I am Your Sunshine

今早上班途中 KKSF 傳來慵懶卻不頹廢, 輕快但不隨便, 一點點少女浪漫遐想不黏不膩的舒適女聲, 不是 Keren Ann, 不是 Diana Krall, 原來是今年三月發行第一張專輯的 Kelly Sweet. Miss Sweet 人如其名有副清甜不膩的嗓音, 出生於音樂家庭的她從小就受她爵士鋼琴家的父親及藝術家母親薰陶, 四歲就公開演出過. Kelly Sweet 的曲風偏向爵士混古典, 讓我想到當年剛出道的 Charlotte Church.

我對女聲一向很挑, 人人皆讚的天使之音 Alison Krauss 不合我的胃口, 近年紅得發紫的 Norah Jones 總讓我咬牙揪神經. 我喜歡的歌手屈指可數, 當年的清亮動人的 Debbie Gibson, 鄉村用力嘶吼搖滾的 Sheryl Crow, 民搖從大地裊裊至天際的 Shawn Colvin, 醺醉陶然爵士的 Diana Krall, 鄉村至情 Deana Carter 以至最近盈盈夏日輕風似的 Keren Ann.

話說, Diana Krall 跟 Keren Ann 都要來灣區開演唱會了呢.

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忽然間

Dancing with the Stars The Tour 又來了!!
今年 Stars 的部份還沒完全選出來, 但已經公布的名字就已經夠令人興奮了:
第二季冠軍 (ex-98 degrees) Drew Lachey, 第一季 (ex-NKOTB) 的 Joey McIntyre, 第四季的 (ex-N’Sync) Joey Fatone, 第三季季軍 Joey Lawrence. 四人中有三個叫 Joey, 四人中有三人是前 boy band 成員 (除了 JL), 四人中有三個我都很喜歡(除了 JM)!

很可惡的是, 今夏的巡迴竟然沒到灣區啦!!! ><

最近好喜歡這首歌!

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這份「【跨洋跨土大追查——讀買品二十二問】」刊載在第六期駘蕩誌，是一份關於書籍選讀與購買的發問，對象是海內外愛書人，或可當作一份檢視，檢查自己多年來的讀書經驗。

◎ 【跨洋跨土大追查——讀買品二十二問】

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(我決定與其難產一篇長心得, 當沒什麼心得好寫或是沒時間寫時, 我就簡單小記一下吧.)
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昨天早上看完對 Arsenal 的比賽之後出發到舊金山, 我們在一家愛爾蘭餐廳 O’Reiley’s Holy Grail 幫 Susan 慶生. 吃了好吃的生蠔還有各式各樣的前菜, 主菜倒是不用提了, 最後還有一個很簡單大方的巧克力蛋糕. 吃完都已經三點半, 他們還要去 Daly City 打保齡球, 我很怕看 Spidy 會來不及, 所以就跟 chun 先到 Union Square 找 SS. 繞了好幾圈最後把車停在 Minna 上, 我們拿了票之後去前一年才剛擴建完畢的 Westfield 逛. 逛到二樓時我習慣性地走進愛跌倒 (chun 晃了兩分鐘就自己跑去 Zara 了.)

之前就有來過這家愛跌倒, 但他的東西很讓我失望, 除了 Chelsea, Liverpool 與 Germany, Argentina 主場球衣之外就沒什麼其他東西了. 我想要周邊啊!!! 沒想到這次雖然還是沒有周邊, 但是多了 Ajax 跟法國主場, 還有 Chelsea 白客場 (他沒有 Chelsea 歐冠藍主場長袖, 有的話我要拿我的來看看能不能換 size…) 以及 Chelsea 訓練衣!! 可惜是短袖的, 我好喜歡這季的 Chelsea 長袖訓練衣啊~~

[originally posted on 4/20/07, updated on 5/7/07]
以上是這周看的電影, 小記一下

昨天看了 Zwartboek 跟 Das Leben der Anderes, 雖然很累, 但都超好看的!!

nein, das ist fuer mich.

