Tuesday, April 10, 2007

ハチドリ計画 (蜂鳥計劃)

あるとき森が燃えていました。

森の生き物たちはわれ先にと逃げていました

でもクリキンデイという名のハチドリだけはいったりきたり口ばしで水のしずくを一滴ずつ運んでは日の上に落としていきます。
動物たちはそれを見て
「そんなことをしていったい何になるんだ」といって笑います。

クリキンデイはこう答えました「私は私にできることをしているの」



The forest was on fire.

All of the animals,insects and birds in the forest rushed to escape. But there was one little hummingbird named Kurikindi,or Golden Bird,who stayed behind. This little bird went back and forth between water and fire,dropping a single drop of water from its beak onto the fire below.

When the animals saw this they began to laugh at Kurikindi."Why are you doing that?" they asked.

And Kurikindi replied,"I am only doing what I can do"


私は私にできることをしているの -这个是重点。个人虽然力量薄弱,不过每个人都有每个人能做到的事情。看来,我也要努力了。


ハチドリ計画


(Japanese words from Hachidori Project official website. English translation from 斉藤工 blog although takumi prob wasnt the one who translated it。最近上小工的个人部落格,发觉这个男生很有趣,有脑有心有诚意。常借自己的部落格推广一些很冷门的东西。蛮有自己想法和见解的一个男生,很适合我的胃口(爆!)。我看小工应该已经加入蜂鸟计划了,不过应该和他平时的作风一样,一切都低调进行。真的是很有趣的一个男生。原来他当模特儿的时候,已经走show走到国外去了,可能接触的人和事务比一般从小只专注日本娱乐圈的弟弟们广,所以想法也少了一般少年idol的幼稚(当然,有些少年idol素质也是不错的),却比同年男生多了一份深度。模特儿的工作可能也让小工有机会常和摄影师或美术工作有所联系,养成了他在电影鉴赏和美术欣赏方面所涉猎的题材也很广泛。看他的部落格,可以学会很多冷门的东西,不错玩的说。 5月份的preppy封面,剪了头发的小工,更清爽,本人觉得比之前长头发时更好。)



小工隔一段时期就会在部落格上介绍心水电影,音乐和书籍。最近的介绍如下:

~film~

『グエムル 漢江の怪物 』監督:ポン・ジュノ

『殺人の追憶』監督:ポン・ジュノ

『A』監督:森達也

『A2』監督:森達也

『助太刀屋助六』監督:岡本喜八

『壬生義士伝』監督:滝田洋二郎

『glowing growing』監督:堀江慶

『変面』監督:ウー・ティエンミン

『夢の中へ』監督:園子温

『現金に体を張れ』監督:スタンリー・キューブリック

『ドラゴンボールZ ~たった一人の最終決戦~』原作:鳥山明

『河童のクゥと夏休み』監督:原恵一

~book~

『ゲバラ日記』チェ・ゲバラ:著

『プーでもなれる映画監督』渡辺一志:著

『I LOVE YOU』伊坂幸太郎、他:著

『インディアンの言葉』中沢新一:訳

『賢者たちのメッセージ』光田秀:編著

『ギブミーチョコレート』濱田頌子:著

『国語辞典』旺文社:発行 (汗。。。不要连这个也介绍啦!)

~music~

『innocent view』 Sotte Bosse

『second VERSE』 より子

『green chord』 ACIDMAN

『ELEVEN FIRE CRACKERS』 ELLEGARDEN

「heiwa」 RIZE

「ええねん」 ウルフルズ

「家族の風景」 ハナレグミ

「If I Was Your Man」 JOE

「Buddy」 MUSIQ SOULCHILD

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Happy Birthday Kazuki!


華月、お誕生日おめでとう!

今天还要上班,而且超迟才下班。不过,盼了一整个星期的MARBLE CAKE我怎么可能放过呢!还是冲到店里,屁股一坐下,马上就点了一份餐厅自己做的MARBLE CAKE。

别看它样子普普,这个是与别不同滴!蛋糕软绵绵,奶油香甜不腻!真的超级好吃,口感一流,软绵绵,而且铺在外层的鲜奶油也是店家自己打的,很香,很滑,牛奶味道又恰到好处,没有了一般奶油的油腻。


蛋糕很大块,而且一切出来,因为太软的关系,整个蛋糕就软绵绵倾斜到一边!一口咬下去,牛奶的鲜味加蛋糕本身如丝绸的口感就在嘴里爆开来了!然后,整块蛋糕就完全倾斜下去了!那个柔软度。。。。不言而喻!

