
后传
Sunday, April 26, 2009
要喜欢一样东西,喜欢六年,不是件容易的事。要重温着当年的事,复习着感动,一遍又一遍,一年又一年,不被时间冲淡、淡漠腐蚀,更不简单。感动不能复制,但我想它会通过另一种形式重现。某个音韵会撩拨着心灵上的那根弦,带回不甘愿被遗忘的跌宕和震撼。 当时的偶然,几年后回头看,其实也是一种必然。形式上的必然。因为我们都在同个地方做出同一个选择,为着同一件事,不无迷惘但步履逐渐稳健,一步一脚印地靠近同样的目的地。
今年是《黄城》最后一年在维多利亚剧院演出。说要装修也说了那么多年,每年都要重新解释为什么还没拆。但今年总算做了个了断。播放着VT的录影时,看着那些休息室、地下室、后台等,和回忆的对照又带来一波无中生有的惆怅。
我们这群偏执狂曾属于那个舞台,绽放着神采,放肆着想象,见证过我们辛苦的成果。那块空间是我们守护的地方。而谢幕时唱着那首歌,歌名中的名词已无实际意义,但倒映在台上他们眼眸中的,是过往延续至今的激情与精神。他们跟我们一样。这本那么多人经手的传记,如此这般往后传。这场梦要做多久啊?不识城中何所有,只缘身在此城中。
最近重返了舞台,不过是另一个台面,不错的体验,但和昔日的感觉,我想为了公平起见,是不能相提并论的。
Envoy of the Stars @ 12:40 AM
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同乘的列车
Sunday, April 19, 2009
有幅图景是前些时候就要绘制的。有些字符是潜伏在心里,伴随着每天的巴士车程,弥漫在白日梦中的。看了《重庆森林》后产生的一点迷思,酝酿了些似有若无的心情,试着描摹,那不够深刻的印象。
钢骨水泥的都市,遍布着寂寞。热闹的市集,荒凉的心。看着金城武和梁朝伟各自为逝去的感情所牵绊,说穿了不过就是为情所困,不能忘怀,念旧心态作祟,还是受困于难以摆脱的习惯,难以不想的人。梁朝伟一番自言自语的独白,搞笑而真实;金城武的自嘲,傻得让人动容。 都是一样执著。另外,王菲在电影里的角色行为也是让人摸不着头脑,让人不禁在想:这就是城市人的感情游戏吗?搞不懂。可能,也不用太懂。
最后,孤独的人,吸引的是孤独的背影。
“了解一个人并不代表什么。人是会变的。”
“今天他喜欢吃凤梨。明天他可能会喜欢上吃苹果。”
“从几何时,什么东西都有个日期。”
是啊,永恒是永久的恒心,时间是无限期的考验。
可能我要再找机会重看这部片,想要了解森林的方法,本就是要置身其中。《重庆森林》的英文片名竟是Chungking Express,而现实中,我都不知道自己搭着通往哪里的列车,虽然清楚很多人和我一样同行,但似乎都同车异梦。
Each Man is an island. 当人们发现无人了解自己时,自身就如一座孤岛,四面都是海流,什么都够不着。但人总是不甘寂寞,无法单独生存,远离人群。所以John Donnes也说了:No man is an island.
Envoy of the Stars @ 8:01 PM
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K NO WIN G
It was a timely option to watch "Knowing", yet another movie which basically perpetuates an Armageddon-like theme. For two reasons:
1. I realised that having taken "Understanding the universe" was actually a good choice, as it enables comprehension of certain topics discussed in the film, albeit the lack of in-depth knowledge.
2. Considering how the sweltering heat threatened to fry me today, the prophecy made in the film seems to be materialising in reality. Or it may be one of those possibilities.
With the end-of-the-world theories circulating around in a seemingly endless fashion, one would think we can't wait to predict our own annihilation. But it reminded me the fragility of our race, or our planet, because a superflare from the Sun just has to hit us and it will obliterate everything. How miraculous, at risk of bringing in the theatrics, it actually is to be able to live in a world teeming with life, when near to none exists in the vastness of the Galaxy, according to our understanding as of now.
The film takes a philosophical swing at sense of purpose. As mentioned in the film, two theories mainly exist in sharp contast. Determinism corresponds to a system for understanding everything that has and will occur in the system, based on the physical outcomes of causality, in which, every action, or cause, produces a reaction, or effect, and every reaction, in turn, becomes the cause of subsequent reactions. In short, a combination of things happening at a particular time will produce a particular outcome. On the other end of the scale, the randomness theory believes in a lack of order, cause and purpose, attributing events to a matter of coincidence, serving no particular meaning.
That life is a string of unrelated accidents and mistakes, and that our existence is a matter of coincidence, above everything. But even if one foresees the future with flawless accuracy, in a way making something that appears random to be actually something that is predictable, only restricted to say a limited audience, what will it mean if the future cannot be changed when everything is predetermined and we can only live through it, as if we are being directed by the winds behind us. Sometimes, knowing is not enough.
