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    6/29/2006

    郑钧 —《私奔》

    郑钧的最新单曲。歌词早在其小说《菜刀温暖》里就公开了~~~
     
    私奔
       郑钧
     
    把青春献给身后那座 辉煌的都市
    为了这个美梦 我们付出着代价
    把爱情留给我身边最真心的姑娘
    你陪我歌唱 你陪我流浪 陪我两败俱伤
     
    一直到现在 才突然明白
    我梦寐以求 是真爱和自由
    想带上你私奔 奔向最遥远城镇
    想带上你私奔 去做最幸福的人
     
    在熟悉的异乡 我将自己一年年流放
    穿过鲜花 走过荆棘 只为自由之地
    在欲望的城市 你就是我最后的信仰
    洁白如一道喜乐的光芒将我心照亮
     
    不要再悲伤 我看到了希望 
     
    你是否还有勇气 随着我离去
    想带上你私奔 奔向最遥远城镇
    想带上你私奔 去做最幸福的人
     
    不要再悲伤 我看到了希望
    你是否还有勇气 随着我离去
    想带上你私奔 奔向最遥远城镇
    想带上你私奔 去做最幸福的人
     
    郑钧 —《私奔》 
     
    6/27/2006

    2006 发现广州

    “云山珠水,独领南国风骚。在火热的阳光下,任千年古城,在我们眼前从容流过;
    记忆中的辉煌与灿烂,就在这回味中成为永恒。
    奔放你的激情,挥洒你的想象,
    我们在发现、认识的同时,
    应该为我们的家园感到骄傲和自豪!”
       ——磨房广州

     

    脚步丈量广州,用尺码不一的鞋;热情感受广州,用同样炙热的心!
    36度的骄阳,蒸烤出了我们的潺潺汗水,却阻挡不了我们的坚定步伐,更激发出了我们的万丈豪情。
    今年的主题是:水道,难度比去年的宗教主题小些。一路奔走一路欢笑,最终我们胜利完成了所有的必做题和部分加分题,不过,名次还是取不到啦。但是,感受广州老城,收获快乐,才是活动真谛!

     

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    6/20/2006

    Kasey Chambers — <Bluebird>

    澳大利亚乡村女歌手,个人感觉是快乐版的Jewel。
    04年的这张<Wayward Angel>不错听~~~
     
     
    Kasey Chambers — <Bluebird>  
    Kasey Chambers — <Wayward Angel>  
     
    Bluebird
             Kasey Chambers
     
    If I fall like rain
    Will you still feel the same
    Will you hold me and call out my name
    If I'm lost in the crowd
    Will you shout out loud
    Will you take me to the other side of town
     
    When that sun beats down
    Will you stay
    Will you turn around
    And fly away
    Like a bluebird tail wing
    It sounds just like the angel singing
    Am I ever gonna see you again
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
     
    If my heart turns blue
    Will it still belong to you
    Will you keep it just like him
    If I lose my wing
    Will I hear you sing
    You will make my tears go away
     
    When that sun beats down
    Will you stay
    Will you turn around
    And fly away
    Like a bluebird tail wing
    It sounds just like the angel singing
    Am I ever gonna see you again
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
     
    When that sun beats down
    Will you stay
    Will you turn around
    And fly away
    Like a bluebird tail wing
    It sounds just like the angel singing
    Am I ever gonna see you again
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
    Like a bluebird tail wing
    It sounds just like the angel singing
    Am I ever gonna see you again
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
    Bluebird with a brand new wing
     
