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2005年08月


DVD, 31.January.2005, UK, Baggars Banquet [BBQDVD 239X]
一只不明白这些个TINDERSTICKS为啥老是用骡子作文章,是为了好玩幽默麽?可这些人弄出的东西又是典型怨男的玩意儿。Martin Wallace 从93年开始和TINDERSTICKS合作,BB今年推出的TINDERSTICKS的首张DVD的9个作品全部来自Wallace。
这个毕业自圣马丁艺校的家伙好像名不见经传,不过在英国还是小名气,和PULP合作过MTV,他本人好像也喜拍一些短片和MV,以前我的BLOG视频当中放过的SUDDEN RUSH,就是那个"男人+公鸡+鸡蛋+护士服女郎+锤子"的那个,可能有些常来的家伙还有映象。其他的MV包括:
Aphex Twin - On.
Nightmares on Wax - “Nightmares”;
Marion - Violent Men.
Ultrasound - Best Wishes.
Pulp - “Legendary Girlfriend”; “Razzmatazz”; “Babies”; “Lipgloss”, “Bad Cover Version”.
Tindersticks - “City Sickness”; “Travelling Light”; “Bathtime”; “Rented Rooms”, “Can We Start Again”, “Can Our Love”, “The Art of Lovemaking”, “Sometimes it Hurts”
Polyphonic Spree - Hangin’ Around
Erlend Oye - Sudden Rush
Biffy Clyro - Eradicate the Doubt
TINDERSTICKS不用多说咯,贴些照片上来。。。
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        我觉得我有必要为中国写点东西了。   
  虽然我一向标榜远离政治,对所谓的世界大势有一种与生俱来的失望。但最近的很多很多事情,还是让我觉得有某种东西如梗在喉,不吐不快。   
  我厌恶评论,因为评论家大多只是坐而论道的好手,一旦起而行之,则捉襟见肘。站着说话不腰疼,固然很惬意。我知道有一天我也许会因为我说的这些而打了自己的嘴巴。但我还是决定要说,就如鲁迅先生所说,如果一个房子里的人要闷死了,你把他叫醒固然很残忍,但,如果你把所有的人都叫醒,又怎么没有可能把房子打一个洞来透气呢?   
  我知道,也许我也不能把这座房子建的更好,但希望我说的话,能够给别人一些启示或者思索,这些启示或者思索中,也许就有建房子的高手呢。
  
  我今天要说的是,到底谁在抛弃中国?   
  这个问题看起来太大,几乎无从说起。我还是从细微处说起吧。   
  昨天在网易商业报道上看到一个贴子,内容是这样的。   
  房改是把你腰包掏空,教改是把你二老逼疯,医改是要提前给你送终。   
  很好玩的一个贴子,却很真实的反映了我们改革的一个现实。中国的未来在哪里?我们要走向美国,还是变成下一个拉美?   
  我们常常可以听到这样一句话,美国的现在就是我们的未来。这句话让我们生出很多美丽的遐想,好像我们真的再这样埋头苦干很多年,就一定能赶英超美,过上欧美人的幸福生活。但是现在,在我们看来,也许赶英超美不过是一个美丽的遐想,也许中国貌似强大的经济外表之下已经暗流涌动,也许歌舞升平之下已经危机四伏。
  
  为什么要提拉美?   
  在我们的主流视野里从来都没有拉美,在我们的概念里,拉美这个名词不比非洲高等多少。我们是不屑于提拉美的,那里滋生着一切资本主义的毒瘤,贫富分化,社会动荡,政治独裁,经济畸形发展,拉美人在独立以后,瞎折腾了200多年,还是处于第三世界。我们怎么能把自己和拉美比?   
  拉美人第一次进入我们的视线,大概是在去年,我们在谈论中国汽车业的未来走势时,第一次提到这个词,后拉美化。有人对当时世界汽车巨头纷纷进入中国,瓜分市场提出了自己的忧虑,说中国汽车如果不能走自己独立发展的品牌之路,而企图以市场换技术,最后只能如同拉美的汽车市场一样,沦为世界汽车巨头的加工厂,在食物链底层,抢食一点点残羹冷炙。永远不可能在世界市场上与他们并驾齐驱。而更重要的是,以低廉的劳动力换来的投资必将不会长久,因为一旦出现劳动力成本更低的市场,跨国巨头马上就会进行产业转移,到那个时候,中国汽车业就会被抽空,拉美的今天就是中国的未来。   
  这种担忧不无道理。   
  而我今天要说的,不仅仅是中国的汽车业,而是中国的整个未来。我们要走向何方?   
  是发达的欧美,还是混乱的拉美?   
  郎咸平在华工演讲的时候,对大学生们说,“30年以后写信给你女儿的时候你可能会写,你在别国当保姆的日子还好吗?”“如果信托制度一直缺乏,那么改革将会把我们带到菲律宾而不是美国。”
  