最近一直在想如果当初華月没走, 现在RAPHAEL又是怎样一幅情形。是大红大紫,还是解散,还是MEMBER跑去拍连续剧。。。。。一大堆联想!我的大脑可活跃叻!不过,现实中永远没有如果两个字,所以我们只能盼望奇迹了。

Thursday, March 29, 2007

中岛卓伟

Easily ranks as one of my fav voices ( not neccessarily means he gets into my ah-lao ranking charts). His voice breaks me!!!!!!!!!!

为什么就是不能大红大紫呢?虽然说也不错红啦。。。不过,takui的声音真的真得很赞的说!而且风格多变,从punk rock一直玩到爵士乐,他都拿捏得很好。。。。造化哦!是不是头太大的问题呢?(哈哈哈。。。。大头是takui的标志!)

mother sky - live acoustic version - 比cd收录的更棒。如果我在现场,一定哭得稀里哗啦! This voice drives me crazy. Takui never fails to amaze me with the amount of energy he emits on stage. And the way he delivers each song - effortless. Uuurgh, I just wished more people recognized his efforts ( for the record, I think the best he ever managed on Oricon was something like in the No. 20s ranking....which is so upsetting. He def deserves more than this...but the again..........life is such, thats what makes the entertainment world interesting!)

(又是一个标准恋父情结,右手上的玫瑰刺青是takui为了纪念去世的父亲而刺滴!很漂亮, 很显眼!1994年他takui中学毕业后,离开家乡福冈,单身到东京追寻自己的音乐梦。同年,他的父亲因为癌症离开人世。)


takui的官方网站有他过去发表过的所有歌曲试听。如果喜欢抒情歌曲,建议[誰かの声]或[いま君に逢いたいと思うこと],喜欢有点punk 的,可以试试[.ピアス]。takui写的东西里面,好歌不少就对了。如果问我那一首是我心头爱,就要推选[さらば摩天楼のFAIRYTALE]了, 听到我鸡皮疙瘩都起来了。live acoustic当然又比录音版本精彩百倍。我觉得,如果cd能把takui 现场所爆发的魅力呈现出一小部分的话,可能他的成就就不止这样了。看一下live收录版。。。。很赞吧!(小小声说,这个声音其实比很多很红的歌手好听。。。我觉得啦!)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Nothing....just gushing over an old classic

"Despair has its own calm"
"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
" No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves."
"The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness."
"My revenge has just begun! I spread it over centuries and time is on my side."
~~Bram Stoker, Dracula



I remembered the first time I read Bram Stoker's Dracula was when I was still a young kid. It was not the full version, only an abridged version from the famous Ladybird series (do kids these days still read Ladybird classics?)

Despite being an abridged version, I was unable to sleep for a few nites after reading the book. Just plain scared I suppose coz all Ladybird books came with lotsa illustration. I picked up the full length version subsequently when I got older. Great....full length version had no visuals to scare me off. I fell in love with the story and started liking anything black, bloody, gothic......(yes, blame it on Bram Stoker if I do not wish to blame my own wierd self)

Such a painful love story, full of angst, blood and violence. Coppola's movie was slammed by many as excessive, but it remains one of my favourite cult classics. Only Annie Lennox is capable of delivering the theme song to the movie. You ask me what makes a someone a true performer, just learn from Annie Lennox. She completely immerses herself into the song, looking like she has just stepped out from the Victorian Age. The amount of emotions she packs into her voice....whooooo, the first time I heard the MTV over TV, tears welled up in my eyes coz the lyrics just kept running through my head. Its the feeling of desperation, that feeling of one against the world and despite trying so hard, you cannot get what you want ( aka Impaler feeling the loss of his first wife.) I also loved the way the music tries to imitate our heartbeat in the background, your heart literally beats with the song as it moves.

Was recently on Youtube and found this live clip. She sounds better than CD. Whats makes a real singer....look at Annie Lennox.

Love Song for a Vampire - Annie Lennox
Anybody wants to watch BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE!!!??