经成了个富有的资本家,完全把共产主义那一套忘了个一干二净(大大汗)。她自己有个女儿比较胖,送到专门瘦身的培训班也没有成效,现在决定回西班牙定居开始新的生活。总之听别人讲自己人生的故事总是很有趣的一件事儿。
9欧一张会员卡,全年可以参加各种免费的音乐会或者优惠价格的音乐演出,和咱国家大剧院比起来那简直就跟不要钱似的。纳税人交钱了政府就理应给这样专门娱乐“大众”而不是只单纯取悦“小众”的组织拨款啊。总之看着一帮老老少少或嬉皮或一本正经的人们伴着或爵士或世界风的现场音乐扭扭屁股动动腰,就觉得这才应该是音乐的本质吧。
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I don't want to sleep alone
2007-12-30
看完了以后才知道,和蔡明亮擦肩而过。几天前他曾来过同一家影院和观众见面。遗憾。
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Winter sea, winter mist -- Oostende, BE
2007-12-24
今天去海边了。好像还是头一次看冬天的大海。
火车经停根特和布鲁日,拖家带口来欧洲度假的老美,带着圣诞帽的法语区的青少年...绝大多数的人都在这两站下光了。
刚下火车,发现一脚踩下去竟然是雪!好像是今年冬天头一次见真正的雪呵呵,尽管没看见下的过程...一抬头,一艘巨大的轮船赫然冲进画面。原来中央火车站就在海边。
这个城市的名字直接翻译成中文就是“东边的尽头”。听起来比如此直白的弗拉芒语似乎浪漫那么一点儿...更逗的是这个名字的逻辑。说“东边”显然不是指欧洲大陆的尽头,那么我想就是指北海的东尽头罢。
早上出门的时候还是阴的,走出站台的时候已经出太阳了,透过海边厚厚的迷雾,散发出一种暖暖的光芒。捧着一碗热腾腾的泡椒海蜗牛在港口溜达着,倒也没觉得很冷。
Oostende的港口其实挺工业化的,但是莫名其妙的,那些巨大的施工中的土堆,耸立的吊车,庞大的烟囱,在脑顶盘旋的硕大海鸟,偶尔驶入或驶出的货船...混合在一起,在迷雾的笼罩下,竟然呈现出一种异样的奇妙景象。
嗅着鱼腥味儿走进了码头不远处的一个fish market。没什么人,就是一水儿的比利时大妈在看摊儿闲聊。我先仔细观察了一下大妈们,发现她们的长相儿都有一个共同特点--特狰狞。紧缩的眉头,深陷的大眼,鹰勾鼻,带钩儿的下巴,脸上皱纹也像刻出来的一道一道特深,总之跟布鲁塞尔的大妈完全不是一风格啊,不知道是不是长年海风侵蚀的结果...再观察直挺挺的海鱼,有一种长得像平鱼,但是身上竟然有桔黄色的均匀斑点,让俺不禁立刻联想到毒蘑菇...
溜达出fish market就直奔码头了。从码头向海里延伸出一个类似青岛栈桥一样的木结构,相当长。走到尽头是一个圆形的开阔平台,中央立着一支挺高的灯塔,一圈木围栏上架着十来支海竿,有三两个老汉在甩竿。竟还真有鱼频频上钩。据说在这样的海港,经常可以发现被钓上来的鱼,嘴上已经被鱼钩戳了4、5个新新旧旧的洞,却仍旧奋不顾身继续上钩。想来竟然觉得很悲壮...
雾似乎越来越浓,从栈桥尽头往码头回望,吊车和灯塔被隐去下半身,海市蜃楼一样飘在半空。大概是雾大的缘故,一艘巨轮赫然跃出,都快装到鼻子尖儿了才发现。举着俺那两只“熊爪”傻呵呵地跟船上的人挥手。有船员不好意思地小摆了几下手回应,倒是站在最高处的貌似船长的老头挺给面子,举起烟斗微笑示意。
走下栈桥,往海滩上溜达。所谓the end of Belgium,和其他地方的海其实也没什么不同。只不过因为头一次看冬天的海,所以有点儿莫名地小激动。上滩上人不多,沙子是卡其色的,比我想象中细腻很多,淤了很多海水在里面,乍看上去平滑坚实,其实踩上去扑叽扑叽的松软得很。浪不算小也不算大,海浪声中夹杂着一种夏天时感受不到的疏离感。才四点钟不到,太阳已经掉得很低了,斜斜地洒在海滩上。这时候才意识到,那雾已经不知不觉退了。
这样的城市,除了海滨,总让人觉得就粗糙得很,乏味得很了。Oostende也没有精致到哪里去,但却有两个海滨以外的东西让人印象深刻。一个是对于这个城市来说算得上宏大精美得让人惊讶的主教堂,里头有不少海洋主题的古老油画,也算是这个城市的特色了吧。还有一个就是在一条僻静小巷里的WWF(野生动物保护基金会,大熊猫那个)设立的一个海洋主题的迷你博物馆。惊讶之余推门进去,发现真是麻雀虽小五脏俱全,有个迷你海洋图书馆,主题礼品店,播放着海洋纪录片的壁挂液晶屏,还有各种砂石,贝壳和海洋生物的标本供参观。一个戴着小圆眼镜的小老头很和蔼地给我们介绍了从世界各地收集来的海滩沙子。把那些装在培养皿里的沙子挨个儿放到显微镜底下观察,竟然发现另有一番天地。智利的沙子放大来看竟然是无数完整的极微小的尖头海螺壳!正是因为这种微小却蕴含了巨大坚固性的结构抵挡住了海浪千万年的冲击,才使得那里的沙滩和世界其他地方如此不同。不禁感叹这个世界的奇妙之处远不是一个人一生可以探究得尽的。
穿过喧闹的市中心,走向中央车站大厅,渐渐远离比利时的西尽头...

