星期六, 1月 09, 2010

這是華麗的惡徒冒險小說的世界




Book 1



一、


  1. 楊納捷克《小交響曲》(Sinfonietta)。
  2. 歷史對人類所顯示的最重要命題可能是「未來的事,當時誰也料不到」。
  3. 一九二六年大正天皇駕崩,改元昭和,日本即將進入一個黑暗而可厭的時代。現代主義和民主主義的短暫間奏曲結束,法西斯主義開始興起。
  4. 如果生來不是姓這個,我的人生或許不是這樣。例如姓佐藤、田中、鈴木那樣普遍的姓。我可能可以度過比較輕鬆的人生,以比較寬容的眼光看待這個世間。也不一定。
  5. 不要被外表騙了,現實經常只有一個。




二、


  1. 不知道為什麼,在看著那照片之間,想起了那個年代時的自己。而且胸前有一點疼痛。那是長久以來沒有嚐到的一種特別的疼痛。她的身影中似乎有喚起那種疼痛的東西。
  2. 我啊,尤其以小說來講,對於自己讀不透的東西,評價最高。


三、


  1. 我在這裡,同時不在這裡。我同時在兩個地方。雖然違反愛因斯坦的定理,但沒辦法。這是殺手的禪。


四、


  1. 妳的想像力確實很特別。那該怎麼說呢?是擁有原創性而具有傳染性的。


五、


  1. 嘿,你那邊工作怎麼樣,我這邊可一點也不在意。青豆在心裡想。這邊只是看上你的頭型不錯而已。
  2. 「妳看,一流飯店的酒保 ──」


六、


  1. 所以從一開始就沒有所謂文學的野心。完成的東西也不打算當成商品,所以沒有必要仔細用心在文章的表現上。
  2. 天生的技術人。……始終遵行著遊戲規則。


八、


  1. 無論如何,總算能在圖騰柱的最下段位置定下來了。


九、


  1. 平行世界。
  2. 做了這種事之後,日常的風景,看起來可能會和平常有點不一樣。不過不要被外表騙了。所謂的現實經常只有一個。

十、


  1. 順體制也好,反體制也好,都無所謂了。反正都只是組織和組織的對抗而已。而且不管是大是小,我對組織這東西根本就不信任。
  2. 他當時信奉毛澤東的革命思想,支持中國的文化大革命。因為文化大革命有多殘酷,多不人道的一面,這些資訊當時並沒有傳進我們耳裡。對部份知識分子而言,高唱毛語錄甚至是一種知性的時髦。
  3. 不過當然不用說,所謂的烏托邦,在任何世界都不存在。就像煉金術和永動機到處都不存在一樣。高島的做法,以我看來,等於在製造什麼都不會想的機器人。從人的頭腦,取出自己思考考的配線。就像喬治.歐威爾寫在小說上的世界一樣。不過就像你可能也知道的那樣,這個世界上也有不少傢伙是主動追求那種腦死狀況的。因為那樣怎麼說都比較輕鬆啊。可以不必考慮任何麻煩的事,只要默默地照上面的吩咐去做就行了。不愁沒飯吃。
  4. 基本上他們把在高島所學到的know-how,在「先驅」照樣襲用,但也在幾個地方加上自己獨創的工夫。例如換成完全有機農法。不用化學殺蟲劑,只用有機肥料栽培蔬菜。而且以都會的富裕階層為對象開始進行宅配的郵購販賣。因為這樣才能提高利潤。也就是所謂生態農業的先驅。著眼點很好。因為很多成員都是都市長大的,非常瞭解都市人需要什麼。為了獲得沒有污染,新鮮而美味的蔬菜,都市人願意支付比較貴的價錢。他們跟宅配業者簽約,簡化配送流程,建立起能夠快速將食品送達都會的獨立系統。「沾有泥土、大小不一的蔬菜」反而成為賣點,也是他們帶頭開始的。
  5. 當然,深田也有責任。搭上時代的潮流發出令人熱血奔騰的言論,把不著邊際的神話灌輸到學生的頭腦裡。卻沒說這只是作作樣子的革命噢。他是一個誠實的男人,頭腦也很好。以學者來說是優秀的。但遺憾的是,有過於善辯而自我陶醉的傾向,也看得出缺乏深層內省和實證的地方。
  6. 他相信這種反體制,破壞性的思想的發動,對健全社會來說是不可或缺的。也就是所謂健全的香料。


十二、


  1. 什麼是正常的宗教,什麼是狂熱的迷信,本來界限就很微妙。並沒有確實的定義,全憑一個解釋。而且有解釋空間的情況,經常也會產生政治力和利益介入的空間。
  2. 新宗教。以更坦白的語言來說,就是崇拜團體。
  3. 「我專攻的是文化人類學。」老師說。「雖然已經不再當學者了,不過這精神到現在還滲透在體內。這學問的目的之一,是將人們所持有的個別印象相對化,從中找出人類普遍的共通項來,重新把那再一次回饋給個人。藉著這樣做,人或許可以獲得自立而屬於什麼的定位。我說的事你明白嗎?」
  4. 天吾漫長奇妙的星期天,就這樣結束了。


十三、


  1. 任何人都沒有像穿著鞋踏進人家家裡,那樣的權力。而且所謂的無力感,會多麼嚴重地繼續侵蝕人們的心。
  2. 以男女關係來說,環真是天生的受害者。
  3. 如果小說造成話題,媒體蜂擁而來,許多可口的事實都將曝光,事情不就不可收拾了。


十四、


  1. 天吾不太喜歡小松這種會算計的一面。一面有點輕視文壇,一面方便地利用著這個系統。
  2. 那是柏拉圖。亞里斯多德和柏拉圖,以比喻來說,就像歌手梅爾.托美(Mel Torme)和平.克勞斯貝(Bing Crosby)的差別那樣。


  3. 不過即使這樣說,他對於獲得普遍水準知識的基本願望 ── 天吾認為這應該是人或多或少都應該有的自然欲求 ── 也未免太薄弱了。

  4. 十五、


    1. 「我喜歡的只有一個人。」青豆說。「十歲的時候喜歡上那個人,握過手。」
    2. 那種事只是通過而已,什麼也沒留下。
    3. 「我等不及了。」什麼地方有人說。


    十六、


    1. 這是華麗的惡徒冒險小說的世界。


    十七、


    1. 簡直就像沒生好的小孩那樣,有點客氣地靠在大月亮旁邊浮著。
    2. 可以窺見超越單純憤怒和嫌惡的某種什麼。那可能是精神最深處的,又硬又小,而且沒有名字像核一樣的東西。
    3. 以穿透岩壁般的眼神暫時看著青豆。
    4. 我們都分別以毫無道理的形式失去重要的人,深深受到傷害。這心的傷痕可能無法痊癒。
    5. 那與其說是瘋狂不如說是類似瘋狂的什麼。
    6. 「Little People。」少女說。


    十八、


    1. 不過對我來說,我想如果可以巧妙地放出釣餌,能把媒體的關心往繪里雙親的方向誘導就好了。往他們在什麼地方做著什麼的方向。換句話說把警察無法做的事,或沒興趣的事,轉而讓媒體來代勞。也想到如果順利的話,說不定能利用這個機會把他們兩個人救出來。
    2. 你應該也知道。在一個密閉的同質性集團中,所有的事情都可能發生。
    3. 喬治.歐威爾在《一九八四》中,正如你所知道的,讓叫做Big Brother的獨裁者出場。當然是將史達林主義預言化的故事。於是Big Brother這個用語,從此以後開始變成一種社會性的圖騰在發揮作用。那是歐威爾的功勞。不過在這個現實的一九八四年,Big Brother實在太有名了,變成太容易看透的存在。如果在這裡Big Brother出現的話,我們可能會指著那個人物這樣說:「小心。那個傢伙是Big Brother!」換句話說,在這個現實世界已經沒有Big Brother出場的一幕了。取而代之的是,輪到這Little People式的東西出場。你不覺得是很有趣的對比嗎?
    4. 不,誘餌這個字眼並不恰當。在製造一個漩渦的印象比較接近。這樣一來周圍的東西可能將開始配合那漩渦而旋轉。我在等待這個。
    5. 人們從兩個人周圍像河水般快速流過。
    6. 據說他經常在昏暗的場所,在那裡冥想。


