2008年12月29日 星期一

Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling



  Artist: Belle & Sebastian

Album: Storytelling (2002)

  Song: Storytelling



Lyrics:



Picture a scene in your mind

Looks at all the people and take note of the setting behind

Listen, watch, and wait

A plot begins to take shape

There's a story

And then characters will come to you

Relating events as they choose to

But all their words and actions come entirely from you



If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility

And you can lead your characters anywhere you want

You have immunity



Have you considered the way

People might react to all the things that your characters say?

And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?

Are you sick?

Are you crippled? Insane?

Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?

Are you the one to be blamed?



Now you're a storyteller you might think you are without responsibility

But in directions, actions and words

Cause and effect

You need consistency



How can you finish the tale?

Lives which have played a part

Are summarized from the very start

And episodes left out to make it all go our way

"It's a might big world

Some of it I've seen

But mostly I've only heard

And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"



You're just a storyteller

You're not trying to escape responsibility

If we believe you then you're successful

But you don't make claims of verity





Last FM上的介紹:



這個樂隊取名於一個法國兒童電視系列劇,是說一個小男孩和他的狗是怎麼互相珍愛的,可以說Belle & Sebastian也相當難能可貴,然而“難能可貴”可以是一個用來罵人的字眼,Belle & Sebastian卻不具有這個字眼言外之意的那層貶義的意思——他們內向化卻不孤立化,美麗卻不懦弱,他們創作的旋律燦爛精緻,聽上去完整而統一。樂隊在吉他手兼主唱Stuart Murdoch帶領下,前後一共發行了7張唱片,並打造出一種類似於60年代流行樂以及民謠搖滾的親密無間卻又莊嚴宏偉的音樂,然而Murdoch的才華不僅僅體現在奇思怪想和超現實主義上,不安憂慮卻充滿情感的描繪更讓歌曲無不反映出一種切實的現實感。

Belle & Sebastian成立於格拉斯哥的一個通宵咖啡屋裡,在1996年1月。樂隊的歌手兼創作者Stuart Murdoch與貝斯手Stuart David結識於一個政府培訓項目,組成樂隊後錄制了一些小樣,這些唱片給一個Jeepster的星探在參加Stow學院音樂項目管理課程時相中。這項課程由來自Associate的Alan Rankine開設,並每年由學院自己的品牌Electric Honey製作併發行一張唱片——通常是單曲碟。然而鑒於Belle & Sebastian早已有足夠多的單曲可以錄制一整張專輯,於是Belle & Sebastian的這張難懂的“Tigermilk”得以出世了,這張專輯的錄制用了三天,只發行了一前張,而這當初的版本如今每張已被炒到了400英磅。

Belle & Sebastian接著在8月份與Jeepster簽了合同,隨後樂隊在11月18日發行了“If You’re Feeling Sinister”,這張唱片收到了帶有批判性質的贊譽。同時,Belle & Sebastian參加了Tindersticks ICA的合作演出,隨之又是11月初在Borderline舉世矚目的表演,這都讓樂隊首次體驗到了現場表演的快樂。接著Belle & Sebastian開始著手計劃用97年的夏季完成併發行一張單曲碟,這樂隊的第一張EP“Dog On Wheels”發行於5月12日,這張唱片裡包括了一些樂隊早期的小樣作品,完成與形成樂隊陣容之前,其中還有“The State I Am In”的小樣版本,這首單曲的專輯版本曾收錄在“Tigermilk”的專輯中,Mark Radcliffe在其中有盡情的表演,而對於那些手頭沒有Belle & Sebastian那傑出的第一張專輯“Tigermilk”的歌迷們,這張EP便成為了他們的寵兒,這也讓“Dog On Wheels”在單曲排行榜上竄升至第59的位置。

Belle & Sebastian的第二張單曲碟“Lazy Line Painter Jane”發行於7月28日,正好是著名的Union Chapel音樂演出在倫敦Islington開始的那一周。儘管教堂裡音質相當糟糕,但樂隊還是讓前來觀摩的歌迷們在教堂過道和座位上翩翩起舞。最主要的是這是Belle & Sebastian參加群體演出,也是大家難得的一次宗教體驗。樂隊的“Lazy Line Painter Jane”在單曲榜上衝破41的位置,正正好擠上40名,這也讓鍵盤手Chris Geddes喜出望外,因為他事先和Jeepster的老闆打賭說樂隊擠不上這個位置。隨後樂隊又參加了在牛津和Colchester的South小型音樂巡演中的兩場演出,並為首次登陸美國做好準備。

