2013年7月14日 星期日

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2013年7月12日 星期五

2013年7月9日 星期二

老樹畫畫


對花鼓搗三日,竟然一畫未成。花兒已不耐煩,紛紛隨了春風。

































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2013年7月8日 星期一

@ this moment...



















このCDを聞きながら、残業中。。。


















2013年7月6日 星期六

上意討ち~拝領妻始末


Version 1967 (三船敏郎)



























Version 1992 (加藤剛)























Version 2013 (田村正和)


















The best version:



Cover of Today


























2013年7月5日 星期五

I'm Old Fashioned ~ (2)




This is from her appearance, c.1959 on Playboy's Penthouse Party.
Cool~~




The really GOLDEN YEARS!


2013年7月4日 星期四

2013年7月1日 星期一

十五分鐘




你來十五分鐘也好,真的。也許你花不起幾小時的遊行,也許烈日下你覺得辛苦,也許你還有更重要的事情要做,但是,你到一到都好,十五分鐘也好:你做了你該做的份內事,你會安心。
這是你的家也是我的家,我們一起為普選的最後時刻走出來,十五分鐘也好。假如自由是高貴的,那麼,這一刻,維園也是高貴的。我們都為了自由而來了,人潮中蕩漾着一股清流,一股希望的清流。那是關鍵的一刻,也是歷史的一刻。

我們在爭取,因為我們心中有的是希望。你來了最好,我們一起抱着這份卑微的希望。我們都是香港人,香港的命運我們既然要面對,難道我們就甘心坐在家裏看着歷史的背影緩緩遠去?為甚麼不給歷史的關鍵時刻傾注多一份希望?給香港的明天帶來你十五分鐘的鼓勵吧,就十五分鐘。這短短的十五分鐘裏,你和歷史的緊要關頭輕輕擁抱:你來過了,你見證了,你承諾了,你是真正的高貴的香港人! 

2013年6月30日 星期日

Midnight Blues





He died 20 years ago today, in Japan.

2013年6月29日 星期六

2013年6月28日 星期五

愛在午夜希臘時:滄桑

轉載~
http://4bluestones.biz/mtblog/2013/06/post-2651.html




    流光容易把人拋,紅了櫻桃,綠了芭蕉。人到中年萬事哀,常與滄桑畫上等號,容易慨歎一片春愁待酒澆,但是記憶中的芳美甘醇,如果只能與唏噓串連,格局就低了,《愛在午夜希臘時》替滄桑另外找到了豁達與雋永的註解。

    執子之手,與子偕老,究竟是美麗的嚮往?還是殘酷的人生考驗?《愛在午夜希臘時(Before Midnight)》提供了有趣的解答。

    首先,能在銀幕上偕老的情侶能有幾人?伊森.霍克(Ethan Hawke)與茱莉.蝶兒(Julie Delpy)在1995年合作《愛在黎明破曉前(Before Sunrise)》時,絕對沒有想過會在2004年合作續集《愛在日落巴黎時(Before Sunset)》,當然更沒有想過還有在2013年再續前緣,再拍出《愛在午夜希臘時》。是的,匆匆十八年過去了,影迷換了兩個世代,他們的愛情故事,還有幾人關切?

   「愛在」三部曲的迷人傳奇在於只要一台攝影機,一本劇本,再加上兩位口若懸河,能把冗長台詞講得掏心掏肺,完全不假思索的演員,就能散發迷人魅力,就能讓人看見愛情神話中最勾人魂魄的真實火花,不是真有如此本事,Ethan Hawke就很難與Julie Delpy攜手寫下好萊塢最長愛情系列電影的傳奇(即使只能算是格局不大的獨立製片,但是勇氣與成就都遠勝大片廠砸下鉅資拍攝的愛情故事);不是真有如此化學效應,青春已剩半襲衫的他倆,又有何德何能,讓世人都來歌詠這場邁入中年期的「老」情「老」愛?





