周末的流水帐

周六白天：不得不全天加班，忍受资本主义周扒皮的残酷剥削。

周六晚上：我们和朋友一起去听Madeleine Peyroux的音乐会。音乐会在Saratoga山上的Mountain Winery举 行，离我家大概有30分钟车程。酒厂藏在半山腰的密林深处，远远望着山下的万家灯火，仿佛不食人间烟火的世外桃源。在酒厂爬满青蔓的酒窖前 面，一个能装两千人的场地坐了九人。其实Madeleine Peyroux原来是给Cesaria Evora给做暖场的，因为正主儿病了来不了，她就成主角儿了。她的音乐是非常小资的慢爵士/蓝调，嗓音在唱片里听象极了Billie Holiday。在这样远离尘世的葡萄园里听真再合适不过了。暖场的民歌手乏善可陈，当天渐渐黑下来的时候，Madeleine Peyroux 出场了。标准的爵士Quartet组合，悠扬的人声，台上变换陆离的昏黄灯光，很快就把大家带进了仲夏夜的梦里。我们相互依偎，望着天上繁星，远方闪烁的 万家灯火，听着歌声悠扬，身后淅淅簌簌的虫鸣，时间好像静止不动了，又好像整个晚上象白驹过隙般一掠而过。


周日下午：我们去三藩听一年一度的免费室外音乐会Stern Grove Festival, 今天是支Flamengo Hiphop Band叫Ojos De Brujo。听室外音乐会的秘诀就是放松，晒太阳，吃烧烤，喝酒和跳舞。我们在两个半小时内圆满完成了任务。


乐队的女主唱在载歌载舞



周日晚上：和朋友一起看了Sundance Festival新获奖的纪录片DIG (Grand Jury Prize)。这部片子拍了七年，记录了两只地下摇滚乐队的经历，整部片子充斥了灵魂的挣扎，人性的冲突，愤怒，绝望，狂暴，妥协，不停的战斗。又让我想起了十几年前Kurt Cobain的死，音乐真的是需要用性命去做的。我向大家强力推荐。

匆匆的周末就这样过去了。下个周末正在翘首期盼中。

周二凌晨两点．．．还有四天了。

Lost in rotation (theme song) live

我为电影"Lost In Rotation"写的主题歌和在首映式上的演出。

我恨加班，周六的演出，以及其他。。。

这周一老板宣布：因为赶project的进度，要求大家四周之内都要加班，至少一周六天，七天更好！每天公司备晚饭，吃完继续干。我靠，这是什么世道阿， 免费被万恶的资本家欺诈剥削，还敢怒不敢言。砸烂万恶的旧世界！我一面心中高喊，一面假惺惺的向老板保证：“光荣完成任务。不过，周六能不能请个 假？...”

因为周六有演出，我和小雷要在一个小型的movie launch party上唱两首歌。小雷今天探路回来，说场地和音响都不错，我们又练了一会儿琴，把要唱的合了一下。我最近在写歌儿，绞尽脑汁也写不出像样的词儿来。 总共三句半儿歌似的烂词儿只能来回来去地唱。失败呀，想当年咱也曾经是半拉儿伪文青儿，霉国几年来连中文报纸都没看过几张，是彻底伪不起来了。要恶补一 下，等一个月后吧。

San Francisco underground sound

晚上和朋友去SF的一间酒吧看演出，几个小有名气的 Asian local band。看的人不多,低矮昏暗的舞台边稀稀拉拉挤着数十人.我们到时演出早已开始,台上的菲律宾女主唱(Skyflake)正细声细气地唱着他的Brit Pop。很难想象从他胖身躯里竟能发出清脆如童音般的歌声。本人比较喜欢第二支乐队“Parting Glance"，几个模样清秀的家伙琴弹得煞是整齐，歌也写得相当不错。就是主唱的声音太弱了，也许换贝斯来唱比较好。最后的”Tomihira“的主唱简 直不会唱歌，一首歌就得跑调半首多，他自己到是唱得很high，不知是不是喝高了的缘故，因为听他在CD里唱得并不跑调。

演出直到午夜才完，总共7块钱cover可是真的很便宜。几支乐队的歌都写得不错，论水平比大多数在中国小红小紫的乐队都强很多。 于是我们在回家的路上又禁不住感慨了一番，什么时候我们自己的乐队才能出名呢？

要开始用中文blahblah了

鬼子的文字真不适合直抒胸臆亚！

As time passing by

My best friend from middle school brought me a wonderful gift on the weekend. A family video collection of our life from the old times. His dad is one of the earliest I know who had a video camera at home. The nicest thing about video camera is that it records every single detail of a event truthfully. And trust me on this, no matter how wonderful, silly or even ugly you thought when something was recorded, you will appreciate and enjoy it like a precious treasure when you look at it again ten years later.

That is EXACTLY what happened to me. I watched my life over 15 years old unfolded and replayed in front of me. Found myself filled with tearful laughter, precious memories pieced together brought me joy, my heart sinks as I realized life is so wonderful but so painfully short. As time passing by, we are gaining fortune, success, weight and burden, but losing "teen spirit" - a young heart. Brutal it is, it is a reality no one could change.

I will buy a new mini DV tomorrow and start shooting. Yes, bring back my life, at least on screen.

For those who still remember

It's the day again, after 16 long years. For those who died and those who lived to still remember... It was on the last year of my junior high when it all happened, so many years have passed without notice but the memory is still as fresh as yesterday. I don't know much about politics at the time, not even today. Who knows what would everything have became if only... No, nobody would have known, as history will not take assumptions. I only know, to the bottom of my heart, there should have been better ways to treat people who love their country, there should have been better ways to bring peace and reconciliation, there should have been a sin to fire bullets to unarmed students. And I only know, people deserve to know the truth, same as they deserve freedom and democracy, few is still fighting for it, most already forgot, or simply don't care anymore. For those who still remember!

Guild wars

Guild wars is a online RPG game released last month. Been playing it like crazy everyday for almost two weeks now. I am seriously short of sleep as a result :), but gaming is sure fun. Never thought of I could still have had the energy to playing the whole night. There are hobbies for a life time and gaming is one of them for sure.

I am not a nature born gamer though. Still remembered that one of my school mates could play game console for straight 3 hours without losing one life. At the end, the owner of the game room had to refund him money and beg him to leave :|. I tried hard to be one like him but felt short. Hard working simply wasn't able to match those who born with it. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed it.

I tried WoW, THE most famous MMORPG game for about a month. It was a lot of fun but I couldn't keep up with it. A monthly subscription is too much for me since I was not able to devote large part of my spare time. I am not a hard core gamer in the sense.