2008年12月28日 星期日

Jeff Tweedy - Simple Twist Of Fate



這首歌是I'm Not There的電影插曲

間奏的弦樂好好聽啊~




這是KT Tunstall的現場版本詮釋地也很迷人, 別有一番風味



這是各式各樣I'm Not There的電影海報





這是movie trailer





I'm Not There 搖滾啓示錄 135分鐘

感覺會很好看阿~兩三年前有一Bob Dylan的自傳書“搖滾記“在書店上架

感覺是凡是後代的搖滾的迷哥迷姐都必須一看的傳記

因為他是Bob Dylan啊   雖比Beatles稍晚出道, 但全盛時期各擅勝場

真的對那個年代的音樂不熟, 不該在再多說些什麼

這部電影全台灣很少電影院上映, 要看可能要自行去找了

看到演員名單洋洋灑灑的好萊塢頂極A咖, 光這樣就超想看了

Cate Blanchett女扮男裝演Dylan維妙維俏

Ben Wishaw(香水的男主角)

Christian Bale

Richard Gere

Heath Ledger永遠的西斯.萊傑今年年初剛好我生日當天掛掉, 李安聞訊說他心都碎了, 我也碎了啊, 他才28歲才正開始大紅大紫的時候, 我從高中就看好他會紅啊

......我只認識這幾個

電影原聲帶也很嚇人, 找了老中青三代有分量的搖滾樂手來重唱Dylan的一些經典歌曲

算是對前輩尊崇的致意, 歌單也是洋洋灑灑多達30首, 十分嚇人





<電影簡介>

無論你是否聽過他的音樂,巴布狄倫,都是搖滾樂壇無可取代的永恆傳奇!



曾以《<i>絲絨金礦</i>》獲奧斯卡提名的獨立製片導演陶德‧海恩斯,脫離了傳統傳記片範疇,大膽起用六個不同年齡、長相、膚色甚至性別的傑出演員,分別演繹呈現巴布狄倫的七段生命歷程與身份轉換,遊走於幻想與寫實邊緣的創新手法。



巴布狄倫(Bob Dylan)是史上第一個獲得普立茲獎肯定的搖滾歌手,在電影中,在凱特布蘭琪、李察吉爾、希斯萊傑與克里斯汀貝爾的詮釋下,他可以是任何人,卻也誰都不是,每一名觀者都可從電影中看見部分的自我。



影片重現了搖滾詩人巴布狄倫一生、不為人所知的故事,還能聽到未曾收錄至任何專輯的單曲。以音速溯往,回憶青春、搖滾、以及那些美好年代,獻給所有搖滾世代長大的孩子。







They sat together in the park

As the evening sky grew dark,

She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones.

'Twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight

And watched out for a simple twist of fate.



They walked along by the old canal

A little confused, I remember well

And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' bright.

He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train

Moving with a simple twist of fate.



A saxophone someplace far off played

As she was walkin' by the arcade.

As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up,

She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate

And forgot about a simple twist of fate.



He woke up, the room was bare

He didn't see her anywhere.

He told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide,

Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate

Brought on by a simple twist of fate.



He hears the ticking of the clocks

And walks along with a parrot that talks,

Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailers all come in.

Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long must he wait

Once more for a simple twist of fate.



People tell me it's a sin

To know and feel too much within.

I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring.

She was born in spring, but I was born too late

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

2008年12月23日 星期二

My Diet Pill - Ego & I




找歌的時後,無意間一併找到的

一個外國人很熱心的介紹:

I'm a my diet pill fan and i believe their music needs more exposure.

Listen to the songs and if you like what you hear, please buy their stuff.


Cheers,

Michael



這首Ego & I是last FM上 My Diet Pill播放率最高的一首歌

第一次聽感覺並不會很吸引人

但是就是有一種很特別的韻味

另外

我覺得這首歌很適合用來學英文單字XD



原來今天是平安夜,看到有人丟聖誕快樂才驚覺

我只注意到美國25號5:00 pm NBA的年度聖誕大戲─Celtics VS Lakers本季第一次的對戰

在台灣是26號,夭壽的清晨六點準時live轉播








My Diet Pill - First Album (1999)

<簡介>

“Pavement和Blur相遇在法國海濱,與Velvet Underground一起玩起了R.E.M的歌!”


