Goodbye Yellow Brick Road，強叔Elton John在1972年發表的專輯，眾人公認是他最佳且最賣座的作品，專輯中的同名歌曲，更是老屁股們熟到爛的記憶。
奇怪的是，近來老是聽到、看到人們提起這首歌，或引申這首歌的意義，真有那麼多人覺得不如歸去，想要改變人生的路徑？
那就好好的來聽一聽吧。(不了解在講什麼的人可以先參考這個Yellow brick road)。
Lyrics
When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
2012年4月13日 星期五
2012年4月10日 星期二
蝶々夫人
前兩天看了電視播的蝴蝶夫人，不免想到宮崎葵其人其事。
她在前夫高岡蒼佑傳出偷吃醜聞時，挺身駁斥婚變流言，極力維護婚姻；其後高岡發言觸怒電視台高層，遭到全面封殺後，兩人也宣告離婚。
按照常理，前一個狀況發生時，才是女人最想離婚的時刻吧，當時沒有分手的理由以及之後離婚的理由，就在「電視台高層」的態度。
好女人不能離婚，即使錯不在她；好女人不能沾上異議份子，即使她的看法和他的看法完全是兩碼事。這樣的演藝圈，只有虛矯能夠形容。
至於宮崎葵，我認為她的光環因此褪色不少。雖然有人認為她只是個必須看電視台高層臉色的演員，沒有本錢反抗。不過，我相信人永遠都有選擇的餘地，她已經選擇讓自己投身於濁流之中，成為其中一部分。
她在前夫高岡蒼佑傳出偷吃醜聞時，挺身駁斥婚變流言，極力維護婚姻；其後高岡發言觸怒電視台高層，遭到全面封殺後，兩人也宣告離婚。
按照常理，前一個狀況發生時，才是女人最想離婚的時刻吧，當時沒有分手的理由以及之後離婚的理由，就在「電視台高層」的態度。
好女人不能離婚，即使錯不在她；好女人不能沾上異議份子，即使她的看法和他的看法完全是兩碼事。這樣的演藝圈，只有虛矯能夠形容。
至於宮崎葵，我認為她的光環因此褪色不少。雖然有人認為她只是個必須看電視台高層臉色的演員，沒有本錢反抗。不過，我相信人永遠都有選擇的餘地，她已經選擇讓自己投身於濁流之中，成為其中一部分。
2012年3月14日 星期三
Murder by Numbers
牛有狂牛症，豬有瘦肉精，雞有禽流感，活在這個時候，只能清心寡欲，啃啃植物維生，但也要小心無所不在的農藥殘留。
謀殺1個人要吃10年以上牢飯，謀殺複數個人就等著吃子彈；但是發動戰爭，謀殺數萬數百萬人，完全不用負責任。
所以謀殺的最高指導原則：要就搞大一點，殺多一點。
至於間接餵毒幹掉整座島民----反正你有選擇權，你也做了選擇，怪不到別人頭上，多吃肉少說話唄！
越想越心煩，聽個歌吧！
Written by Sting & Andy Summers
Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art
There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess
It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less
Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E
謀殺1個人要吃10年以上牢飯，謀殺複數個人就等著吃子彈；但是發動戰爭，謀殺數萬數百萬人，完全不用負責任。
所以謀殺的最高指導原則：要就搞大一點，殺多一點。
至於間接餵毒幹掉整座島民----反正你有選擇權，你也做了選擇，怪不到別人頭上，多吃肉少說話唄！
越想越心煩，聽個歌吧！
Written by Sting & Andy Summers
Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art
There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess
It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less
Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E
2012年3月2日 星期五
People
Barbra Streisand，我們年輕時的歌壇暨影壇女王，曾經唱過一首好聽的歌People，很有意思。
People,
People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, needing other children