  台下的大学生莫名惊诧。
  
  其实我觉得倒真没有什么可惊诧的。这个道理连我都能想明白,我们中国的那些精英阶层,喝过洋墨水,读过哈佛剑桥的,谁能不心知肚明呢?但是愿意把它讲出来,讲给我们懵懵懂懂的大众和青年学生的,估计只有郎咸平一个人了。   
  有些东西是得多用脚趾头想想。上帝给我们一个脑袋,不是为了让我们整天琢磨同事有没有比我多发多少工资,或者邻居的老公为什么比我的能挣钱的。记得在中学学世界近代史的时 候,曾经就有一个问题一直想不明白。为什么拉美国家独立的时间和美国差不多,到最后发展的差距咋就这么大呢?历史书告诉我们,那是因为帝国主义的掠夺。我一直觉得那是狗屁,如果一对小兄弟一起长大,有一天哥哥对弟弟说,从今天开始,你归我管了,你挣的钱归我,做弟弟的能愿意?据说拉美国家独立以后,很快就变成了美国的后院。不过这是结果,可不是原因了。之所以美国能把他们当后院,还不是因为几十年之后,当哥哥的已经比弟弟强大了好多,敢于对弟弟说,你挣的钱要是不给我,看我不揍你。   
  当然,我当时是想不明白的。我面对这样的答案,也不过就是在心里说句狗屁,除此之外,是断然提不出反对意见的。但现在,我敢说,也许真实的答案已经被我们发现,并且他正在困扰着我们的中国。   
  拉美与美国的差距在于,它没有形成良好的财富再生体制,套一句比较主流的话,它缺乏一种财富积累上的可持续发展能力。   
  举一个简单的例子来说明这样的差别。   
  第一种情况:   
  假设在一个地方发现了金矿,来了一个人投资建了一个矿场,雇一百个工人为他淘金,每年获利1000万,矿主把其中的50%做为工人工资发下去,每个工人每年收入5万,他们拿一万来租房子,剩下的四万可以结婚,生孩子,成家立业,矿主手里还有五百万,可以做投资。因为工人手里有钱,要安家落户,所以,房子出现需求。于是矿主用手里的钱盖房子,租给工人,或者卖给工人。工人要吃要喝,所以,开饭店,把工人手里的钱再赚回来。开饭馆又要雇别的工人,于是工人的妻子有了就业机会,也有了收入。一个家庭的消费需求就更大了。这样,几年之后,在这个地方出现了100个家庭。孩子要读书,有了教育的需求,于是有人来办学校,工人要约会,要消费,要做别的东西,于是有了电影院,有了商店,这样,50年过去以后,当这个地方的矿快被挖光了的时候,这里已经成了一个10万人左右的繁荣城市。   
  而第二种情况是这样的:   
  假设同样发现了金矿,同样有人来投资开采,同样雇100工人,同样每年获利 1000万,但是矿主把其中10%作为工资发下去,每个工人一年1万。这些钱只够他们勉强填饱肚子,没有钱租房子,没有钱讨老婆,只能住窝棚。矿主一年赚了900万,但是看一看满眼都是穷人,在本地再投资什么都不会有需求。于是,他把钱转到国外,因为在本地根本就不安全,他盖几个豪华别墅,雇几个工人当保镖,工人没有前途,除了拼命工作糊口,根本没有别的需求。唯一可能有戏的就是想办法骗一个老婆来,生一个漂亮女儿,或许还可以嫁给矿主做老婆。50年下去以后,这个地方除了豪华别墅,依然没有别的产业。等到矿挖完了,矿主带着巨款走了,工人要么流亡,要么男的为盗,女的为娼。   
  一个很简单的例子,其实就是拉美和美国不同的发展轨迹。也许今天美国人应该说,感谢华盛顿,他为美国缔造了最现代最科学的政治体制,感谢亨利?福特,他一手缔造了美国的中产阶级。而拉美国家就没有那么幸运了,他们的大独裁者创造了掠夺性的经济体制,以一种豪强的姿态疯狂瓜分着社会财富,而使整个经济虚脱,再也无力发展。   
  这里我们有必要再提一下亨利?福特。古今中外所有的商业人物中,亨利?福特对社会经济的影响无人能出其右。正是他用他的T型车一手缔造了最初的中产阶级,并将美国社会第一个引入了现代社会,(欧洲在这一点上,比美国晚了几十年)。亨利?福特说我要让我的工人能买得起我的T型车,于是他给工人发高工资,他还创造了流水线的生产方式,使汽车成本大幅降低,于是,福特公司一跃成为最大的汽车公司,于是有了钱的工人可以买汽车, 可以买房子,可以做其它的消费,于是中产阶级诞生了。于是在完成西部扩张,在领土上 已经没有回旋余地的美国发现了另外一个金矿,迅速成长的中产阶级带动了巨大的需求, 支撑起庞大的国内市场,继续拉动经济高速增长。美国从来都是一个依靠国内需求实现经 济增长的国家,而中国空有12亿人口,却居然内需不足,不得不靠外贸来拉动经济增长,你说这不是咄咄怪事。你以为你是弹丸之国的日本哪?靠外向型经济就能样得膘满肠肥? 12亿人口,谁能养活中国?除了你自己。也难怪现在全世界都在指着你,说你对人家倾销。   
  说到这儿,该说到我们中国的问题了,为什么我们会内需不足,为什么我们会没有强大的中产阶级?我们的财富到那儿去了?我们到底还有多大的持续增长能力。   
  中国用一种渐进的方式完成了自己的资本原始积累。这里边姑且不说什么权钱交易,制度漏洞,不劳而获。没有一个国家的资本原始积累是干净的。但关键就在于,在积累完成以后,我们该怎么做,是继续任贫富分化发展呢?还是创造我们自己的现代社会,创造坊锥形的社会结构。   
  看到那位网友的话真的倒吸一口冷气,我们在做什么?我们的改革是不是正在走向一个反面,以疯狂搜刮普通大众并不多的社会财富来继续换取虚高的发展?尽早上看到一篇文章,比较中国和新加坡的十大差距,具体的不说,因为小国毕竟比中国这样一个泱泱大国要好管理得多。但是,让我深思良久的还是新加坡的体制中所投出来的平等思想,那种对普罗大众的关怀。而我们,这种声音除了矫揉造作的官员做秀以外,我们看到了哪些实质性的东西?中国从来就没有**。过去没有,现在没有,将来有没有也很难说。我们只有所谓精英和庶民。当所有的接受过良好教育的青年花一辈子的时间才能买一个安身之所的时候,当一个家庭的一个孩子上学就要掏空家里的一切积蓄的时候,当你在股市上投了钱就相当于捐款,被那些国企老板用什么MBO名正言顺的中饱私囊的时候,当一个农民辛苦一年的收入还不如一个大款吃一段饭的开销的时候,你指望大家不去省吃俭用,疯狂存钱?你指望银行里里几万亿的存款能够转化为巨大的需求?你指望消费品市场能够持续火热?你指望有点闲钱的人能够去做更有用的投资而不是作为热钱去炒房?你指望本来就不多的社会财富能够更快更合理流动?我们很穷,因为我们钱本来就不多,却被装在了很少的人的腰包里,我们本来就不富裕,却在银行压一块,在房子上压一块,在股 市里套一块,nnd,钱看起来不少,但是就是转不动,都是死钱。于是,少数人手里的钱 只能去买LV、卡地亚、施华洛世奇,因为除了这个,他们也没什么可买的了。有些人还跳出来粉饰太平,说什么奢侈中国,狗屁!哪个大国的经济能靠几个奢侈品品牌带动起来,再说奢侈品跟你有啥关系啊?你瞎激动什么啊?你要是中国也有几个顶极奢侈品品牌的话,跟着起起哄也还可以。那不过是让法国、意大利多赚点钱而已。这就是我们的中国,我们的农民还没有富裕起来,就已经为孩子的教育问题吐干净了血,我们的中产阶级还没诞生就已经横遭劫掠,我们到哪儿找内需?我们除了出口,让全世界来养活我们以外,有什么办法?所以,全世界都说你倾销。是啊,12亿人,谁养活得了你啊?   
  为什么会这样,为什么我们的改革走入了这样的一种境地?教育收费,房价高启,股票圈钱,上帝啊,这是啥决策啊。哪个已经富得流油的国家在当初这么迫不及待地从自己的人民手里捞钱?   
  我们的精英阶层都到哪儿去了?为什么这种用脚趾头都能想明白的问题,他们就想不明白?   
  精英阶层到哪儿去了?   
  这个问题很有意思。   
  我想,精英阶层有两个去向,一个被收买了,一个被扼杀了。   
  郎顾之争已经让所有的人都对内地的经济学家失望了。为什么整个内地的经济学家会败在一个叫郎咸平的香港人手里?只有一个问题——良知,不是大陆经济学家太笨了,而是他们已经被收买,良知泯灭,除了为主子叫几声以外,已经没有什么别的作用。于是我们的官僚、资本、还有知识界人士就结成了联盟,制定着进一步瓜分财富的计划。于是我们的普罗大众就失去了话语圈,就算惨叫几声,也不会被人听见。  
  这是被收买的,还有被扼杀的。   
  就是青年。   
  想起鲁迅先生所说,最有希望的就是我们的青年。但是,tnnd,又是教育,教育,tmd的中国教育,被这些狗屁精英把持的中国教育,一方面掏光你的钱袋,另一方面让你接受填鸭式的知识,除了会背几个狗屁单词之外,几乎剥夺你任何独立思考的能力。好啊,这招真好,真是斩草除根了。郎咸平对大学生说:“我们这一代人不懂法制,也没有良心。”“ 我们这一代是要早点被淘汰的,把权力交给你们,你们才是未来。”唉,也许郎先生真的不太了解中国的内地,他不知道现在大学生的孱弱肩膀,也许根本就担不起这个担子。   
  在这样的一个世界里,你该怎么办?保护你自己。这是每个人首先想到的答案,要么离开它,要么让自己变强大,因为别指望政府保护你。记得五年前我就说,中国在进入一个急剧分化的时代,我们,能做的仅仅是在它分化完之前拼尽全力挤入上层而已。
  现在我依然说这话。   
  变强大,只有变得强大,你才能保护你自己,保护你想保护的人,你才能让自己的声音被更多的人所听到。   
  最后,想起一句话,如果一个国家不爱自己的人民,你有什么权力要求自己的人民去爱他的国家。   
  希望,我们,不要说这句话。