  My Diet Pill誕生於上世紀末的法國Nice。沒有出過一張商業唱片,但是在歐洲超過

300場的演出,並且作品被大量下載後,這只樂隊現在在全世界都有自己的樂迷。

  送往海外的CD收到了熱烈的歡迎:隨著遍佈世界各地的各類大學電臺都開始播著

My Diet Pill。小夥子們現在負擔得起太陽鏡同時還迷上了美國腔!





Disillusion, dissension

One love for a life but no life for one love

No sacrifice, no compromise

Misunderstandings and we’re fed up staying

If one feeling can hurt a man

I wanna be inhuman

I ain’t got no lust for pleasure

I don’t want to suffer



Dysfunction, distortion

See the modern quest, the blooming of itself

Don’t look backward, don’t look forward

This generation waits for a revelation

If one feeling can hurt a woman

She wanna be inhuman

Is there anyone who can help her ?

She doesn’t want to suffer



Tell me if it’s a game

See your empty life

Tell me if it’s a shame

See my empty life



Division, destruction

Nuclear family has one foot in the grave

Solitude in the hive

One point for self-service lives

I like your void, do you like mine ?

We’re glad untogether

I like your freedom, do you like mine ?

See us when it’s better



Do you trust me?

When i say i’m nothing when you don’t look at me

When you give me substance to be something now

If not, i won’t be anything

When this world comes back to the void

Do you trust me now?


My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade





這首是MCR的歌中少數我覺得吵得蠻順耳的

蠻適合跑步的聽的(暖身到開始跑),節奏感很強

雖然我的itune資料庫裡面有將近一萬首歌

可是一張快節奏的慢跑的歌單

我卻花了好久時間才免強拼出來

平常慢跑是建議BPM在160左右,最適合跑步的節奏

這首歌我用軟體點極算過BPM(一分鐘節拍數)居然高達250!!





專輯名:《The Black Parade 黑色進行曲》

演唱者:My Chemical Romance 我的另類羅曼史

發行時間:2006年10月24日

發行公司:Reprise / Wea

音樂風格:Punk-Pop, Emo





When I was,

A young boy,

My father, took me into the city

To see a marching band

He said, "Son when you grow up, will you be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"

He said, "Will you defeat them, your demons, and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the black parade."



When I was,

A young boy

My father, took me into the city

To see a marching band

He said, "Son when you grow up, will you be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"



Sometimes I get the feeling, she's watching over me

And other times I feel like I should go

And through it all, the rise and fall

The bodies in the street

And when you're gone we want you all to know



We'll carry on, We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

Until my heart I can't contain it

The anthem won't explain it



A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams

You're misery and hate will kill us all

So paint it black and take it back

Lets shout it loud and clear

Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on



We'll carry on,

And though your dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And though your broken and defeated

Your weary widow marches on

And on we carry through the fears

Oh oh oh



The disappointed faces of your peers

Oh oh oh

Take a look at me 'cause I could not care at all

Do or die

You’ll never make me

Because the world will never take my (heart)

Go and try; you’ll never break me

We want it all, we want to play this (part)

I won’t explain, or say I’m sorry

I’m unashamed, I’m gonna show my (scar)

Give a cheer, for all the broken

Listen here, because it’s who we are

I'm just a man; I'm not a hero

Just a boy, whose meant to sing this (song)

I'm just a man; I'm not a hero

I

Don't

Care



We'll carry on

We'll carry on

And though you're dead and gone believe me

Your memory will carry on

We'll carry on

And though your broken and defeated

Your weary widow marches on

Do or die

You’ll never make me

Because the world will never take my (heart)

Go and try; you’ll never break me

We want it all, we want to play this (part)

I won’t explain, or say I’m sorry

I’m unashamed, I’m gonna show my (scar)

Give a cheer, for all the broken

Listen here, because it’s who we are

I'm just a man; I'm not a hero

Just a boy, who had to sing this (song)

I'm just a man; I'm not a hero)