    是的,挑戰歲月風霜,正是《愛在午夜希臘時》最不可思議的豪賭,畢竟,不知凡幾的人間戀曲不都在強調青春的血性與激情嗎?問題在於都愛了十八年了,他們的熱度依舊嗎?他們還是有那麼多的話好說,話匣子一開就還是那般滔滔不絕嗎?

 《愛在午夜希臘時》有非常堅定的信念,是的,這一系列三部電影,他倆還是從頭講到尾,少不了塵封往事的倒帶重播,更少不了揶揄當代人生的珠璣語絲,更多了招式用老,無需包裝或遮掩,就能開門見山的「明心見性」,時光飛逝,歲月如梭,但是不會更改的生命特質,就如同他們在看著日落時脫口而出的那句一語雙關的對白:「還在,還在,還在...哇,沒了。」歲月會改變很多事,但也唯有透過相同形式的再度對比,宋朝詞人蔣捷在《虞美人》一詞中所寫的:「少年聽雨歌樓上,紅燭昏羅帳。壯年聽雨客舟中,江闊雲低,斷雁叫西風。而今聽雨僧廬下,鬢已星星也。悲歡離合總無情,一任階前點滴到天明。」才得能在銀幕上得著可堪媲美的對照版本了,也因為有此驚豔,才會讓人想要驚呼:曾幾何時,美國電影亦能有如此格局?

 《愛在午夜希臘時》的犀利之一在於:挑戰陳腔,但也駕馭陳腔。戀愛中人,都不忘問愛人:「明天你依舊愛嗎?」答案,多數都是肯定的,只是透過撒嬌取寵的方式,換來蜜甜的慰安,但是《愛在午夜希臘時》想問的卻是十八年後,你還會問對方:「你依然愛我嗎?」如果答案是肯定的,會有那些質變?反之,又會有多少磨擦?




  「愛在」三部曲雖然積累了十八年的人生滄桑,兩位主角畢竟還是只從少年邁到壯年,鬢未星,人未駝,即使小有福態,勁力卻也還依舊生猛,只是身旁多了子女,關切的瑣事變多也變雜了,這些很容易淪落成八點檔連續劇情的生命不過Richard Linklater,和Julie Delpy共同琢磨出來的劇本,一如前兩集,不但巧妙串連了時事,同時也兼具了生命洞見的體悟,前者讓談話話題常保新鮮,後者則讓智慧火花不時燃點,信手拈來皆文章,字字句句皆練達的精彩劇本,足以應付多數挑剔的讀者了。因為如此的劇本結構,既符合了Ethan Hawke的專業作家身份,以及往來無白丁的知識份子才情,另外搭配了Julie Delpy從事環保社運的時代女尖兵角色,你就是能夠接受從她口中說出的那些既坦白又辛辣的話白,而且始終不離核心的糾纏打轉,他倆的「牛勁」,其實既是傳統,也是越磨越光的特色了。

    勇敢,則是《愛在午夜希臘時》最突出的美學選擇,關鍵在於Julie Delpy如何看待角色的成長。

    前兩集的電影,她還是一位被情所惑的女子,享受愛情,卻也消費愛情,吊盡男主角和觀眾胃口,是讓劇情和票房得以昂然挺進的重要手段,但是做了人妻和人母的十八年後,徜若還在玩矜持或曖昧,難免就太刻意了。畢竟,時間會讓以前猶抱琵琶半遮面的行為,逐步褪去了神秘色彩,進入「見山不是山」的渾然自若,這也是他們在告別希臘前夕,必得有旅館雲雨的過場安排。唯有如此,濃情轉淡,歡情轉薄的中年危機,才得著了水波不驚的展現空間。




    但那份袒露之美,可是Julie Delpy送給「苦守」銀幕十八載的影迷的一份意外禮物,讓大夥得能從究竟「做了沒有」的揣想中,先是直擊了愛情結晶,既而目睹了熱情已然消散泰半,已然疏隔多時的肉體饗宴,她任人磨磳的百無禁忌,正在耳鬢廝磨,卻又猶自掛念著紅塵俗事的心肉分離,不也是自然得更富真實感,自然就是美,Julie Delpy用了她的肉身實驗了詩人Keats的名言:Truth is beauty,這句話也說明了《愛在》三部曲被尊為愛情經典的魅力所在了。