(看这人内傻样儿有点儿眼熟吧呵呵...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Th6buLOLw 又一年到头了,谨献给我的各位亲爱的朋友们,新年快乐)
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Otherwise与老北京网(Oldbeijing.net)的第一次合作
2007-12-06
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Moleskine?!
2007-11-16
"The legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin."
昨天一个人,突发奇想跑到主街,决定给自己买一生日礼物。去了书店,二楼摆满了各种花样儿的agenda,说白了就是“效率手册”。想想这个东西恐怕是最能跟在自个儿身边一整年的重要物件儿,当生日礼物似乎再合适不过了。本来在各种花色,各种风景,各种名家大师主题等等的本本中踌躇,忽然发现有一排黑糊糊且异常朴素的agenda摆在一角,最沉默却似乎最响亮。整个儿人像被钩了魂儿一样莫名其妙飘了过去,一番摩挲之后,毅然决然地发现其他的那些花花绿绿的agenda已然不能入咱的法眼了。本来还在犹豫,因为确实够贵,但是当我看到label上的那句话,即开篇引的那句的时候,便在一次毅然决然了...
款台的大妈操着荷兰语问我是送人的礼物还是自己用,俺的脸小红一下,大义凛然道,俺自个儿!心想,她怎么会知道,其实这也算是个送人的礼物了,只不过是自个儿送自个儿的...
因为觉得是为了特殊的日子买的特殊的本子,所以选了红得绚烂耀眼的2008年限量版,本命年的人受用呵呵。
回来拿着本子颠三倒四爱不释手,明明离新年还有俩月,却一个劲儿捉摸着写点儿什么上去,于是在扉页写了如下:"To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe." 就是那个据说bisexual的人类学家、游记作家Chatwin说的,which i totally agree with (two-hands up!!).
然后就借势挖掘了一下自己对“本”这个物件儿的迷恋。从小就痴迷于自己制作各种稀奇古怪的小本子,攒各种本子。长大以后对“本”的要求有增无减,如果本子不好,写什么都不自在。这莫非就是所谓的恋物癖...?本来这癖好在一段时间内被压抑下去了,而现在,捧着这个崭新的、传奇性的Moleskine,曾经心中对本的所有迷恋瞬间迸发...
果然,人的本质是不会变的;)


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Decisive Moment 决定性瞬间
2007-11-11
Bresson,Bresson...这个名字一直就摆在那儿,我也“坚持”一直忽略这个名字。估计是因为这名字太响亮而我自青春期以来的“叛逆”心理一直没有完全褪去罢(汗)。但是一旦闸门打开,便一发不可收拾,Bresson的原则恰恰就是我模糊中认为一张好照片该有的所有。更何况这所谓“决定性瞬间”用来形容本人当下再合适不过。
Martine Franck, Bresson的第二任妻子,她的照片我也喜欢。
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On the road - Hitchhiking South of France
2007-09-11
0824-0909
Coudure, St Sever;
Biarritz, Bayonne;
Near St Jean Pied de Port (S-F border);
Carcassonne;
Toulouse.

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Someone To Share My Life With
2007-08-19

I think, I'll marry a guy who things this song to me with a guitar, someday (and it doesn't even have to sound like Jens Lekman!).
Jens Lekman - Someone To Share My Life With
I don't want a girl who hangs on every word I say
Who shows me off to her parents over roast beef on Sunday
I don't want a girl who thinks she has to fake
I don't want a girl who laughs at every little joke I make
I just want someone
to share my life with
I just want someone
to share my life with
I don't want a girl who thinks there's only me to please
I don't want a girl who thinks it's fun to tease
I don't want a girl who thinks she has to cater for my every needs
I don't want a girl to go down on her knees
I just want someone
to share my life with
I just want someone
to share my life with
and that someone could be you
that someone could be you
you could be that someone
you could be that someone
you could be that someone
you could be that someone
you could be that someone
you could be that someone
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