Go Mad and Mark

看gigs已经成为我生命中不可缺少的一部分。每当沉淀的时候，没劲的时候，一场好的演出总能够给我精神一阵，继续冲刺的力量。看着独立乐队尽情挥洒着乐器演奏属于他们的音乐他们的声音，我都会有一股莫名的感动，然后觉得自己还在一个很渺小很遥远的位置，然后提醒自己还要继续努力，继续疯狂，为生命留下印记⋯

继续 MONO

已经不记得这是第几次看MONO的演出了。对于这支乐队，有着太多记忆犹新的回忆和故事，在他们的音乐里隐藏着自己的成长经历，每一次单独的出走都少不了MONO的音乐。不管听多少次还是一样感触，还是一样会落泪⋯

SoundScape 10th Anniversary.

after all we're only ordinary men

Us and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fighting all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died

no surprises

A heart that's full up like a landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
Silence, silence.

This is my final fit,
my final bellyache

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Such a pretty house
and such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises (get me outta here),
no alarms and no surprises, please.

悲伤的采购

订了一季 又到下季

为何人大了就要成为工作的奴隶

最爱作的不可发挥

我的感觉 逐渐流逝

从前曾话过要如何欣赏世界的美丽

现在只懂得放假去消费

如果继续这样
我还是我吗 我还喜欢我吗

或者我应该死去吧
总好过变得更差

如果继续这样
你还愿意吗 和我奏着结他

日子不应该这样吧
而现实就是这样可怕

MLA x 林一峰

柯德莉,关于风景

沒什麼秘密，
可以及現在更秘密。
月亮將下沉，
可是末日未會如常降臨。
看著天和海，
仿似連成一物，
但是不曾接近。
你像片大海，
柯德莉藍的海。
願望看著天，
包括樹木、唱片、
皮鞋、情侶、公路、
石頭、河流、商舖。

Everything is just the fucking same.

Different Names For The Same Thing
- Death cab for cutie

Alone on a train aimless in wonder
An outdated map crumbled in my pocket
But I didn't care where I was going
'Cause they're all different names for the same place.

The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun
And I knew no words to share with anyone
The boundaries of language I quietly cursed
And all the different names for the same thing

There are different names for the same things
There are different names for the same things...

a good week

This is a pack and interesting week for me.
Quite inspiring and meaningful:

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Wednesday:
Caught the performance by the multi-instrumentalist - Otomo Yoshihide
大友良英. Been expecting something more noise or experimental Jazz, but the show turned out quieter than i expected, feeling more like Minimal Tech. It was also the first time in my life seeing a gig that the organizer shouted at the crowd: "Be quiet!". I was once wonder that am I in a cinema or what...

In fact, should called this an art performance instead of a gig.



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Saturday:
Attended exhibition of the photographer - Yasumasa Yonehara 米原康正, the one who famous for taking sexy hot babes' photos. Yes, I hate Japs! This is a crossover exhibition with the graffiti artist Reach. I was slightly late for the opening, and missed the live painting on model's body. Damn~





Found some more event pics here.

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Sunday:
I've been living in 番禺路 for almost half a year, but just found out few days ago there is such a huge sculpture gallery nearby. The Red Town, which is located in the opposite direction on my daily route to my office, and only takes 10 minutes walk from my place. It is kinda like the sculpture version of M50. And there got bookstore that sell design books too! Woohoo!




Sometimes good things might just beside you and me, we just need to wander to the other direction...

Don't cry

Sulumi

Sun dawei aka sulumi

'One of the key musician of Chinese new electronic music generation, also one of the first wave giving up classical Rock then turn into a electronic musician.'

I caught his performance yesterday and it was so amazing, the crowd were getting so high with his 8-bit gameboy's electronic beat and jumping here and there. Real fun!

Listen to his happy nostalgic electronica here and here.

Lam Man Lung

林海峰＋葛民辉＋麦浚龙＝林民龙

Hong Kong's music industry is always being so commercial and no love, i was quite surprise when i saw this MV, one of the very few nice music videos from Hong Kong, and funny name too!

Hong Kong's art & design scene is getting more and more interesting in this few years, with more of their popular idols starting aware about the importance of design (although it's also for commercial value). Compare to a designer who is working in the studio 24/7, or creating designer's product and sell to other designer fella, I think their influence and communication to the public is even more direct and major.

Maybe we should consider taking part in next Idol's contest...

update playlist

lonely songs for lonely people.

Dear Mark

Please stop forwarding the same Toe's live in KL newsletters,
I know they are coming this August and I'm going to missed it! I really
hope that i could catch this super skillful Post+Math Rock Jap band!




Damn, and the screamo Envy will be at Singapore one week
after Toe's. Goodbye Toe and Envy ~