galeer(嘎荔兒)的部落格

「有些書中的某幾頁文字，之所以會深深烙印在我們心底，讓我們一輩子難以忘懷，並不是因為作者的技巧精湛，而是由於故事似乎有生命。留在我們腦海中、內心深處、或任何地方的這些篇章，對我們的意義並非某位藝術大師的驚世創作，而是溫柔、感人、憂傷的片段，許多年後我們會依然牢牢記住，就如同我們自己生命中的高低起伏，或甚至是更超然的感動。」(p.478) 

帕幕克在《黑色之書》提到的這段話，說的再清楚不過，我們聽音樂時，也是如此，無非是希望在音樂中找尋共鳴，我一直相信，如果作品不能喚起感動，這時，再多的形容詞與讚譽，至少在聆聽的這個時間點上是沒有太大意義的。

「一個專欄作家，若要讓一大群讀者接受某項概念，必須有辦法重新修復讀者記憶庫裡熟睡的鏽蝕回憶，再次攪動那逐漸腐朽而沈澱的思想殘渣，激起讀者的回憶、同感和想像力」(p.309) 

人非常奇妙，潛意識的存在，逃避、壓抑、自欺、昇華等各種心理機制的運轉之下，我們很難確定瞭解自己多少，你說忘記了，就真的忘記了嗎？

我特別喜歡Isobel Campbell在Belle & Sebastian及The Gentle Waves時期的歌曲，這首不到兩分鐘的"Evensong"，善用了chamber pop管弦樂器配置，抓住了轉瞬即逝的青澀酸甜。

THE GENTLE WAVES Song: EVENSONG

For a bit of loyalty
I would pay you handsomely
While you're killing time
You could help fill mine
With a bit of honesty

If you're feeling kind of beat
If you're feeling incomplete
Don't be too surprised
Open up your eyes
There's a harsh reality

When a person's sad and lonely
Sometimes they will cry
When the sun comes out to meet them
Then their tears run dry

And it's nearly not so bad
When you learn of how to add up
All the good around
And you can paint the town
With a sad kind of beauty

When a person's sad and lonely
Sometimes they will cry
When the sun comes out to meet them
Then their tears run dry

Life is hard and life is cruel
If you often blow your cool
When hope lets you down
And you feel a clown
For there's little honesty

For a bit of loyalty
I would pay you handsomely
With music as sweet as wine
Rapture that's divine
If you keep me company
You could sing along with my evensong
It might ease the drudgery