Tuesday, October 12, 2010

10/12/2010

頭疼腦熱的一天,好久沒生病了,想不到來勢如此兇猛。
有些擔心Onyx,小子一個多星期沒出現了,是不是決定出遠門流浪去了?
狂風暴雨的夜晚,電閃雷鳴了半宿。發現自己越大反而越開始怕打雷,真是~~~
昨晚正經用Derwent的sketch pencils畫瞄瞄,那感覺真是奇妙,鉛筆裏似乎摻了油一般,筆觸
果然不同。
原本以爲我不會涉足油畫的,但是最近又有些感興趣了,或許以後真的會涉足也說不定~~~

Friday, October 8, 2010

今天要買報紙紀念一下

2010年10月8日,這一天應該要記住。
中國終于獲得了許多中國人朝思暮想許久的諾貝爾和平獎。

讓袁騰飛老師說着了,如果中國獲諾貝爾獎,那只能是和平獎。我記得袁老師說的是:如果馬英九和胡總有大智慧,解散國軍和共軍,兩岸永不言戰爭,那麽兩人可以聯袂獲得諾貝爾和平獎。

當然,這是一個美好的烏托邦式的夢想。我們對於中華這塊土地都不陌生,也應該知道在這片神奇的土地上,出現不了這樣有大智慧的偉人。

但是偶爾出現一個像劉曉波這樣的異議份子還是可能的。天朝外交部的反應還是那老掉牙的幾句,強烈譴責諾貝爾委員會這一決定,譴責這麽做是在褻瀆諾貝爾獎的精神,並揚言會傷害中挪關係。

雖然諾貝爾獎本身不無其諷刺性(諾貝爾本人就是TNT的發明者),諾貝爾獎也不可能完全與政治/國際形勢無關,但是如果把外交部比喻為一向自詡為大國的天朝的嘴,那麽這張嘴的説話水平和演講能力實在是太低劣了。

不同的文化大概都有一個核心式的complex,比如西方文化中對於“英雄”之渴望和嚮往的complex。那麽東方文化呢?或者說華夏文化呢?可以說天朝那無法忘卻,有刻骨記憶的complex是它“唯我獨尊、天下第一的地位”嗎?在幾百年前,各國還沒有連成一片網絡的時候,或許天朝還可以自欺欺人地活在這個夢裏面,但是現在,你丫騙誰呢!在許許多多的場合上,從國家級的到地方的,從上至下,都能夠感覺到天朝太想把自己做大了,太想讓全世界佩服它了。但是現在的天朝給全世界的印象可能快成惡霸了吧?(當然,美國也好不到哪裏去。)以爲自己義正詞嚴、義憤填膺,但實際上做得是最沒有風度,最氣量狹小的事情。天朝這次因把諾貝爾獎頒給劉曉波而感到憤怒並揚言要危及兩國關係,而挪威政府的回應是:that is a petty thing for a world power to do。

什麽時候,我們偉大、親愛的天朝才能明白過來(其實我相信你只是在裝傻),金錢和軍隊是買不來“敬”的,只能買來“畏”。

人類社會早應該走出了“説話不是犯罪”這個階段了。而我們親愛的天朝,還可悲的停留在“今天,[敏感詞]委員會頒發[敏感詞]和平獎予溜曉缽”的時代。

Friday, October 1, 2010

多雨的秋天

這個星期的雨水多得令人驚慌,總覺得這座年邁的大島承受不住那麽多甘露。家門口的街道流成了小河,每個街角都翻起了浪花,讓我想到那年在雲南的點蒼上裏淌過的山溪,可惜就差了幾尾彩色小魚兒。

這麽大的雨,沒有期待貓會來,但是這幾天,灰白(虎妞)每天早上都蹲在窗戶外面的窗沿上等我。她見到我媽媽沒有反應,見到我才會有動靜,看來貓是認人的,不光能憑氣味和聲音辨別人,多少也可以通過相貌辨別。虎妞冒雨前來吃飯是有點反常的,據説貓很不喜歡把自己的毛弄濕,感冒了可不是小事,所以我總懷疑虎妞會不會懷了小貓,雖然摸過她的肚子,沒覺得有變大,但是小貓體積很小,所以還很難説。如果是這樣的話,就可以解釋為何胃口變大了。我給了她一整個罐頭,她吃了幾口,雨下得越來越急了,虎妞猶豫了片刻,還是決定放棄食物去躲雨了,看來今天晚上她還會大吃一頓。

清晨閲讀,應該是很不錯的感覺。現在的睡眠比以前淺,天不亮就半醒了,與其無謂輾轉反側,不如起來讀書,用優美的文字展開一天,不失為好事。有時候很慶幸,上天讓我擁有喜歡文字、喜歡藝術的神經,雖然都還只是門外漢,但是這麽一個荒唐的世界,能夠比優美的文字和藝術還值得留戀的東西不算多。

