2006年9月25日 星期一

陶喆 太美麗



 

日前在美麗華買了陶喆的最美麗專輯,放入了車上的八片CD盒,同時取出之前的I'M OK專輯送給同事凱倫‧

 

相較於之前的I'M OK專輯,或許少了些另人驚喜的創意,但是整個專輯聽起來更柔順悅耳了許多,也較有整體一致性‧聽起來讓人有輕鬆慵懶的感覺,不像之前I'M OK偶有的吵雜和突兀‧

 

另一方面,我突然發現一片CD現在要300多元(訂價400多元)‧真令我難以理解‧或許大家現在都和我一樣很少買CD了吧‧我上一張CD是兩年前買的王菲太空戰士8主題曲"Eyes On Me" (Seprate Ways專輯)‧現在除了開車外,幾乎不聽CD了,何況開車還是聽廣播為主‧像我的同事莎拉好像也只聽MP3‧音樂CD有一天會從世上消失嗎?就像他的前身錄音帶一樣?

 

說到錄音帶,我倒是希望我兒子長大能聽聽我以前買的錄音帶‧只是不知道將來是不是還容易找到撥放的設備‧

2006年9月20日 星期三

The Time Traveller's Wife


 

The time travller's wife is a fiction regarding a man who has the sepcific ability to travel to the past and the future. Although he has such a specific ability, he also has quite a lot of limitations in his time travels. He cannot decide the desitination to visit by his own although he used to visit the places and the moments which are quite significant to him. He cannot control when he will start his travelling. He cannot change the destiny for what has happened. He can only see and observe what it happened.

  

You can image that this guy will enjoy several specific experiences which the normal people won't have but he will also be quite sentimental for some sad and happy moments. He visit the moment when her mother was dead for several times. His ex-girl friend killed herself in front of his face upon his visit in one of his time travel from the future.

  

The main story of this fiction is regarding the love between the time traveller and his wife. His wife knew the time traveller since she was a child. The time traveller visited her from different period of the time in his life. She was waiting his visit from time to time until they finally met in the synchronous real time frame, dated and married. At the moment they met, the time travller did not know his wife yet but his wife has known him for several years. Thus he was generally experiencing the love as the normal people but his wife was experiencing a quite specific love than the others. She can always have the expections that his husband will visit her one day from the past even when the time travller was dead.

  

The love story often touches our heart especially for those with the faith in the story. Besides the love story, this faction also leads us to think about our lives through those of the characters in the book. The life might be bitter sometimes while it is also quite joyful in the other moment. Can we enjoy our lives no matter what it is just as enjoying the story of the others in the book?

  

Similar Readings

  

1. The Orange Maid by Jostein Gaarder

A love story was written by a farther before his death to his child. The reader will find out later that the story is actually about the child's parents.

  

2. Be with You (Ima, ainiyukimasu) by Ichikawa Takuji

A farther with his six -year-old son met his wife again a year after her death. In fact she was from the past after an car accidence. The film and the TV dramas were published later based on this fiction.