2013年6月27日 星期四

2013年6月24日 星期一

Gary Peacock, Marilyn Crispell - Azure (2013) [ECM 2292]





























Tracklist:

1 Patterns
2 Goodbye
3 Leapfrog
4 Bass Solo
5 Waltz After David M
6 Lullaby
7 The Lea
8 Blue
9 Piano Solo
10 Puppets
11 Azure (high recommend)
                                                           

Personnel:

Marilyn Crispell (piano)
Gary Peacock (double bass)

Recorded January and February 2011
ECM 2292


Editorial Reviews

Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell made outstanding music together in her trio with the late Paul Motian, the three kindred spirits recording the ECM albums Nothing ever was, anyway (1997) and Amaryllis (2001) each a modern classic. The New York Times called the pair two of the most beautiful piano-trio records in recent memory. The Peacock-Crispell duo project also has a history, albeit one undocumented on disc until now, with Azure. This extraordinary new album proves that these two musicians shared sense of lyricism, their distinctive compositional styles and their profound backgrounds in free improvisation make them exceptional musical partners in the most intimate of settings.

The albums highlights range from the sublimely melodic (the Peacock-penned Lullaby) and lyrically pensive (Crispells Goodbye) to the athletically bracing (Crispells Patterns) and folksong-like (Peacocks moving The Lea). Then there are the duos freely improvised pieces of astonishing cohesiveness (including Blue and the entrancing title track), as well as utterly absorbing solo features for each instrument. The albums title, Azure, came from Crispell, from the sense of spaciousness I felt with the music, she says. The image of an open blue sea or sky came to me.

The duo conjured the aura of Azure at Nevessa Production, just outside Woodstock the town in Upstate New York that Crispell has called home for nearly 36 years. (Nevessa is also the studio where Crispell recorded her 2010 ECM duo album with clarinetist David Rothenberg, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House.) Peacock lives not far away, in more rural environs. Along with their shared geography and longstanding musical ties, Crispell and Peacock have in common a certain life rhythm. We have a connection via meditation and Buddhism, the pianist points out. We have even meditated together while on tour.


Review - by Thom Jurek

The release of Azure, a duo recording by bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Marilyn Crispell, may have been inevitable, but it sure was a long time coming.

Peacock and Crispell have played together on tour for years, but this is their first opportunity to record as a pair.

Under Crispell's leadership, they teamed with the late Paul Motian on two of the finest piano trio offerings of the last two decades: Nothing Ever Was, Anyway and Amaryllis.
There are three tunes composed by each artist, three duo improvisations, and each has a solo track.

Crispell's "Patterns" opens the proceeding on a lively note. A complex, knotty, muscle-flexing duet that is full of quick call-and-response motivic thought and counterpoint, it reveals the duo's considerable dialogic power.

On the other end of the spectrum is Peacock's lovely, melodic "The Lea," which extends naturally from both the folk and blues traditions. He opens with his solo; it states its loose theme followed by his improvisation upon it for half the tune's length. When Crispell enters, she underscores the song-like nature of the piece, painting its frame with melancholy, minor-key chord voicings, and brief, luxuriant fills.

The set's longest cut, "Waltz After David M," by Crispell, is elliptical and graceful with a gorgeous melody. Peacock's support offers avenues for more expansive -- yet subtle -- thought in the middle's long improvisational section.

Though these pieces are quite satisfying, the duo's real poetic is displayed in their improvisations, especially the hypnotic "Blue," with Crispell's Monk-tinged chords and tight, angular lines. Peacock's playing reveals so much wood in his tone that it feels percussive -- despite his continual bluesy, swinging riffs and vamps. The title cut that closes the proceeding is crystalline, full of space, elegance, and grace. It sounds like the seamless interplay between the two is not improvised but composed and arranged.

On Azure, the effortless communication between these players is like a conversation that is so intimate it can, at times, feel as if the listener is eavesdropping. Hopefully these two will be motivated to do this again.




故人重遇
久違的聲音
那一刻,直如醍醐灌頂


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