無意中翻開了董橋的一本散文集,《舊時月色》。我應該是沒有聽説過董橋這個名字的,但很奇怪,總覺得這名字似曾相識,翻開粗粗一看,是很細膩的描寫風格,口齒吟香,或許讀多了會像高級奶油吃多了有點膩,偶爾讀來卻十分享受。全都是懷舊的文章,大多數人都作古了,許多文章裏談及到古董,字畫、書札什麽的,這是我喜歡讀和了解的。

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

找到一个像四爷的人了

因爲喜歡孟飛的老武打片(話說這年頭還有人知道誰是孟飛、田鵬嗎),所以一路搜尋,想不到誤打誤撞上“雍正、小蝶、年羹堯”這部大概是90年代的清裝劇,孟飛飾演康熙。

自從看過焦晃在雍正王朝裏面詮釋的康熙之後,他就成爲了我唯一認可的康熙。孟飛非常成功的詮釋了帥氣灑脫的方世玉、同樣帥氣又頗解風情的元帥(俠影留香),但是他顯然咬不動“康熙”這塊“硬骨頭”。當然了,“雍小年”這部戯絕對鬼扯到地老天荒,所以我也不會正經去評論這部戯,不過,倒讓我發現到一個有趣的事情,那就是,飾演雍正的庹宗華竟然跟歷史上的胤禎非常神似:
庹宗華的雍正


歷史上的雍正

眉眼之間的感覺真的非常像,如果不是因爲這戯拍得實在太鬼扯,基本就是批了瓊瑤皮的古裝戯,或許我真的會看一看。真可惜,如果雍正王朝裏讓庹宗華來演四爺(前提是演技要過硬),那可真有點活見鬼了。

Monday, September 20, 2010

morsel of thought

Sometimes the world doesn’t seem big enough
For the infinite complexities and workings of a human mind
Treading a path of confusion and brooding fury
Engulfed in the sea of dark, devious woods called mortality
I feel my sanity wearing thin
With one hand
Desperately hanging on to straws of reason and comfort
The precious few loved ones of this pathetic and timed existence
Yet with the other
I’ve done nothing but lashing out hurtful words and raging accusations
Hurting our loved ones
Tis one thing we excel at, among many others


Thursday, September 16, 2010

Its time to rate the Pendergasts

I can't believe its been about 12 years since I first picked up the Relic while in high school.  Relic is the first in the Pendergast series and, in my opinion, still the best to date.  I'm really fortunate to have picked up this book, in a drug store, I believe, because I was drawn in by the spine-chilling cover design.  Too bad, there is a new edition with, in my opinion, a much blander cover.  There have been so far around 10 Pendergast books and, I've actually read all but one and kudos to me for subconsciously turning into an official Preston/Child fan.  I suppose its time to rate them all...in chronological order

The Relic -- ★★★★★
Pendergast's debut, still pretty human in this one (grin).  If any of them deserves a five star, its the Relic.

 The Reliquary -- ★★★☆

Sequal to Relic.  I could not for the world of it get over the transformation of the grumpy but nice professor.  I get the feeling, P/C simply ran out of good villains to render a climactic ending.
Cabinet of Curiosities -- ★★★★
Solid, strong, creepy as hell suspense/thriller. And 891 Riverdrive mansion, what a house!!
 
Stilllife of Crows -- ★★★☆
One of the standalone cases.  I'd like to think of it as Pendergast taking a small detour while on vacation.
 
Brimstone --★★★★
First of the Diogenes series.  Pretty solid addition to the series.
 
Dance of Death  & Book of Dead -- ★★★
Should really be combined into one book.  Both rather mediocre.  Pendergast going through internal struggling and facing up to his worst fears.  I really need to re-read these two. 
 
Wheel of Darkness -- ★★★
Standalone.  This is my least favorite of the series.  Not that the writing is bad.  The writing is consistently decent.  But I find it extremely hard to accept the whole idea behind this "quest"....its morally flawed.
 
Fever Dream  -- ★★★★
This one gets 4 stars because the whole book focuses on Pendergast, and its a Pendergast we've never seen before.  He is extremely pissed off from beginning till end, on the verge of losing his otherwise steel-like self
control more than once in the book, he is ruthless and relentless after the villains.  And he definitely shows emotions.  In short, Pendergast is very human for the first time.  I was flabbergasted when I read one of the latter chapters where Pendergast had a "little fun" with those swamp guys....Is this REALLY the Pendergast we thought we know???  But overall, the story starts out very strong, and kinda falls flat towards the end.  Actually, the story doesn't really end, it beckons a sequal....