好歌(及MV)重溫：We are the Pigs

頗有George Orwell小說1984的味道。

當年曾遭禁播，作為Dog Man Star第一發single，被認為是商業自殺。（要說商業自殺，suede早有前科，故意將經典作品"My insatiable one"放於"The Drowners"的B-side，才算我行我素，目空一切的舉措。）

豬(pig)，是suede最常用的imagery之一。哺乳類低等動物，和狗(dog man star中的"dog")處於進化第一階段，等如革命前夕，處於受壓狀態的無產階級，不願做奴隸的人們，搖身成"stars of the firing line".

以Glam look示人的Brett Anderson的創作力處於顛峰，唱腔發揮也最淋漓盡致。

教堂的鐘聲刺耳得如一響響鑽入耳膜的警笛，由Bernard Butler清晰有力的結他導出，預示執政階層（西方文明？）的墮落。歌曲成於93/94年， 靈感或來自東歐變天，風起雲湧的革命年代。畫面中戴面具的人抬著擔架疾走，令人想起1989年6月4 日。



Well the church bells are calling
Police cars on fire
And as they call you to the eye of the storm
All the people say "Stay at home tonight"

I say we are the pigs, we are the swine
We are the stars of the firing line

And as the smack cracks at your window
You wake up with a gun in your mouth
Oh let the nuclear wind blow away my sins
And I'll stay at home in my house

I say, we are the pigs
we are the swine
we are the stars of the firing line

But deceit can't save you so

We will watch them burn

好歌(及MV)重溫：Fake Plastic Trees 〔補充感想〕

Radiohead的歌曲富實驗性，但在OK Computer橫空出世之前，他們的歌曲已隱然帶著科幻感，非常之futuristic，這首歌的MV在今天看來，也是如此。

十二、三年前，互聯網方興未艾，全球一體化還在胚胎之中，尚未成形，美國及其他資本主義國家的消費主義，在後冷戰時代、唯一意識形態對手倒台後已成霸權。西風東漸，中國及俄國掛著羊頭重新崛起，富起來的人拼命消費，要和富裕世界看齊，然而富裕世界的人早在消費主費花多眼亂的迷宮裏迷失。五色令人目盲，五音令人耳聾，五味令人口爽，馳騁畋獵令人心發狂。

留意MV裏蒼白的人造光，人們木然、疏離。敞大的超市整齊排列一架架一式一樣的貨品，豈不是今天沃爾瑪(Wal-Mart)的寫照？難道又不是星巴克世代來臨的預言？個性被大眾取締。

Thom Yorke在錄音室唱完這歌後，崩潰地哭。



Her Green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans.
to get rid of itself.
And It Wears Her Out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out.

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.
And It Wears Him Out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out.

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My Fake Plastic Love.
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And It Wears Me Out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.

And if I could BE who you wanted
If I could BE who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh... ohh...
近日，I'm NOT A Plastic bag 在港台掀起「輪購」熱潮，彷如輪米，何其諷刺。

博雅vs通識

博雅教育(Liberal arts education)：相對於職業或實用教育而言，其目的在培育「統一的人格」(unified personality)

通識教育(General education)：相對於專業教育而言，其目的在達到「統一的知識」(unified body of knowledge)

來源：金耀基，《大學之理念》。

好歌(及MV)重溫：Chemical World

probably one of the finest moments of britpop...

Damon Albarn...好靚仔...剛脫離"she's so high"時期的柒look，髮線尚未後移...

歌曲未必最為(港)人熟悉，但旋律流暢嶲永，MV清新舒爽，質素不下於任何一首Blur的大熱作品。

(題外話：說到「作品」，實不明解何謂DJ口中的「梁詠琪作品」、「鄧麗欣作品」、「黎明作品」或「郭富城作品」，他們的確提供了一把不甚了了的唱腔，但為何總是一個唔該攬下所有credit？他們參與作曲嗎？他們是歌曲監製嗎？他們有任彈奏樂曲的樂器嗎？最重要是，他們會為歌曲或唱片提供創作方向嗎？假如在香港這個還是雷頌德統領的「樂壇」下還有「創作」這回事的話。[不過我想，問題在於雷生沒有抄足全套，他大可學外國創作人"cite influence"，那麼他的「作品」也可監粗說成是「二次創作」的「創意產業」。])

(又，如上述這批「藝人」經常大言不慚稱自己為「artist」，則我們可以斷定：李天命除了是一名已退休的哲學教授，也絕對是一名「artist」，殆無疑問。)

"Chemical world"收錄在Modern life is rubbish一碟內，調子較商業化，主攻美國年青市場(不過想來不太成功，要等到"Song 2"才打破缺口)，主題和碟名呼應，諷刺現代社會的反天然性質，MV裏的開揚壯闊的大自然景觀，自是有世外桃源，令人心懭神怡，多看有益。



The pay-me girl has had enough of the bleeps
So she takes the bus into the country
Although she got herself rosy cheeks
She didn't leave enough money to pay the rent
The landlord says that she's out in a week
What a shame she was just getting comfy
Now she's eating chocolate to induce sleep
In a chemical world, It's very, very, very cheap

And I don't know about you
But they're putting the holes in, yes, yes
It's been a hell of a do
They've been putting the holes in, yes, yes

Peeping Thomas has a very nice view
Across the street at the exhibitionist
These townies they never speak to you
Just stick together so they never get lonely
Feeling lead, feeling quite light-headed
Had to sit down and have some sugary tea
In chemical world, in a chemical world
It's very, very, very cheap

And I don't know about you
But they're putting the holes in, yes, yes
It's been a hell of a do
They've been putting the holes in, yes, yes, yes

I don't know about you
But they're putting the holes in, yes, yes
It's been a hell of a do
They've been putting the holes in, yes, yes
And now she's found about you
But they're putting the holes in, yes, yes
Well I don't know about you
They've been putting the holes in, yes, yes

左右腳

Grindhouse明明是兩片同放，在香港卻一開二，這還不特止，先上映的是《索女．喪屍．機關槍》(Planet Terror)，上集《玩命．飛車．殺人狂》(Death Proof)竟要放在七月中才上畫，有冇搞錯！

左腳、右腳？準是要扮B級片來個大穿崩

想點

《政制發展綠皮書》舉行記者答問會，咱們新任政務司長一舊糖首度上陣，講野一舊舊，書又背得唔熟，每個問題都答「揉合機制」、「立法會三分二支持」、「北京支持、備案」、「得出主流方案」，部份記者問得又廢，結果一舊糖又口齒不清咁重覆以上各項，好L悶呀。年初佢出席財政預算案答問大問，又係一舊雲咁問乜都唔識，眼神游魂，淨識傻笑，開親口都口窒窒，呢條友五年間由自由黨議員做到局長再做財爺已經詭異，口才仲屎過曾凸手，唔明佢點可帶領政府囉。