Musica Antiqua

Here’s my latest re-discoveries:

My Lady Carey’s Dompe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puNp4qm83CA&feature=related

 

And just about anything from Anonymous 4 (Miracles of Compostela)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSHUwpTezK0&feature=related

Ethereal Eno

Not surprisingly, Brian Eno has been turning greener too,  and that has probably nothing to do with his release of  ”Another Green World” .

Hearing him speak lately about how he views the future  (or lack of future)  for TV, media, mankind… was like another dose of the following classics from him.

Eternally enlightening, evolving, extending…

1. Another Green World:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR9QSTwNKTQ

2. An Ending (Ascent) – Extended Version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi4hwoff98&feature=related

3. The Big Ship:

**Inter-space version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZbZwU2TM0&feature=related

**Frozen & Extended

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E76Oatpjn4&feature=related

**Wooden Bird @ Fan Version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PjOFX5CxBo&feature=related

Plague of Fantasy – In Search of Cure

Yet another forgotten plague, or pandemic if you will, as raised by Zizek years ago, about how fast and unchecked the human mind – hence humanity – has been infected by the constant feeding of “what we are supposed to desire” in life, i.e. if we call this life.

If only you think of how we’re taken over by developers, shoppers, models, twitters, tourists, diapers, entertainers  (or the ideas of have them around)

If only you take  a look at this recent hit “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem ft. Rihana, you may share how self-deceiving we are capable of…..

Oh, and please check out the clean version before clicking onto the official version, which is another “plague of fantasy” in its own right….

“I can’t tell you what it really is
I can only tell you what it feels like
And right now it’s a still night in my wind pipe
I can’t breathe but I still fight while I can fight
As long as the wrong feels right it’s like I’m in flight”

Clean version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LhI-RLX84&feature=related

Official version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&feature=related

都市隱者

“逃避之心人皆有, 有緣遁跡幾人能?”

有心又有能力的人,本來就是經常隱身的人.不然世間上哪會有這麼多在位而無能的人?

Coolio 也有話要說啊: “I’ll CU when U get there!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP1PXRiVoJw

蕭邦, 肖邦, 笑邦?

從事翻譯的美妙之處, 就是可以抓住適當時機,”適隨尊便”, 如順勢療法一般,順應個人心情,喜好及傾向,把一個名字譯成多個版本…哪管是離經叛道,無人問津, 總之要切合人物,時間與地點.

此時此刻,想起近日無處不在的蕭邦, 皆因今年是他200歲生辰, 連李雲迪也急不及待推出一張”夜曲”全集. 將21首全數收錄.一聽之下,我就在愚人節那天,立心把它據為己有.

無論編寫的多麼傷感, 蕭邦(C先生)在我心中總是比較接近 “肖邦” 或 ” 笑邦”等非一般印象, 那是一種淚中有笑的”深層次矛盾”, 又或不帶任何偏執的凝視, 可以在折磨中享受箇中複雜玩味.

畢竟, 1810年3月1日出生,屬於水瓶座的他,只活了39個年頭,而音樂卻可以震撼人心200 X 39歲, 那又是甚麼因果與現象?

如今由”80後”, 年僅28的李雲迪再作演繹,又帶來另一種多層次的震盪. 首要的問題的是, 你必得相信世上依然有許多不按常理手心並用的人, 以及不按因果報應而世代相傳的歷史問題.

如果意難平或者意猶未的話, 可以比較一下年邁的Pollini演繹的同一作品,再斷定到底是”老而彌堅”還是”長江後浪推前浪”:

POLLINI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cxkLZoEFEk&feature=related

李雲迪: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU&feature=related

H²O vs. “H Too-Old”

–It’s the “World Water Day” and I drank my quota of water for the day daydreaming about being rationed to drink less than half of this volume….musing upon a forum on “water” I attended yesterday which filled my head with “fluids”.

–One thing for sure, you can’t have too little or too much of everything.

–Not least because that will make you old. 

– Although we all get older, feel older, think older, and talk older anyway…

–Yep, I just felt like 75 x75 today.

–So then, back to the question of rationing water supply…

–Supply and demand can never be separated…

–Calculations, calculations… don’t you loathe that, especially when it comes to water, air, life, love?