    十九、


    1. 在青豆眼裡,那並不像現實的風景。他們看來好像正在畫一幅虛構的畫。標題可能是「分享祕密的女人們」。
    2. 我們在人生的過程中,各自背負著過重的包袱。就像老婦人說得那樣,我們像一個家族那樣。一個內心擁有深深傷痕這個共通項目,抱著某種缺陷,繼續沒有終了的戰爭的擴大家族。


    二十、


    1. 但他一直很愛親手拿筆把字寫在紙上這種古典的行為。
    2. 和同年齡的女性認識、戀愛、擁有性關係,必然會帶來責任,那是他不太歡迎的。必須經歷的幾個心理階段,對可能性的暗示,感情和想法上不可避免的衝突……這一連串的麻煩希望儘可能不必背負。
    3. 責任和義務的觀念,經常讓天吾害怕、畏縮。他一面巧妙地避開必須負責任的立場,一面渡過他過去的人生。不牽涉到複雜的人際關係,儘量避免被規則綁住,不發生借貸關係。一個人自由而安靜地活著。這是他一罐繼續追求的事情。為了這個他也準備忍受大多的不自由。
    4. 花了很長的時間才知道那是什麼。那是深繪里的安靜睡臉。
    5. 「小說家不是解決問題人,是提起問題的人。」這確實是契訶夫說的。


    二十二、


    1. 如果不得不把自己所穿過的時間,依照順序就那樣均勻地接受下來的話,人的神經一定無法忍受。那樣的人生一定接近拷問。


    二十三、


    1. 使他們的言語和舉動變得更華麗而積極起來。
    2. 醞釀出像輕歌劇和黑色電影合一的獨特氛圍。
    3. 不過從道德觀點來想一想,殺害男人收取金錢,和與男人做愛收取金錢比起來,到底哪一邊比較正當呢?很難判斷。
    4. 教義上要說是解構還是什麼的呢,只是宗教印象的拼湊集合。這裡有New Age精神主義、有時髦的學院主義、有自然回歸和反資本主義,再適度撒上神祕主義的香料。這樣而已。完全沒有實體之類的東西。不如說沒有實體就是這個教團所謂的實體。套句麥克魯漢的話,媒體本身就是訊息。這方面要說酷也很酷。
    5. 是這個意思。內容因包裝的特質而成立,不是那相反。
    6. 「先驅」這個教團,一面神氣地高唱否定現世的價值,卻相對地,某部份,比現世更露骨地實施階級社會喲。
    7. 記憶從父母傳承給孩子。所謂的世界,青豆姊,就是一種記憶和相反一方的記憶永不休止的戰鬥喔。




星期三, 12月 30, 2009

套一句某F說的話:實在是一個無法取代的天團哪~


the doors是有魔力的
就像他們唱的:there's a mojo rising
對一個CD或者mp3的聽眾如我而言
就像久久未聽再重聽
還是覺得非常獨特迷人...
這樣的魔力。


重看VH1 Storytellers the doors: a celebration
Ray和John和Robby以及諸位搭配的實力歌手在專輯裡重現許多他們當年的好歌
但其實就像是真人和蠟像的差別
三位畢竟都老了
老了可能還是次要
主要或許是油條了
不復當年的某種風華茂盛...


Robby看起來還挺自然質樸
Ray看起來已經變成了好像某種瑜珈大師或者上人之類的人物
John看起來像是high過頭的老頭   令人有點肉麻
總而言之
這無關乎The Doors實在是一個無可取代的天團的事實~



 







Ray說自己和太太常在家聽Weill的歌劇Mahagonny
有天他太太說
你們為什麼不自己改編一下來唱呢?
Ray說:開玩笑!和絃多難哪!會死吧!
後來他們還是把和絃改了一改
然後就唱了以下這條歌:


 





他們另外還告訴大家另一首歌的背景軼事
就是說
在當時
21歲以下的人和以上的人的比例大約是5:1
Ray說Jim認為
只要年輕人大家再次團結
就可以接收政府
雖然他們(政府)有槍
但我們(年輕人)人多
這番話說在Ray嘴裡
其實也有點令人尷尬
畢竟
人多接著接收政府以後然後要幹嘛?
開始玩嗎?怎麼玩?玩什麼?
遲暮之年的老上師欣喜地說出這樣的話
總是令人有點尷尬~~
不過!這是政治氛圍在時代差距上的問題..
還是老話一句:
這並不影響The Doors實在是一個無可取代的天團的事實~
還有我個人非常私淑Ray的演奏的事實!


 





話說..
參與VH1 Storytellers的歌手們
都是一時之選實力強悍的傢伙們
話說
The Doors這個剩下三位老團員的曾經的卻具有時空無限的魔力的天團
還是要充滿抒情青春的年輕人不斷地還魂
比他們自己披掛上陣要更有the doors的那種mojo魔力
譬如像下面這三個傢伙:


 





所謂的the doors不死
就是無限重覆復活在這種強悍的青春力道之中
這...
大概也就是所謂的長生不老的秘密吧!


The Doors之所以是一個無可取代的天團...
或許他們的魔力就展現在這種無限復活的力道當中


星期一, 12月 21, 2009

どんどんどん!


Hey,少來了~


 





あさの ただのぶ - 鈍獣(どんじゅう)


眼睛雖然是斜的....卻看得很正直。


 





這樣的我不是人類,只是肉體在生長,沒有感情的遲鈍的怪獸。


 





呵,被烏鴉攻擊了。


 





ㄜ......一直承蒙照顧,我想跟你們在一起,不要遺棄我!


星期二, 12月 15, 2009

Slide Guitar Boogie Hooker ^^


不是John Lee Hooker也不是Captain Hooker


這個照片稍嫌沉悶了點


其實Earl Hooker應該是很歡樂的人


廢話不多說        耳朵該做的事就不需要嘴巴來代勞  ^^


 






星期五, 12月 11, 2009

Crossroads











I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above, have mercy now,
Save poor Bob if you please


Standin' at the crossroads, tried to flag a ride
Whee-hee, I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me, everybody pass me by


Standin' at the crossroads, risin' sun goin' down
Standin' at the crossroads baby, the risin' sun goin' down
I believe to my soul now, po' Bob is sinkin' down


You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
That I got the crossroad blues this mornin',
Lord, baby I'm sinkin' down


I went to the crossroad, mama, I looked east and west
I went to the crossroad, babe, I looked east and west
Lord, I didn't have no sweet woman, ooh well,
Babe, in my distress



 

老紀特別推崇John Mayer 所以bonus一首John Mayer John Mayer唱這些搖滾名人星的歌比他自己出的流行歌專輯好像好一些~~ 以下:




星期四, 12月 10, 2009

Black Snake Moan



重點是...請問有沒有人有這部片?可以分享一下嗎~~


 





I ain't got no mama now
I ain't got no mama now
She told me late last night, "You don't need no mama no how"

Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Some pretty mama better come and get this black snake soon

Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, baby a chinch can't bite that hard
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, honey a chinch can't bite that hard
Ask my sugar for fifty cents, she said "Lemon, ain't a child in the yard"

Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right for you
Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right for you
Mama, that's all right, most seen all you do

Mmm, mmm, what's the matter now?
Mmm, mmm, honey what's the matter now?
Sugar, what's the matter, don't like no black snake no how

Mmm, mmm, wonder where my black snake gone?
Mmm, mmm, wonder where this black snake gone?
Black snake mama done run my darlin' home

星期日, 11月 29, 2009

星期六, 11月 28, 2009

Ace!Hale Low~~



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I saw him dancin' there by the record machine
I knew he must 'a been about seventeen
The beat was going strong
Playin' my favorite song
An' I could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me
An' I could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me
OW..
He smiled so I got up an' asked for his name
That don't matter, he said,
'Cause it's all the same

Said can I take you home
where we can be alone

An' next we were movin' on
He was with me, yeah me

Next we were movin' on
He was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me
Ow..

Said can I take you home where we can be alone

Next we'll be movin' on
He was with me, yeah me
An we'll be movin' on
An' singin' that same old song
Yeah with me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me

星期四, 9月 24, 2009

so long marianne ~



其實主要根本不是為了cohen
甚至應該說完全跟cohen無關~


我其實是因為剛剛讀到白石一文的某段敘述覺得有種詭譎之處
所以想來記錄一下而已


那我以下就先來節錄這段敘述好了:
「我們的慾望逐漸被細分,商人針對這些被細分的慾望提供了過剩的服務,
    而且不斷充實。然而,那些更大而又模糊的、無法細分的重要慾望,比方說,
    想要悠閒地與大自然共存,和家人和睦相處,遇到困難時希望有人伸出援手,
    生病時想要好好休息,不想孤伶伶地死亡,不想和他人過度競爭,
    這些像水和空氣般不可或缺的慾望卻越來越無法得到滿足。」
                                                                                     ---白石一文,《永遠在身邊》


白石這段敘述之所以令人心頭微微一震,
實在是我覺得這段小敘述超出了他小說中的假面。
所謂「小說中的假面」
是我覺得:舉凡想要用藝術手段表達一些想法的人
必然都需要借助一種像是「假面」這種形象化譬喻的藝術方面的手段
白石也不例外。


白石的小說似乎都在處理著「關於人到中年會是怎樣一種處境的呀?」的這種問題
這似乎是他小說百轉千迴抽絲剝繭想要解剖了解清楚的
無論如何
小說假面後的白石不必要、也不可能被讀者如我所揭露
但存在於作者白石與讀者如我之間的詭譎的爾虞我詐
卻莫名其妙地構成了他小說的光芒之所在~~


總而言之
上面那段小小的敘述
就如同白石行文風格所習慣的:
「偶然為之,極其輕描淡寫地,說出一些深沉嚴肅的白石心裡的話..」
關於閱讀白石小說的事...就到此結束。
回到上一個關於cohen的話題:


但是因為剛好這兩天看完某部友人推薦並借予的片子
所以想說貼個cohen的照片和歌應該也不錯~~
那部電影中,導演將cohen這首歌安排在處男卡爾面對到夢幻公主瑪莉安
在他心中破碎之絕望失戀的一刻撥放
氣氛營造是非常地動人了
而且剛好「夢幻公主/蕩婦」這個二位一體的女孩又叫做瑪莉安..


不過..
身為cohen這首歌的熱情支持者的聽眾如我而言
總覺得嘛.....
cohen這首應該是唱一個前中年到中年的男子心中的歌
對於像卡爾那種十幾歲的處男的錯愕失戀創傷...
好像不是很對得上~~
不過總而言之電影中這首歌用得很恰到好處
氣氛盈然
而且歌本身也很好聽
 
那就來聽歌吧:


 



星期六, 8月 08, 2009

少年手指虎



官九郎出品   必屬嘉片 !


PUNK! PUNK! PUNK!


 


宮藤官九郎的編劇一直都很厲害


「少年手指虎」當中最有意思的就是那個歪鼻子經濟人這個角色
這樣說是因為這個歪鼻子經濟人的角色
就像是「橋」
不但跨時空連接接25年前和25年後
又跨領域地銜接了從早期披頭式的蠢流行歌到
一棒將日本青少年打進龐克搖滾
而後成為殭屍電子樂照大牌的經濟人...
各種歐美流行文化串聯了25年的日本流行音樂


我想宮九郎確實是一個戰後日本流行文化的超級大玩家
江戶時代的日本傳統老東西被他放進當代生活玩樂中
已不是新鮮事
甚至很基本
但「少年手指虎」卻不僅僅是這種新舊交雜的玩意兒


官九郎的劇本裡一直都有著一個很唯美主義式的魅影藝術人物
可能體現為崇尚自殺的那一票日本現代文學家
可能體現為執著求某種「人生」的屁次和屎多
也可能很天然地體現為受到傳統落語藝術感動的黑社會帥哥..
隱身在受到大眾歡迎的娛樂性俗文本中
官九郎其實是慢火烘焙著一盞七七四十九道工夫的精品老茶


回到「少年手指虎」
1983年在仙台舉辦的解散演唱會影片
被康娜在YOUTUBE上無意間給瀏覽到了
歪鼻子經濟人在剪接的訪談中私下透露
其實這根本就是他故意放上網釣人用的~
甚至1981年促成「少年手指虎」成軍的那場「意外」演唱會
其實也是歪鼻子經濟人設計的
是他找了當時成天打架的鼓手去鬧場!
結果變成將龐克音樂一棒打進日本青少年腦子裡


每個新流行事物的肇興
其實都很撲朔迷離
每每在一類像是WIKIPEDIA的資料庫上
會歷史地紀錄著「某某在某處做了某事,是為濫觴..」
但這樣的歷史紀錄又有什麼意思呢?
官九郎對於流行文化的轉變
自有一套更加諧趣的幽默想像
譬如一個莫名其妙、完全沒有道理的重要角色:歪鼻經濟人 !!!


私の來說
官九郎用昭雄之口說的某些話
實在是深得人心
譬如他評論康娜那位無印良品風格的吉他男友說:
「他放的屁應該不臭吧?連屁都不臭的人的音樂怎麼會有味道?」
哈哈哈哈哈


還有那個什麼動漫世代的雞八團
三個白瘦T卹黑框眼鏡男
人前「前輩、前輩」的叫著,好像非常有禮貌
人後就嚼舌跟,嘲笑大叔
活該被春雄一記頭捶並且揍了一頓
這種什麼新世代假裝親切有禮鳥雞八人組的團
能看嗎?
所以春雄揍他們揍得真好!
哈哈哈哈哈


宮藤編的劇真好   
官九郎出品 必屬嘉片!


放幾首經典歌樂呵一下好了:


 


 




 


 



星期六, 5月 09, 2009

L. A. Woman



COOL BAND !


 



Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

With a little girl in a Hollywood bungalow

Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light

Or just another lost angel...City of Night

City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon

L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon

L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon

Drive thru your suburbs

Into your blues, into your blues, yeah

Into your blue-blue Blues

Into your blues, ohh, yeah

I see your hair is burnin'

Hills are filled with fire

If they say I never loved you

You know they are a liar

Drivin' down your freeways

Midnite alleys roam

Cops in cars, the topless bars

Never saw a woman

So alone, so alone

So alone, so alone

Motel Money Murder Madness

Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Got to keep on risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'

Risin', risin'

Gone risin', risin'

I'm gone risin', risin'

I gotta risin', risin'

Well, risin', risin'

I gotta, wooo! Bang! Bang!

Woah, ohh yeah

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

With a little girl in a Hollywood bungalow

Oh you were like a little lady in The City of Lights

Or just another lost angel...City of Night

City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woah, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman, you're my woman

Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman

L.A. L.A. Woman Woman

L.A. Woman c'mon 




倘若這種東西有機會在台灣登場......用爬得也要爬去~~      (Ray ,求求你快來台灣吧~ 咯咯咯)



 

星期六, 5月 02, 2009

雷鬼光太郎


 


Hoogogo


抱歉借貼一下嘿~~  peace..   






One Love, One Heart

Let's get together and feel all right

Hear the children crying (One Love)

Hear the children crying (One Heart)

Sayin' give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

Sayin' let's get together and feel all right



Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love)

There is one question I'd really like to ask (One Heart)

Is there a place for the hopeless sinner

Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?

Believe me



One Love, One Heart

Let's get together and feel all right

As it was in the beginning (One Love)

So shall it be in the end (One Heart)

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

One more thing



Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One Love)

So when the Man comes there will be no no doom (One Song)

Have pity on those whose chances grove thinner

There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation



Sayin' One Love, One Heart

Let's get together and feel all right

I'm pleading to mankind (One Love)

Oh Lord (One Heart)



Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

Let's get together and feel all right

星期四, 4月 23, 2009

弦外之音的罅隙


 


                                                                                                             2009.4.22    誠品信義  6樓展演廳


 


語言在日常生活中的溝通使用上是有間隙的,字詞與文法只有在書寫的時候是主角,在日常說話的溝通上,口氣、態度、手勢、眼神、默契、臨場感等等,才是真正的主角。因此,許多可以讀的文字,說起來變得很拗口,譬如咬文嚼字或文藝腔;而往往日常溝通理那些說起來很順當的話,形諸文字之後,卻往往是跳躍、錯接、零碎、讀不懂的,這就是歷來在使用語言進行「說話」與「寫作」兩種溝通模式上產生差異的實際情況。


 


推理劇與推理小說也存在著類似這種說話與寫作的表達差異,當我們看一齣推理劇,角色之間靠著說話溝通,這之間所可能產生的歧義,就有可能一發不可收拾。這裡所謂的一發不可收拾並不是一種負面的批評,在面對一個劇場作品的角度而言,歧義的可能性被撐持得越大,往往對作品來說,反而是越好。《膚色的時光》就有點這樣的意味。


 


《膚色的時光》在最後十分鐘,給了一個有點像是倉促隨便的結局,也有點B級味道,這個意思是說,最後十分鐘,當保單都兌現、也就是投保人都死了之後,會計師、怡君以及珍妮三人出現在聯絡舞台兩側的門之間,由會計師口中得知,大家正在進行「每個case結束之後都要重新裝潢」的例行工作,這個小結尾之所以B級,是因為好似會計師、怡君和珍妮原來是整起事件的背後主導者,像是預先縝密寫好劇本了一般地對兩位眼科醫師詐財,而最後來個揭曉分贓。如果結局是這樣安排的,那也不過就是流於一個匆匆收尾的「驚爆大迴轉」之類的陰謀論B級故事。但實際上仔細想想,似乎又不是這麼簡單,這其中有一個眩惑觀眾的歧義在內。


 


上面所說的那種陰謀論理解,主要是建立在會計師所謂的「每個case結束後都要重新裝潢」、珍妮問怡君到底有沒有真正有點愛過艾斯、以及三人之間一種好似完成某個龐大工作之後,一塊兒為計畫的實現而感到高興的默契表現,當然,還有珍妮和會計師特別提醒了怡君:別忘了我們的….(這個「….」是以一些吞吐的這個、那個語用以及數錢的手勢來代表「錢」)。這些日常零碎的說話與交流,構成了一個好似這三人其實是整起事件陰謀的幕後黑手的B級結局,但問題就在於,其實這三個人在短短的十分鐘裡,並沒有很明確地把這個陰謀論的結尾給鞏固得很明確,也就是說,三人之間所說的話,以及整個像是處理後事的房屋整修氣氛,並不是很明確地傳達出「這是一個以愛情為餌,技術精湛的謀財害命的故事」的意圖,這裡不能確定是劇組本身特意留有的歧義、抑或是因為結局處理得不好,以至於一種歪打正著的模糊造成了歧義的效果?難道這整個詭譎的都會愛情故事,都是這三人為了賺保險金而設下的圈套嗎?那其他人呢?都只是被蒙在鼓裡配合演出的臨時演員?還是說,其實這只是我們依照我們所獲得的一些資訊,加上想當然爾的想像,而串連出的一個錯誤理解?其實會計師對珍妮所說的所謂「每個case結束之後」的這個case僅僅只是單純地指「保險case」而言?而怡君有沒有真的有點點愛過艾斯的問題,也只是在談一種怡君自己拉扯在小莫與艾斯之間的愛情問題?其實這些問題似乎都無法定論,因為我們並無法在這樣一個極為短促的閃爍結局中,看清結局意圖。倘若劇組真的是在給出一個如上所言的B級陰謀論結局,那在製作上確實也就虎頭蛇尾,Low掉了;但倘若其實劇組是精心要瞄準這個結局開放式的歧義,那在結尾的處理上,似乎也稍嫌倉促薄弱而模糊了些。


 


總而言之,無論是出於劇組的精心安排或是歪打正著,重點在於,這裡顯現出了戲劇製造開放結局的一條厲害的蹊徑,也就是在整個表意系統中,玩弄觀眾本身對於眼前文本進行「理解」的詮釋過程。簡單地說,也就是玩弄「我從來沒說過ooxx這些字或我完全沒有這個意思,你這樣的理解純粹是你自己的想像」。


 


行文至此,其實應該要舉出一個文學或戲劇的好例子來強化說明這種文本與理解之間具有眾多歧義可能的效果,但現在腦中完全沒有任何一個好例子可以援用。總而言之,《膚色的時光》除去舞台、影像、導演、表演、以及理所當然的:與陳綺貞歌曲之間的交織這些面向的個別藝術性之餘,在結尾之處,還閃現著這一種罅隙的微光,如果劇組本身本來就有操作這個詮釋過程的罅隙的意圖,那可能結尾的處理確實是倉促而模糊了,以至於雖然閃現了某種眩惑觀眾的意圖之光,卻僅僅只達到了干擾的目的,似乎未竟其功。


 


但,倘若劇組原本就沒有要操作什麼如上這一套我自己編派出來的想像之意圖的話,那整齣戲的狀況與收尾,在理解上,或許也就比較單純了~


星期日, 4月 05, 2009

The Theory of Everything


 



The Theory of Everything


                                                                               - 6 Jan 2001, By Michio Kaku 


Time Magazine chose him as Man of the Century. Albert Einstein had three great theories. His first theory of Special Relativity (1905) gave us E = mc², which led to the atomic bomb and unlocked the secret of the stars. His second great theory was General Relativity (1915), which gave us space warps, the Big Bang, and black holes. But many don't realize that his greatest theory was never finished: "a theory of everything". Einstein's crowning achievement was to have been the unified field theory, an attempt to "read the mind of God". 


But on the third try, Einstein failed. He spent the last 30 years of his life chasing after an equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would explain all physical phenomena. Everything from Creation, to supernovas, to atoms and molecules, perhaps even DNA, people, and love was to be explained by this equation. If discovered, it was to have been the ultimate achievement of 2,000 years of investigation into the nature of space and matter, ever since the Greeks asked what was the smallest particle and the smallest unit of space. Although there are many unresolved questions, today the leading and, in fact, only candidate for the Theory of Everything is ‘superstring’ theory, defined in 10 dimensional hyperspace. Superstring theory, in turn may one day answer some of the deepest questions of the universe, such as: 


* What happened before the big bang? 


* Is it possible to build a time machine? 


* Can we punch a hole in space? 


Not only has the power of this theory startled the world of mathematics and shaken the world of physics, it is also the craziest theory ever proposed. 


Four fundamental forces 


Today, we realize that the entire universe is governed by four fundamental forces: 


The gravitational force, which keeps us from flying into outer space, and prevents our sun (a gigantic hydrogen bomb) from exploding outward. 


The electromagnetic force, which light up our cities and energizes our lasers and our computers. 


The strong and weak nuclear forces, which lights up the stars and galaxies. 


Gravity can be described by Einstein's general relativity theory. Matter warps the space surround it, thereby creating the "force" of gravity. 


Imagine an ant walking on a crumpled sheet of paper. The ant would say that there was a mysterious "force" which pulled it left and right. But we know that there is no "force" pulling the ant; there is only the crumpled sheet of paper pushing the ant left and right. Gravity does not pull: empty space pushes. 


The other three forces can be described by the quantum theory. The quantum theory has a tortured history. Back in the 1950s, when scores of strange new "fundamental" particles were flooding out of our atom smashers, J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atomic bomb) was so frustrated that he declared, "the Nobel Prize in physics shall go to the physicist who does NOT discover a new particle that year." There were so many particles, each given strange Greek names, that Enrico Fermi said, "if I had known there would be so many particles, I would have become a botanist rather than a physicist." 


But after decades of wandering in the wilderness (and spending billions of tax payers dollars) physicists have unified these three quantum forces into what is called the Standard Model, based on a zoo of bizarre particles, called quarks, leptons, Higgs bosons, Yang-Mills particles, gluons, W-bosons and more. Remarkably, all known physical phenomenon can, in principle, be described by these two great theories, relativity and the quantum theory. 


Although these two great theories represent the two pillars upon which ALL physical knowledge is based, the fundamental mystery is why these two theories are so different in almost every way. The first theory is based on the curvature of smooth surfaces, which describes the world of the very large. 


The second theory is based on tiny discrete packets of energy (called "quanta") and explains the world of the very small, such as atoms and nuclei. 


But why should nature, at the most fundamental level, create two totally dissimilar theories? Sadly, every attempt to merge these two theories has failed. Some of the greatest minds of the century have tackled this problem, only to be unsuccessful. 


As physicist Freeman Dyson has pointed out, the road to the unified field theory is "littered with the corpses". Neils Bohr once attended a meeting when Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli was presenting his version of the unified field theory. Bohr stood up and said, "Mr. Pauli, we in the back are all convinced that your theory is crazy. But what divides us is whether your theory is crazy enough!" 


This is perhaps the greatest challenge of all time, to unite all four fundamental forces into a consistent, coherent picture. At present, the sole candidate for the theory of everything is superstring theory. 


Superstrings and the 10th Dimension 


Superstring theory combines relativity and quantum in an elegant, intuitive way. First, it describes the myriad of quantum particles of nature because each particle represents a "note" on a vibrating string. Think of a violin string. No one says that A or B is more fundamental than C. What is fundamental is the string itself. 


Superstring theory says that, if we had a supermicroscope and could peer at an electron, we would see a string vibrating in a certain mode. The string is extremely small (10 to the minus 33 centimeters!) so that the electron looks like a point particle to us. If we shake the string, so it vibrates in a different mode, then the electron can turn into something else, such as a quark, the fundamental constitute of protons and neutrons. Shake it again, and the string could vibrate in the mode which describes photons (the quanta of light). Shake it again and it turns into a graviton (the quanta of gravity). 


In fact, the collective set of vibrations corresponds to the entire spectrum of known particles. Instead of postulating millions of different particles, one only has to postulate a single object, the superstring. The sub-atomic particles are notes on the superstring. Our bodies are symphonies of strings, and the laws of physics are the laws of harmony of the superstring. 


The superstring theory can also explain gravity. When the superstring moves in space and time, splitting and rejoining into other strings, it forces the space-time surrounding it to curl up, just as Einstein's equations predict. In other words, even if Einstein never dreamed up general relativity, we might have discovered it through superstring theory. 


Hyperspace 


Superstring theory, of course, has its detractors. Many point out it predicts the universe is defined in 10 dimensional hyperspace, which sounds more like science fiction than real physics. It's indisputable that the universe exists in four dimensions (3 spatial dimensions and one time dimension). Every object in the universe, from the tip of your nose to the farthest star, can be located by giving just 3 co-ordinates (length, width, and height). If we also give the time, then we can describe every event in the universe with just four numbers. For example in New York, we might say to a friend, "meet me at 42nd street and 5th avenue, on the 25th floor, at 12:00." Thus, four numbers (42, 5, 25, 12) completely specifies this event in space-time. 


Superstring theory, however, predicts the universe should exist in 10 dimensions, not four. To explain where the other six dimensions went, physicists believe that the universe originally existed in 10 dimensions. However, at the instant of the Big Bang, for reasons we don't understand, six of the 10 dimensions "curled up" and collapsed, while the other four dimensions expanded rapidly. In some sense, our universe expanded at the expense of a twin universe which collapsed down to microscopic size. 


Other critics of superstring theory point out that an atom smasher powerful enough to test the superstring theory would have to be the size of the galaxy. The theory is untestable. I think this criticism is a bit silly. Most science is done indirectly, not directly. No one has ever been to the sun or seen a black hole, yet we know what the sun is made of and we have found 20 galactic black holes in space. Similarly, we might be able to detect echos of the 10th dimension from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now being build outside Geneva, Switzerland. There is a small hope that we will be able to find "sparticles," (or superparticles) which would represent higher vibrations of the superstrings. 


Personally, I think that the problem will be solved by pure mathematics. Once the theory is solved completely, it should yield not just the origin of the universe, but it should also perfectly match the masses of the quarks, leptons, Higgs particles and others. 


Time Travel? 


Although a quantum theory of gravity has immediate practical application there is one budding area of physics devoted to a novel application of quantum physics: time travel. Oddly enough, Einstein's equations admit the possibility of time travel. But it may take the full power of the unified field theory to calculate whether it's really possible or not. Back in 1949, Einstein's next door neighbor at the Institute for Advance Study, the great mathematician Kurt Goedel, demonstrated Einstein's own equations allowed for time travel. If the universe rotated, and you went around the universe, you could arrive back before you left! 


In his memoirs, Einstein pointed out that Goedel's solution could be dismissed on "physical grounds." Our universe expands, it doesn't rotate. But this leaves open the possibility that if the universe rotated, then time travel would be common place!


Since then, literally hundreds of solutions of Einstein's equations have been found which yield time travel solutions. They include: 


* An infinite, spinning cylinder. This allows for time travel if one travels around the cylinder. 


* Cosmic strings. They allow for time travel if the cosmic strings collide. 


* A spinning black hole. This collapses into a spinning ring (not a point), so anyone falling through the ring might actually fall through a wormhole (the Einstein-Rosen Bridge) which, like Alice's Looking Glass, connects two different regions of space and time. 


* Negative matter. If enough negative matter were to be found,then it might open up a wormhole large enough so that a trip through time wouldn't be any more jarring than a ride on an airplane. 


* Negative energy. Similarly, an intense concentration of negative energy can also open up a wormhole. A crude version of "warp drive" can be obtained if one stretches the space in front of you and compress the space behind you via negative energy. 


A Theory of Everything may also help explain the sticky paradoxes found in time travel stories,such as the grandfather paradox (what happens if you kill your ancestors before you are born). Because the entire universe must be quantized, it’s possible the universe splits in half when you alter the past. The "river of time" forks into two different rivers. 


If you go back in time to save President Kennedy from being assassinated, you will only save someone else's President Kennedy. Your own past cannot be changed. 


But don't expect any amateur inventor to announce the invention of a time machine anytime soon. Negative matter has never been seen (it falls up, not down) and you need a fantastic amount of both negative and positive energy, called the Planck energy (which is a quadrillion times larger than the energy of the LHC). When Michael J. Fox jumped into his plutonium-fired De Lorean car in ‘Back to the Future’, we can calculate that his plutonium power source does not have enough energy to open a hole in space-time. Even if we could buld one the stability of these time machines is in question. We don't know if they will be stable enough to transport us safely back in time. 


Outlook 


At present, superstring theory has emerged from being a fringe theory of physics to becoming one of the dominant areas of research, generating tens of thousands of papers. The pace of research is feverish. Edward Witten of the Institute of Advanced Study, one of the principle researchers in string theory, recently made another discovery, that there might even be a hidden eleventh dimension. But the truth is that no one is smart enough to completely solve the theory and settle intriguing theoretical questions about what happened before the Big Bang and if time travel is possible. 


Perhaps a young person reading this article will become inspired to solve the greatest problem of fundamental physics!




 


On Violence



                                                                 On Violence
                                                                                                                         author: Slavoj Žižek
Description
Žižek's lecture on his book Violence at the University of Leeds. Expounds on violence in all its dimensions, he introduces aspects that got left out in the book. The lecture was organized by the International Journal of Žižek Studies.
Below is a brief chronological summary of the lecture's main themes:



Marxism and psychoanalysis - They have a problematic relationship in so far as Marxism mis-uses psychoanalysis to fill in its theoretical gaps & shortcomings. The way forward is to open up a new domain that can be described by psychoanalysis but offers the grounds for a new revolutionary subjectivity.
The possibility of a radical/revolutionary new subjectivity - a purportedly post-traumatic subjectivity typical of the 21st Century - with reference to Catherine Malabous recent book - Les nouveaux blessés (The New Wounded).
Impossible objects - The core of humanity as the drive and fascination for things we cannot do or fully understand.



Freud & Lacan - The relationship between external traumatic events/stimuli and internal psychical traumas. Sexuality is less about content and more about the form of the fantasy through which sexuality is expressed. Trauma/fantasy sexualizes sexuality itself, only through trauma can sexuality occur. Sexuality only occurs through the distortion of trauma.
Catherine Malabou's critique of the Freudian/Lacanian position - our socio-political reality today has produced so many brutal external intrusions that our traditional symbolic structures have been destroyed.



Malabou's reproach - that Freud always looks for the psychic trauma at the expense of the overwhelmingly destructive external shocks of profoundly violent events that have no rational meaning to be processed. The post-traumatic subject that results is emptied of his/her substance - there is nowhere to regress in the Freudian sense because your entire identity has been erased, you become a pure subject deprived of the symbolic content that the hermeneutics of psychoanalysis depend upon. This creates a new form of the living dead. The big political and psychoanalytical problem of today is how to think through this new traumatized subject.



Zizek's Lacanian response - the underlying function of such Lacanian categories of castration etc. is to describe this manner in which the subject is deprived of his/her substance. Similarly, in German idealism we learn that the subject is substanceless.



Psychoanalytical theory's response - The Big Other is what are you deprived of when you are subjected to this destructive violence, not as an all-knowing figure of authority but rather the Big Other as appearance. The fool and the grain of seed story (the mentally ill man who thought he was a grain of corn, returns to the asylum and is told off because he has been cured - to which he replies "yes, but does the chicken know this" ... This reveals a central component of ideology - we all need a chicken not to know. E.g. the fact that whilst drawing to the end of his life, Tito was not informed of the parlous state of Yugoslavia's economy. So huge amounts of money was borrowed to keep Tito happy till his death. Economic crisis ensued with the subsequent outbreaks of genocidal nationalism - because the chicken was not allowed to know.



Culture today - we can afford to be as cynical as we want, but we still need a chicken that doesn't know. E.g. in today's greatest remaining taboo is paedophilia and the corruption of childhood innocence - we still need a chicken, unlike the post-traumatic subjects who have lost their chicken. In cultural politics - this means we need more not less distance from our cultural neighbours. We need more codes of discretion, not more understanding.


The rise of gonzo pornography - this marks the end of engagement as the ridiculous narratives of traditional pornography have been replaced by gonzo porn where all narrative has been removed.
The basic lesson of the post-traumatic subject - the stories we are telling ourselves about ourselves, our innermost narratives, are ultimately lies. Psychoanalysis helps us to understand this truth.
The rise of the detached subject & a new revolutionary perspective - there are a whole new series of antagonisms that capitalism cannot solve:
1. ecological concerns 2. intellectual property rights 3. excluded populations - gated communities
These constitute 3 new forms of proletarianization in a basic philosophical sense in addition to the classic Marxist sense of exploitation. The common philosophical element of all three domains is the way in which the subject is deprived of his/her key substance. This is the grounds for the building of a new proletarianization e.g. Neo from The Matrix - deprived of his whole symbolic inner life.
The new Cartesian subjectivity - Descartes's conception of the subject is now more relevant than ever before. The conceptualization of the subject that survives his/her own death - maybe we can provide a frame that will provide us with a common denominator for the shared struggles that we have today. Proletarianization has not disappeared - it has extended its reach.


西伯利亞的伊凡.米哈伊爾




              西伯利亞七匹狼 / 蔡振興.中國 



  1840年秋天,伊凡.米哈伊爾因犯了咒駡長官罪, 被沙皇的聖彼德堡法庭判刑20年,流放到西伯利亞松果村服苦役。  


  西伯利亞每年有8個月被雪蓋住, 冬天氣溫常在零下四十度至五十五度。四周白雪茫茫,荒蕪人煙, 離此最近的村莊也在2500公里以上,想逃出去必定死在 風雪交加的路途上。  


  伊凡是個有文化的體格健壯的青年, 他在山坡下自己蓋了過冬的木屋,開始適應環境。獄長羅里規定: 犯人可以自由打獵、種植謀生,但不准養狗,不准有木匠工具, 防止犯人做成狗拉雪橇逃出西伯利亞。羅里很壞, 有一個犯人的妻子自願跟丈夫來服苦役,松果村沒什麼村民, 這個犯人的妻子成了當時西伯利亞唯一的女人, 羅里把她的丈夫殺了喂狼,而強要這個女人做他的老婆。  


  伊凡很刻苦能幹,辛苦了一秋,竟富得流油, 山坡下的小木屋裏掛滿了曬幹的雪兔、松鼠、雪雉、蛇、魚、刺蝟、 雪蛙、大泥鰍、豬獾等過冬的食品。冬天來了, 犯人們被零下四五十度的嚴寒逼在各自的窩棚裏。伊凡年輕不怕冷, 竟到高達100米的松果嶺上的森林裏閒逛, 還拾到兩隻凍得鐵硬的雪雉。但是他遇到了兩匹健壯的西伯利亞狼, 一匹公狼從左邊逼近,一匹母狼從右邊靠上來, 它們的眼裏閃出饑餓的綠光。公狼首先撲過來,伊凡飛起一腳, 牛皮靴子猶如一塊重重的石頭,公狼被踢出1米多遠,爬不起來了; 對撲過來的母狼他也用腳猛踢,母狼再也爬不起來了, 這是因為伊凡的力氣太大了,狼也太餓了。 伊凡把兩隻雪雉放在狼嘴邊, 然後回家搬來三四十斤凍硬的鱸魚,對半分開,放在兩匹狼的嘴邊。 這時伊凡對征服兩匹狼有了信心, 因為他第一次放的兩隻雪雉都被狼吃光了。 


  伊凡站了起來,鼓足氣,發威一般地吼。  


  “噢嗚──”   “噢嗚──”  


  這是典型的狼嗥,聲波擊穿了幾乎被冰凍住的空氣, 在松果嶺中響起脆烈的回聲, 震得西伯利亞針葉松上的積雪紛紛地跌落。伊凡要告訴這兩匹狼── 我也是狼,我是比你們更厲害的狼,我是你們的狼王。  


  第五天早上,伊凡打開厚厚的窩棚木門,但見兩匹狼蹲在10米外, 與他構成一個等腰三角形。狼盯著他,這是被他踢過的兩匹狼, 它們憑嗅覺尋上門來,顯然不是報復,而是表示臣服, 也是乞討食物的意圖。伊凡扔出了食物,它們不客氣地吃了。 他為公狼起名叫亞當,為母狼起名叫夏娃。狼隔三岔五地來討食, 都一一得到滿足。3個月後,亞當、夏娃消除了對伊凡的疑懼, 終於在木屋裏定居下來,與伊凡一起度過了西伯利亞長達8個月的封 雪期。  


  雪化冰消的夏天,亞當、夏娃回歸松果嶺大森林。第二年冬天來了, 一個風雪彌漫之夜,亞當、夏娃領來了它們生育的5匹狼崽子, 小狼沒有經歷過殘酷的生存競爭,對人極依戀, 竟紛紛往伊凡的腿上亂爬。伊凡感動得熱淚盈眶,歎了一口氣:“亞 當、夏娃,你們一家子既然投奔我,就和我一道過日子吧!”  


  七匹狼引起的食物危機壓迫著伊凡, 他只得用柴火在松果河的厚冰上燒化了一個洞, 用麻線拴著食餌釣魚。那些在厚厚的冰層下憋得發慌的魚兒, 忽見冰洞裏透 進了明亮的陽光,都擁擠過來搶食兒。 第一條被釣起來的是條無鱗黑袍鯰魚,足有10斤重, 它在冰上只扭了三下尾巴,就被凍住了, 畢竟是零下四十多度的嚴寒呀。狼們饑不擇食,互相爭奪,不到3分 鐘,鯰魚就進了狼肚子。那條最小的綽號寶貝兒的小狼最調皮, 竟從蹲著的伊凡背上爬上來,坐到伊凡的狗皮帽上,“嗚嗚” 亂叫,向它的狼哥狼姐們表達著自己的興奮。伊凡釣起的魚像小山, 足有500公斤,他用樹枝編成地排,用麻繩做成轅套, 將魚兒放上去,由七匹狼拖回木屋。  


  夏天又來了,伊凡把狼驅上松果嶺,放歸大自然。一天, 他爬上松果嶺,一聲 “噢嗚──”的狂吼,亞當、 夏娃和已經長大了的小狼們都循著聲音跑了過來,它們見到伊凡, 高興得又蹦又跳又叫,已經長大的小狼們只是瞎胡鬧,亞當、夏娃像 兩位彬彬有禮的紳士,分別用舌頭舔著伊凡的左右手, 表達著它們對這位西伯利亞的兩腳狼王的感激和情意。 伊凡望著自己的這支野狼部隊,腦子突來靈機: 我能夠逃出西伯利亞。  


  伊凡刻苦努力,像一隻老鼠,拼命往洞裏貯備食物。 不久卷起漫天風雪,嚴寒降臨西伯利亞,亞當、 夏娃領著已經長大的小狼們也回到伊凡的木屋裏過冬。 他抱起最小的寶貝兒,歎口氣:“唉,孩子們,你們筋骨還嫩點兒, 咱們再熬一年吧!”在這個冬天裏, 伊凡有意識地馴化它們聯合駕套拖魚。狼們每天把伊凡釣起的魚, 從松果河的冰層上拖回木屋,亞當、夏娃居兩側,中間是五匹小狼, 它們的動作越來越協調。  


  又一個夏天來了,亞當、夏娃帶著逐漸長大的小狼回到松果嶺。 接著是冬天,亞當、夏娃領著它們的子女,照例回到伊凡身邊過冬。 伊凡很高興,因為小狼們已與它們的父母一般高大了。 囚犯們很羡慕伊凡擁有一個狼群,有人稱伊凡為雙腿狼王。 獄長羅里也不當一回事,因為俄羅斯法典規定, 西伯利亞流放犯不得養狗,那 麼就是說除了狗之外,養龍養虎都可以。  


  伊凡以修屋為名,向羅裏借了斧鋸,實際上, 他用結實的西伯利亞針葉松枝椏,造了一架結實的雪橇。 歸還了斧鋸,雪橇則深藏在雪窟裏。每當深夜,伊凡喚出狼群, 進行試拖訓練,漸漸地得心應手。伊凡放手準備著他的逃跑計劃, 因為在零下四五十度的西伯利亞寒冬,還有哪個傻瓜出來走動呢?  


  一天晚上,月明星稀。松果嶺四周的囚犯窩棚死一般地靜。 伊凡喂飽了七匹狼,將一切能吃的裝上雪橇, 七匹狼也各自套上了轅套,他決定逃跑。羅里畢竟是沙皇的爪牙, 他手提一柄雪亮的板斧,突然出現在伊凡的面前。  


  “伊凡老弟,你借斧鋸修房子,原來是造雪橇呀。 我這柄板斧就是俄羅斯法律,對非徒步逃犯,可以立即處以死刑。”  


  羅里舉起在月光下閃閃發亮的板斧,當頭劈向伊凡。這太突然了, 伊凡來不及思索,飛起一腳,羅裏的板斧竟在空中翻斤斗。 雙方都抬起了頭,伊凡一個搶籃球似的騰跳,抓住了斧柄, 揮手一下子,羅里的半個腦袋掉在雪地上,身子像袋穀子, 倒了下去。來不及出血,創口已被封住,天太冷了。 伊凡把羅里裝上雪橇,連同那半個腦袋,這可是狼的糧食啊!  


  伊凡一揚手,亞當、夏娃首先起步,雪橇沙沙地向東北方向滑行。 一口氣跑到第二天下午,狼們實在疲勞了, 伊凡才在一個雪坡下卸套休息。七匹狼立即偎在一起, 互相取暖休息,那饑餓的目光隨著伊凡忙碌的身影溜溜轉。  


  伊凡抱下羅里的屍體,脫光屍體上的衣服,然後畫了十字,說:“你 為了奪取犯人的妻子而砍死犯人喂狼,今天我也要用你的血肉喂狼, 這是公平交易,你實在一點不吃虧呀!”伊凡舉起板斧肢解了羅里, 一部分喂狼,大部分裝在雪橇上。他 又用斧子砍出一個雪洞,招呼狼們轉進去,見它們偎在一起了, 再用羅里的大皮襖蓋在它們的身上,讓它們休息長精力。 伊凡吃了點食物,嚼了幾把雪,也挖了一個雪窩轉進去, 貓在裏面打盹,像一隻冬眠的北極熊。  


  究竟休息了幾天幾夜,伊凡也弄不清楚, 因為他是被小狼寶貝兒弄醒的。他被寶貝兒舔醒後鑽出雪窩一看, 所有的狼都排在雪橇旁,夏娃具有雌性的細心, 竟把拱蓋在它們身上的那件羅里的皮襖,用嘴咬著拖到雪橇上。 眾狼顯然已恢復體力,等待餵食、出發。雪橇上有那麼多食物, 但是誰也不敢動,因為它們知道:伊凡是它們的王。  


  狼們的食物仍是羅里的肉。  


  伊凡讓狼拉著雪橇行進,他的目標是東北方向的貝加爾湖。 白天看太陽,晚上參照星星,曉行夜宿地走了一個星期。 羅里的屍肉已轉化為狼們的精力,但還剩下半截毛茸茸的大腿, 而羅里的這半截大腿竟成了危難中的救星。  


  那是一次下午出發的夜行,狼的精神狀態很好,伊凡決定通宵行進。 半夜裏,皓月當空,照著白雪皚皚的西伯利亞雪原。突然, 狼們停步,並且向後逃,而雪橇帶著慣性力反把狼們向前拖, 亞當發出了驚恐的呻吟。伊凡知道遇到了魔鬼, 令惡狼害怕的肯定不是小魔鬼。他定神細看, 只見一團白乎乎的東西正向雪橇靠近,原來是一頭重達1000斤的 西伯利亞虎,它是西伯利亞野生動物食物鏈的終端, 名副其實的西伯利亞動物之王;它的皮毛價值千金, 擁有它一張皮可以成為莫斯科郊外的一個小地主。  


  伊凡握住羅裏的那柄鐵斧,但他知道,搏鬥的結果必將凶多吉少。 他突然靈機一動,舉起羅裏那半截長滿茸毛的大腿, 用力扔向西伯利亞虎。那老虎顯然餓極了,竟撲向空中一口咬住, 然後跑開了。  


  伊凡默默祈禱:呵,謝謝你,大災星!  


  伊凡朝亞當猛抽一鞭,雪橇重新前進,而且速度飛快, 這也許是西伯利亞虎把恐怖納入了狼的心中,它們加速奔跑, 顯然是在逃避那個另它們心驚膽戰的大災星 。  


  太陽從東邊升起,狼們放慢了腳步, 雪橇在古老蒼涼的西伯利亞雪原上緩緩滑行。伊凡舉目四望, 他在尋找一個避風的溫暖的休息地。突然一陣風卷起一股乾雪, 陣風卷過的雪地上露出一架完整的人體白骨。顯然, 這是西伯利亞的逃犯,他帶著生的欲望,力盡艱辛, 最終未能戰勝嚴酷的大自然,走到這裏倒下, 為人生畫上一個悲慘的句號。伊凡脫下狗皮帽向白骨揮動, 祝亡靈安息。  


  伊凡和他的狼群停停走走地又行進了半個月, 所帶的動物肉乾幾乎吃得精光,饑餓威脅著他和狼群。亞當、 夏娃的套繩一直拉得很緊,負重最大,消耗的體力也最大, 最後竟東倒西歪了。伊凡只得將它們抱到雪橇上,跟他一道休息, 雪橇任由五匹年輕的狼拉著,時快時慢由狼們自己決定。  


  亞當和夏娃趴在羅裏的那件厚皮襖下,一動不動, 這兩匹老狼顯然折騰得筋疲力盡了。不久,亞當呻吟著,搖著頭, 拱開蓋在它頭上的皮襖,兩眼直直地盯著伊凡,似乎在說:“雙腳狼 王,我不行了!”伊凡伸出了手,它伸出缺乏粘液的舌頭, 舔著伊凡的手心手背,然後閉上疲憊的眼,很快斷了氣。 伊凡摸摸亞當身邊的夏娃,已經冰硬,它顯然死在亞當之前。  


  在一個避風的緩坡下,伊凡吆喝狼們停止行進,並為它們卸了轅繩。 五匹狼挨個兒成一字形蹲在雪地上,狼眼漠然地望著伊凡。 伊凡看懂了狼們的眼神,那顯然是說:雙腳狼王,我們肚子餓, 再走下去就走不動啦! 


  伊凡沒有理睬它們,他心中有了主意:在狼的王國裏有個規定, 不撕食活著的夥伴,但對死亡的夥伴,它們可以像吃羊一樣吃掉。 伊凡用板斧砍下了亞當、夏娃的頭,將兩個狼頭放置在坡頂雪堆上, 面向東北方。他脫帽致意,祈禱亞當、 夏娃保佑他和它們的子女逃出西伯利亞。然後他剁碎狼肉, 將一部分扔給狼們吃掉,餘下的精打細算,估計能維持三天。 伊凡嚴格掌握著時間,每次只能休息一夜,第二天必須上路, 因為拖延時間就是無謂的消耗,就意味著死亡。 


  第三天早上從宿營地出發前,伊凡自己留下兩塊狼肉, 用強勁的咬嚼肌撕食了,把最後一塊狼肉扔給狼們,瞧著它們吃完。 然後他伸出兩手,把五匹狼摟到胸前, 向這些野獸發表了動情的演說:“孩子們, 你們吃掉了我一秋積累的肉食,吃掉了該死的獄長羅里, 吃掉了你們的父母,現在我們是沒有一點糧食的窮光蛋啦, 而被雪覆蓋的西伯利亞這鬼地方,我們連螞蟻也找不到一隻。 下一輪,該吃我啦!孩子們,到時你們吃我吧……”伊凡留出了眼淚 ,在每只狼頭上撫摸一下,寶貝兒竟舔著伊凡腮上的淚水。  


  伊凡和狼們繼續出發。  


  坐在雪橇上的伊凡只想著好運氣,在顛簸中不時打盹兒, 一會兒被惡夢嚇醒, 一會兒被好夢笑醒。當他再次醒來時,竟吃驚地站了起來,啊, 前面是一片水晶般的藍光, 那是太陽照在遼闊的冰層上反射出的藍光,哦,是貝加爾湖。 只要到了貝加爾湖,就會有村鎮,就會有人群, 就會有正常人的生存。伊凡揮起鞭子,向狼群狠很地抽去, 雪橇像箭一樣,駛向那眩人眼目的一片藍光……  


  一年後,貝加爾湖北側的葉林娜鎮上, 人們漸漸熟悉了一位名叫斯捷潘諾夫的公民, 他在一家飯館裏當傭工,工作特別賣力, 還比別的傭工每天多幹兩小時, 所要的報酬是食客留下的肉骨頭歸他,因為馴養著五匹狼。  


  斯捷潘諾夫──是否就是伊凡.米哈伊爾, 那位馴狼逃出西伯利亞流放地的雙腿狼王?應當說是的。



「人人有功練」之一




Yeh  這是你們的小弟弟大支
這條歌我要說種族歧視
不是要說白人對黑人也不是黑人對白人
這條歌是台灣人種族歧視台灣人自己
這種人
我需要你們的噓聲
當我給他比"噓"你們就跟我一起"噓"
ok?
這種人.. Come on ! 噓!


噓!我們拿筷子她們要拿刀叉 
噓!她們是把咱台灣人當啥?
噓!妳的刀在割我的肉  
噓!妳拿叉猛插我的心肝
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳這樣我會哈!
 


西餐ㄟ 就西洋菜用刀叉
西餐妹 就筷子不拿的七辣
旁邊站個阿斗ㄚ就愛如潮水
好像ㄇㄟㄇㄟ癢
ㄟ~
我是說好像羊ㄇㄟㄇㄟ
My name is有的名字很長
西餐妹也唸不好
不過沒差反正有英文就好
西餐妹英文超好
阿斗ㄚ問她們 How old are you?
她們回答 Fine Thank You!
她們假裝不會講國語台語
她們不分藍綠
她們的總統是布希
她們吃洋芋看洋具 
西餐妹就是愛洋雞
不過不是王建民的球迷
哈哈
西餐妹
喜歡阿斗ㄚ的體格 
西餐妹
都愛大支的
恩?謝謝~  
我的七辣馬係西餐妹
恩沒錯
因為大家都說我像布萊德彼特


噓!我們拿筷子她們要拿刀叉 
噓!她們是把咱台灣人當啥?
噓!妳的刀在割我的肉  
噓!妳拿叉猛插我的心肝
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳這樣我會哈!


阿斗ㄚ到底是來教英文ㄋㄟ?
還是學中文ㄋㄟ?
其實勒
他們是來主持節目ㄟ
黑人老大主持
我愛黑澀會
白人老二主持
我愛西餐妹
他們除了聽ICRT就是把妹
整天閒閒拿一罐海尼根在PUB走來走去
討論一些沒深度又沒水準的話題
他們都在討論大支的新專輯
我有一個朋友跟阿斗ㄚ作伙
讚!
她說阿斗ㄚ既紳士又浪漫
想說拿個綠卡生個洋娃娃
她現在在夜市賣蚵仔煎
妳說有的阿斗ㄚ馬係不錯
我了解
啊人就一句妳好妳就好可愛煞!
不知
西餐
啊
煞煞去啦
來台灣的這阿斗ㄚ
根本是西莎!


噓!我們拿筷子她們要拿刀叉 
噓!她們是把咱台灣人當啥?
噓!妳的刀在割我的肉  
噓!妳拿叉猛插我的心肝
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳這樣我會哈!


三餐老是在外
西餐妹愛老外
老外老外老外
老外老外老外
三餐老是在外
西餐妹愛老外
老外老外老外
老外老外老外


好多西餐妹喔
我也要去西餐廳
黃種人跟狗!不能進入喔!對不起!
怎麼會有人種族歧視自己?
我說我算台灣黑人吧?
她說
我當你是條狗而已!
妳看不起自己
難怪人看不起妳
那就是為什麼妳去
香港ㄑㄧˋ ㄊㄜˊ
賣擱讓他們一到台灣就都變大鳥博得
他們的臉就
像狗啊吐懶水哈秋到
是!
因為洋根比較屌ㄇㄜ~
黃師父
洋人有槍砲
我們有功夫
覺得外國月亮比較圓的
不管男的女的攏是西餐妹
我們是最屌的
ok?
沒人可以看不起我們欺負我們
只要你們跟我相同
把頭抬高高
西餐妹項?
西餐妹閃 !
我們最嗆最ㄍㄧㄤ
因為我們是台灣人


噓!我們拿筷子她們要拿刀叉 
噓!她們是把咱台灣人當啥?
噓!妳的刀在割我的肉  
噓!妳拿叉猛插我的心肝
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓!妳愛我還是愛阿斗ㄚ
噓......


星期四, 4月 02, 2009

B.H.L.N


感謝  jadejessica


 




Oh well, I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own

Well, I'm movin' after midnight
Down boulevards of broken cars
Don't know what I'd do without it
Without this love that we call ours
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' but the moon and stars

Down every street there's a window
And every window's made of glass
We'll keep on lovin' pretty baby
For as long as love will last
Beyond here lies nothin'
But the mountains of the past

Well, my ship is in the harbor
And the sails are spread
Listen to me, pretty baby
Lay your hand upon my head
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' done and nothin' said