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The List

nash — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:50:31 +0800

Memo

Remember that emotions. We're all deeply moved when they're on the stage, shining in glory, playing their guitars, singing those songs with authenticity. We just forgot, forgot to bring those feelings back.

There's something more than emotions, of course, such as politics, culture, business, which are also as important as those feelings. However, we'll never say "That's our song" due to politics or business stuff. Instead of that, we always do with love and hate, laughter and tears. That's where we start and why we accomplish.

To my unfinished dissxxxxtion, yet.

Here's the list in this 2 months, all digital.

Album

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra / Kollaps Tradixionales

Owen Pallett / Heartland

Vampire Weekend / Contra

Badly Drawn Boy / Is There Nothing We Could Do?

Eels / End Times

Spoon / Transference

Tahiti 80 / A Piece of Sunshine

Arctic Monkey / Corner Stone

Animal Collective / Campfire Songs

Four Tet / There is Love in You

Beach House / Teen Dream

Tindersticks / Falling Down a Mountain

Tim Hecker / An Imaginary Country

The Mercury Program / Chez Viking

Album Leaf / A Chorus of Storytellers

Stuck in the Sound / Shoegazing kids

Immanu El / Moen

Charlotte Gainsburg / IRM

Califone / All My Friends are Funeral Singers

toe / For Long Tomorrow

Efterklang / Magic Chairs

Midlake / The Courage of Others

Joanna Newsom / Have One on Me

Single

She & Him / Thieves (from the forthcoming "Volume Two" released on Mar 23rd)

Gig

Do Make Say Think Taipei Concert @ The Wall

My Top 10 List of 2009

nash — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:41:01 +0800

遲了一會兒，但還是記錄一下，有點老派的年終榜。以下按照喜愛程度排列：

1. She & Him / Volume One

Why Do You Let Me Stay Here - She & Him

2. The xx / xx

Crystalised - The xx

3. Do Make Say Think / Other Truth

Do - Do Make Say Think

4. Girls / Album

Lust for Life - Girls

5. Vic Chesnutt / At the Cut

Coward - Vic Chesnutt

6. The Flaming Lips / Embryonic

Watching the Planet - The Flaming Lips

7. Broadcast and the Focus Group / Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

Witch Cut - Broadcast and The Focus Group

8. Yo la Tengo / Popular Songs

More Stars then There are in Heaven - Yo la Tengo

9. 陳珊妮 / 如果有一件事是重要的

如果有一件事是重要的 - 陳珊妮

10. 林宥嘉 / 感官世界

歇斯底里 - 林宥嘉

What I listened to (so far) in 2009

nash — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:41 +0800

All digital, listed chronologically:

Jan 2009

Animal Collective / Merriweather Post Pavillion

Aikra Kosemura / It's on Everything

Duran Duran / Medazzaland

The Walkmen / You & Me

The Jesus & Mary Chain / The Power of Negative Thinking: B-sides and Rarities

橙草 / 積雨雲

The Raveonettes / Lust Lust Lust

Morrissey / Year of Refusal

Her Space Holiday / XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival

The National / Alligator

Feb 2009

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Pan American / White Bird Release