We'll carry on

We'll carry on

We'll carry on

We'll carry on

We'll carry on



2008年12月22日 星期一

12月22日

1

快被胃食道逆流搞瘋了

除了食糰上湧外,每天醒來喉嚨都好酸

喉嚨已經整整痛兩星期了

有時候墊兩個枕頭睡覺還會落枕,要不然就是拉傷肱三頭肌,我也不知道是怎麼辦到的

高醫榮總都看過,醫生都說這個沒甚麼大礙,會好

但是我已經吃了半年的西藥啦

去領藥的時後,這次我直接拿到一個完整盒裝台灣西洋製藥的"多寶胃康"、酷

之前只是藥片幾片幾片地拿,現在直接整盒慨贈了

家庭號,讓你吃到明年



看了三家中醫、把過脈、針過灸、吃過藥

中醫師說我的脈象是─弦脈

就是很容易緊張,對自己要求很多,很龜毛的人會有的脈象

我已經閒適快半年了

沒事就運動,每天都有笑,我覺得已經是夠輕鬆了

除了很在意上顎前牙舌側面造成的牙齒酸蝕之外

我真的很怕在拖下去會變成食道癌之類的...就嗚呼哀哉阿密陀佛了







2

最近研究了一下慢跑

發現了一個新名詞叫做─慢慢跑,很可愛吧

英文特稱作LSD(long slow distance)

就如字面上的意思,速度比競走還要快一點而已

適合用來訓練跑馬拉松更遠距離的體力與耐力

一般慢跑一公里要跑5~6分鐘,心跳每分鐘130~150下

LSD則是一公里要跑7~8分鐘,心跳每分鐘100~130下

建議要跑90~120分鐘

看書上寫說"跑得快的人不一定能跑地久,但跑的久的人一定能跑地快"

很耐人尋味的一段話

不過跑步這回事,真的如此沒錯



現在只嘗試了4公里跑了30分鐘

要連續跑超過一個小時、甚至兩個小時,曠日廢時

這個實在還有待商榷,有待實際體驗



減少游泳的次數,增加跑步的次數

實在是因為天氣真的變冷了

實在無法更衣室一出來就一直發抖,一路抖到烤箱

抖到有點像是癲癇發作,每次救生員都在看我

也實在是很怕一入水,水溫太低,突然發生什麼CVA,突然中個風之類的



游泳池每次都顯示室溫20度,水溫28度,

實在有造假的嫌疑,一下水就像是碰到驅狂魔一般─所有開心的感覺都消失了,再也快樂不起來



最近會迷上有氧運動其實是因為能夠消脂 又健康的好處

只要有氧運動超過20分鐘,就開始消耗肝醣,又同時氧化身體的脂肪

皮下的脂肪會覆蓋在肌肉上面,脂肪減少了,肌肉會比較明顯,身形也會比較好看。





3

今天無意在電影台看到了1995年拍的港片"花月佳期(Love in the time of twilight)"

於是義無反顧又再看了一遍

這部電影實在是百看不厭的經典,徐克拍的

似乎在每個年紀階段都看了一次,每一次都有不同的體會

看了越多電影、年紀越增長,才知道這部電影厲害在哪裡















還有發行到法國的法文版,整個封面都不一樣













洪欣欣說(楊采妮飾)



『這齣戲 我老爸最喜歡唱

每次唱完

他都悶聲不出進房間

看著我媽媽的照片

一個晚上都不出來

因為這部戲是他們第一次

在台上合作演出

也是最後一次在台下相聚

本來是兩個人的戲

現在就剩他一個人唱了

他們整天說戲子無情

因為他們以為

沒了對方一樣活

人生只不過離離合合

但是就沒有想過我

沒有了他們任何一個都不行

世界上哪還有真情?

可是不明白他為什麼還

整天唱 《胡不歸》』





『往後好好過日子,不要再提以前了』

『對,好好過日子, 不提以前了,將來再說將來的』

『這煙花放得好燦爛,不知道整天看,會不會覺得它討厭』

『就是因為它短暫 所以覺得漂亮 才會更加珍惜它』







張庭飾演的張小盈也真夠駭人的,令人印象有夠深刻,不寒而慄



『人家的刀是有毒的、手巾是有毒的、這酒也是有毒的,全都是有毒的...』



民初一班亂哄哄熱鬧的戲坊、時間重來、人鬼殊途、花前月下、打劫銀行、動刀動槍的

根本可以稱上是一部喜劇動作愛情文藝驚悚鬼片

這樣廣泛的題材,操弄過去與未來的時空,居然能夠剪成一部一個多小時又讓人又哭又笑的電影,實在太神奇啦



只能說楊采妮當年實在太正

我當時太年幼

錯過了那年代的美好



好吧~

這部香港電影台灣譯作"電線桿有鬼"(俏皮地令人很洩氣)