And yet letting a grownup pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
需要別人的人，是世界上最幸運的人，尤其戀愛中的男女，對情人的渴望讓他們打靈魂深處感覺自己成為完整的人，不再只是一半。
大多時候我們以被人需要來定義自己存在的意義，很少想到需要別人也是一件幸運的事。這種「需要」代表了情感的羈絆，不論家人、朋友、情人皆是，想到我們在這個世間還有情感的羈絆，說是幸運也不為過。
不過，讓我突然想起這首歌的原因並沒有這麼感性，我想將歌詞第一句改成：
Celebrities are the people who need celebrities. (名流是需要名流的人)
雖然名流的日常生活中有一大部份時間在躲狗仔，但其實兩造就像跳探戈一樣，有進有退、氣息相通、身段相合。名流需要媒體時時的關注，讓他們名字可以與大眾常相左右，永不分離，因為他們的名聲就是資產。
名流永遠是最喜歡追逐名流的一群人，因為名流之所在就是焦點之所在，永遠要出現在焦點所在的場合，是名流經營自己最重要的守則。如果名流單單靠自己的勢成為焦點，不只太累，而且次數有限。聰明的人會靠別人的勢，對方名氣越大，次數越多，效果就越好。
當然啦，名流追逐名流，不會像普通粉絲一樣，圍著尖叫，要握手、要簽名、要合照，他們的步數更迂迴更複雜。
就像近日林書豪爆紅後，尼克隊的死忠粉絲Spike Lee立即搞來一件林當年在哈佛打球的4號球衣穿著上場加油；Kevin Costner偕Eva Longoria到場觀賽；Mark Zuckerberg也露臉了。這類跨界的互捧，其實也是名流最愛的方式之一，彼此既沒有競爭性，又可讓話題性呈等比級數爆發，
這也就是為什麼台灣的藝人們老是喜歡在微博上互捧的原因，一人發微博，其他人立即跟上去呼應唱和啦、加油打氣啦、鼓勵安慰啦...blah blah blah，看起來和樂融融，溫情滿人間，說穿了就是藝人自我經營之道而已。
所以啦，Makyo雖然也爆紅，但她的藝人朋友們卻靜悄悄，不出一聲，這種注目的焦點，除了急欲出名的小咖，大概也沒什麼人敢靠上去。
People,
People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, needing other children
And yet letting a grownup pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
需要別人的人，是世界上最幸運的人，尤其戀愛中的男女，對情人的渴望讓他們打靈魂深處感覺自己成為完整的人，不再只是一半。
大多時候我們以被人需要來定義自己存在的意義，很少想到需要別人也是一件幸運的事。這種「需要」代表了情感的羈絆，不論家人、朋友、情人皆是，想到我們在這個世間還有情感的羈絆，說是幸運也不為過。
不過，讓我突然想起這首歌的原因並沒有這麼感性，我想將歌詞第一句改成：
Celebrities are the people who need celebrities. (名流是需要名流的人)
雖然名流的日常生活中有一大部份時間在躲狗仔，但其實兩造就像跳探戈一樣，有進有退、氣息相通、身段相合。名流需要媒體時時的關注，讓他們名字可以與大眾常相左右，永不分離，因為他們的名聲就是資產。
名流永遠是最喜歡追逐名流的一群人，因為名流之所在就是焦點之所在，永遠要出現在焦點所在的場合，是名流經營自己最重要的守則。如果名流單單靠自己的勢成為焦點，不只太累，而且次數有限。聰明的人會靠別人的勢，對方名氣越大，次數越多，效果就越好。
當然啦，名流追逐名流，不會像普通粉絲一樣，圍著尖叫，要握手、要簽名、要合照，他們的步數更迂迴更複雜。
就像近日林書豪爆紅後，尼克隊的死忠粉絲Spike Lee立即搞來一件林當年在哈佛打球的4號球衣穿著上場加油；Kevin Costner偕Eva Longoria到場觀賽；Mark Zuckerberg也露臉了。這類跨界的互捧，其實也是名流最愛的方式之一，彼此既沒有競爭性，又可讓話題性呈等比級數爆發，
這也就是為什麼台灣的藝人們老是喜歡在微博上互捧的原因，一人發微博，其他人立即跟上去呼應唱和啦、加油打氣啦、鼓勵安慰啦...blah blah blah，看起來和樂融融，溫情滿人間，說穿了就是藝人自我經營之道而已。
所以啦，Makyo雖然也爆紅，但她的藝人朋友們卻靜悄悄，不出一聲，這種注目的焦點，除了急欲出名的小咖，大概也沒什麼人敢靠上去。
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