Death Cab for Cutie – The New Year

So this is the new year
And I don’t feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
(In the distance)

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self-assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let’s make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
There’d be no distance that can hold us back

So this is the new year

你吸收咁多 arts，share 咁多條超靚超形超勁超有創意 YouTube 片又為咗啲乜？睇戲又為咗啲乜？
我有陣時好討厭 d 藝術仔(包括扮晒嘢嘅自己）不停咁吸收。好似不停咁鉋一支鉛筆咁。 鉋呀鉋，鉋呀鉋，有一日就鉋到無晒。

但係鉛筆係用來寫字同畫畫的。

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朋友借了一套叫《東京奏鳴曲》的電影給我。故事是講述一個日本家庭內，因爸爸失業而所帶出的各種問題。

其實戲整體上無俾我太大感覺，佢只令我諗到類似的其他“mid-life crisis”電影。但係電影令到我想到其實很多時藝術嘅目標係要照明(highlight)一啲社會上嘅問題。《東京奏鳴曲》的頭一段就對日本嘅失業就描述得好好。帶出那是日本面對全球一體化、社會年輕化、和傳統思想所帶出的 conflict 。

就好像畢家索的 Guernica，是一份有思考的藝術。

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當然，藝術不一定要有社會性的思考。也可以是其他反省。但作為 audience，我覺得要知道發生什麼事。我討厭做一個 hea 爆的 consumer。吃過就算。右腦刺激過一番以後就繼續再找刺激。今年聽了幾十隻碟，下年再來過，但是我 iTunes 已經有 40 Gig。

夠了。我討厭這種感覺到死。我不想再吸收。我的靈魂像似飽到嘔。鉛筆鉋尖了就不要再鉋。

在一個 media overloadad 的時代裡成長，我們要學習的是 the art of silence 。
從吃過的 media 中，消化，化成力量和一套價值觀。要在生活中活出來，去做一個好的未來。

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Okkervil River – “Singer Songwriter”

Your great-grandfather was a great lawyer
And his kid made a mint off the war
Your father shot stills and then directed films
That your mom did publicity for

I saw your older sis on the year’s best book list
And your brother, he manages bands
And you’re keen to down play but you’re quick to betray
With one welt and that wave of your hand

You come from wealth, yeah, you got wealth
What a bitch, they didn’t give you much else

I heard Cuss by The Kinks on your speakers
I saw Poe and Artaud on your shelves
While The Last Laugh’s first scene on your flat panel screen
Lit Chanel that you’ve wrapped around yourself

You’ve got outsider art by an artist
Who arguably kidnapped a kid on the wall
Your designers have slyly directed the eye down
Pink lines here and your well lit pawn

You’ve got taste, you’ve got taste
What a waste that that’s all that you have

Oh, you wrote your thesis on the gospel of Thomas
You shot some reversal film in Angkor Wat
And this book you once read said there’s less people dead
At this point now than those who are not

And this film we once saw was reviled for it’s flaws
But it’s flaws were what made us have fun
And the life some folks have might have made us feel bad
Why feel bad? Man, it’s nothing you’ve done

It’s all in your hand, it’s all in your hand
Like a gun, like a glove, like a grand

And this thing you once said disappeared from my head
In the time that it took to be amazed
And this thing you once did might have dazzled the kids
But the kids once grown up are gonna walk away

And your world is gonna change nothing
And your world is gonna change nothing
And our world is gonna change nothing
And our world is gonna change nothing
And our world is gonna change nothing

Change something.

“We procrastinate when we’ve forgotten who we are.”

“I worry about a world where our expertise tends to get stuck at, what the Dreyfus brothers have called, ‘being an advanced beginner’.”

I think this is probably the most inspiring collection of thoughts about modern productivity that I have ever seen, and his book is not even written yet. Merlin’s really passionate, and there’s truth here that speaks to the worker in an information age, so I have a feeling that his book will be enlightening.
… But for now, I need to figure out who I am and get back to work.

Oh, watch out for the colourful language.

Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.

我覺得這套戲是西方社會的《麥兜》。

雖然它沒有《麥兜》的攪笑，社會角度和集體回憶，但其實兩套戲的靈魂都有點相似。

例如以英國新人 Little Boots 作示範….

好像很好玩。但但但但是一部 Tenori-On 的售價是一千美元呢。

幸好今晚有朋友在面書分享了這個網站: iNudge，Tenori-On 的網上版。你可以很快一試製作電子音樂的滋味，還可以用社交網站分享你所創作的 Loop。

這是我在幾分鐘所 put together 的短曲。你也試試看吧。http://inudge.net/inudge#/8nfvj

唔…
還是留給 Thom Yorke 玩算了…

繼「勁大隻 Polo Logo 嘅 Polo 恤」之後又一核突之作。

學方大同話齋，可唔可以要番 Timeless 嘢？

很喜歡上一隻大碟 “Visiter” (2008)。他們的賣點是毃擊和木結他都很 intense。

聽也聽得出汗。

The Dodos 下星期二會推出新碟 “Time to Die”。iTunes 已經開始發售。
單從 word of mouth 和這幾天在聽，感覺新碟好像失了那份 energy……

聽說今天有很多 WordPress blog 被 hack 了。（Lorelle on Wordpress – Old WordPress Versions Under Attack)

唔，很久沒有理會過這個 blog ，就趁這個機會做一些 maintainance 吧。
升了呢到 Verion 2.8.4，又改了 Template，轉到 colourful, playful 一點啦。

如果遇到有什麼 bugs 請留言。Thanks.