FROM http://www.tianyaclub.com/publicforum/Content/worldlook/1/76957.shtml 页面有很多回复。。。




Warp最终进入了多媒体世界(http://www.warpfilms.com),出品的东西希望同他当年在音乐界一样出色。感谢感谢信息匮乏的90年代培育了自己的胃口;感谢互联网让信息泛滥;感谢P2P,有机会将这些东西划为己有,嘿嘿

【1、短片 Chris Cunningham - rubber johnny】

去年接触到Chris Cunningham查询BJORK信息的时候开始滴,对就是那个描写机器人情欲的那个MV,后来买到了它的DVD,如果你看过的话应该对Leftfield的Afrika Shox、Squarepusher的Come On My Selector和Bjork的All Is Full Of Love映象深刻吧,2005年已进入下半程的时候,它的新短片Rubber Johnny出来鸟,比它以往任何一部片子更异端和扭曲,关于一只小狗和一个畸形肉身,片名Rubber Johnny对我们这些中文观众而言似乎是人名,你会以为那个畸形肉身就是Rubber Johnny,其实它是英国俚语避孕套的意思(rubber johnny n :rubber, johnny, condom)。

这个6分钟短片附42页照片制成的DVD在EMULE上好像有得当,是那个压缩文件,俺只当了它的AVI文件。不过还是希望这个AVI不会坏了你的胃口。。。

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【3、短片-My Wrongs】

Year of Production: 2003    Running Time: 12 mins
Director: Chris Morris         Producer: Mark Herbert

WARP FILMS was delighted to its debut short film, "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117" nominated for Best Short by the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts and is now happily stunned to have actually won.

  My Wrongs still

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【2、Dead Man’s Shoes】

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OST LIST:1. (Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'    2. Calexico 'Untitled II'    3. Calexico 'Untitled III'    4. Adem 'Statued'   5. Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'    6. Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'    7. The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'   8. Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'    9. Clayhill 'Afterlight'   10. Calexico 'Crooked Road'   11. Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'     12. Gravenhurst 'The Diver'   13. Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'      14. P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'   15. ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'    16. Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'    17. M. Ward 'Dead Man'    18. DM & Jemini 'The Only One

死者的鞋子导演Shane Meadows,曾指导过A Room For Romeo Brass,一部战栗片。爱丁堡电影节的评论Edinburgh Festival:
"The spotlight (was) on British actor Paddy Considine, who delivered stand-out performances in two very different films: Shane Meadows's Dead Man's Shoes and Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. These films were the crowning glories of a very strong British line-up, an area where Edinburgh has a proud tradition. Meadows gave Considine his debut in A Room for Romeo Brass five years ago and the actor almost reprises his role as a dark, brooding ex-army presence in Dead Man's Shoes, a sort of 21st-century Jacobean revenge drama. Blending Rambo with Charles Bronson in Death Wish, Considine returns to an unspecified Midlands town to hunt down the drug dealers who wronged his younger brother, picking them off like a sadistic child toying with an insect's legs. Both Considine and Meadows excel at subtle modulations of tone, juggling breezy comedy with moments of menace and outbreaks of wince-inducing violence. Considine specialises in playing the kind of bloke you never want to laugh at because you never know how he'll take it. He brings an animalistic physical fluidity to his role here, popping up everywhere like a surprise and a secret.
For Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes is a return to the form of Romeo Brass after the uncertainties of Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. He has a gift for harnessing the modern vernacular and a wonderful eye for comic detail - the drug dealer's flat is a masterpiece of grunge, stuffed with dodgy electrical goods, porn mags, bongs and filthy tie-dye throws."