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恨平.

不過其實最後並沒有很傷心難過, 畢竟我們是在 10 人對 11 人之下打出這番成績, 而且我們下半場的表現實在太令人激賞, 根本像是 Arsenal 少了一個人. Chelsea boys, well done. We’re proud of you :)

賽後 Arsenal 球員很快就離了場, 倒是我們還留在場上向跟著球隊一起來到酋長球場的球迷們鼓掌致意. 魔力鳥與溫格摸完手後沒有馬上轉身離去, 反而走向藍軍球迷區, 他一邊走一邊對著球迷示意, 要他們昂首 (如圖)

並且鼓勵我們球員的努力

老大緊緊地抱了抱 JT 與 LP

然後JT 帶頭將球衣丟給球迷 (JT一向不交換球衣也不丟球衣的)

熱血切爾西, 怎能不愛?

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Topher Grace 真是越來越棒了!
他終於成功地脫離那個在 That ’70s Show 裡那的青澀笨拙小男生的模樣.
期待他日後更多的作品.

(Toby Maguire, 我跟你仇結大了! 傷害兩大帥哥罪不可赦!)

這集 Addison 的部份是 ABC canceled show 演員大集合嗎? Addison 走進電梯遇到 Tim Daly (Eyes, 2005), 她來拜訪的好朋友 Merrin Dungey (Alias, 基本上這不算 canceled show 啦, Alias 好歹也死拖活賴了五季), Taye Diggs (Day Break, 2006) 讓我看得好開心喔! 愛死 Tim Daly!!

但是這兩集實在是蠻難看的, 完全不值得為了它熬夜啊! 累死… 昨天開了一整天的車, 今天還有一整天的活動耶 orz

GA 終於開始讓我受不了了, 為了 Addison 的 spin off, Alex + Addison 硬生生喊停, SGH 裡面大家睡來睡去, 然後又把 Susan 弄死了. 一切都顯得非常草率隨便. 而 Addison 的 spin off, 即使集眾多我喜歡的演員, 感覺還是很無聊, 沒有火花. Tim Daly 與 Addison 怎麼看都不配啊!

好啦, 我知道這都是幾個月前的圖了… 但今天忽然心血來潮想查丟芹菜的傳統究竟是怎麼來的~

其實我蠻討厭浪費食物的, 不過連豬頭都有人丟了 XD

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…the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland’s familiar features…

I’m sure that I’ve watched it before. But it got to be more than 10 years ago. Thus, I had little recollection of what it’s about and I believe even if I did recall, the feelings I experienced are definitely different now and then. I wouldn’t be moved the way I’m moved today 10 years ago.

The Age of Innocence is based on Edith Wharton’s perhaps best-known novel of the same name which won her a Pulitzer Prize and made her the first woman to win this, and it’s directed by Martin Scorsese, better known for his violent works, such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. It’s said that Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer for her vivid and faithful depiction of 19th century New York city upper class. I mentioned in previous post that I couldn’t stand her dragging detailed description which seemed vain and redundant, (basically, not the type of writing I appreciate) but I can see its value of helping us have an understanding of 19th century New York upper class. In the movie, the narrator used a documentory tone to take us through the setting, elaborate the resemblance of items and lead us to the world of intricate and implicit society order. But aside from her exhaustive description, she offers a dry and percise observation of whatever’s going in people’s heads. Those unspoken words which drive the society…

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

Surprise of this movie: Richard E. Grant (Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel) played Larry Lefferts, Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. James Wilson in House) played Ted Archer.

說真的, 你就不能轉個型嗎?

你自己說說看, 你在哪個影集裡演的角色不是個天大的白目啊?????????
人家 Milo Ventimiglia 都成功地(勉強算啦!)從一個過度敏感一點點小事就覺得全世界背叛他的青少年成長為過度敏感一點點小事就覺得全世界背叛他的英雄了說!

