I am Your Sunshine

昨天李晃問我要不要來個 @startrek.tw 的 email account,
我當然就老實不客氣地要了一個。
登入之後發現是 gmail based，因為昨天超忙，也沒去研究到底是怎樣。
結果今天就在廖大的 blog 上看到關於 Gmail Hosted 的消息。

一字不漏。

是怎樣啊…. 寫自己的文章有那麼難?

Sewer Walking

You and me, we used to talk
Like a river underground,
the sewer where we used to walk.
The hole at the end empties out to the pier
Where paperboats disappear
Me, I try to send this note,
Float it like a paper boat,
But paper sinks and words are weak.
I try but I don’t speak
Join together in the silent snow
Turn our faces up to see
Not endless night,
but day A pier
And you and me, talking.

by Grace from ((Joan of Arcadia))

I thought you said “take a test” instead of “take a rest”. That’s why I was so freaky.
Sorry >///////<

如果不用力抓住，夢想是很容易溜走的。
需要時刻提醒，努力追求，不然很有可能當它溜走的那一刻你的感覺已經淡漠。
直到往後有一天忽然深深遺憾。

把小電視搬到房間，為了世界盃作準備。(我想我不可能六點起來跑到樓上看電視，但六點起來開電視應該是沒有問題! )

ps. 今天真是有夠爛的一天 (Jo回來大家一起去吃午餐是唯一的highlight)。背繼續痛著。(本來好多來，搬個電視又嚴重了起來….)

This is so last year.

I’m just kidding.

Borrowed this from the library last week.

Saw the preview last year and my interest was aroused instantly. However, people around me thought it stupid and had no intention in watching it ~”~ Plus, it’s got a bad review, so I can’t help but doubting my “sense towards movie” again, but it actually turned out that I didn’t lose my instinct of picking the movie I’ll like.

The story was simple. I guess it’s not as exciting as Jumanji (What kinda ridiculous name is that anyway), of which Zathura was like the space version or sequel. I’ve never seen Jumanji cuz it always gives me the feeling that it’s a horror movie and I’ve always hated Robin Williams. Therefore, I cannot compare the two films. In short, Zathura is a feel-good movie about the relationship of two brothers, Danny and Walter. Don’t look into too much of the detail and don’t obsess with what makes sense and what doesn’t, justy enjoy the movie, enjoy the beautiful Kristen Stewart (though she was frozen most of the time.) Seriously, it’s meaningless to rationalize the plot. You’d wanna argue that the house should have long broken down into piece after several attack from inside and out, but hey, they wouldn’t be in the outer space if it weren’t a fantasy movie. (speaking of which, I was kinda annoyed when seeing Zathura was categorized under sci-fi adventure. I mean, come on, what kinda of sci-di is that…)

Ayways, it’s not grand, but it’s definitely a warm and fun 100 minutes of your life.

installation guide

認識我的人大多都知我對財金漠不關心，
頂多是唉一下為何花台幣時美金那麼貴，開始賺美金後美金就開始跌。
今天在廖大的blog看到這篇，雖然主題是 flickr (其實主題好像是批國內的服務)，
吸引我注意的卻是開頭第一句 “最近台幣貶值，好痛阿 Q_Q”，
我想，嘿? 美金升了嗎?

去查了一下 currency exchange，對台幣日幣歐元都沒什麼大變動的感覺，
附近是似乎有篇文章講說 Euro 對 USD 稍貶一點，但我沒力氣仔細看 :p

Place: Shattuck Down Low, Berkeley, CA
Date: 5/18/06 8pm

一直沒有寫。

聽 CD 的時候只覺得普普，聽久了還有點煩。沒想到現場聽起來很棒，Vienna 很 charming。從她一出場我就覺得她給我的感覺很像另一個人，痛苦地想了十幾二十分鐘才終於想起來，她講話很像 Related 的 Marjee (Lizzy Caplan)。

成立於 1987 (好老!) 的 local band (by local, i meant San Jose, CA)。

果然是我喜歡的 punk rock，新專輯很好聽，幾首歌聽起來竟也有些小孩子樂團的調調，明明就是老頭子了。

每次聽 punk rock，我總忍不住覺得怎麼可能有人不喜歡 punk rock呢?
明明就那麼好聽! Uplifting, melodic, 又令人開心。
不過，這種東西真的是青菜蘿蔔各有所好。
There’s no accounting for taste.

(大心)

明天才是去圖書館的日子，然而手邊的 DVD 都已經看完 (American Splendor, Saving Face, Zathura, MI-5 series 1, The West Wing season 1, Felicity season 3 vol2. 昨天還又把自己的收藏 Mr.Deeds Goes to Town 再看一遍)，正愁著，就收到 Amazon 寄來的 Coupling 四季 DVD，今晚有東西可看了!