     
    Biography
    In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey.
    In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old son Nash and newborn daughter Kasey into the 100,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau called the Nullarbor Plain. The family would spend seven or eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world's longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. The rest of the year, the hot months, the family spent at a small South Australian fishing village. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day's hunting, the family would camp in a different spot on that vast Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife Diane passed on their love of country music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. This is how Kasey Chambers spent the first nine years of her life.
    In 1986, the family returned to "civilization" so that Bill and Diane could pick up interrupted music careers. First, Kasey joined them as lead singer, then brother Nash, and they became known as the Dead Ringer Band. By 1992, the family had become full-time musicians, playing to city audiences as well as heading back out into the countryside, pulling a small trailer behind their Toyota Land Cruiser.
    During the '90s, the Dead Ringer Band members, known as performers of quality country music, released seven CDs and collectively earned two ARIA's (Australian Grammys) and seven Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music awards in Tamworth. Kasey was the face of the new generation in Australian country. She appeared at Tamworth dressed as a spice girl, wearing a nose ring, and posed nude for a country music magazine (walking down the streets of a deserted country town with brother Nash).
    In 1998, Chamber's world was turned upside down with the separation of her parents, with mother Diane choosing to go and live in distant Norfolk Island, two-and-a-half hours by plane off the Australian coast. Chambers started putting her feelings into songs, and over a few weeks during July and August 1998, Kasey Chambers recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island. With brother Nash Chambers acting as producer, Kasey and her musicians set up in an old homestead on the island and practically recorded the album live. Father Bill was on hand to play guitar. Country legends Buddy and Julie Miller added their voices and guitar to four tracks afterwards in Nashville.
    Released in May 1999, the album The Captain initially won Kasey the 1999 ARIA award for Best Country album and at the 2000 awards named her Best Female Artist. With double-platinum sales at home in Australia, Kasey spent the latter part of 2000 following up enthusiastic reviews for her album internationally. She also spent time touring the U.S. with Lucinda Williams and playing gigs in her native land with Emmylou Harris. She was in the studio as well; with her brother Nash at the production board, Kasey Chambers delivered another sonic beauty with 2002's Barricades and Brick Walls. The album was a multi-platinum success in Australia and significantly raised her profile in the United States, earning her enthusiastic reviews and much better sales than The Captain. After a two-year layoff, during which Chambers and her husband had a baby, she released her third solo disc, Wayward Angel, in the fall of 2004.
     
     
    Album Review
    When Kasey Chambers sings, she manages the not-unremarkable accomplishment of splitting the difference between Emmylou Harris's crystalline purity and Lucinda Williams's rough-hewn emotional honesty, and the most startling thing is you sense she sounded like this before she ever heard of either artist. Chambers' songwriting is no less remarkable, and connects in much the same way, chronicling matters of the heart and soul in a manner that achieves a genuine and unaffected beauty with just a dash of the truthful messiness that comes with being human. Chambers's third solo album, Wayward Angel, is perhaps a bit less striking than her first two sets, The Captain and Barricades & Brickwalls, if only because she staked out her style on those sessions, and here she's harvesting from the ground she broke earlier on. But this also sounds like her most accomplished effort to date. Whether she sings from the perspective of a precocious child ("Pony"), a woman with a serious case of lust ("Guilty as Sin"), or an elderly man ("Paper Aeroplane"), Chambers never fails to hit the right note as a lyricist, or make a false step as a vocalist, and Wayward Angel is informed by a confidence that never sinks into arrogance. Chambers is also lucky to have her brother Nash Chambers on hand as producer, who has paired Kasey with a team of gifted pickers who add color to the songs without cluttering the landscape, and captured the results in an admirably straightforward manner. Wayward Angel is the work of a strikingly talented singer and songwriter, and it's simply a pleasure to hear Kasey Chambers work — anyone who doubts that this woman is a major artist needs to hear this album as soon as possible.
     
    6/16/2006

    Joe Satriani — <Surfing With The Alien>

    重金属吉他巫师Joe Satriani代表作品,1987年发行的<Surfing With The Alien>。
    推荐两首作品,一快一慢~~~
     
    “做为Kirk Hammett和Steve Vai的师傅,Joe Satriani的名声远没有他的徒弟显赫。但是他的众多吉他独奏专辑仍应验了一句古语:姜还是老的辣。与他的两名徒弟相比,Joe Satriani的演奏风格快速但不激烈,在慢板作品的处理上别具匠心。Joe Satriani的音乐中宗教痕迹较重,<Big Bad Moon>中阴柔的吉他演奏配以他低沉的嗓音,营造出诡异的气氛,“吉他巫师”之称名副其实。”
     