 My Wrongs still





Science Image备情感的罗伯特历来是科幻小说的主角,当然也是AI研究者们的目标之一。不过这个离现实还是很遥远,先不说感情这个输入和输出的整合过程,还是从触觉输入开始吧,将有触觉的外衣给这些个光滑的罗伯特们穿上应该更切实际。

日本在AI领域和老美是两头领头的山羊,他们前期的路子好像出了些问题,可是今年,这个人工皮肤(ARTIFICIAL SKIN)却还是来自东京的实验室,通过这种皮肤,罗伯特们就可以感觉到压力和温度咯,然后进一步传到他们的中央处理器中进行处理,并根据数据比较作出反应。目前这种电子皮肤的缺陷是只能用在罗伯特们的指尖上,就是说,还不能围绕他们的三维手指, 俺想这个只是工艺上的问题,不会成为这种皮肤的瓶颈。

理论上说这种电子皮肤的敏感性应该超过人本身的自然皮肤,有一天如果它被用于医学,比如烧伤病人的皮肤植入等等,结果就会很有意思,由于病人以往的触觉经验,并不能和这种皮肤所提供的相比,就是说信息量要小很多,那么是否要在患者脑袋里装上保险丝,以免信息过载造成患者脑子烧毁或者患者过分高热的发生呢?我们知道42度是人类的死线。

另外这些罗伯特们具有的数字化触觉后,传统意义的触觉这种东西也会随之数字话,那么可能一类东西的触觉值会是一组范围,就象人的各种生化指标,比如西红柿的触觉为T153-245什么的,但是一个熟到快烂掉的西红柿和青涩的西红柿,罗伯特们可能会认为一个是乳房一个是土豆吧,嘿嘿。想到这个就觉得,这种东西很好玩。

总有一天罗伯特们会知道他们摸到了什么东西^_^




上周的事情,不过俺想他们其实没有什么遗憾吧。。。

Luc Ferrari -- 5 Feb 1929 - 22 August 2005 R.I.P. For more information, there is a website.

Robert Moog (5/23/1934 - 8/21/2005) RIP  Sad to report, but Bob Moog, synthesizer pioneer, passed away today. He had been fighting a brain tumor for many months. For more information, there is a website.

Luc Ferrari 

Luc Ferari                                                                       Bob moog




Buena Vista Social Club 的主唱Ibrahim Ferrer2005.08.06 在哈瓦那去世,享年78岁

  

青 年 YOUNG

 

老 年 ODDIE

快乐的老头 HAPPIEE

 

走 咯,天堂去抽烟...RIP |  WALKING LIKE A CUBAN...RIP

Ibrahim Ferrer在WIKI       唱片集DISCOGRAPHY

一个怀念的文章




它的个人工作室构成:Apple Powerbook 15", Apple iBook 12", M-Audio FW410, Alesis QS8, Gibson Epiphone Acoustic, Peavey Electric, Marshall MG15 MSII Micro Stack, RP100 Guitar FX, Sennheiser HD580, AKG K-501, Violin, Electric Toy Organ, Behringer 6 Channel Mixer, Logic, Battery

页面贴上来,是它在网络发表的MP3作品,现在BLOG用的背景音乐就是它的东西。不过其他信息一概不知。

untitled - july 2005
380 - 780 - february 2005
psychic phenomenon - august 2003
cabaret dreams - september 2002
02. madhi
02. rathri
03. simian
07. tiklon
08. xume
02. gorgik
04. izimu
08. zidaya
(singles)

vi :: css :: php :: 06/06/2004




【书评】寒山和拾得的“背包革命”-评凯鲁亚克《达摩流浪者》
廖伟棠 

远在六十年代美国反战学生运动和嬉皮浪潮之前,就有一股发生在精神领域的和平革命于五十年代的旧金山发端了,那就是南方朔曾在他的《愤怒的爱k k六十年代美国学生运动》中描述的“背包革命”。实际上“背包革命”这一想法的提出,是以著名的垮掉一代(Th e Bea t G en e ra tio n)作家杰克·凯鲁亚克(Jack Ke ro u ac)为始,正是在他的成名作《在路上》(O n Th e R o ad)和《达摩流浪者》(Th e D h ear-m a Bun s)中他宣扬的自由上路/追求理想与爱的波希米亚/禅宗式理念影响了六十年代整整一代的西方青年,并为六十年代追求独立、反叛、自由的泛左翼思想打下了深厚的基础。

“背包革命”意即坐言起行,以简朴的生活条件去进行近乎禅僧修业式的漫游,并在此漫游过程中认识自我和世界,建立起针对传统中产阶级生活的独立批判精神和生活准则。这一想法最初体现在《在路上》中描述的几个“垮掉”青年的疯狂旅行中,但那时的“革命”几乎只是基于本能冲动和朦胧的无政府主义思想中的k k带有更多的享乐和放纵的意味,至于它真正成熟成为一种生活哲学,则见于几年后饱历沧桑的凯鲁亚克的另一部重要作品《达摩流浪者》中。如果说《在路上》是激情的,那么《达摩流浪者》可以说是睿智的。

台湾商务印书馆继去年出版《在路上》的全译本之后,月前又出版了《达摩流浪者》的中译,并把两者都置于其严肃的OPEN系列里,足见其重视。对凯鲁亚克及垮掉一代在日后的转变有兴趣的读者通过此书,便可明白垮掉的波希米亚疯狂是怎样在流浪中和他们同样推崇的禅宗式深沉完美结合起来的,并真正认识到运动中的两个重要人物k k诗人加里·斯奈德(G ary Sn yd e r)和凯鲁亚克本人其人格和行为之美之真。

《达摩流浪者》的扉页题辞竟是“献给寒山子”,寒山和拾得是中国唐代著名的两个诗僧(后来被世俗化为“和合二仙”),他们的禅诗在二十世纪被西方汉学家大量翻译,对当代美国诗歌影响甚巨,而且通过垮掉派的推广,他们的疏狂漫游、沉思顿悟的生活更成为许多人的理想。实际本书中寒山和拾得是一个穿插漫游故事之上的隐喻k k暗指著作为引路人的斯奈德(小说中名为贾菲)和作为学徒的凯鲁亚克(小说中的雷蒙),在小说里贾菲就多次提到对寒山的景仰:“因为他过的是一种孤独、纯粹和忠于自己的生活。”而雷蒙谈到贾菲说:“他爱好的是潜行于旷野中聆听旷野的呼唤,在星星中寻找狂喜,以揭发我们这个面目模糊、毫无惊奇、暴饮暴食的文明不足为外人道的起源。”又何其像是在赞美狂僧寒山子。从题目出发,寒山就像是苦行僧达摩的波希米亚化,而流浪者贾菲就像是寒山的波希米亚化了。

