M83 + The Dø @ The Zoo

靠靠靠,今晚的重點就是 - 加速。

暖場團是來自法國的The Dø。
女主唱(歇斯底里的表演方式,會彈吉他還會饒舌。)
鼓手(...非常有創意,他是我看過玩得最快樂的鼓手。)
貝斯手加亂七八糟手(整場看他好忙喔,跑來跑去的。)
老實說,我只喜歡幾首歌而已。他們整個太亂七八糟了,而且鼓手幫整個樂團加分很多(但還是不及格)。可是工作人員應該不是這麼想,光要拆鼓手頭上那一堆,就拆了十幾分鐘。如果你好奇他頭上那一堆是甚麼的話,請到你家廚房看看參考參考。
經過很久的拆除,終於擺出 M83的殺人武器了。真的是有殺人於無形之厲害。
因為我站在很前面的邊邊,所以可以很清楚看到Anthony帥氣的樣子,但是完全看不到鼓手。小小遺憾。不過其實根本不需要遺憾,鼓手精湛的手法跟CD裡一樣的準確,整個幫現場的震撼力加倍很多。所以就算看不到他,他會用鼓聲來告訴你他的存在。這裡沒有貝斯手。Anthony一邊玩很炫的效果器,一邊噴他的吉他。鍵盤手是女生,我不知道跟錄音是不是同一人,不過他今天的聲音沒有很飄緩,反而很沙啞,被飆高音操壞了吧。另外還有一隻吉他手,默默的在後面彈。

一出場就是instrumental track (好像是 Run Into Flowers吧)。我不得不承認,我對他們沒有到死忠的地步,但是新專輯太威了,沒想到他們現場更威,我已經對他們屈服了。之前聽 M83,從來都沒有在看歌名的,整張很順的就聽過去了。不過新專輯,真的是好聽到我都記下歌名了 (XD)。

在一兩首instrumental track後,就開始唱起了新專輯的先行單曲Graveyard Girl。真是好聽爆了。後面連續幾首 We Own The Sky,Kim & Jessie,Skin Of The Night,還有一些舊歌像A Guitar and a Heart,Teen Angst,剩下的我就不知道歌名了。不過全部都真的是好聽到起雞皮疙瘩!而且一個多小時下來完全沒有冷場,每一首都爆炸得好聽,也好聽到要爆炸。所以很明顯的,M83的現場比CD好聽。除了Kim & Jessie外,不知道為什麼,我沒聽到尖聲哎叫,就渾身不對勁。

重點來了,就是加速!最後一首歌也是加速了好幾次,可是我不知道歌名。
而真正加速加速再加速的是Couleurs!
這是他們的encore曲。從前面有瞪鞋的噴吉他到後面電子節拍加速,每一段都讓我越搖越high。
這段我也有錄(但沒有錄完,不小心按到停),不過影片太大了上傳不了。雖然安可曲子只有一首,但是有快十分鐘之久。算是非常值得的encore曲。

題外話。他們雖然可以很兇狠也可以殺人於無形,可是他們真的是很友善的一群人,每唱完一首歌,就拼命說謝謝。我倒要對你們說 : "you guys are fucking brilliant! thank you so much for bringing the sonic night!

Graveyard Girl

Self-indulging Playlist

Come on, let's leave
this suffocating river
in which we swim with other fish
from dawn to shifting night
and now in this discovered space
let's fly to a pure solitude (by Pablo Neruda)



I don't remember the particular time of my life
I became outsiders
That does not make me better than others

Music is the way...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Pavement - Shady Lane
Joy Division - Digital
East Village - Circles
Bright Eyes - The Difference in the Shades
The High - A Minor Turn
Elvis Costello - High Fidelity
Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night
Deerhunter - Never Stops
Everything But The Girl - Meet Me in the Morning
Tribeca - Solitude

My Place

妳愛我

冥冥之中 妳就在我左右 
跟著我呼吸 看我一舉和一動
夏日午後 妳隨著陽光出現在我窗口 
轉身要看妳 妳卻溜走

冥冥之中 妳就是屬於我
我擁有了妳 在我人生睡夢中
夏日午後 妳隨著陽光出現在我窗口
靜靜看著我 說妳愛我

André Kertész

Distortion Solitude, December 19, 1960 Chez Mondrian André Kertész, a Hungarian photographer.

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now


I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?

Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I'm miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?

What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed

"You've been in the house too long" she said
And I (naturally) fled

In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now

"You've been in the house too long" she said
And I (naturally) fled

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?

又是無聊心理測驗

無聊還是玩一下好了。

Recent Purchases

The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (12'')
+ this single has three songs, yet it's the most expensive one I bought today.
+ I bought it because this song is current my favourite of Smiths
+ why they are so expensive... I wanna collect all Smiths' singles!
Buddy Holly - 20 Golden Greats [Buddy Holly Lives]
+ I just wanna listen to Buddy Holly
The Carpenters - Great Hits Of The Carpenters
+ This is an Australia version, so I couldn't any better pic
+ Superstar, Rainy Days and Mondays
The Carpenters - A Kind of A Hush
+ The vinyl is in good condition, so I bought it.
+ I Need to Be in Love
Everything But The Girl - Love Not Money
+ I like EBTG, but I havn't heard this one
+ The sleeve cover looks pretty good and intereted me, so I bought it
New Order - Brotherhood
+ Bizarre Love Triangle
+ "Boydey, Happy 21st; What a big year; You are going to have - best yet to come" Theo '87
+ How come I didn't notice that someone wrote that on the back of the sleeve, well... never mind. The vinyl is good.

Untitled

Vestax Handy Trax

Unknown Pleasure 黑膠的內頁。超有質感的設計。
用黑膠聽這張有種莫名的感動,感覺我離那個年代好像更近了。呼, 終於買了我的第一台唱機。他叫 Vestax Handy Trax。
Vestax 是一個日本相當有名的專業 DJ 器材公司。
出的這台最大目的也是為了讓人可以隨身攜帶,因為還可以裝電池聽。
不過最吸引我的是他的多功能,和便宜的價格。
轉速有三段,加上還可以聽EP,簡單說,幾乎所有黑膠都可以聽。
還有內建 Speaker,雖然是 monotone,但是還是超酷的。
如果要聽音質好一點的,只要把耳機插上去就好。
或是也可以接到大一點的音響,但是我沒有。
比較遜的事,是他不附帶電池,也不給電源。需要自己去買 AC Adaptor。
除了這要抱怨一下,其他的我都非常滿意。對於一個剛入門黑膠的人來說!

Raging Bull

I have seen Million Dollar Baby, Raging Bull, The Wrestler.
Raging Bull is the best, simply because it's not all about boxing.
It's an emotionally self-destructive boxer, Jake La Motta's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

Robert De Niro's performance is remarkable, along with Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty.
Martin Scorsese has also done a marvellous job with directing.

I don't particular like the story very much, but the movie afterwards hit me with such an impact that I don't really know how to describe it. Also while I was watching the film, I kept thinking about Ryū Murakami's words.
"
People who requires excessive things, also requires some of the things which are beyond their own control; they often refuse the language of salvation."
Excessive!

Speak the truth before God.
We know this fellow is a sinner.
Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know, The man replied.
All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see.
- John IX, 24-26 / the New English Bible

La Dolce Vita

We are Marcello. The story of his life is timeless.
We all face the problems he faces, I think.

I think it's perfectly okay not to watch the whole film at once.
Because, the film is three hours long, and the plot is quite loose.

I think this film is a little bit overrated.
Personally I don't like this kind of high life.
I don't think Fellini does either, maybe that's a bit ironic.

Some dialogues are really good, especially when he had conversations with his intellectual friend, Steiner.
Steiner: We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached.
Steiner: Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
Marcello Rubini: [to Emma] A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!

The ending is cool.

Modern Social Ills

Overcrowding, Industry exploitation, Diseases, Crime, Wealth imbalance (Poverty), Racism, Religious Discrimination, Family Disintegration, All kinds of Addiction (drug, alcohol, sex and violence), Sexual promiscuity, Eroticism/Pornography

Heroin

The Velvet Underground -Heroin

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that

In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' busy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds


'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know

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Rebellion


Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire

Come on baby in our dreams,
we can live on misbehavior.

Northern Sky




Northern Sky - Nick Drake
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

I've been a long time that I'm waiting
Been a long that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.

Would you love me for my money
Would you love me for my head
Would you love me through the winter
Would you love me 'til I'm dead
Oh, if you would and you could
Come blow your horn on high.

I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.
+ a beautiful song for you, A.