上回提到買了一塊羅馬香皂。今個星期開封,噢,非常的幼滑,可以媲美 l'occitane 沐浴液。於是前日再去買了一塊,今次買的是 cherry blssom + basil 。 BASIL !
Saturday, September 04, 2010
洋人看日本戲
在大學講了一課黑澤明+《羅生門》。大家知黑澤明不是我心頭好,交完功課打算播一段成瀨的《浮雲》作結, youtube 上竟然找不到任何片段--也好,成瀨電影要整部看,未接觸過的觀眾,看一段也很難看得出甚麼。小津我一定會選《秋刀魚之味》的結尾(還要跟《晚春》一起看),但 TIM 已播了一節《東京物語》,那就播溝口《雨月物語》森雅之歸家那個經典長鏡頭啦。
播完溝口, TIM 用北野武《座頭市》結尾的歌舞送學生出門,我有點不以為然--不要誤會,I think it's fun! 但無意思又不入流。不過那是他的課,他喜歡啦。
下課,有學生走來說《雨月物語》那個鏡頭跟《蜘蛛巢城》某場同出一轍(明顯是黑澤迷),我心裡一個大問號,其實我無印象,不過提醒他《雨月物語》比《蜘蛛巢城》早幾年。有兩個學生留下來問《座頭市》片名,《雨月物語》呢?無人問津。哈,洋學生。
又,介紹宮崎駿, TIM 說是《哈爾移動城堡》及《崕上的波兒》的導演,次次次等之作,不知宮崎駿是否近幾年才傳到澳洲?播的片段是《飛天紅豬俠》,差點教我吐血--雖然我明,這可能是西洋人最易有共鳴的一部......
真是長嘆一聲啊。
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
The French Lieutenant's Woman and the Aussie's Pussy Cat
"It was certainly not a beautiful face, by any period's standard or taste. But it was an unforgettable face, and a tragic face. Its sorrow welled out of it as purely, naturally and unstoppably as water out of a woodland spring. There was no artifice here, no hypocrisy, no hysteria, no mask; and above all, no sign of madness. The madness was in the empty sea, the empty horizon, the lack of reason for such sorrow; as if the spring was natural in itself, but unnatural in welling from a desert."
This is when the French Lieutenant's Woman, aka Tragedy, being described for the first time. Thanks to Tim who has to study this book in his research but for some reason has to put it aside for a while, that I can steal it and start reading, amid the time when I should be working on something more important...It was so captivating I think I can't stop reading, at least for today...
And the pussy cat reads with me.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
日安憂鬱
"A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow..."
今早看到她往窗外望的背影,想起莎岡這句話。其實我越想,越覺得這句話不憂鬱,只是超級慵懶,和佻皮。
從前我以為 D 人把貓毛剃光是因為變態,原來毛太長有很多麻煩,她肚皮上的毛全打了結。剃毛後的她很瘦小,看起來有點可憐,但精神多了,開始會自我清潔( Tim 說以前也有,但我沒見過),沙盆也整齊了。我其實更愛她現在的樣貌,常在心裡怪笑,或許我始終還是有點變態(這也不是新聞了)。
晚上她總會跳上床跟我們一起睡,她喜歡周圍爬直到找到最舒適的位置,我們小心翼翼,生怕一個翻身壓扁她。
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我家對面就是 New Farm Park 。今天放假,碰巧有稿要寫,便買了杯咖啡到公園裡翻書。
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附近有一家精品店,賣日本和歐洲進口的東西,之前的松榮堂都是在那裡買的。我每次進去都忍不住要花費。因為還未支薪,好幾次過門不入。前幾天破戒走走,又買了無謂野。
之一:羅馬香皂(唔知買來做MUD,但真係好香,又靚)
之二:檀香香水。都是產自意大利。香味比我想像中失色,但勝在不 common ,也很 bohemian 。
