Monday, August 06, 2007

画好了不能再看第二遍

今天下午的时候好不容易坐定拿起笔,胡乱翻看电脑里的照片寻找灵感。万事开头难,意思就是一开头就没那么难了(某人的overcome activation energy barrier之说)。靠着这点能量一路滑下,等结束后全方面审视成品的时候不禁哑然:怎么是这样子的。不能再看第二眼,只能说当事者迷,脱手后又是一番理论,这里该怎样,那里不该怎样。实际着色时间很短,长的是决定颜色搭配。CG颜色是能反悔的,可以delete, ctrl+z一遍一遍的来,但这样反而辛苦。只要原稿还在就可以随心试验remixes,突然间觉得自己像音乐制作人。可是到头来总觉得没练习到什么新的。

这张被fellow SG fans看到会被抹脖子吧。。。等我意识到的时候Darren已经被画成过于妖艳的gay了。Daniel像黄豆芽。



这张叫Discipline,以前也拿影子做过文章所以算是翻旧账。想嘲笑一下“纪律”这种概念的,不知有没有传达到呢。

Sunday, August 05, 2007

A day is gone

Lay your hands down
Watch the nails grow
The feet start tapping
as sun strikes the floor
Each eye blinks twice
and a day is gone

When bad luck kicks in

Unfortunate things just keep ROLLING in like little devils parading into your quiet life.

My turn of luck (for the worse) happened last night? So I fathomed.

Internet was down but I was tightly engaged in the last chapter of Harry Potter Half Blood Prince so I didn't fuss (yet). Dumbledore's death was completely outrageous. I scrolled down wildly and led on by a strong temptation even scanned through Deathly Hallow in hope the familiar name should spring to life again, but it didn't. Death however fictional is still depressing. I wasn't ready to part with one of my wisest characters after 6 books. And I resented JKR for elaborating rubbish after D's death. I wouldn't call that proper lamenting in all honesty. The ending to book 6 is TOTAL TRASH. And yeah it hasn't escaped my notice how a display of male chauvinism is so essential to Harry's character building. Breaking up with Ginny so as to protect her? My arse.

Shut down laptop after being wholesomely disappointed by book6 and slammed into bed.

Woke up next morning to realize internet was still down. Called up shaw cable to be told it's the wireless router problem and it needs to be unplugged and re-plugged. A graver problem is, the router and the modem are in my landlord's room, which she so consciously locked before flying off. Does that mean I'm stuck with internetless you-better-kill-me situation for a whole month? The thought practically killed my day in a second. I tried to call/sms her but she didn't reply (not till late night).

I sat down in my favourite chair trying to read, while a cup of icy soy bean drink sat at my feet. For ghostly reason the CD rack toppled down without notice and knocked over the cup. Milky liquid formed a large patch on the carpet and on my RUFUS CD!! I scooped it up but the edges of the booklet were already stained and deformed. What did I do to deserve this?

Then Telus technicians called in to complain nobody's down there for the appointment. I told them I rescheduled yesterday and the poor man mumbled 'they should've told me, shouldn't they?' sounding very hurt and discouraged. I felt sorry for him.

Returned to the ruined carpet trying to blot out the dampness.

Dropped many utensils while cooking but fortunately nothing broke or flew. I was in a murderous mood.

But internet came back for another ghostly reason around midnight.

Things I just can't explain.

CANADA won the fireworks. Probably deserve the price. Do you know it takes 3 days to design and make a bomb? The 25min show uses on average 2000-4500 bombs. And to think not only the bomb artist, but also the choreographer has to listen to the set music millions of times to achieve the final synchronization, the show is a great given. It costs millions of dollars but we can watch it for free. However, I can't think of other means to charge for a fireworks show. Surely the sky is vast and within easy visibility of whoever has eyes.