     
    Joe Satriani — <Surfing With The Alien> 
    Joe Satriani — <Always With Me, Always With You> 
     
    Biography
    Along with teaching some of the top rock guitar players of the '80s and '90s, Joe Satriani is one of the most technically accomplished and widely respected guitarists to emerge in recent times. Born on July 15, 1956, in Westbury, NY, and raised in the nearby town of Carle Place, Satriani — inspired by guitar legend Jimi Hendrix — picked up the guitar at the age of 14 (although he was initially more interested in the drums). Quickly learning the instrument, Satriani began teaching guitar to others and found a kindred spirit in one of his students, Steve Vai. By the late '70s, however, Satriani had relocated to Berkeley, CA. With his sights set on his own musical career, "Satch" kept teaching others, including such future rock notables as Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Larry LaLonde (Primus), David Bryson (Counting Crows), and jazz fusion player Charlie Hunter.
    In the early '80s, Satriani got a gig playing guitar with power popster Greg Kihn, doing some session work and touring with the group (an archival release recorded around this time, King Biscuit Flower Hour, was later issued in 1996), and issuing his own solo self-titled EP in 1984, financing and releasing the project entirely on his own. But when Vai hit the big time as the guitarist of David Lee Roth's solo band in 1986, he offered praise for his good friend and former teacher in several major guitar publications, leading to widespread interest in Satriani's playing. The timing couldn't have been more perfect for Satch, as he'd just issued his first full-length solo album, Not of this Earth, which automatically made ripples in the rock guitar community.
    But the best was still to come, in the form of his sophomore release, 1987's Surfing With the Alien. Almost overnight, Satriani was widely regarded as one of rock's top guitarists, as the album earned gold certification and the guitarist would finish at the top of guitar magazine polls for years afterwards. He was even handpicked by Mick Jagger to accompany the famous singer on a tour of Australia and Japan around this time. A stopgap EP, Dreaming #11, combed both studio and live tracks and was issued a year later, and in 1989, Satriani issued his third solo full-length, Flying in a Blue Dream. Another sizeable hit, the album also marked Satch's debut as a vocalist on several tracks. His career received another big push the same year when his song, "One Big Rush," was included on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's hit movie, Say Anything.
    The '90s began with Satriani creating his own line of guitars for the Ibanez company (the JS Joe Satriani model), but it wasn't until 1992 that he would issue his next solo release, The Extremist. The double-disc set Time Machine followed a year later (a combination of new tracks, live material, and the long out-of-print Joe Satriani EP from 1984), and in 1994, Satch filled in on tour for the departed Ritchie Blackmore for heavy metal pioneers Deep Purple. Although he was asked to become a full-time member, Satriani turned down the offer to return to his solo career.
    Satriani issued two more solo albums during the '90s — 1995's self-titled release and 1998's Crystal Planet, and also started the G3 guitar showcase tour with Steve Vai in 1996, becoming an annual event and issuing a live document of the tour's initial run, G3: Live in Concert, a year later. 2000 saw Satriani issue his most musically daring release yet, the electronic-based Engines of Creation, and a year later, the live disc Live in San Francisco. Engines... was nominated for a Grammy the next year, and after a successful tour he stepped back into the studio. The results, Strange Beautiful Music, were released in 2002. In addition to his own albums, Satriani has guested on several other artists' albums over the years, including Blue Oyster Cult's Imaginos, Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid, Stuart Hamm's Radio Free Albemuth, Pat Martino's All Sides Now, and Spinal Tap's Break Like the Wind.
     