Jack Kerouac小说以雷蒙孤独的流浪为开始,当时他还只是个没有“悟”的佛教爱好者而已,后来他遇上了先行者贾菲,便跟随他漫游险峻的山川,并在路上领悟禅、艺术和生命的种种玄妙之处,然后又离开贾菲回到家乡自我沉思,最后在他自愿担当一个夏天彻底孤独的山火望员的忍耐和沉潜中,他终于领悟:“你已经装备好了,可以出发去告诉每个人,他们都是彻底自由的。”于是他就下山走入红尘世间了。乍看来,这和西方传统的“成长小说”(如歌德的《威廉麦斯的漫游时代》、马克吐温的《汤姆索亚历险记》)无大的差异,实际上在这漫游过程中,隐含了一个深刻的线索在其中:那就是如何把理想主义的空和哲学思索的空落到真正需要承担的当下之中来。

最初雷蒙是一个信奉佛教的虚无主义者,就像古印度的苦行僧一样:他相信“所有生命皆苦”而且“不太相信苦是可以消除的”,他坚信“世界上除了心以外,一无所有”,因此他力求变得虚空以接近世界的虚空,在书的前半部,“空”一直都是他执着并与旁人争执的概念。但贾菲以禅的智能“充实”了他,贾菲向雷蒙解释中国禅师为什么把弟子扔到泥里:“他们只是想让弟子明白,泥巴比语言更真实罢了。”在一次攀山的危险之后,贾菲又启示他说:“只有痛苦或爱或危险可以让他们重新感到这个世界的真实。”事实上他们一味求空,却是实(他们在大地上的漫游)把他们对空的思考完成。就是这样,禅和佛教的不同在于禅是直接进入生活中去,以行动去体悟道的。而这一点,恰恰和五六十年代同样影响青年思潮甚巨的存在主义不谋而合k k是承担、入世才真正完成了理想主义的价值。

离开贾菲后雷蒙回家乡度圣诞,终日打座冥想,仍旧执迷于空与实的对立之中,他想灭思灭欲,但他天性中的悲悯心和对“拯救”的存念挽回了他,让他最后坚定起来:“万物并非为灭而生,而是为觉而生。”于是他再次出发去寻找“觉”。贾菲教他去当自己也曾当过的山火望员的工作,雷蒙就整整一个夏天单独一人呆在万尺高山“孤凉峰”上反躬自省又率性而活(这就真像寒山在浙江天台寒岩山上的生活了),最终经由大自然壮丽的启悟k k他找到了自身甚至世界本有的自由。空与实,就像在道家的辩证法中,完整地结合了k k由美,指向了人的真和善。

其实撇开这些玄思不讲,仅就小说艺术而言它也是引领我们向往自由的,在凯鲁亚克波涛起伏的对流浪、历险生活的动情书写中,我们可以强烈地听到他在呼唤:“上路吧!”自由,也正正是禅的行动论和西方习常的行动论的大不同,就像在一段关于下山的描写中所见,他们毫不犹豫地往下跑,完全听凭直觉和自然的引导,因为他们坚信“根本用不着担心会掉下去,因为那根本是不可能的”已忘记是生活带动着自由,还是自由带动着生活了。

而这才是生活本身,何其真实的生活!这也许就是“背包革命”吸引一代纯真青年的魅力之所在了。本书中写贾菲第一次提到“达摩流浪者”时说:“想想看,如果整个世界到处都是背着背包的流浪汉,都是拒绝为消费而活的达摩流浪者的话,那会是什么样的光景?”“我期待着一场伟大的背包革命的诞生!”于今天,虽然嬉皮已老,垮掉一代也差不多只死剩“贾菲”加里·斯奈德了,但那两个纯真的疯子/寒山和拾得的心愿,仍是那么激动人心,叫人不禁想又拿起背包,上路追随。《中华读书报》

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难得拍片,呃

北京站,出发那天,早到1小时把同学拉过来作陪,打发无鸟时间

北京站,还是出发那天,早到1小时把同学拉过来作陪,还是打发无鸟时间

到上海时间太短,没能拿出相机就又跑了。。。图片空缺

到温州时间还是太短,上山后只能偷拍几张,之一

到温州时间还是太短,上山后只能偷拍几张,之二

到温州时间还是太短,上山后只能偷拍几张,之三

到温州时间还是太短,上山后只能偷拍几张,之四

到温州时间还是太短,上山后只能偷拍几张,之五

返回前日,翻看《杯酒人生》,偶然发现有趣现象,拍之一

返回前日,翻看《杯酒人生》,偶然发现有趣现象,拍之二

返回前日,翻看《杯酒人生》,偶然发现有趣现象,拍之三(注:这个女人俺喜欢)




 

奶牛没有西瓜伞

奶牛不喜欢这样的傍晚,火车站附近,街道上累积的肮脏被雨水冲的到处都是,本地民和过客顶着伞拖泥带水向四处游走,同样的人群,同样的动作,朝不同的方向躲进各种亮着灯的建筑。湿漉的脚印一直盘旋而上在305号房门前消失,钥匙叮当之后其他一切声音便隐遁在那扇门后。每扇门后都是相同的陈设,只是暂时安排了不同的主人。

 

性感的和中毒的

中午前公园的那些场景并不容易重新唤起,幸好还有相片。如果没有它们,那些片断也许会永远藏在黑暗的脑壳中一并带到小方盒里。那些简单代码最后翻译成各种图片,外物成了我们自己的中介,没有它们我们什么也不是。很多人长出了轮子,更多人则长出了外部存储,我们用电流感动自己影响别人,Electricity Baby,是人类史上最性感的玩意,我要一块热核电池,要一个植入工具,把这些身外之物全都整进我的身体,不要插头,不要USB,取消CDDVDCD-ROM和其他存储设备,全部弄到我那个黑洞洞的脑壳里。病毒,这样病毒就来了,为啥病毒不能象肠道共生菌那样和宿主和平共处,总贪图小圈子利益。总有一天电脑病毒会进化成象爱滋病毒一样的玩意,电子设备的不治之症,它们会在终结疗法到来之前报废。

请不要歧视得了乙肝和爱滋的机器,和它们打成一片,但别和它们交换数据,在新杀毒方法出来之前请在USB时使用Digital Condom,公益广告我们还用朴淳忻,谁用谁知道。

 

不要用4/4拍敲门

305的门还是关着,服务员也许听到里面的音乐,但请不要用4/4拍敲门,当奶牛在听Talking  Heads的时候,所以305的门还是关着。再过一会,COBAIN就会趟着水提着来福枪经过还在熟睡的自己和他老婆,悄悄比划了几下后消失在客厅。很多天后,他又重新出现,在报纸的头版头条,在电视的插播新闻,The Man Who Sold the World

 

本来就是垃圾,看的人多了便不再是垃圾……It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But if that's what you're thinking, you probably should. I mean, if you can wake up, you should, because some day you won't be able to. But it's easy. Just wake up.

