2009/07/25

There will be blood

我猜我在看這部電影之前把它跟 Gangs of New York搞混了。

因為如此,所以兩個半小時當中我都在心驚膽顫的提防一個不小心就有頭顱爆裂鮮血直流的畫面,某些程度上也是上禮拜看完 Midnight Meat Train的後遺症。

中途偷查了一下imdb發現原來導演是 Punch Drunk Love的導演 Paul Thomas Anderson,果然結局很有那種看完心裡好像有得到什麼而心領神會的感覺。

這是部好電影。

然後Daniel Day-Lewis演得太好了,不但得了奧斯卡,他的經典台詞 “I drink your milk shake”也變成搞笑橋段了!

2009/07/23

最近喜歡上 “Why?”

Gemini(Birthday Song) by Why?


It starts with you
on a mattress in your parents' old room,
clipping your toenails into the room
like the room will fade
and you will move
onto other rooms
and you will go
to other places.
Then the wedding,
Then the woman passed out
in the driver's seat
at the order board at White Castle.
We woke her up and she went
'round to the pick up window
like she knew exactly where she was.
Then I wept
with my face in your night shirt,
trying hard as hell to say
"until death separates us,"
loosening the skin on your breastbone,
I painted your nails
and you sleep
while I write all this down.
There was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
Will you still remember me well
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
my dead line Gemini
When we're on different sides of the globe
I thought we'd keep our veins tangled
like a pair of mic cables,
And if there ain't enough slack to reach
that we'd solder them together
and across oceans they'd stretch.
Our faces reflected in separate windshields
and all our body hair pricked up
an elephant eyelash.
Should we be tempted by thief or saint
it seems I leave and you stay
to crawl the cage and curse.
But don't regret the done dirt,
there is no life plan set,
you just swallow the cold
and follow your breath until death.
Now even if the will to sleep persists
I can't 'cause a harsh cloth, it grazes my blisters.
There was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
Will you still remember me well
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
My dead line Gemini.
Today I fell asleep in a bath of hair.
Hair that once sprouted from my own
white wet chalk follicles.
I swallow a coal
and follow my breath
and I did it with the grapefruit soap
thinking of you.
Bathed, shaved, and oiled,
your legs are two skinny dolphins swimming
between the mattress and the layers of bedding
turning in your drug dry sleep.
When I ask you to kiss my pulse
you offer to start the shower.
I want a verb and you give me a noun.
What do you dream up while I tongue you down?
There was a moth caught in the soapdish
laminated in lye
Will you still remember me well
If I don't get to two-o-o-five?
My dead line Gemini.
You know my build.
You know my size.
The degree to which my eyes
are astigmatic.

2009/07/22

在試一些新東西的新生活

這一年來試了不少新網站跟軟體,頓時覺得整個科技世界跟兩年前的感覺又好像完全不同了:Facebook、Twitter、Plurk、Tumblr、aNobii…(全部列出來未免太乏味了些)。再加上論文可能會走跟 Interface Design有關的主題,最近在讀一些相關的書。

More about The Humane Interface
所以在念這本書的過程中,讓我開始對用慣的 Windows XP感到無法克制地厭煩。Jef Raskin說:Interface應該是要能夠讓你能專心於想要用電腦完成的任務,譬如說寫文章、編修圖片、甚至是娛樂,所以好的 Interface不應該讓你花大把時間去摸索如何才能開始執行這些任務,也許對電腦狂熱者來說,細調各種設定讓電腦能夠達成某種最大值(效能、壽命…)是很有趣的事,但對於大部分的使用者來說如何最快能夠執行想要的功能並完成它才是最重要的事情。

所以興起換系統的想法,起初想試OS X,但是沒錢換 Mac總是白談。於是趁硬碟大爆滿之後買了新硬碟,今天灌了 Windows 7 RC,目前來說的使用經驗是相當令人滿意的,然後也開始嘗試一些新軟體,像是現在用 Windows Live Writer寫 Blog。新手機 HTC Magic的介面也讓之前用的 Nokia S60看起來跟叫我用手寫電話號碼然後叫轉線生播電話一樣爛。

總之,從這本書到這些令人明顯感受到好的 Interface能夠帶給人的便利性跟所能提高的生產性,也是快一個世代的發展了。希望我還能夠繼續追趕上下一個世代的發展啊!

2009.07.22

有時候很意外地知道其實還是有不認識的人在看自己寫的東西。希望沒有帶給別人錯誤的看法。

TaiK或說整個芬蘭是個很特殊的地方,特殊在於跟台灣的習性是不同的,而且有時候是需要花一點時間去認識了解的。

第一個半年,覺得失望;第一年後覺得迷網﹔再過半年覺得兩年的時間太短好希望能夠再繼續延伸;到了現在則是覺得不管收獲地如何,是也該往下一個地方去冒險了。

簡單地解釋何謂不同地習性是很難地,不過大致上可說是自己曾經重視的人生價值觀(說是設計師自身的價值觀也可說的通),在這裡不見得受重視,所以覺得失落。不過若是換另一個方面想,發現自己不曾去重視過的價值觀,或是重新去審視自己曾經重視的事情,倒也是一生當中偶爾還是得經歷的事。

雖然譬如說在這邊學習的文化、觀念衝擊性可能比不上其他國家,不過作為一個重新調整自己使能在人生上駛得更遠的學習環境,倒也不算太差就是。

啊!扯太遠了。