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2017年6月14日 星期三

讓我傾聽萬籟寂靜無聲


"The Sound Of Silence" - ART GARFUNKEL
(Paul Simon)

 
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.






2016年10月13日 星期四

掌握在手中的歲月留痕

歲月留痕




Art Garfunkel -Watermark
 
 

 

Art Garfunkel – Watermark

Songwriters: WEBB, JIMMY

How delicate the tracery of her fine lines
Like the moonlight lacetops of the evening pines
Like a song half heard through a closed door
Like an old book when you cannot read the writing anymore

How innocent her visage as my child lover lies
Pressed against the rainswept windy windows of my eyes
Like an antique etching glass design
That somehow turned out wrong
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing
Even as I sing this song

How secretly and silently my sorrow disappears
You can't see it with your eyes or hear it with your ears
It's like a Watermark that's never there and never really gone
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing
Even as I sing this song
Even as I sing this song
Even as I sing this song

2013年11月9日 星期六

姑且試著保存都要淘汰的東西呢…


最近家居大掃除,

在柜底找到一隻黑膠唱片。

這是一隻我的至愛的黑膠唱片:

Art Garfunkel - Watermark
 
 

黑膠唱片完好,但不能用來播聽,

因為我現在沒有唱片機呢! 

黑膠唱片和唱片機都已被淘汰了! 

但我還是捨不得掉棄這隻黑膠唱片的。
 

拿著它聽Youtube的音樂版本也很開心呢~

*    *    *

 是的, 

黑膠唱片和唱片機,  

早以都被淘汰了! 

早在2007 年, 我就寫了以下的一篇blog:

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需要kiss著的東西都要淘汰呢…

2007年3月8日

 黑膠唱片和卡式錄音帶要發聲,

是需要接觸的:

 物理的接觸…

真實的接觸…

 出來的音樂是analogue的…

連綿纖細的…

 縱使有些無可避免的人性化的失真…

都漸漸要淘汰了…

 * * *

取代的,是不需要接觸的:

非物理的接觸 …

無真實的接觸…

出來的音樂是digital的…

0101割切重組的…

但可以有接近零的非人性化的失真…

* * *

以前用黑膠唱片播歌,

 我總是喜歡發楞的凝看著唱盤針頭與唱片

接觸著旋轉著的景致…

 她們呼吸著kiss著這些美麗的音符呢…

 

* * *

需要kiss著的東西都漸漸要淘汰呢…

————————————————

 
但日前, 我喜讀了以下的一篇有關黑膠唱片的新聞:

News:

英國黑膠唱碟銷量近年維持升勢 (20131108日)

 早年鐳射唱片面世,被視為黑膠唱片的「末日」,現在的歌曲更可以下載。但在英國,「黑膠碟」的銷量近年一直維持升勢。


 


敵得過卡式帶、敵得過鐳射碟,網上可聽、下載可聽,也沒有問題。英國這間黑膠唱片工廠現在仍舊有生產,它是英國僅存幾間黑膠碟廠之一,高峰時開一百部製碟機,現在就開六部。


 


黑膠碟佔英國全國唱片銷量,由六年前百分之0.1,急升至現時百分之0.8,是多年來難得的「好景」,令行業可繼續生存。


 


今年截至現時,英國賣了55萬張黑膠碟,已比去年多一倍,到年底可望增加至70萬張。黑膠碟「絕處逢生」,有賴早年的獨立唱片公司及搖滾樂隊浪潮。除了樂隊,有英國歌星仍然有用黑膠碟發行新歌,除了新碟,唱片廠還會重新發行一些經典唱片。


 


雖說黑膠碟是被科技打敗,但不代表它們不可並存。買這間工廠的黑膠碟會送密碼,用來下載歌曲的數碼版本。 


 


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是的, 雖說黑膠唱片碟是被科技打敗,


 


但不代表它們不可並存的

 

或者現在可以買一部新唱片機,

 

