Regret

February

misty morning

baby toads... yuk!

some were taken when I was in Melbourne

I didn't like this album at the start.
Maybe because I really like "Let It Die".
Somehow this album sounds too mainstream.
But after carefully listening to it, it still has many songs I like.

Buying the deluxe edition isn't a hard decision at all.
+ Islands In The Stream
+ Fightin' Away The Tears (I wish my house has this kind of wind, blowing all the time)
+ Remixes
+ Videos ( I think videos were made brilliantly, I love these two)

Nostalgia

"It is the nostalgia which produces the desire to fragment, the impossible yearning for the lost (imaginary) object of desire which issues in the frustrated and atavistic smashing of the ideal object...one sees the possibility of humanist affirmation destroyed by an insistent and excessive nostalgic sense of loss of pure Being whose impossible realization produces the urge to destroy altogether what can be. If things are fragmenting, let's fragment them utterly."

-Patricia Waugh

這是產生懷舊的願望片段，不可能渴望的損失（虛構的）對象的願望的問題在沮喪和過時粉碎的理想對象...人們看到的可能性，以人為本肯定摧毀一個堅持和過度懷舊的失落感純作為其不可能實現生產敦促摧毀完全可以做些什麼。如果事情是支離破碎，讓他們完全片段。

The Beauty

Lester Burnham: I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.

+ I've gotta see American Beauty again... someday.

Step Out

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt