2006年12月19日 星期二
2006年12月10日 星期日
台灣的文化產業
所以打退堂鼓是應該的,家人萬般阻擾是正常的,覺得萬般起頭難是比中樂透還難,一切都很難,一切都不可能,所以很多人就決定這文化事業只能害人用,自己千萬不可扯上身,然願意仍不故一切跳下火坑的,或許是因為他胸中的熱情仍遠大於那炎炎的地獄之火吧。
世紀的容顏 Richard Avedon, Evidence: 1944-1994
事實上,有兩種人最容易認識、接觸到Richard Avedon的作品,一是時尚追逐者,另一是搖滾樂迷。
Avedon 對他自己的攝影創作有許多「三不條款」。不打太過鮮豔的燈光,不玩過份刻意的構圖以及不在畫面上試圖加入敘述性的內容或誘人的姿勢,他讓被攝體本身說話, 也因為如此,他的人像攝影往往呈現出一種寫實主義裡少有的細膩質感,但同時他也必須經由這樣的自我限制而必須做更特定的細節處理及要求。而他所感興趣的題 材亦是他週遭的人物。
如果你去翻閱這本書,就會發現他確實做到了他所要求的氛圍。縱使他有時會玩些特效,但他依然抓住了每位被攝者的本質,甚至呈現出另一面貌,是原本一般人所未察的。
Avedon 在攝影界呼風喚雨,也為二十世紀留下了許多當代名人肖像影像,堪稱j為世紀留下歷史的見證與風華。
2006年12月9日 星期六
嘿寶貝 狂野走一遭吧
據聞,當年Lou Reed 那首「Walk on the Wild Side 」就是寫給Woodlawn的。
http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/andy/warhol/can/holly19.html
Candy Darling的生平介紹 : http://www.warholstars.org/stars/candy.html
☆ 前五張靈魂、節奏藍調類年度佳片:
1. Solomon Burke - Nashville
2. Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae [new entry]
3. Anthony Hamilton - Ain’t Nobody Worryin’
4. Aaron Neville - Bring It on Home... The Soul Classics
5. John Legend - Once Again
☆ 前五張藍調類年度佳片:
1. Charlie Musselwhite - Delta Hardware
2. Chris Smither - Leave the Light On
3. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Colorblind
4. Chris Thomas King - Rise
5. Watermelon Slim & the Workers - Watermelon Slim & the Workers
☆ 前十張鄉村/草根音樂類年度佳片:
1. Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
2. Alan Jackson - Like Red On A Rose
3. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
4. Willie Nelson - Songbird
5. Vince Gill - These Days
6. Drive-by Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse
7. Todd Snider - The Devil You Know
8. Julie Roberts - Men & Mascara
9. The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
10. Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road
☆ 前十張英美民謠及Americana音樂類年度佳片:
1. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
2. Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
3. Espers - Espers II
4. Howe Gelb - Sno Angel Like You
5. Jason Collett - Idols of Exile
6. Josh Rouse – Subtitulo
7. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - I Stand Alone
8. The Little Willies - The Little Willies
9. Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
10. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
前十張重金屬類年度佳片:
1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
3. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
4. Converge - No Heroes
5. Tool - 10,000 Days
6. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
7. Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
8. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
9. Devin Townsend - Synchestra
10. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
honorable mention--
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Korpiklaani - Tales Along this Road
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
前十張世界音樂類年度佳片:
1. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
2. Tom Ze - Estudando o Pagode
3. Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de l'Independance
4. Marisa Monte - Universo ao Meu Redor
5. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Living Like a Refugee
6. Julia Sarr - Set Luna
7. Cheikh Lô - Lamp Fall
8. Thomas Mapfumo - Rise Up
9. Mombojo-Homem - Espuma
10. Los Amigos Invisibles - Superpop Venezuela
☆ 前十五張爵士年度佳片:
1. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
2. Billy Hart - Quartet
3. Andrew Hill - Time Lines
4. Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau - Metheny/ Mehldau
5. Trio Beyond - Saudades
6. Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert
7. Odean Pope Saxophone Choir - Locked & Loaded: Live at the Blue Note
8. Bar Kokhba Sextet - 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 11 [live]
9. Branford Marsalis - Braggtown
10. Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird
11. Gianluca Petrella - Indigo4
12. Geri Allen – Timeless Portraits and Dreams
13. Houston Person - You Taught My Heart to Sing
14. Andy Biskin - Trio Tragico
15. Paul Motian - On Broadway, Vol. 4: Or the Paradox of Continuity
☆ 前二十張饒舌/嘻哈類年度佳片:
1. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
2. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
3. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
4. The Roots - Game Theory
5. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
6. Jay Dee(J Dilla) - Donuts
7. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
8. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
9. T.I. - King
10. The Game - Doctor's Advocate
11. Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
12. Shawnna - Block Music
13. DJ Khaled - Listennn: The Album
14. Outkast - Idlewiled
15. Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon
16. Too Short - Blow the Whistle
17. E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card
18. Field Mob - Light Poles and Pine Trees
19. Soul Position - Things Go Better With RJ And Al
20. 7L & Esoteric - A New Dope
☆前二十張西洋電音舞曲類年度佳片:
2006 Best Indie Electronic/Club Dance/IDM Albums:
1. AFX(aka Aphex Twin) - Chosen Lords
2. Herbert - Scale
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
5. Phoenix [FRA] - It's Never Been Like That
6. Ratatat - Classics
7. The DFA - DFA Remixes: Chapter One
8. Zero 7 - The Garden
9. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
10. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
11. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
12. Adrian Sherwood - Becoming A Cliche
13. Loscil - Plume (Kranky)
14. I Am Robot And Proud - The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing
15. Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener
16. Halou - Wholeness & Separation
17. Jimmy Edgar - Color Strip
18. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
19. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
20. The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living
2006年12月6日 星期三
☆ 2006年前五十張西洋搖滾年度佳片:Best Albums of 2006
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
5. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
6. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
7. Built To Spill - You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
8. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
9. Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
11. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
13. Califone - Roots & Crowns
14. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
15. Scott Walker - Drift (4AD)
16. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
17. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
18. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
19. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
20. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go by
21. Beck - The Information
22. The Walkman - A Hundred Miles Off
23. Cat Power - The Greatest
24. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
25. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
26. Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
27. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
28. Hot Chip - The Warning
29. Neil Young - Living with War
30. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
31. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
32. Los Lobos - The Town And The City
33. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
34. Howe Gelb - Sno Angel Like You
35. OOIOO - Taiga
36. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
37. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
38. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
39. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
40. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
41. The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
42. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
43. Razorlight - Razorlight
44. The Killers - Sam's Town
45. Keane - Under The Iron Sea
46. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
47. Kasabian - Empire
48. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
49. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
50. Alexisonfire - Crisis
2006年12月1日 星期五
關於台妹的復仇,到底誰終於復了仇
原來這文中「台妹的復仇」,真正復仇的不是那些穿著清涼的檳榔西施,而是作者自己,在「界線」中作者終於為父親多年因社會階級因循的壓迫、看低而平反,同樣的,如同文中最後作者雖未直接挑明多年前自己從小亦是那被菁英階層所嘲笑的小台妹,但文末那段以赴約情節間接帶出過去曾所處的位置及自卑時,或許,在每一次次的相對位置對照的剖析後,作者終於跨界進入到她可以掌握發言權的世界時。
當年,抱著自卑感,被同學、親友嘲笑的作者,終於用文字為她所關照的台妹們復了仇。
THE BELLS - "Stay Awhile"
摘自http://www.oldielyrics.com/
(Ken Tobias)
Into my room he creeps
Without making a sound
Into my dreams he peeps
With his hair all long and hanging down
How he makes me quiver
How he makes me smile
With all this love I have to give him
I guess I'm gonna stay with him awhile
She brushes the curls from my eyes
She drops her robe on the floor
And she reaches for the light on the bureau
And the darkness is her pillow once more
How she makes me quiver
How she makes me smile
With all this love I have to give her
I guess I'm gonna stay with her awhile
[Harmonica]
How it makes me quiver
How it makes me smile
With all this love I have to give you
Guess I'm gonna stay with you awhile
How it makes me quiver
How it makes me smile
With all this love I have to give you
Guess I'm gonna stay with you awhile
Stay with you awhile
[Whispered]
I guess I'm gonna stay
這首歌大概只對4、5年級的男生比較有感覺,哈。但也算是解開了我二十多年的疑惑,話說那時候八零年代初期,李季準還在中廣深夜主持節目時,節目中幾乎每天都會播放的華貴牌褲襪廣告歌曲中的背景音樂,那時候我還是高中生,每天邊讀書準備考試邊聽廣播應該是很多人的共同記憶。廣告裡的那句台詞「腰部以下全部透明」很多部落格版主已經著墨很多,就不再贅述,倒是那時候就一直對這首背景歌曲有著相當濃厚的好奇,輕柔的女聲、低喃的細語唱腔,跟當時的氛圍確實很搭,但問題是,那時候遍訪唱片行都無人知曉那首歌曲是誰唱的,即使你現在到雅虎的知識去提問,保證也無人應答。(所有的人都只會亂猜Minnie Riperton唱的Loving You這首)甚至我一度以為這會不會是法文歌曲。
所以這疑惑這麼多年來就一直埋藏在記憶裡,即使後來我對西洋音樂如數家珍,也聽了不少坊間出的一堆抒情老歌精選集,但我一直沒聽過有人會將這首放到曲單中,也再沒聽到過有誰播放過這首曲子。畢竟,這首曲子注定要淹沒在歷史的洪塵,以曲子軟呢、溫吞、煽情的程度,是絕對不會被評論者看上眼的,自然不會在崇尚以暢銷數字或名人背書的文化中雀選上。
直到最近,幫老媽整理幾片她從朋友那借來的光碟時,突發直覺靈感,將這幾片老歌精選拿來快速瀏覽一遍時,非常意外的聽到這首歌居然就收錄在這其中一張精選集裡,只是再一次,這全沒附歌單及演唱者資料的燒烤光碟,所以即使尋獲這首歌曲,卻依然不知何人所唱,我唯一的線索,只能憑著二十年前少年時的印象,那幾小節的歌曲旋律及模糊的歌詞內容。當然,感謝現在的網路資訊,雖然一開始試著從歌詞中去猜歌名,看是否可以找到正確的資訊,但查了一晚,卻毫無所獲,直到隔夜,重新反覆聽了歌詞,最後想到乾脆直接從歌詞去查或許有用,才終於找到正確的演唱者及歌名。少年多年的疑惑終於開朗。
只是這首歌曲,聽來抒情婉約,一男一女的對口唱,似乎是暗藏無限春光呢喃性感,但仔細讀這首歌詞,卻覺得這對情侶的關係似乎存在某種窒息式的情愛關係,甚至直接拿去當作某部史蒂芬金的驚悚電影主題曲都可以含有種奇特詭異的效果,可說是直追後來「Theme from a Summer Place」那首被惡搞到史蒂芬金的驚悚電影。
我不管這些,畢竟在重新聆聽這首歌的當下,舊時少年的溫情、性幻想、挫折、寂寥、昏黃的夜色以及聯考的壓力,都活了過來。