聽歌,視乎天氣和心情。
今晚,一個人在中環大會堂門外等巴士。每次晚上在中環的街頭,總覺得比白天漂亮得多。人少了,才顯出她的美。還有,我想在我的一對散光眼看來,朦朧的燈影更富詩意。呆望著干諾道中,腦裡突然響起 Savage Garden 的 Santa Monica。
回到家中,換過衣服呆坐在床上,突然感到一絲落寞。心頭好像想要掛念一些人 ,卻不知該掛念誰才好。既然落寞就落寞到底。唱盤中旋轉的Antony and Johnsons,那高亢的男聲和合聲好像合而為一。然後流淚。
38分鐘過後,最而代之的Sufjan Stevens明顯是個錯誤。不,不是他的錯,錯在我忘記了Illinoise其實玩味十足。兩首歌後,千挑萬選,還是Tom McRae 的 Just Like Blood。這張唱片,對我來說,幾乎是滿載了最多故事的一張。
聽著,我沒有想起從前的事,卻呆住了十五分鐘。
I can live with my regrets
Still raise a smile, still raise my head
But this is all I can say
I have lost my way
But you only you only disappear
You only you only disappear
With a word with a line
With a smile that says goodbye
It’s raining now on Royal Street
And I’d walk to you if I could trust my feet
——– You Only Disappear
And soon enough soon enough
This will all be a memory
And soon enough soon enough
This will fade like the photograph
Of you and me
Our history is just in our blood
And history like love is never enough
And I recognise so much of you
In these eyes always so blue
Why always so blue
—— Human remains
今次持續抑鬱和寂寞時,每晚在家中幾乎都播著Feist、Norah Jones或 kd lang的翻唱大碟,前二是故作輕鬆掩飾寂寞,後者是毒品。寒冬中無星的晚上,把燈關上,關緊窗簾,聽著Sigur Ros帶你飄出太空,鳥瞰地球。熱戀的夏天 一定要聽James Iha。失戀的秋,不敢再聽Beck 的 Sea Change。下雨聽the Relict, Mazzy Star或 Dakota Suite,我總覺得Mazzy Star的經典 Flowers in December其實是雨天的歌。晴天呢?晴天其實好白搭,如果是陽光普照的周日聽Edson的Unwind with Edson、Brighter;其他日子的話the Flaming Lips的 Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots, Damon and Naomi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs都是一時之選。
近來迷上了輕爵士或Bossa Nova,小野麗莎, Chet Baker, Amina, Bed, 或是instrumental如 Gonzales, Sylvain Chauveau,總叫我能平靜下來。反而每次都能撩動思緒的林一峰和W Theatre,還是暫時擱在一旁好了。