     
    Album Review
    Not content to sit on his laurels, Joe Satriani released the groundbreaking instrumental album Surfing with the Alien in 1987, leaving guitarists and musicians everywhere stunned and amazed by the playing and musicianship displayed. Satriani defined his sound more sharply to further develop his distinct musical tone, and his playing continued to evolve to higher levels with each new panorama of notes he blazed out. Whether it was the twisted, horizon-pushing "Ice 9," the fiery, churning "Surfing with the Alien," the bluesy rock shuffle of "Crushing Day," the straight-ahead, slamming "Satch Boogie," or the more subdued, soulful "Always with Me, Always with You," Satriani's style and songwriting were uniquely his own. Taking guitar playing and song composition to new levels, this is a remarkable recording.
     
    6/15/2006

    为世界杯而倒下

    昨天凌晨看巴西VS克罗地亚,不觉间睡着了,于是,着凉。
    昨日一整天都是昏昏沉沉的,出汗,眼前皆为假象。
    赶紧好起来吧!世界杯不一定需要我一个球迷,但是我需要世界杯啊~~~
    6/10/2006

    Jheena Lodwick — <It's Now Or Never>

    出自菲律宾女歌手Jheena Lodwick在2004的专辑<All My Loving>。听过这首猫王的<It's Now Or Never>的无数个版本后,Jheena Lodwick再为我们娓娓道来,绝对值得一听!
     
     
    Jheena Lodwick — <It's Now Or Never> 
     
    It's Now Or Never
                Jheena Lodwick
     
    When I first saw you
    with your smile so tender
    My heart was captured,
    my soul surrendered
    I'd spend a lifetime
    waiting for the right time
    Now that your near
    the time is here at last.
     
    It's now or never,
    come hold me tight
    Kiss me my darling,
    be mine tonight
    Tomorrow will be too late,
    it's now or never
    My love won't wait.
     
    Just like a willow,
    we would cry an ocean
    If we lost true love
    and sweet devotion
    Your lips excite me,
    let your arms invite me
    For who knows when
    we'll meet again this way
     
    It's now or never,
    come hold me tight
    Kiss me my darling,
    be mine tonight
    Tomorrow will be too late,
    it's now or never
    My love won't wait.

    Google Earth之卫星截图

    很早就在用Google Earth了,今天才发现广州市的更清晰的卫星地图已经公布了!于是赶紧截了几张,同大家分享!

    Google Earth到这里下载:http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
    Googel Earh中国地图包 下载
     
    安装好并打开Google Earth后,在“File”里“Open”,选择解压缩过后的“Googel Earh中国地图包”,全选或者单选里面的省份(文件名是省份的拼音缩写),之后......就慢慢玩儿吧~~~
     
    注意:Google Earth跟金山词霸有冲突,运行时请关闭金山词霸的自动取词。
     
    我工作的地方
     
    体育中心
     
    天河北
     
    广州东站及绿地
    6/6/2006

    Ryan Farish — <From The Sky>

    昨晚比较得闲,听了两个钟头的音乐。
    挑出这张Ryan Farish的新专辑<From The Sky>和大家分享。听这样的音乐,能感受到生活的美好~~~
    感谢wintermaple将这张专辑推荐给我!
     
    Ryan Farish — <The Promise>     播放ing
    Ryan Farish — <Joy>          
    Ryan Farish — <Shine>            
    Ryan Farish — <From The Sky>    
     
      生活中Ryan Farish是个热情乐观的人,他的这张已经在6月份发行的新专辑同样是热情的颂歌和优雅的音乐。Ryan深入研究各种各样的世界民族音乐/newage/和灵魂的声音,用悦耳的琴调与极富抽象的音符表达出来。Ryan Farish向我们展示了一派热情乐观的迷幻般的神秘景象。
      <The Promise>以悦耳悠扬的钢琴为主线,穿插着土著人声的吟唱,旋律包含中东音乐元素;<Joy>欢快动人的节奏旋律;<Pacific Wind>中加入了隆重的弦乐,随着弦乐减弱梦幻般引入女声吟唱,欢快的加勒比节奏,呼应童声唱颂的诗歌,编织出一幅优美祥和的画面;<From the Sky>象是沐浴在光辉里,更预示着Ryan Farish更辉煌的将来。他的音乐能带给我们欢欣,我们仿佛能感受到天空总是蓝的,草总是绿的...
      Ryan音乐风格没有具体的派别,可以说是新世纪乐、冥想乐及电子乐的综合,看到这张专辑的厂牌是neurodisc,我会想到Amethystium乐队,都是同一个厂牌了。他们的音乐都富有迷幻神秘的色彩,只是Amethystium比较忧郁,而Ryan Farish 则充满阳光气质。Ryan 在04年出过一张"Beautiful"并取得非常好的成绩,关于他的介绍大家可以参考他的个人网站,http://www.ryanfarish.com/about.htm,这位刚过30岁的年轻人,受过13年钢琴/小提琴/鼓等专门的音乐训练,音乐基础很好,更在不断创新,他的音乐一直与电子乐分不开,在mp3.com曾经是最受欢迎的音乐人之一。希望我们有机会听到更多他的音乐!
                                                                                    —— From http://falook.m4mu.com
     
