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February 19 休假
今天好累，工作有些让人透不过气。 明天，到佛罗里达休假。 白色的沙滩，和煦的阳光，浅蓝，碧蓝，深蓝的海水。 Everglade沼泽地里的鳄鱼，Key West的巨大金枪鱼，Flamingo, 还有海名威和他的老人与海。 奥兰多的迪斯尼乐园。
期待。
February 14 My side… my side…I was browsing Flickr using the key word: China and travel... This album popped up. It really cracked me up. Really funny stuff for folks who speak both English and Chinese… The kid collected these shots had a great sense of humor… You really need to read his/her comments with each shot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/58285552@N00/sets/184093/?page=2 Here are some highlights
February 12 无题February 10 一堵墙楼下新近搬来一刁蛮邻居。
常以单元内房客为不满——尤以偶为甚。从上下楼大声，音乐过响，睡觉太晚，等等等等，对偶之关心可谓无一不包，无微不至。
每每晚间下班，偶都得气运丹田，催动内力，潜运轻功猫步上楼。在屋内走动，也得迈着雪山飞狐的步伐，悄无声息地游动。数月下来，免不了内力精进——自忖韦一笑、田伯光之流大概也只可望偶之项背。
今晨，忽见单元楼门上多了一告示（原文，未做修改）：“This door must remain CLOSED AT ALL TIMES”。（此门在任何时候都应保持关闭）
偶心下一惊，知道是贤邻居又对偶等不满，暗自寻思昨夜是否忘了关门。但仔细看看门上告示又甚觉好笑。
“This door must remain CLOSED AT ALL TIMES”
略一斟酌，提笔在其告示尾上加了一句：
“This door must remain CLOSED AT ALL TIMES——OK, that is a wall” （这是一堵墙） February 09 几天前，忽然想起一个儿时的好朋友，曾经一块儿长大，但早已没有了联系。通讯地址自然不会再有，电话号码也多半靠不住。于是，试了试一个十年前的email——并没有期待回音。
没想到，inbox里居然有了Re。原来，已经从中国搬到了法国，也改变了原来的专业和行业——在巴黎学习艺术和电影，准备拍摄纪录片——是关于云南的。
简单的email，看的时候，心却砰的一声——既开心又喜悦。儿时建立的友谊，总是让人心里温暖。
Email是一个有魔力的东西。生活里的一切都在不断变化。只有它，不为时间空间的变化而改变——在两个运行在不同空间时间的轨道间，搭建桥梁。
期待这部关于云南的纪录片。美丽的彩云之南，原本是拍不尽的。
February 06 洋相声这个礼拜，总是有些不集中。 做数据分析总是出错，常常返工。干脆休息，听听广播。 没想到NPR今天下午有对Demetri Martin的一个专访，非常有趣的对话，让人笑得很开心。Demetri Martin是很年轻的纽约喜剧演员（其实这个翻译不太好，这人更好像是中国的相声演员），以非常简短的笑话——常常就一两句话——来解包袱。不少笑话有对生活里很普通的事情特有的敏感。
听完这个专访，又到YouTube上找了找Demetri Martin的视频。觉得很有趣，虽然不是所有的笑话都很雅致，但很多是非常生动的。对那个conditional identity 的用词觉得好生动。 不知道喜剧演员是不是每天都好像在节目里一样开心。
February 04 The ReaderThe Reader
In marketing, we preach the idea that anything that has been repeated three times will leave lasting impressions on the audience—regardless of the audience’s intrinsic preferences for information. It’s funny how this trick plays out on me.
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a feature article on Academy Awards nominations. I scanned through the article but did not pay particular attention to any movies. NPR covered the same story when I drove to work. Before I went to bed, NBC’s evening news again included the news and featured two nominations—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Reader.
This time, I fell. No more resistance to the persuasive power of the popular media. But I did not regret.
Watching a movie at bedtime is a hard decision—immediate entertainment but foreseeable misery at work the next day! It was already midnight but I kept telling myself that I was to watch only half of the movie—knowing way too well that I had never been able to do that. So, without surprise, I watched the movie in its full length and ended up falling sleep after 3:00am.
The movie was intriguing. It was fully sexually charged. But it was not just about lust. It was also about love—enduring love that completes humanity, defies age and time. I liked the second half better—a much unexpected turn of story that makes it not just about love or lust. My heart missed a beat when I saw “the kid” started to record his reading into tapes.
Kate Winslet had great acting in the movie. Her last movie that I watched was The Titanic, over 10 years ago. Back then, she was in her early 20s. I was just a teenager—just left home and got my first computer to watch VCDs with college brothers. For The Titanic, I vividly remember that I watched the movie in two halves, not by choice but as a result of a dormitory regulation: all power out after 10:30pm. All the boys (including all those tough guys) got up at 5:30am sharp to finish the second half as soon as the power was back.
February 01 激荡三十年激荡三十年
刚刚看完吴晓波的《激荡三十年》。一本非常出色的书。喜欢“激荡”两个字，把中国社会过去三十年的变化表现得淋漓尽致，还有些惊心动魄的感觉。
“激荡”如果要下一个精确的定义，大致可用统计学的里的“方差”——事物在它们发展轨道上下剧烈地波动，巨大的方差。方差在金融学里可以大致等同于风险，或者更准确地说是不确定性。
一代人在三十年的不确定性里成长会有怎样的感受？兴奋、高亢、骚动是有的——对于不确定性带来的机会和可能的斩获；迷惘、痛苦、恐惧也是有的——对于不确定性对过去现在将来的撕裂和可能的失去。
兴奋、高亢、骚动，是这个时代的特征，我很熟悉。对于它们的反面，许知远用了一段震撼的文字。
（过去的三十年）“政治权力、市场力量，成功的结合到一起，将个人、土地、环境、以及各种资源，都进行了一场浩大的资本转化过程。因为将两百年的转变，挤压进三十年，这转变尤显惊人与残酷。潘毅曾用一句触目惊心的话总结冬这样的姑娘（深圳打工妹）和深圳的短暂关系——“女性从青春期向结婚期过渡的这个生命阶段，恰好与中国从社会主义经济向全球资本主义过渡的这段社会时间啮合在一起”。这不也正是这两代大多数人中国人的命运吗？这多重的巨大转型，压在他们身上，他们感受巨大痛苦，却说不清楚原因。”（《那些听不见的尖叫》）
这段文字，写的是城市里的打工妹。但是与我年纪相仿的一代人多多少少都会有类似体会。高速的变化挤压在三十年的时间。巨大的不确定性带来我们上一辈不可想象的机会；但是也让人觉得过去和现在的割裂。生活时常不是连续线性地进行；而是如同电影场景般切换，跳跃式地变化。刚才记忆里还有“我是生产队的小鸭子”，乎一下就切换到The Sopranos。我时常感恩生活的所赐；也常常会困惑——错位混乱的个体记忆。
中国巨变刚刚而立，巨变的同龄人也刚到而立之年。所以“激荡三十年”可以描述的不仅仅是中国人的集体记忆——它也是我的三十年。 |
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