 




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The Artistics: Chris, Tina and David (1976)

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孙继海英超首战稻本润一中国太阳"抗日"保持不败

浪刊文“孙继海英超首战稻本润一 中国太阳"抗日"保持不败”,题目看着就很小脑,尽管非常配合今天新浪新闻首页上日本相关的报道。只是,只是,足球到底是娱乐,如果你想搞的政治点,也请打准位置!

“新浪体育讯 在本周的英超联赛中,曼城队将主场迎战西布朗维奇队,中国球员孙继海和日本球员稻本润一的较量将是本场比赛的另外一个看点,回顾两人之间在英超的交锋,孙继海还从来没有输给过稻本润一。”——孙多踢边后卫,稻踢后腰,况且比赛是集体的事情,两个人怎么交锋,打架还是拼刺刀?

“从征战英伦的历史情况来看,稻本润一先后更换了四个东家,先后效力了阿森纳,富勒姆,西布朗维奇和加的夫城,而孙继海效力过水晶宫和曼城。”——4个东家和谁强谁弱有什么关系?比贞洁么?

“不过在本赛季的备战阶段,稻本润一在热身赛中发挥非常出色,并逐渐赢得主帅布赖恩-罗布森的信任,英国媒体普遍认为,稻本润一本场比赛首发的机会非常大。曼城队主帅皮尔斯现在正在为后卫线上的配置而头疼,中后卫邓恩的复出让他多了一些选择的余地,对于孙继海能否出现在左后卫的位置上,现在依然是一个未知数。”——此记者开始打自己的脸

写字的人,如果不是纯文学,多是靠别人吃饭滴,在你使用别人的时候多点良心不行么?要求太高的话,呐可以动动脑子么?别以为记者嘴大,喊什么别人就听什么。





200 Motels (1971)

UK - 98 min. - Color
AKA  Two-Hundred Motels
Director:Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa

CAST:

The Mothers of Invention  - Themselves
Theodore Bikel  - Rance Muhammitz
Ringo Starr  - Larry the Dwarf
Lucy Offerall  - Groupies
Pamela Miller  - Interviewer
Frank Zappa  - Himself
Mark Volman  - Member of Mothers of Invention
George Duke  - Member of Mothers of Invention
Howard Kaylan  - Member of Mothers of Invention
Keith Moon  - The Hot Nun (听上去满好玩吧)
Don Preston  - Member of Mothers of Invention

Frank zappa的音乐怪是怪了点,但是好东西,30多年前他也玩弄电影,延续了他音乐中的怪诞成分,有趣好看,不过却不能称作伟大,想来他也没把伟大当回事吧,就是玩耍,玩耍一下。

《200家汽车旅馆》是关于音乐人在路上的片子——两个没有拍片经验的外行根本不需要剧本,本着少花钱快办事的原则,在一周之内拍出的东西。片子里可以看到ZAPPA著名的GROUPIE-PAMELA MILLER(也和Mick Jagger,Jim Morrison有染,她后来写了《我和乐队:骨肉皮自白》一书,也是2001年电影Almost Famous中Penny Lane的原型 )。片子以"What can we do with the musician in society- what is his purpose?" 这种大问题开始,注定他不会给出答案,他们属于一小撮人,他们只能在自己的路上。另请留意片中的音乐。

终于下雨了,听上去不小,淋湿了部分乐迷。

200家汽车旅馆在WIKI百科

200家汽车旅馆》在骡子上




The Trip
1967 - USA - 85 min. - Color
Director: Roger Corman

THE TRIP这个电影诞生于HIPPIE风很盛的60年代晚期,是B-MOVIE机器ROGER CARMAN比较有名的一部片子,也是同PSYCH-OUT和ACID EATERS齐名的药物电影。

据其自传介绍,CARMAN在准备拍片之前服了LSD,以事先获得TRIP体验。最后审片过程中,美国国际影片协会建议CARMAN将原来的情节改为PETER FONDA饰演的GROVES在药物驱使下完全疯掉,不过最终大家看到还是折中的结果:TRIP只是对幻觉历程进行描述而不加评判——GROVES在药物的影响下即可以有美妙体验也会遭遇恶境,尽管不知CARMAN的初衷如何,但修改过的TRIP所鼓吹的是否服用药物完全是个人选择的观念仍然和地上社会难以媾和,该片VHS最早的发行年份是1990年,已离此片拍摄时间相距30多年。

这个低成本影片和CARMAN其他的作品一样总是胜出他的BMOVIE同行们一筹,当然这与片中名旦PETER FONDA也有关系(在他主演的EASY RIDER里也有部分超现实画面,看来FONDA是名副其实的HIPSTER)。不过,也许电影永远做不出真正的TRIP效果。

尽管TRIP一词早在该片拍摄之前就用来指药物相关的经历,但这个片子对TRIP引申意义的大众化有推波助澜的作用,同样的词汇如RIDE,其药物层面的意思在今天就弱很多咯。(参见TRIP HOP词条

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Life and Debt (2001)

Directed:   Stephanie Black
Runtime:   80 min
Country:   USA
Language:   English
Genre:   Documentary

(A REVIEW) The flip side of what tourists see

(FROM AMAZON.COM)Narrated by Jamaica Kincaid based on her non-fiction book, "A Small Place," her familiar honey-toned voice captures the cadence of the islands. "If you come to Jamaica as a tourist, this is what you will see..." The camera then focuses on well-fed and happy tourists. They eat sumptuous meals. ("You'd be surprised to find out that every bite of food you eat comes off a plane from Miami.") They enjoy the view from their rooms ("You probably don't know that the sewage from the hotel is going straight into the ocean")

Basically though, this film is about economics and the changes that have occurred in the years since the British left in the 1960s and Jamaica had to borrow money from international lending institutions. Former Prime Minister Michael Manley describes how the interest is so high that it keeps the economy constantly in a debt that keeps growing. And Jamaican money is so devalued that it is cheaper to buy imports rather than produce them itself.