     
    Album Review
    Composer Ryan Farish is heard most widely by those who consult The Weather Channel on a regular basis; his talents have also been utilized for in-house purposes by such major corporations as IBM and Sun Microsystems. These two facts may lead you to expect numbingly pleasant, utterly boring music with a professional sheen and a saccharin-sweet favor. You'd be only about one-third right. It's true that Farish's music is about as intellectually challenging as People magazine. But that's not to say that it's either boring or syrupy. Remember the Ramones: intellectually speaking, their music wasn't even up to People standards (it was more like The Weekly World News), but that doesn't mean their songs weren't spectacular. While Farish is no Joey Ramone, his ability to mix luscious, piano-driven chord progressions with funky breakbeats and faux-ethnic vocals (a vaguely African-sounding children's choir here, a vaguely Celtic-sounding female singer there) makes his most simplistic compositions both genuinely listenable and even, at times, downright fascinating. Not all of them, mind you — "Legacy" is pretty embarrassing — but many of them. Note the artfully wielded vocal samples on "Miles Away," for example, and the subtle trip-hop intimations in the gently swinging title track. Recommended to those who are embarrassed to admit that they like new age music.
     
     
    Ryan Farish is featured as part of the "Living Room" Concert series on the NPR show "Echoes" November 2005/January 2006. Ryan along with his band played three songs, and did an interview for "Echoes", which aired to over 130 FM radio stations in the US, as well as XM! Many thanks to John (photo left) and Jeff from Echoes.
    6/3/2006

    【2006年发现广州】百蹊大队

    06年的“发现广州”临近了。去年报名太晚,只好当编外。今年幸有Molly相邀,加入了咱们百蹊自己人组的队。期待同义工朋友们相见~~~ 
     
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    大铁人(gg)/安薇薇(mm)﹑ pange(gg)﹑fish(mm)﹑小脚丫(mm)
    自由的魚(mm)/ 小丸子(mm)﹑章贡游子﹑茉茉一笑﹑小青(mm)

    喜娅(mm)/花影(mm)﹑毛毛(mm)﹑Lizphair(gg)﹑水间(gg)
    河马(gg)/ 小席(gg)﹑小芬(mm)﹑想语(mm)﹑Debbie(mm)


    小舞(mm)/双截棍(gg)﹑米亚(GG)﹑凉风(mm)﹑乖小孩(mm)
    东邪(gg)/ 柠檬(mm)﹑蓝姬(mm)﹑风铃(gg)﹑云儿(mm)
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    6/1/2006

    Jewel — <Goodbye Alice In Wonderland>

    热情期待而来的Jewel的新专辑。不过,我自己只是在听几首主打的时候还能保持这种热情~~~

     

     

    Jewel — <Goodbye Alice In Wonderland>    mp3    MV

     

    Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
                                                 Jewel

    It's four in the afternoon
    I'm on a flight leaving L.A.
    Trying to figure out my life and
    My youth scattered along the highway

    Hotel rooms and headlines
    I've made a living with a song
    Guitar as my companion
    Wanting desperately to belong