從新聽下黑膠唱片呢~

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Art Garfunkel - Mr. Shuck 'n' Jive

 

 

Tell us once again this morning, old friend
How did you win the war?
Everybody loves a hero,
It won't matter if we've heard your
Tale before
Tell us of the time when almost
Everybody knew you were a star
And how intelligent you are
Prove that you're alive
Mr. Shuck 'n Jive

Tell us of the man who stole your for-
Tune and nearly ruined your life.
Or better still-the one about the t.v. and
The couch and your best friends' wife

Tell us of grand projects never finished

With somebody else to blame
And all the reasons that your fame
Never did arrive
Mr. Shuck 'n Jive

If you can get yourself together
Kindly write a criticism of this song
How it's exquisitely constructed, yet
Mechanical, and somehow slightly
Wrong

Put it in your book about the enemy
You never even met
You know, you just might make it yet-
But I don't think you'll survive
Mr. Shuck 'n Jive

You know, you just might make it yet-
Mr. Shuck 'n Jive


 

 

2013年6月15日 星期六

掌握在手中的歲月留痕

歲月留痕




Art Garfunkel -Watermark
 
 

 

Art Garfunkel – Watermark

Songwriters: WEBB, JIMMY

How delicate the tracery of her fine lines
Like the moonlight lacetops of the evening pines
Like a song half heard through a closed door
Like an old book when you cannot read the writing anymore

How innocent her visage as my child lover lies
Pressed against the rainswept windy windows of my eyes
Like an antique etching glass design
That somehow turned out wrong
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing
Even as I sing this song

How secretly and silently my sorrow disappears
You can't see it with your eyes or hear it with your ears
It's like a Watermark that's never there and never really gone
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing
Even as I sing this song
Even as I sing this song
Even as I sing this song


2010年4月29日 星期四

人生的四分一和四比一




"莫說是婚宴,即使時下也不會有太多人結婚…

最近才跟老公說笑,去了四次funeral, 也等不到一次wedding 
"
Different stage of life, different components of daily lives...

one out of four...

one to four...

* *  *



在婚禮或葬禮看到的,都在腦海留下或深或淺的印記。。。




Richard Harris - Watermark







Art Garfunkel - Watermark

 

Watermark(Jimmy Webb)

How delicate the tracery of her fine lines
Like the moonlight lacetops of the evening pines
Like a song half heard through a closed door
Like an old book when you cannot read the writing anymore

How innocent her visage as my child lover lies
Pressed against the rainswept windy windows of my eyes
Like an antique etching glass design
That somehow turned out wrong
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing
Even as I sing this song

How secretly and silently my sorrow disappears
You can't see it with your eyes or hear it with your ears
It's like a Watermark that's never there and never really gone
I keep looking through old varnish
At my late lover's body
Caught on ancient canvas
And decaying...disappearing

Even as I sing this song
Even as I sing this song



  • 留言者: MARK
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相信不久之後,我參加的葬禮也會比婚禮多
[版主回覆05/04/2010 07:21:00]Take it easy~





  • 留言者: Sunshine
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  • 日期: 2010-05-01 12:45:00
送一個"Forever" 郵票給蓉蓉爸爸

 
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/forever_stamp_facts.htm
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<:AtomicElement> "How secretly and silently my sorrow disappears"    </:AtomicElement>





  • 留言者: 金城KamShing
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  • 日期: 2010-04-30 14:56:00
 所以要珍惜時間~~~~
[版主回覆04/30/2010 22:07:00]大要咁話~
加油。。。·





  • 留言者: 菠蘿叉燒包
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生得少呀嘛...........
[版主回覆04/30/2010 22:08:00]簡單D好~





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Funeral Blues

 





 

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good. W.H. Auden
 
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/sunshinecozmj/article?mid=8750
[版主回覆04/30/2010 22:18:00]Love cannot
last forever, 
in this way。。。