微小的謊言近似錯誤。

以下是世界聞名的Time雜誌上，作家Douglas Coupland專訪的一段內容。（對了，文章標題叫做"Is Google God?"。）

該位仁兄寫過一本小說叫"Microserfs"，最新力作叫"J Pod"。這樣各位瞭解他是怎樣的人了吧。（該不會島內一堆Jxx的藝人也在打這個名字的主意吧？）

TIME: In JPod you compare Google to God. Why?

DC: Not so much Google itself, but the way you feel after using it really intensely for a long time. Suddenly you know the answer to everything. I used to be one of those people who was going through the reference section of the local library. I used to phone up Merriam-Webster in Springfield, Massachusetts — by the way, they loved it — and ask a question about a neologism or something. Now you just burn out on knowing the answer to everything. This is what God must be like knowing everything. How many times have I been in a restaurant and wanted to clap my hands and have Google come down from ceiling and solve an argument?

這段文字應該道出許多鬻文為生者的心聲吧。

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`Da Vinci' Mystery: How Can the Movie Be This Bad?

By Rick Warner

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- ``The Da Vinci Code'' purports to solve the greatest mystery in human history. Ron Howard's movie version of Dan Brown's mega-selling novel poses another puzzler: How could such a respected and experienced director transform this page-turning thriller into one of the most boring big- budget flicks ever made?

At an excruciatingly long 2 1/2 hours, ``Da Vinci'' works better as sedative than stimulant. It's a $125 million turkey -- a lifeless, confusing, overly talky film that's equally harsh on the ears and eyes. Viewers are assaulted with trite dialogue, cheesy flashbacks and cinematography so dark that you feel as if you're trapped in a cave.

The book is no literary masterpiece -- one critic called it a ``best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence'' -- but at least Brown kept the story about the search for Jesus's family tree moving at a brisk pace. The movie, written by Akiva Goldsman (who collaborated with Howard on the Oscar-winning ``A Beautiful Mind''), has a poor sense of timing and little sense of humor or style.

No historical or religious background -- and the story is crammed with both -- is relayed without excessive details and pontification. Whether we're learning about the conservative Catholic sect Opus Dei, Leonardo da Vinci or the secretive Priory of Sion, it's like being trapped in history class with a windbag professor.

Wooden Hanks

Even scenes that should be fascinating -- like the one where eccentric scholar Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) explains the hidden meaning of ``The Last Supper'' to Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and police cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) -- come across as pedantic set pieces that are no more illuminating than the dim lighting.

``I'm into something here that I can't understand,'' Hanks says.

Me, too, Tom.

Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner who previously worked with Howard on ``Apollo 13'' and ``Splash,'' gives what may be his worst dramatic performance as a professor suspected of murdering a curator at the Louvre. He looks uncomfortable from start to finish -- maybe it's that goofy, slicked-back hairdo -- and his wooden manner seems more suited to a wax museum than a Hollywood blockbuster.

Wasted Cast

The distinguished supporting cast is almost entirely wasted, including Tautou, Paul Bettany as the self-flagellating albino killer, Jean Reno as the grim police captain who stalks Langdon, and Alfred Molina as a sinister bishop. Only McKellen, as the crippled Holy Grail expert, appears to be having any fun. He steals every scene he's in with his loopy looks and maniacal energy.

The millions who've read the book won't find many surprises. Those who haven't read it are likely to be confounded by the intricate plot, which starts out as a murder mystery and turns into a search for the long-buried secret of Jesus's personal life.

Under attack by outraged Catholics and offended albinos, the film's producers shrouded ``The Da Vinci Code'' in secrecy and refused to show it to critics until the last minute. That was probably a wise choice. Although it's bound to be a box- office hit on opening weekend because of the built-in audience, word of mouth may break this code.

``The Da Vinci Code,'' from Columbia Pictures, opens worldwide today and tomorrow.

從Billboard偷過來的。噓 -- 不要告訴別人。

Thom Yorke Solo Album Due In July
Radiohead

May 13, 2006, 10:15 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's debut solo album, "The Eraser," will be released in July via XL Recordings. The set was produced and arranged by longtime Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich. "Inevitably it is more beats and electronics, but it [is] songs," Yorke says of the project in an email to members of Radiohead's W.A.S.T.E. fan organization.