Just a few years ago, farmers got good prices from raising chickens and there was large plant to process them, giving people jobs. The factories are closed now and the farmers can't sell their chickens because of cheaper imports. Also, there is a special free trade zone where garments are put together for such companies such as Hanes. Everything is delivered to the factory pre-cut and ready to sew and the workers toil long hours for no more than $30 per week. During the course of the filming, even that factory closed to reopen in another third-world country where the labor might be even cheaper.

All this is contrasted with constant cuts to the tourists who are frolicking at the hotels and enjoying themselves in such silly games as beer drinking contests.

The film is done well, and the cinematography and direction are excellent. I was able to follow the points being made about the economic issues and, although I know I don't have enough background in the subject to really understand it completely, there was no doubt about how the economy is collapsing. Even their banana exports are being threatened. This film is definitely worth seeing.

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Interview with Stephanie Black




出品滴60年代不列颠女声民谣系列

骡子没有当。。。

Dream Babes Vol. 6 - Stonefree And Sassy
 
An albums worth of the Rock Soul hybrid that was the musical context for 1967-1969 in the UK pop world. Thumping bass lines, loud brass, chopping rhythm guitars, sweeping violins, rousing vocal chorus backings, characterise these selections. Variations on the theme are evident, from the Euro influence, to the Club sounds, to the downright quirky.
Some well known names in there, and even a hit (very rare in this series!) with Clodagh Rogers, but also plenty of obscure material for collectors to get their teeth into, including the previously unreleased and only very recently discovered Ministry of Sound tapes.
As with the previous five volumes the main criteria is a focus on Brit girls, and/or Brit girl productions. So for example although Claire Francis is American she worked as an A&R Producer in London during this period and recorded at London studios with UK musicians. The resulting recordings are a distinctly clearer UK production sound, than if the same had been attempted in the US at the time.

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Dream Babes Vol. 5 - Folkrock & Faithfull

Continuing the series that focuses on british female recordings of the sixties.The rise of folk rock in the mid 60's, together with that of the singer/songwriter troubador, are the backdrop and theme to this new edition of the Dream Babes series.
The arrival in '65 of Marianne Faithfull encouraged many producers to push forward their own wistful and innocent proteges. Examples abound here, such as Trisha with a Donovan song, and include Faithfull's guitarist of the time Caroline Carter. The latter a Tony Calder Production (at times Andrew Loog Oldhams business partner) , with another example being Phillipa Lewis on a number written and musically directed by Jimmy Page (one of four tracks on this album that Page had a hand in). Not all were in the Faithfull field and Page's work in London with beau Jackie De Shannon yielded some cracking Folkrock gems such as De Shannons own Don’t Turn Your Back On Me.
An immediate successor to Faithfull , but who later found her own niche , is Vashti . Her recordings with Loog Oldham, appearance in the cult film Tonite Lets All Make Love in London, and classic album ' Just Another Diamond Day ' are some examples. The two tracks here are from '66 after she'd come down from Oxford where she had been part of an art and music scene with Jennifer Lewis & Angela Strange. This circle also included Michael Palin.
More of this great interweaving story and history is to be found on the essay written by Bob Stanley for the album . With unreleased tracks and first time reissues this album not only sounds good but contains many rarities as well. A perfect addition to the series!     
  
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Dream Babes Vol. 4 - Go Girl

This is the next volume in our successful 60's Brit girl series. All records included are highly collectable, and highly regarded on the scene. Some celebrity turns on display from Twiggy the face of '66, Linda Thorson who appeared in Hammer Horror movies, Ros Hannaman a model who was the face of '68 for the Evening Standard. Standout groups are the Chantelles (never before reissued), the McKinleys (first introduced on Dream Babes 3), the Breakaways (the prolific sessioners), and the legendary schoolgirl outfit produced by Shel Talmy, The Orchids. The usual full range of uptempo sounds, soaring production, supreme vocals     

   

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Dream Babes Vol. 3 - Backcomb'n'Beat

The Dream team return with Volume three of this developing series. 22 Brit Girl Classic From The 60's. Bob Stanley, Kieron Tyler and Mark Stratford bring you a slightly different slant on the Brit Girl scene following the first two volumes that concentrated on the EMI vaults, we now look at recordings made during the 60's by independent producers. Most of the recordings were subsequently leased for release through the major labels like Columbia but their origins were all through independent writers/producers/studios. As such we have recordings produced by Shel Talmy, Joe Meek, Giorgio Gomelsky, Tommy Scott, John Carter, Mark Wirtz, Miki Dallon and Pierre Tubbs.
Artist wise, as before we have the famous and the not so famous, together making up a fascinating package that cuts across out and out go-go beat, stomping northern soul and finishes with the more orchestrated folk rock. Many of these tracks are highly collectable and 75% of the compilation has never been reissued. Plus bonus : Radio London ad spots by Perpetual Langley.        

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Dream Babes Vol. 2 - Reflections


Like Vol.1 this album is compiled by Mojo scribe, St Etienne’s Bob Stanley. As with Volume one RPM present the rare and the cream of the girl singer and group sound from the '60's as released through HMV, Columbia, Parlophone, United Artists. All singles are from the original master tapes, digitally re-mastered and the package as ever includes plenty of contemporary photos.        

 

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Dream Babes Vol 1 - Am I Dreaming

24 Brit girl classics from the 60's, most reissued for the first time ever, and chosen by St. Etienne front-man Bob Stanley. A real collectors bonanza. the CD features some well-known names, and many who only ever cut one or two discs before vanishing from the scene. The poster inlay features a montage of rare shots on one side, and exhaustive notes on the other.