Tizzy Bac / 如果看見地獄，我就不怕魔鬼

Andwre Bird / Noble Beast

V.A. / Post Rock

Mar 2009

Antony and the Johnsons / Antony and the Johnsons

Beirut / Gulag Orkestar

Camera Obscura / Underarchievers Please Try Hard

Alt-Ctrl-Sleep / the Earth Lens

Asobi Seksu / Hush

Cymbals Eat Guitars / Why There are Mountains

Apr 2009

Mono / Hymn to the Immortal Wind

Bat for Lashes / Two Suns

Beck / One Foot in the Grave

Bibio / Vignetting the Compost

Camera Obscura / My Maudlin Career

Doves / Kingdom of Rust

楊乃文 / 我自選

Woods / Songs of Shame

Super Furry Animals / Light Years

Nylas / Nylas

陳奕迅 / H3M

Bill Callahan / Sometimes I Wish We were an Eagle

May 2009

絲竹空 / 絲竹空

蘇打綠 / 春日光

陳珊妮 / 雙城記

張懸 / Love, New Year EP

St. Vincent / Actor

ISIS / Wavering Radiant

Jun 2009

Sonic Youth / The Eternal

Grizzly Bear / Veckatimest

Sunset Rubdown / Dragonslayer

Dirty Project / Bitte Orca

Sunn 0))) / Monoliths & Dimensions

Jul 2009

Bibio / Ambivalence Avenue

Wilco / Wilco

Tortoise / Beacons of Ancestorship

Placebo / Battle for the Sun

New York Dolls / Cause I Sez So

Dinosaur Jr. / Farm

閃閃閃閃 / Meet Me When You Are 25

張懸 / 城市

蕭賀碩 / Stay

迷宮 / 迷宮

48V / 南方

Mew / Half the World is Watching Me

Ride / Waves

Mew / No More Stories are Told Today

Loren Connors & jim O'Rourke / Two Nice Catholic Boys

Mum / Sing Alone to Songs You Don't Know

Mew / And the Glass Handed kites

M Ward / Hold Time

Cass McCombs / Catacombs

Aug 2009

Placebo / Placebo

Placebo / Without You I'm Nothing

Placebo / Black Market Music

Placebo / Sleeping with Ghosts

Placebo / Meds

Ghost / Snuffbox Immanence

黃小禎 / No Budget

Ghost / Hypnotic Underworld

U.TA / good night

Delorean / Ayrton Senna

The Antlers / Hospice

Yo La Tengo / Popular Songs

YACHT / See Mystery Lights

Sep 2009

Arctic Monkey / Humbug

The xx / xx

V.A. / Woodstock 40

Eastern Youth / What Can You See from Your Place?

Eastern Youth / Time is Running

Boys Like Girls / Love Drunk

范曉萱 & 100% / 赤子

方大同 / Timeless

這位太太 / 我是不是還不夠好

蔡健雅 / 若你碰到他

The Big Pink / A Brief History of Love

Do Make Say Think / Other Truths

Sunny Day Real Estate / Diary

Vivian Girls / Everything Goes Wrong

A Sunny in Glasgow / Ashes Grammar

Oct 2009

Do Make Say Think / The Whole Story of Glory

Richard Hawley / Truelove's Gutter

The Twilight Sad / Forget the Night Ahead

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Higher than the Stars

Volcano Choir / Unmap

Pearl Jam / Backspacer

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band / Between My HEad and the Sky

Girls / Album

Jim O'Rourke / The Visitor

Jonsi & Alex / Riceboy Sleeps

Atlas Sound / Logos

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis / White Lunar

Built to Spill / There is no Enemy

Lisa Germano / Magic Neighbor

The Very Best / Warm Heart of Africa

Japan / Adolescent Sex

Lou Barlow / Goodnight Unknown

PJ Harvey / The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004

Karen O and the Kids / Where the Wild Things Are

Nov 2009

Fuck Buttons / Tarot Sport

Sufjan Stevens / The BQE

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down / Know Better Learn Faster

The Flaming Lips / Embryonic

The Mountain Goats / The Life of the World to Come

U2 / The Unforgettable Fire (Deluxe Edition)

Vic Chesnutt / At the Cut

1976 / 不合時宜

林宥嘉 / 感官世界

盧廣仲 / 七天

Mount Eerie / Wind's Poem

Mount Eerie / Lost Wisdom

She & Him / Volume One

Kings of Convenience / Declaration of Dependence

Broadcast and the Focus Group / Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

Nite Jewel / Good Evening

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions / Through the Devil Softly

Norah Jones / The Fall

Memory Tapes / Seek Magic

Tired but worth it.

nash — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:23:38 +0800

麻辣香鍋 @ 北京某餐廳

這趟到北京去，很趕，五天的行程都在極度匆忙的情況下走完。

今年北京的雪來得特早，據說我們到京前就下了三場雪，石家庄那兒因暴雪釀災，造成多人傷亡。對於暟暟白雪的印象總是浪漫，出了北京機場，路邊分隔島上積雪仍未融，溫度仍極低，但總無法想像暴雪如何成災。島上居民熟悉的是颱風帶來的激烈風雨，若不曾到更北的地方去，對雪的理解大概僅止於合歡山上的薄冰，稍稍滿足居住於亞熱帶氣候人民的低溫想像，降雨令人厭煩，飄雪浪漫萬分。問了北京同事下暴雪放不放假，畢竟這裡的上班族一遇上颱風，除了祈求災難別發生之外，最振奮人心的就是突如其來的假期了。果然，那兒下雪理當不放假，颱風假是這裡上班族的福利。

這幾天不若上回輕鬆，還有時間到街上辦事時拍照。不斷逡巡來回於下榻酒店、辦公室與活動會場，永遠改不完的舞台字卡，直至最後一刻才敲定的開場影片，自作聰明而得重新打印的數十份資料，一邊要跟音響廠商搞定慢半拍的切換器，另一頭還要想著怎麼跟老師們說明規則才清楚，除了這些還得充當影片剪接人員或是平面設計師（當然都是不成氣候的技術）……然而，要搞定的工作項目豈止這些，其他同事忙著邀約媒體，招待貴賓，應付來自參賽者各式各樣千奇百怪的疑問，每個人都忙，忙得不成人形。幸好活動順利落幕，結果也令人欣慰。當晚到東來順去吃涮羊肉，大家光顧著吃，也累得沒講什麼話（更累的是隔天一早還得趕第一班飛機）。

總之，生活繼續往前走，只是這裡慢了點。

建國門地鐵站

凌晨進場 @ Park Hyatt Beijing

剛搭好的舞台 @ Park Hyatt Beijing

Rest in Peace

nash — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:39:24 +0800

Claude Levi-Strauss, the father of modern anthropology and famous structuralist, died on 31 October 2009, aged 100.