不知道該是我們笑港譯電影片名

還是該被笑

"花月佳期(Love in the time of twilight)"挺好的阿

短期內最好不要再看再到再提到這部電影

以免我再心煩意亂七上八下魂不守舍了









4

友人A君曾信誓旦旦斬釘截鐵地說他這輩子決定不結婚

這樣的宣示"曾經"讓我越來越懷疑A君真的是gay

所以才冠冕堂皇地說此身不婚(另外我也真的懷疑很久了)



看到single板自信自愛有計劃有目標;相對的lonely板哀鴻遍野,窮極無聊,自怨自艾

因為我也曾經倉皇失措地成為lonely板的府上賓,如今成為single板的座上客

這樣的對比和轉變,我覺得既有趣又好笑

同樣都是單身的處境,為什麼生活內容可以如此大異其趣?

我想真的是"心態"吧

有single板板友很巧妙地如比喻



『將滿足於單身狀態想像為食譜

每天的食物都很好吃

有伴就像已經吃得很飽了

還硬要逼你吃下其他食物

而且好吃不好吃還是未知數

如果要吃要嘛就是吃太飽

不然就是要捨棄一部分原本那份美味的食譜

來吃有時好吃有時不好吃的食物』



『每個人的體質都不一樣. 有人"單身"就是"吃不飽"

也常常不能了解為什麼有人"單身"就可以吃飽了...』



我想不管單不單身、結不結婚

最重要的前提是

就算自己一個人也能吃飽

從先能夠自己一個人吃飽開始...

2008年12月20日 星期六

Priscilla Ahn - Dream



好像是電影恐怖社區(Disturbia)的插曲



I was a little girl alone in my little world who dreamed of a little home for me.

I played pretend between the trees, and fed my houseguests bark and leaves, and laughed in my pretty bed of green.



I had a dream

That I could fly from the highest swing.

I had a dream.



Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park, I asked God who I'm supposed to be.

The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep.



I had a dream

That I could fly from the highest tree.

I had a dream.



Now I'm old and feeling grey. I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.

I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell. I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now to fly from the highest wing.



I had a dream

2008年12月15日 星期一

Monster Movie - The Impossible


The Impossible - Monster Movie

收錄自Monster Movie 2006年第四張專輯 All Lost

很悲觀頹廢的一首歌...但是卻散發著一種病態的獨特美感


昨天在電影院看完囧男孩,總歸感人結局的散場後,

看到斜前方一個女生仍坐著,她摘掉眼鏡,雙手拿紙巾一直在兩頰上頻頻舞動著

我心想說真有這麼感人阿?!(是蠻感人得沒錯)



但是,我再多看了幾秒,發現她其實是很認真地在使用"吸油面紙" QQ
(哈!哈!哈!,我覺得很好笑)


看到囧男孩中很多國小小時後的畫面橋段,一段段地兒時記趣,想像與冒險

一一勾起自己久未回想起的記憶與童年

看國片總發現同廳的觀眾,包括我自己總是很容易被電影裡平凡無奇的對白打動

隨便一句台灣俚語就會惹得全場樂不可支,大家的笑點同時都降了很低

我想這就是很貼近台灣文化生活的共鳴吧



終於看到狐狸與我,沒有想像中的 好看,預告片太唯美了

如果沒有旁白,其實真的是在看Discovery,或是動物星球頻道之類的

很多人中途離場








When the first star starts to shine

Over my horizon in my mind

I hold my hands out to catch it

But I can't catch it. No... No... No...

So I dreamt to be impossible only reaching higher

And it helped me make it through the night

But I see everything simpler

As a walk on the higher wire

And I will never believe that it will be alright... alright...



I've always wanted to believe

In the things that I can't see

I reach my hands out to hold them

But I can't hold them. No... No... No...

So I dreamt to be impossible with me, reaching higher

And it helped me make it through the night

But I see everything simpler

As a walk on the higher wire

And I will never believe that it will be alright... alright...



Both can't think of nails on the gilt face

Still I don't know

When will reach the valley below

And where am I going? Am I free fall?

If it lasts forever it will feel like nothing at all, nothing at all

So I dreamt to be impossible with me, reaching higher

And it helped me make it through the night

But I see everything simpler

As a walk on the higher wire

And I will never believe that it will be alright... alright...