2009 Gigs

Primal Scream @ The Tivoli, 5/2/09

Crystal Castles @ The Met, 6/2/09

M83 + The Dø @ The Zoo, 31/3/09

School Of Seven Bells @ The Zoo 24/4/09

Okkervil River @ The Zoo 3/5/09

巴奈 @ 女巫店 11/7/09

Sloth Scamper + Space Cake + Hyakkei百景 @ The Wall 29/7/09

Sloth Scramper

Hyakkei

Music Terminal @ 桃園體育場 1/8/09 and 2/8/09

新褲子

The Radio Dept.

The Lucksmiths @ The Zoo (Farewell show) 23/8/09

The Church @ The Zoo 28/11/09

This year was okay. Saw some very impressive shows.
Next year will be a very busy year for gigs.
Camera Obscura, Yo La Tengo, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Phoenix, The Big Pink, Pavement, Pixies...oh damn...

2009 中文專輯

我今年聽過的，能推薦的就這幾張專輯吧。
應該還有一些我沒聽過的，但很棒的。

老實說，這裡還有些專輯我都還沒認真聽過的。

1976 - 不合時宜

Tizzy Bac - 如果看見地獄，我就不怕魔鬼

縱貫線 - 北上列車

陳綺貞 - 太陽

黃小禎 - No Budget

張懸 - 城市

伍佰 - 詩情搖滾

盧廣仲 - 七天

Alas For Mankind!

2009 Movies

This year... I don't go to the cinema very often.
Instead, I stayed home and watched a lot of classic films.
So... I probably missed a lot of good movie this year. Oh well...

My picks

(500) Days of Summer

Taking Woodstock

Elegy

Adventureland

Up

Away We Go

The Reader

Films I want to see but didn't see:

Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
An Education
Nowhere Boy
Up In The Air

A Dream Play

A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drömspel) was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright, August Strindberg, and first performed in Stockholm on April 17, 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential dramas, seen as an important precursor to both dramatic expressionism and surrealism.


The best description of the play's style can be found in Strindberg's prefatory note:

The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge. But one consciousness rules them all: the dreamer's; for him there are no secrets, no inconsistencies, no scruples and no laws. He does not judge or acquit, he merely relates; and because a dream is usually painful rather than pleasant, a tone of melancholy and compassion for all living creatures permeates the rambling narrative.

I got to know this play, because of Ingmar Bergman. I'm reading his memoirs The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography. Ingmar Bergman was a big fan of Strindberg and directed many of Strindberg's plays. As a fan of Bergman, I think it's necessary to read some Strindberg's works.

I have never seen any play in performance. I've read some other plays by Shakespeare, and don't really understand Shakespearean language. Even though this play was written about 100 years ago, I can understand it pretty well. And it's a damn good play. I don't know how to use pretty words to describe what's great about this play, so I guess I will quote some words here. I will try if I could actually see how this play is performed.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

In the moment of goodbye,
When one must be parted from a friend, a place,
How suddenly great the loss of what one loved,
Regret for what one shattered.
One even misses what one did not value.
One even regrets crimes one did not commit.
One wants to go, and one wants to stay.
The twin halves of the heart are wrenched asunder
And one is torn as between raging horses
Of contradictions, irresolution, discord...

就是喜歡妳現在的樣子

黃韻玲 - 喜歡你現在的樣子


Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are


兩首都是被人家翻唱到爛的歌曲
兩首我都喜歡, 這是屬於一種天真爛漫的愛的執著表現

I wish I never saw the sunshine

I wish I didn't know all that I know
Cause even if I know, I still don't know how to act right

I wish I never have all the knowledge I had
Cause even if I had, I still don't know what to do

I wish I didn't have all the love I have
Cause it still breaks my heart

I wish I didn't have all the advantages I have
Cause it doesn't make me a better person
Perhaps worse...