LIST

Cindy Williams - They Talk About Us
Samantha Jones-I Deserve It
Jackie Lee -The Town I Live In
Jane Hillery-You’ve Got That Hold On Me
Linda Kaye-I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
Deano-Baby Let Me Be Your Baby
Sandra Browne-You’d Think He Didn’t Know Me
Patsy Ann Noble-Sour Grapes
Tiffany-Am I Dreaming?
The Three Bells-Softly In The Night
Alma Cogan-Snakes And Snails
Beverley Jones-Wait Til My Bobby Gets Home
Beryl Marsden-Breakaway
Madeline Bell-You Don’t Love Me No More
Samantha Jones-Don’t Come Any Closer
The Track-Cry To Me
Sami Sloan-Be His Girl
Andee Silver-Too Young To Go Steady
Lesley Duncan-You Kissed Me Boy
Suzie Cope-Biggity Big
 Carole Deene-Some People
Emma Rede-I Gotta Be With You
Alison Wonder-Once More With Feeling
Peanut-I Didn’t Love Him Anyway




BIOGRAPHY

I like to refer to that time of my life as "the reckless burning years". It was less about making that record than it was learning how to just 'be'. Two estranged people going into lonely dark places - beautiful places. All we had was each other. We didn't even talk that much but somehow we just knew each other's story. That record was our story. Hell, our first date started when Phil picked me up in the pouring rain. I'd been riding my bike, got caught in a down pour. I called him up on a pay phone and told him to pick me up outside the funeral home with the neon sign-he was new to town so I figured it was a notable landmark. I stood under the awning thinking about what I might be getting myself into. He finally showed up and we threw my bike into the back of his pickup. The inside of the truck was warm....we sat and talked for awhile trying to come up with a destination.....I looked over and saw that sign, Funeral Parking Only...

Singer/songwriter Jesse Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher (original guitarist of Whiskeytown) met in the smokey, charming confines of Seattle's Hattie's Hat bar in 1998, and began a naturally evolving collaboration, initially performing as a duo. Their effective partnership soon drew the attention of violinist Anne Marie Ruljancich at the time known most notably for her work with the Walkabouts and an array of session work ranging from bands such as the Black Cat Orchestra to most recently an appearance on the Shins' "Chutes Too Narrow". Soon after came upright bass player Bill Herzog (Citizen Utilities) - who still drums in Joel Phelps and the Downer Trio, and drummer Kevin Warner (Evangeline). A new brand of "spooky American music" was born.

Sykes' delicately bewitching alto and Wandscher's dark spacious guitar melded warmly with their new band mates and the collective was christened Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter.

With 2002's critically acclaimed Reckless Burning under their belt, The Sweet Hereafter again chose to work under the wise ears of producer Tucker Martine and have created their second album "Oh,My Girl" out on Barsuk records. Writer Curtis McCrary of the Tucson Weekly has defined this album so well : "...an alt-country album in the minds of some ... But that reductionist impulse should be resisted; Oh, My Girl occupies a different plane than simple "Americana." It's music noir, encompassing the dark and gorgeous sadness that comes with being human." After making year end lists for 2004 in the New York Times, Tracks, Harp, Magnet and the LA Weekly for the record, the band started 2005 off with a two week tour supporting Bright Eyes and has since headlined their second national US tour. More touring is in the works for the US and Europe where the band has also garnered much critical praise and a much loved loyal fan base.

ALBUM AND REVIEWS

jesse sykes & the sweet hereafter / reckless burning (bark30)

reckless burning
[ burn burn burn records/barsuk records : bbb005/bark30 : cd ]

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jesse sykes & the sweet hereafter / oh, my girl (bark36)

oh, my girl
[ barsuk records : bark36 : cd / devil in the woods : diw86 : lp ]

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"One or two notes of that prairie fire smoke and we're hooked on Sykes' vocal; her supporting players are proven soul-tweak pros. We want our Americana to resonate with a mixture of warmth and scratch, of death and love. And, like a trusty old radio, Oh, My Girl delivers. "Troubled Soul" and "Winter Hunter" are as tart as Washington apples, alive with feeling but sweetly, sultrily inviting. This is the album of sad beauty the Scud Mountain Boys were too suicidal to make; it's what happens when fronting on style is shunned in favor of inventive songwriting"

-Pitchforkmedia.com

" (2004:The Ones That Got Away) Troublesome things, they fall down on me" Jesse Sykes sings with a certain calm acceptance on her second album, "Oh,My Girl" (Barsuk). As her songs face desolation and mortality, a cold wind seems to blow through her voice, while her band, the Sweet Hereafter, plays in poised slow motion. There's country in the music, with brushes on the drums and pedal steel guitar wafting in from above: there's also a sighing viola and a touch of surf-guitar reverb. It's spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow. "-The New York Times

" ...gorgeously melodic hooks: think the Handsome Family meets Neil Young's Harvest Moon..."-Q

"...an alt-country album in the minds of some ... But that reductionist impulse should be resisted; Oh, My Girl occupies a different plane than simple "Americana." It's music noir, encompassing the dark and gorgeous sadness that comes with being human."-Curtis McCrary, Tucson Weekly

-Pitchforkmedia.com

" (2004:The Ones That Got Away) Troublesome things, they fall down on me" Jesse Sykes sings with a certain calm acceptance on her second album, "Oh,My Girl" (Barsuk). As her songs face desolation and mortality, a cold wind seems to blow through her voice, while her band, the Sweet Hereafter, plays in poised slow motion. There's country in the music, with brushes on the drums and pedal steel guitar wafting in from above: there's also a sighing viola and a touch of surf-guitar reverb. It's spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow. "-The New York Times

" ...gorgeously melodic hooks: think the Handsome Family meets Neil Young's Harvest Moon..."-Q

"...an alt-country album in the minds of some ... But that reductionist impulse should be resisted; Oh, My Girl occupies a different plane than simple "Americana." It's music noir, encompassing the dark and gorgeous sadness that comes with being human."-Curtis McCrary, Tucson Weekly




本有一个叶子贴了662个MV的播放地址,尽管不保证都能用,但是个大单子,只是放在了BLOGSPOT上面,大陆是打不开滴,如果有兴趣可以用代理试一试

地址为:http://granfaro.blogspot.com/2005/04/622-music-videos-various-from-perfect.html

其他的页面可见的MV为,同样也不保证都可用,多数可以看(引用自www.foldedspace.org

Air - Playground Love (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Fiona Apple - Criminal (dir. Mark Romanek)
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Beck - Jack Ass
Bjork - Army of Me (dir. Michael Gondry)
Blondie - Call Me
David Bowie - Modern Love
Johnny Cash - Hurt (dir. Mark Romanek)
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Depeche Mode - People are People
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Devo - Whip It
The Donnas - Strutter
The Donnas - Too Bad About Your Girl
Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy
Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran - My Own Way
Duran Duran - Night Boat
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Duran Duran - The Chauffer
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice (dir. Mark Romanek)
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Peter Gabriel - Big Time
Peter Gabriel - Biko