    Fame is filled with spoiled children
    we grow fat on fantasy
    I guess that's why I'm leaving
    I crave reality

    So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
    Goodbye yellow brick road
    There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
    I did not find paradise
    It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
    whats been missing in my life

    I'm embarassed to say the rest is a rock and roll cliche
    I hit the bottom when I reached the top
    but I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart
    I thought you had to love me
    But you did not

    Yes, a heart can hallucinate
    If it's completely starved for love
    It can even turn monsters into
    Angels from above

    You forged my love just like a weapon
    And turned it against me like a knife
    You broke my last heartstring
    But you opened up my eyes

    So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
    Goodbye yellow brick road
    There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
    That was not love in your eyes
    It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching
    For whats been missing in my life

    And growing up is not an absence of dreaming
    Its being able to understand the difference between
    The ones you can hold and the ones that you've been sold
    But dreaming is a good thing
    Cause it brings new things to life
    Pretending is an ending
    That perpetuates a lie
    Forgetting what you are
    Seeing for what you've been told

    Truth is stranger than fiction
    this is my chance to get it right
    Life is much better without all of those pretty lies

    So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
    You can keep your yellow brick road
    Cause there is a difference between dreaming and pretending
    These are not tears in my eyes
    They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
    They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
    I've found whats missing in my life

     


    Album Review
    The last time listeners encountered Jewel, the famously sensitive singer/songwriter had just performed an extreme makeover on herself, refashioning herself as a dance-pop diva on 2003's 0304. Artistically, it worked against all odds, and it did pretty well on the charts too, debuting at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, but her fans didn't necessarily warm to it, and three years later, Jewel is running away from the album she proclaimed as her "first record I enjoy listening to" ("It's fun!"), and back to safe territory with 2006's Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. Like 0304, this album comes with an explanation/apology from its auteur: "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is the story of my life and is the most autobiographical album I have made since Pieces of You...By the end of the 13th song, if you have listened closely, you will have heard the story of the sirens song that seduced me, of a path I both followed and led, of bizarre twists and turns that opened my eyes, forcing me to find solutions so that discovering the truth would not lead to a loss of hope." And, yes, the album is indeed a song cycle, tracing her crisis of the soul in the wake of her dance-pop move, which might make Goodbye Alice in Wonderland sound pompous and self-absorbed, which it kind of is on one level; after all, albums that find an artist examining the fallout of a commercial success that they were a willing participant in are kind of narcissistic. But even if Goodbye is a bit of an unwitting star-trip — Jewel may be trying to run from stardom, but the issues she explores here are too autobiographical, too much like diary entries to resonate deeply on a larger scale — it doesn't mean the album doesn't work. In fact, as a piece of music and as a coherent set of songs, it's Jewel's strongest yet. Assisted by producer Rob Cavallo — who has produced records for Michelle Branch and the Goo Goo Dolls, along with every Green Day album since 1995's Nimrod — Jewel has created her most sonically appealing record, one that has plenty of different shades and textures. This keeps her ceaseless introspection from sounding like excessive navel-gazing, but it also helps draw out the variety within the songs themselves, which range from the meandering ballad of the title track to the ruminative, moody "Last Dance Rodeo" to the blatantly Dylanesque phrasing of "Stephenville, TX" to a trio of her best pop songs in "Again and Again," "Only One Too," and "Words Get in the Way." True, Jewel still has a tendency to spin out lyrics that are embarrassingly precious, but as a writer she's never been stronger, particularly in terms of the construction of the songs; these are tight, sturdy, melodic songs that are among her most memorable. And not only are the individual moments strong, but they add up to a cohesive, satisfying whole. In that sense, it's not altogether dissimilar to 0304, which she may be apologizing for now, but prior to this album, it was the only one of her records that held together from beginning to end. Goodbye Alice in Wonderland may have an entirely different feel and intent than its glitzy predecessor, but like 0304, it is proof that even if Jewel doesn't have as high a profile, or perhaps as large an audience, as she did in 1996, she's a better songwriter and record-maker than she was at the outset of her career.