Friday, August 03, 2007

烟花、哈利波特和我的猪窝

看到好多人把题目设置为自动的摘取了。我也不是很喜欢取题目,可是看到一长句子的题目又嫌烦。

今天坐在沙发上看了200页的哈波(第6本),迷迷糊糊到325页的字样就睡着了,趴在超出我身长几十厘米的慷慨大沙发上死睡,醒来天已黑。煮了鸡肉饺子吃,吃的肚子不舒服,一边想着不舒服啊不舒服一边皱眉头跟同学在MSN上聊工作和移民的事。

室友Lilianna中午走了,现在变成我一个人霸占二室一厅的庞大空间,非常为所欲为。在客厅放上GOLDEN GRAPEFRUIT的CD,可那套音像奇怪的很,Freedom开头的滚滚吉他没了超重音效果,听着很浅。我正对着那两喇叭,用遥控器点它,选了很多模式都达不到期待的音效。头往左歪30度,左耳便充斥着隆隆的声响几乎耳鸣,往右30度便是右耳遭殃。结论:绝对不会买AIWA牌的音像。

昨晚去看中国场的烟花比赛,音乐是The Time Machine。按常例大家起身唱中国国歌,真的是好久没唱过这首义勇军进行曲了。中国的烟花向来重排场和气势,比大小怕是没有国家能比的过,唯一的缺点是缺乏和音乐的配合。这次很难得的穿插了浪漫片断,古老的音乐响起时小小的红色燎原之火在远处不安的窜促着。有几个小高潮还是有些欠缺,总体感觉来讲我更喜欢加拿大,但爱国情结迫使我给自己国家投了满分票。坐我们旁的一个白人女子喝酒又抽了大麻,自始至终都格外兴奋,扯破了她那狼嗓喊叫“Go CHINA, CHINA CHINA CHINA!” 娘啊,我们是中国人都没她那么High。

最近对自己有点厌倦,厌倦缺乏志气的一面,厌倦没有信仰的空壳,也厌倦了厌倦自己的自己。真实的感受到,喜欢别人之前一定要先喜欢自己。缺乏爱心的人有多疲倦啊,反过来也一样。

每个人是每个人的思念

谢谢camel推荐的大乔小乔,很可爱的民谣组合。我觉得作曲很不错的,虽然被很多人指责抄袭无人不知无人不晓的le papillon,我说也就那一首歌吧,也没见他们出专辑啊。不要因为那一首歌就把所有成年人+ loli的组合都一棍子打死了。奶声奶气、五音有缺的小女孩儿嘴中一一道来“思念、过客、遗忘”这些伤触神经的词儿让我心里一荡一荡的,量你也不明白寂寞的分量,但就是她不带猜忌的幼声唱来才让这首歌格外感伤。大乔的声音粗了一节了,所以大乔小乔是大灰狼小绵羊组合,成人的晦涩披着温顺的羊皮。也有很搞笑很生活愤青的歌,小女孩唱着啥“爷们儿、崽子”听着就逗。

省去歌评了,只想说这是个带着淡淡悲伤的隔代组合。话说我当大乔小乔是俩美女呢,直到播放第一曲“星座”心里一惊,这是啥??

贴些网上的资料

大乔小乔——30岁的男人乔小刀和10岁的女孩乔木楠合作了一个乐队(他们是叔叔和侄女的关系),他们的一首《消失的光年》风靡整个网络。

大乔:这个东北人现在住在北京近郊昌平,他把版画画在帆布上,并做些深有所指的玩具布偶;他平时热爱LOMO,并PS出怪诞的人物特写,他的照片本身就以抓特写见长;他被筝友们传为奇人;他还擅长用诗歌纪录生活——那种深受朦胧诗影响,又把第三代诗歌学到手的折衷诗体。

小乔:俨然活宝,躺在白云里睡觉是小姑娘9岁时的理想,她的叔叔会在安静的早晨听钟立风,而她还抱着她的玩具熊在睡觉。她梦见了白云和风筝,而我们正在忙碌。

曲目:
1.星座
2.小乌龟
3.消失的光年
4.小草
5.黑光
6.采花
7.凤求凰
8.电传
9.黑光曲
10.凤求凰古琴曲

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张悬出新专辑了,听了一遍觉得没啥大突破,作曲上甚至比第一张还欠。很多歌调子偏呆板。也就Jady最初推荐的那首《喜欢》留下不错的印象。



专辑名称:亲爱的…我还不知道
歌手姓名:张悬 | SONY官网
唱片公司:新力博德曼
发行日期:2007年07月20日

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01. 毕竟
02. 嫁祸进行式
03. 喜欢
04. 亲爱的
05. Gonna Stop
06. 儿歌
07. 模样
08. 讨人厌的字
09. 欲望把眼前的地板铺满
10. Outro
11. 并不