光 速 青 春

I thought we'd keep our veins tangled, like a pair of mic cables.

Gemini



it starts with you
on a mattress in your parents' old room,
clipping your toenails into the room
like the room will fade
and you will move
onto other rooms
and you will go
to other places.
then the wedding,
then the woman passed out
in the driver's seat
at the order board at white castle.
we woke her up and she went
'round to the pick up window
like she knew exactly where she was.
then i wept
with my face in your night shirt,
trying hard as hell to say
"until death seperates us,"
loosening the skin on your breast bone.
i painted your nails
and you sleep
while i write all this down.

there was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
will you still remember me well
if i don't get to two-o-o-five
my dead line gemini.

when we're on different sides of the globe
i thought we'd keep our veins tangled
like a pair of mic cables,
and if there ain't enough slack to reach
that we'd solder them together
and across oceans they'd stretch.
our faces reflected in separate windshields
and all our body hair pricked up
an elephant eyelash.
should we be tempted by thief or by saint
it seems i leave you and you stay
to crowd the cage and curse.
but don't regret the done dirt,
there is no life plan set,
you just swallow the cold
and follow your breath until death
now even if the will to sleep persists
i can't, 'cause a harsh cloth grazes my blisters.

there was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
will you still remember me well
if i don't get to two-o-o-five
my dead line gemini.

today i fell asleep in a bath of hair.
hair that once sprouted from my own
white wet chalk follicles.
i swallow a coal
and follow my breath
and i did it with the grapefruit soap
thinking of you.
bathed, shaved, and oiled,
your legs are two skinny dolphins swimming
between the mattress and the layers of bedding
turning in your drug dry sleep.
when i ask you to kiss my pulse
you offer to start the shower.
i want a verb and you give me a noun.
what do you dream up while i tongue you down.

there was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
will you still remember me well
if i don't get to two-o-o-five
my dead line gemini.

you know my build
you know my size
the degree to which my eyes
are astigmatic.


Elephant Eyelash，很棒的專輯名稱。

去年要離開紐約之前，很幸運的碰上WHY?在Knitting Factory的表演，而且門票只要一塊美金。除了Pela在Trout這間魚餐廳的免費表演之外，是我在紐約花費最少的現場。2005年碰上Elephant Eyelash這張專輯，愛不釋手到現在，Yoni Wolf的詞總是很有趣，Gemini裡面提到的靜脈互相纏繞，或是我需要動詞你給我名詞，越看越感到唏噓不已。當晚的表演很意外還有Yo La Tengo的貝斯手James現身獻聲，他害羞的躲在Yoni和鼓手Josiah後面唱歌。那是Why即將發行最新單曲的前夕，我和小倩一路從Jersey飆到現場，渾身煙臭味的我們因為即將要離別笑的特別用力，在擁擠的觀眾群裡互相擁抱。

來自加州的Oakland，主腦Yoni Wolf負責主要的vocal、鍵盤、小鼓敲打手、口哨、rap、沙鈴，偶爾來個吉他和bass；千手萬腳的鼓手Josiah Wolf是我看過最high的鼓手之一，也是唯一的帥翻了大爆炸麥克風頭造型，也會合音和敲木琴，而他一邊敲木一邊打鼓的時候，讓我跟小倩都變成小少女露出愛心型的光波；Doug Mcdiarmid很忙，鍵盤吉他bass大部分時候他都要玩到，當然也要合音。

這場表演對我來說非常非常重要，我們總是知道人生的某個片刻，少了什麼或是多了什麼，將會截然不同。而因為這張專輯，勉強串起和地球上另一個國家的細弱聯繫，因為微弱而更加珍惜。音樂真的有太多神奇的時刻，不只是聆聽上，還有更多的感情互動和回憶。