The saving grace is not the assurance of continuality, but our beliefs that carry us where we want to. And the purpose lies in reassurance.
Envoy of the Stars @ 1:25 AM
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敢问路在何方
Monday, April 13, 2009

Envoy of the Stars @ 8:34 PM
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网中
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
学校走廊旁边有一处绿意盎然、树木繁茂的从林,像是久经荒废、无人打理似的,只是日复一日看着学院的变迁,人群的聚散。每当路过时,我总顺道一览它状似颓败中散发的点点生机;它反观我规律生活中藏不了的荒诞离奇。
今天,经过一阵小雨浣洗后,那片绿色屏幕前起了一层薄雾,朦胧中看到一张巨大的蜘蛛网,织得如此漂亮完整,悬吊在一棵大树和走廊柱子间,刚好打破了两个世界的分水岭,却又很安分地对两边都不加以干扰。
身旁的朋友和我在那里呆了五分钟,细细研究了这蜘蛛网的构造,就像是看到任何一个世界七大奇观一样兴奋,最后得出了一个结论:这蜘蛛前世应该是工程师吧。只是再厉害的工程,一场大雨、一颗投过去的石头,也会将之击碎。蜘蛛织的是网,捕的是梦;为了生存下来的梦,只是梦很脆弱,禁不起风吹雨打,受不了他人阻挠。
怎么感觉好熟悉。
Envoy of the Stars @ 7:32 PM
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许美静 迫在眉梢 高清MV
Monday, April 06, 2009
静夜中听这首歌,很牵动人心。有幸在九年前的NDP听到她现场唱了这首歌。那时的我也是表演者,站在一定的距离听她唱着,那几句副歌不时在脑中缭绕。九年了。好想念的一把声音。
Envoy of the Stars @ 1:39 AM
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重生
Sunday, April 05, 2009
前奏
买演唱会门票从来没这么挣扎,而且一直拖到最后一星期才算是下定破釜沉舟的决心。这不是因为演唱会主角的关系,纯粹是经济拮据,而且一贯选择买的最便宜的门票都卖光了。尽管如此,结果还是去了。去听了陈绮贞的演唱会。
票买完后,哲函第一个问我:我们上次也去过了。为什么会这么喜欢她?我有些答不出来,只是在思考。但很肯定的是,朋友当中有个能共享相同音乐口味的很难得。在谈论着这份共识时,眼神是明亮的,心是炽热的。不管各自怀抱着什么样的梦想前进,渐行渐远,但有些东西会作为彼此的羁绊存在着,把我们带到彼此面前。所以听到Ivan在得知票已买好后从电话听筒那方传来的爽朗笑声,我想:这就是音乐酝酿的友情。
小步舞曲
搞不懂的东西不少,其中就是对陈绮贞音乐的感情。
她的歌,抚慰的是无数流浪的身体,受苦的心灵。她的声音,对那些把自己置入自我放大的失败与痛苦轮回中的人们,是轻声的提醒,就像母亲哄着遇到大小事就会放声大哭的婴儿一样,总是那么细心而温柔,又那么坚毅不放弃。听着“鱼”,我想到庄子想到自由。听着“下个星期去英国”,思绪漂浮,想到曾经很亲密,但已失去联络的朋友。我也许在发白日梦的时候哼着“让我想一想”,在辗转猜测着人心时听着“太聪明”,在背包旅行时心里播放着“旅行的意义”,在宁静的下午啜饮着咖啡搅拌着心情时神游过不知是何面貌的“九份的咖啡店”。
摇滚的呐喊
她唱着,我听着,不知不觉跟着哼起来,力量源源不绝,仿佛渺小如我也想豁出去,活出个自己,以“就算全世界与我为敌”的勇气。在她的歌曲中,不会迷失,而会找回那个不想一味服从世界的自己。她的歌曲她的词,不在于征服,而是联系,能让听者有余暇抽身思考,再好好地投入她歌声中。喜欢她这次演唱会的布景,以宇宙为主题、太阳为中心,带来想象空间,带来原始的感动。
她的感染力始终是个谜,因为不知为什么,她唱到半场,就会自然有想站起来的冲动。当我们把拘束释放后,囚禁着的感性便决堤般把理性与冷静冲淡。
续曲
已经有准备听她唱安可唱到不想走了,但还是惊叹她的随性和配合。Ivan说的对吧,她的个唱,是值得掏钱支持的。而且是无怨无悔的。
她在台上自弹自唱,俨然太阳,而在台下的听众挥动着荧光棒,就像闪烁着的点点星光。我们如同参加了祭典受过洗礼般得到重生。
或许如结尾播放着的短片中的字幕所说,我们喜欢的是那个沉浸在她音乐世界里的自己。但享受着的,是她带给大家的音乐,和同样欣赏着她的群众的一份陪伴。
Envoy of the Stars @ 1:36 AM
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Life's problems
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The other day I was talking to an interesting friend and he proposed,
"To know is to not believe; to believe is to not know."
Envoy of the Stars @ 1:40 AM
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