Live Wild

Three quotes from the Johnny Depp letters to Hunter S. Thompson:

"He did what he did because he knew it was the wrong thing to do."
-Lord Buckley on the Marquis de Sade

"Cultivate what the audience doesn't want."
-Jean Cocteau on the essence of moviemaking

"Who is the happier man? He who has braved the storm of life and lived? Or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"
-Hunter S. Thompson, age 17

JJ - Baby

The weirdest thing about covers is that any artists' cover is presumably just what they hear when they listen to the original. So just imagine that when Swedish artist jj heard this song, she heard the whistful, gorgeous song above, and decided that it is actually about a "baby." That's amazing, but too bad she cut out the Marty McFly reference at about 0:38 in the original. (via Prefixmag)


by the way, the video is directed by Marcus Söderlund

Art of Noise

Listening to the mixtape made by your favorite artist is just great.

I've listened to the mixtapes made by Jens Lekman and Air France.

I got to know so many good bands that I didn't know before.
Anyway, download this. This stuff is gold, if you like Air France.

mp3: Air France: ‘Art of Noise Mixtape’ (right click and choose “save as…”)


Bill Withers : ‘Lovely Day’

Can liven a funeral, I tried and It worked. Makes you move on.

Museum of Bellas Artes: ‘Who Do You Love‘
They will run this show in a few months. They released their first single some days back.

Lemonade: ‘Big Weekend (Delorean remix)‘
Sets us tumbling down heights every saturday. Makes you feel good looking and drink faster.

Walker Brothers: ‘Make It Easy On Yourself‘
Breaking up is hard to do. A friend of a friend’s ex-gilfriend always send a tape with this song instead.

Ilona Staller – ‘Pane, marmellata e me‘
Sophisticated Italian 70s dub and giggles.

Yppah – ‘Gumball Machine Weekend‘
No fucking clue who this is, but it sounds like a Japanese Lo-Fi version of Saint Etienne’s “Nothing can stop us now”, innit?

Altered Images: ‘I Could Be Happy‘
Maybe this years best evening so far must have been when we put this on at Old Blue Last and David from Sic and his wife Melissa danced like two teenagers in love and the last sunrays slipped in through the windows and covered them in the warmest light you have ever seen.

A.R. Kane: ‘A Love From Outer Space‘
I think Tahiti 80 did a great version of this too some years ago. It’s the feeling you get when you land a girl that plays in a completely different, and better, league.

CFCF: ‘You Hear Colours‘
I have had this in my head for a while now. Really suits days when the flowers on my balcony dies after too much rain and nothing seems to happen.

Sylvie Vartan: ‘La plus belle pour aller danser‘
Some days you just want to die and wake up in Paris in the 60s.

Break Up

原來，我心目中的金童玉女也分手了。

Johan 一直都是我很羨慕的人。他有三個團，名叫Acid House Kings, The Legends, 跟 Club 8。每個團的音樂都不一樣，但都是我最愛的音樂類型：indie-pop、shoegaze 跟 electro-pop。同時他也是我心目中最棒的音樂品牌 Labrador 的老闆。另外 Club 8還是他跟他女朋友的團。可以跟女朋友一起組個團，做出這麼好聽的音樂是多麼棒的一件事。

不過那是過去式了，他們分手了。不過 Club 8還在，明年也會推出新專輯。這個消息是我看了這篇訪問後才知道的。當然不是剛分手，只不過我到現在才知道。所以我想到了一件事，就算兩個人有很多共同的興趣，彼此的想法很像，也不能長久的在一起。這當然不是我剛剛才知道，自己親身經歷過就已經知道了。

看看今年的新電影，(500) Days of Summer，男主角也曾經以為他這輩子不可能真正的快樂直到他遇到了那個「對」的人。事實呢？就算遇到了，也不會快樂的。就算我們都愛 The Smiths，也不一定能一直愛著對方，但我會一直愛著 The Smiths。所以我說，我這輩子不可能真正的快樂。而我這輩子也不會找到一個能真正跟我分享的人。因為 I'm an island of such great complexity。

還有看完訪問後，我發現Karolina是個很酷的女生。
我好喜歡她躲在我耳機裡，輕輕的唱歌給我聽。

2012

你相信2012是世界末日嗎?

這部片做得非常成功的一點，就是過度利用人類文明的signifier。
真的是過度濫用了。這招對某些人或許有用。但是對我沒用。
從這部片的一開始，就利用了人類最具話題性的馬雅預言的世界末日。
電影裡更有許多象徵人類文明的東西一一被摧毀。
連Michelangelo那幅"亞當的誕生"中間一陽指的地方也要被地震撕開。
連巴西那個耶穌雕像也要碎掉。
真是夠了。要煽情，也不是這樣搞得吧？

劇情也是走一貫的災難片公式。

壞的說完，說好的。
我會去看這部片，有80%是因為 John Cusack。
雖然我知道這幾年，他拍了很多爛片，可是我還去給他捧場。
還有特效。真的還蠻驚人得畫面。可能我太久沒看這種商業片了吧。

結論就是：如果2012真得是世界末日。我想我是不會逃的。
也逃不了啊！又不是在拍電影！

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

聽完這張後，我更可以確定他們是世界上最棒的樂團。

我還沒有聽過他們全部的作品，不過慢慢的一張一張的在買。

一邊聽這專輯，一邊看內頁的介紹，還有搞笑的notes。
真的是把我逗的超樂的。這絕對是聽 mp3 沒有的樂趣！

這張的The Replacements真得是超熱血也白目到爆！
像是 I Hate Music，Paul 怎麼會這麼天才寫出這樣白爛的歌詞？
I hate music　Sometimes I don't
I hate my high school　Sometimes I went
Tommy says so　Tommy says so
Tommy says so　Tommy says so so so so what

還有 Johnny's Gonna Die...
每次聽到他唱 Na na na na，就會忍不住笑出來。
明明就是一首 heartbreaker，為什麼要唱 Na na na na?
我想這就是我愛他們的原因！

因為我買得是 reissued 的版本，裡面多加收了幾首值得推薦的。
Customer (Alternative take) 真的超瘋超酷的！
我最愛 Paul 黑白亂唱了！

再來就是感人到不行的If Only You Were Lonely。
他們怎麼可以這麼狠，出的每一招都是我的要害！

下面是1981 年的他們。Paul, Bob 跟Chris 都二十歲上下。
但是Tommy 才十四歲多。So What?

The Big Lebowski

I think The Coen Brothers is good at making comedies.

Both The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading

The characters they created are just amazing...

Amazing because they make me laugh so much

And these characters are played by really good actors,

such as Jeff Bridges, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Goodman,

John Turturro, and Steve Buscemi.

Also, Flea and Aimee Mann also played cameo roles as Nihilists...

This is really a classic dark comedy! Fucking hilarious!!!

Watch this...

Lebowski Jesus