– Yep, that’ s why we can’t have “World XXX Day” every day.

–But we have 364 days of the year to deal with the consequences of having or not having it.

–Now, some water before we falter.

2010樂活日誌 – 全部售罄

2009年的某一天, 一個閃過腦際的意念,一位在某個綠色活動結識的朋友,再加上另一位當時身在地球另一角落鑽研”可持續設計”的設計師, 這本中式日曆便開始有機地發芽,生長;每天一頁一頁地向前移動,演化,成形.

這是甚麼一回事?

一天一個綠化人生的小點子, 一人綠一點,就是這麼簡單, 也何其不簡單…

我們是何許人?

幾個平常人以平常心(也頗用心)去打造,串連, 但求與人分享各種大小發現和用得著的小點子.

是的,一切都可以在一天之內發生;

有時候,一天之內卻看似甚麼都沒有發生.就像這個日曆, 哪一天是好日子,”宜”甚麼,”忌”甚麼,全憑你怎麼去打造出來.

在”樂活”這個名詞老化或”潮語化”之前,至少我們可以給它一個”活化”一下.

在天變,地變,人變,事變的虛擬化存在中,

依然相信活著可以”樂活”的,又或是開始尋找樂活的人,

 

此時此刻,日曆經已全部售罄. 謝謝各位支持!

 

One Day -Matisyahu

One day, I was caught by the magic of Matisyahu’s latest album “Light” featuring “One Day” – a song that I never get tired of playing and playing more than 20 times within one day.

Another magical thing about this piece is, it somehow led and moved me to reconcile with someone special in my life, not just because of its “fight no more” message, but mostly because of the serenity it fills my heart with – to the point that it simply couldn’t hold any grudge to anyone at all…..

Hard to believe, and hard to slot that sensation. Nor the nature of his music, though it first came across as reggae…religious…

And for sure, he has nothing to do with “Matisse” or “Yahoo” either.

Here is to “One Day”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h55P7F8rW8A&feature=related

沒有季節的廢墟

某一個真實的時刻,你會認同環保是多麼叫人吶悶的一個話題,因為它象徵一個浪漫已失的年代 :

鳥語花香不再,每天走在灰茫茫的天底下,乘坐渡輛漂過黑沉沉的海,天氣報告總是說”今天沒天氣….”

那期待出現的未來,可能已成過去.又或者正在熱切期待我們有一天走向它….

某一個最真實的時刻,你會十分認同FAITHLESS 在以下歌中描繪的情景與氛圍, 尤其是開場一段節錄自”Mefistofele”的詠嘆調”L’altra notte in fondo al mare”  (The Other Night at the Bottom of the Ocean) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJbTlgXTCWw&feature=related

意猶未盡的話,可以回味Renata Tebaldi的經典演繹:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAAg5nFrZkU&feature=related

意大利原文的歌詞譯成英文是這樣的:

The other night at the bottom of the ocean, my little boy was lying
or in order to drive me mad, they told me he has drowned.
Dawn is fresh, the cell gloomy,
and my spirits, such a sparrow in the woods,
flies, flies, flies away.
Ah! Pity me!
Into a lethargic sleep 
I lulled my mother, 
and, crowning horror, they say
that I poisoned her. 
Dawn is fresh,
the cell gloomy…

Inconvenience Store

–This could be fun, if you have the time to try it for 60 days.

–Why 60 days?

–It takes 60 days in average to develop a habit, like smoking second-hand…

–That long? I thought only 60 seconds will do.

–Well, we are talking about a real habit that you can’t easily kick.

–And so, what do I do now?

–And so, what we’ve got here is a store for you to drop in every day, and get something in the most incovenient way.

–For instance?

–Pardon me, we prefer “For no instance” here…..Right…Start with buying a banana that’s totally green, take it home and wait until it’s ripe before savouring it. Once the patience builds up, move on to buying the seeds of a rose, sow it into the pot, watch it grow, blossom and wither. Meanwhile, practice deep breathing…”

–And you call that fun?

–Yes, the fun of drawing the fine line between self-torture and nirvana…and don’t forget to wear a watch.

–That sucks.

–Like living…..