經過一天翹課/看電影心情平靜許多之後又想要說些什麼了.
(其實pk完後是很平靜的…也許是沒力氣激動了, 出門開車時也只擠了幾滴眼淚)

我想周末那場對 Bolton 終究是花了太多力氣, 2-1 領先被追到 2-2, 球員不只體力耗盡心理的挫折也是很大. 其實上半場的時候我一直不是很希望我們先進球, 即使利記在22分鐘神來一腳領先我仍是偷偷這麼想著, 我想我還是迷信切爾西的半場魔力吧. 看了幾次 Chelsea 領先後開始龜守結果被對方追平的比賽, 我比較希望上半長表現平平, 中場老大熱血的訓話可以激勵球員並且提點精妙戰術來反制對手. 畢竟我最重視最在意的一向是 personality. 一個人一個團體一個球隊讓我愛上的因素往往是他們展現出的意志精神與氣度. 但是昨天的 Chelsea 不是兩周前的 Chelsea 也不是一個月前的 Chelsea, 我們似乎失去了逆轉的能力.

比賽結束後我恍惚地脫下帽子圍巾, 看到 JT 含淚鼓掌的樣子瞬間將我拉回 06 年夏天英葡大戰, 我們曾經離勝利如此接近…

90分鐘不換人, 老大這麼安排是何用意只有他自己知道, 我只能收起懊惱惋惜每天繼續起床上班回家看電視, 告訴自己, 我們明年再來! (還好歐冠不是四年一次.)

不過傷兵竟然沒半枚是煙霧彈 唉 (老大: 我也希望是煙霧彈啊 orz)

爽

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雖然歐冠已經與我們無關, 看到曼聯客場 3-0 慘敗依舊是大快人心!

At the end of House s3e20 House Training, a familiar voice sang Follow the Leader while Forman saturated in his guilt (and House was doing the autopsy.) His way of whispering the music was so unique that I was almost sure that it was the lead singer of Strays Don’t Sleep. And I was right. It was Matthew Ryan.

Chun’s always able to guess the band or the singer by their voice. I can’t. I have to know who the performer of the song is so that when I recognize the song, I’d know the singer/band. Therefore, this time, I was pretty impressed by myself, even though Matthew Ryan’s voice is hard to be mistaken. I think I’m better at this little by little, among other things.

I used to believe, in my subconscious if not conscious, that you can’t do certain things if you’re not born with certain talents/abilities/skills. That’s the main reason why I convinced myself that it’s impossible to be things I once consider being, such as a drummer, writer, and many else. I know that practice makes perfect, blah blah blah, but I guess this instilled idea of life and reality failed to overturn my god-knows-when/where-it-started belief, you are what you are but not what you can be, which engraved in me.

For me, learning stuffs should be natural. If I cannot master something within a snap of fingers, I’d declare that I’m not good at it, it’s not meant to be. But lately I learned, slowly and painfully (because it’s kinda hard to erase engraving using an eraser), that efforts help. Above experience for one, and I’ve also been able to tell different instruments in a piece of music when in the past I can only listen to it as a whole. Even though I am not able to decided whether it’s really a good thing or not. Then again, now I can practice a song without reading the music; for example, Muse’s Starlight, I think I can get bass, keyboard and vocal down. :p

It’s fun, isn’t it? Another ray of hope in life.

累 + 悶

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Carmen,

I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it to the class. My team lost in the UEFA Champions League semi-final this afternoon. I’m still mourning. I don’t think I can handle any good writings tonight.

Ashley

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Should I send this or just skip the class? XD

(The last time I had to miss a class is for Third Eye Blind concert. and yeah, I told Carmen that I was going to a concert instead of her class… )

只希望 Cech 不要自責.

剩下幾場比賽好好踢, 歐冠明年再來! 我們可是在慢慢推進中! :)