"The elements have been kicking round now for a few years and needed to be finished and I have been itching to do something like this for ages," he continues. "It was fun and quick to do." One track, "Black Swan," will run over the end credits of director Richard Linklater's upcoming film, "A Scanner Darkly."

With Radiohead having just kicked off a European tour and debuting a wealth of new material, Yorke insists his own musical ambitions have not outpaced the band's.


"As you know the band are now touring and writing new stuff and getting to a good space so I want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah blah," he writes. "This was all done with their blessing. And I don't wanna hear that word solo. Doesn't sound right."

兩支蘇格蘭天團（坦白說，我討厭任何跟「天」扯上關係的封號），前些時日皆推出新作。

我想，愛他們的人還是會繼續愛到天荒地老吧。

竟和我一樣。


BELLE & SEBASTIAN, "The Life Pursuit"



MOGWAI, "Mr. Beast"

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哇咧，卡珊卓這次不搞跨界（劈腿？），是整個人都跨過來了。

“Thunderbird”專輯裡融合多種風格，但POP成分調到最高，Jazz味全濃縮到唱腔裡（Jazz基本教義派恐怕只能藉”LOST”一曲憑弔漂流在化外魔島上的爵士女伶）。

流行音樂的市場佔有率何其大，但視界何其狹窄。卡珊卓這樣的俠女一出手便知有無，打得一班小妹落花流水。只聽流行樂的朋友趕快爬出小洞吧，這世界上奇異的花朵處處都有啊。


CASSANDRA WILSON, "Thunderbird"

昨夜故人又入夢中，此次場景更形怪誕。吾與友人前往一水之隔的離島，只是風光險峻地勢嶙峋，全然不似吾等狎遊經年之島。

途中偶遇茶水攤，稍事歇息。攤旁一騎士卸下口罩，出聲招呼，竟為故人也。言談內容依舊不復記憶，轉身前故人突發一語，昔日挂懷安在焉？

當下彷如棒喝，反顧自身境遇，惶悚不能自持。

夜寐有夢，良久未見之人現身夢中。

場景極不相稱，思來卻頗為適當。恕吾恐難言明，僅能透露與奧國佛氏學說難脫干係。

彼人形貌神容依舊，白駒過隙，可時間誠然靜止於歷史斷裂臨界點。

兩人對訴爾時迄今自身所作所為，補遺彼此平行路程上的空白。

細節已如蟾影於晴光消逝，依稀尋回幾本書名及一座泳池。

覺寤，悲不自勝。

http://www.j-ent.com.tw/water/

經手過的影片不算少，敢推薦給別人看的倒不多（純粹就通俗程度而言）。

一部是很純情可愛的泰國片<<真情收音機>>，另外一部就是即將上演的<<禍水>>了。

理由很簡單，男的俊女的美，歌曲動聽劇情感人。可以算是藝術片種中的芭樂片了。

我也是第一次翻譯到自己忍不住絞冷筍，在<<禍水>>結尾的時候。只差沒跟著加速離站的火車飆出幾顆珠淚......

人家的影業發達不是沒有原因的，就是拍得出言之有物雅俗共賞的劇情片。-->這句話不包括韓國片喔，每次看韓片我只會意識到「這場戲導演在幹嘛編劇當初怎麼設計演員如何走位」云云。他們的影像工業的確很發達，但片子實在很難看。

岔開重點了，不必去看小螢幕電視劇格局的MI:3了，整齣戲有如某人的PR長片 + 雙面女間諜。這筆錢倒不如省下來去看看印度的真情羅曼史，何況人家的愛情戲感人自然多了。

有那麼一陣子，他心儀的某位女子不見蹤影，遍尋不著。數年後，他在京城一處地下室見著一名丰姿綽約的陌生女子，遂神往不已，但愈端詳愈覺得她的神容有些熟悉之處。定睛一看，原來就是朝思暮想的佳人。他這方才曉悟，這些年，她有過種種遭遇。


AJICO, "深綠"
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圖騰，"我在那邊唱"

今年開春聽過最好聽的台灣本地音樂。

約莫比Tank好聽上五十倍。

不過這年頭只有洲捷輪，或類似洲捷輪，才能賣。

這點他們也很清楚。