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A movie about the author of American Splendor, a truthful, unsentimental comic of his working-class life which is widely appreciated because people can relate to the daily situation, struggles and whatnot that he portraits. He’s not your “ordinary” hero; he’s an ordinary one-of-us. And the movie is fun, refreshing and so very worth 100-minute of your life.

Go.
Go watch the movie.

Harvy Pekar himself was in the movie as well, and the clip taken from the red carpet also gave us a glimpse of who he is. He’s one of those famous people that one of the reasons he got famous was because he was a nobody. Or there’s another kind. They get famous for their anger towards society, and their angst toward celebrity and all that stuffs considered insignificant. Once they’re famous, either they stop being a nobody or stop being angry and lost the root of their fame, or they become an awkward being. However, awkward is not necessarily bad here. Pekar is the regular-people-hero type of person, and he’s meant not to be like by everybody. He’s weird in some ways, he has obvious flaws and he’s even depressing. But hey, he’s already done something that ordinary losers never accomplished. Wouldn’t that count as an hero?

* Just watched the 1988 clip of Pekar on Letterman’s show, Letterman was really a disrespectful, full-of-oneself jerk (or as Joyce said, a megalomaniac; or as another person who despise him said, a prick.) No wonder I’ve never liked him.

最近想要買張音效卡，所以又逛起喇叭板。(雖然說我的喇叭只是喇叭板上被看不起的 Altec Lansing VS2221，但外接音效卡跟內建的聽說應該還是能讓聽音樂的爽度躍升一級。話說我之前從 Creative 的不知名小喇叭換成 VS2221 之後，音樂聽起來真的很不一樣。) 剛剛看 RockMetal板正好有人在討論使用配備，不小心又覺得該買個好耳機，或是買個 CD player 然後買線… 但是這樣下來，喇叭又該升級了 XD

可怕可怕的無底洞呀~

好一陣子前不是有人在提倡要把 Taiwanese 改稱 Taiwaner 嗎?
說 -ese 結尾帶有歧視意味，像 Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese 都這麼被歧視下去了，
由於人必自重而後人重之，我們應該不再稱呼自己 Taiwanese 改稱 Taiwaner。
當然這個”活動”最後還是不了了之，不過今天忽然又在某處看到人提起，
我想到，那些不是用 -ese 結尾的人們通常是以 -an 結尾也不是用 -er 啊!
像是 American, Australian, Korean… 等，
所以找他的論點來說，我們要改也應該改成 Taiwanan 囉。

Taiwanan，台灣人。還真像音譯 XD

Ashley太客氣了，我最喜歡看你的TV series review，是我在香港看電視的指南！
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還有前陣子在 Boston 的 W 留言說那段求學的日子是靠我的 blog 來 update 電視與音樂劇資訊，都讓我覺得十分不可思議。我只是想把看影集的零碎心得記錄下來，就像我記看電影看書之後的感想以及生活瑣事一樣，沒想到有人會因此得到幫助。(雖然說不是什麼了不起的幫助:p) 知道有人在看，而且還”喜歡看”，真是好高興啊!!

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Pierce Brosnan 在這個真實故事改編的電影裡飾演一個愛爾蘭父親 Desmond Doyle，
老婆跟別人跑了，而他當時又沒有工作。
根據那個年代 (1953) 的愛爾蘭保護兒童的法案，
他的女兒 Evelyn與兩個小兒子 Maurice, Dermot被法院判決送到天主教設立的孤兒院。
Desmond在法官的刻意誤導下以為只要有足夠的經濟來源支持他的家庭他們就能團聚，
沒想到 Childrem Act 中指出必須得到母親的同意，才能將小孩們的扶養權歸給父親。
然而 Desmond 的妻子早就跑得不見蹤影，連她母親都不知道怎麼跟她聯絡。
現有的法律完全不站在他這邊，又沒有前例，Desmond 的案子非常絕望。
然而他堅決要跟他兒女團聚的心感動了他的律師朋友，
他們在完全沒有希望的情況下成功挑戰 Supreme Court，
寫下了愛爾蘭法律上歷史的一頁。

好看啊。
也許劇情看起來普通可預料，但這就是人生啊。看電影順便認識一點歷史上的事件也很不錯。美中不足的一點是，Pierce Brosnan 實在落魄不起來，有一點點欠缺說服力。不過他那一口愛爾蘭口音還真是可愛。

我要相信人說的話

什麼時候可以停止天真