海洋的运动

传奇乐队感恩而死Grateful Dead前后有四位键盘手。
第一任键盘手Ron "Pigpen" McKernan于1973年死于胃出血。
第二任键盘手Keith Godchaux于1980年死于车祸。
第三任键盘手Brent Mydland于1990年死于嗑药过量。
这支伟大的乐队在1995年随着Jerry Carcia的去世而走到终点。
但键盘手的可怕宿命还在继续，最后一任键盘手Vince Welnick在今年六月自杀。

技术八卦，用18个月来孕育4秒钟

SEATTLE - Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.

Of course, this isn't just any four-second clip. It's the sound - a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out - that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

To set the right tone - clean, simple, but with "some long-term legs," according to Microsoft's Steve Ball - the software maker recruited musician Robert Fripp.

Fripp, best known for his work with the '70s rock band King Crimson, recorded hours of his signature layered, guitar-driven sound for the project, under the close direction of Ball and others at Microsoft. Then, it was Ball's job to sort through those hours of live recordings to suss out just the right few seconds.

Fripp's involvement is not surprising. His occasional collaborator, Brian Eno, recorded sounds for Windows 95. Also, Ball, the Microsoft group program manager for WAVE - Windows Audio Visual Excellence - has in the past been Fripp's student and business partner.

Ball, a self-proclaimed renaissance man who is both an engineer and a musician, considered the work of about 10 musicians for the project. Some of those people were influential in the final four seconds as well.

Redmond-based Microsoft seriously debated several other sounds before settling on the final startup sound about three weeks ago. The rejects included a longer, lusher clip and a quick, techno-sounding piece.

While many people liked an upbeat ditty with a clapping rhythm, it was eventually nixed for sounding too much like a commercial. Ball said the hand-clapping also seemed like too "human" a sound when paired with the new graphic for Vista.

"There's nothing that's especially human about our new Windows animation," he said.

The short startup clip that was eventually chosen is meant to evoke the rhythm of the words "Win-dows Vis-ta!" and Ball hopes the sound will serve as a calling card for the operating system. It also consists of four chords - one for every color in the new Windows graphic that appears as the sound plays. It's no coincidence that it's also four seconds long.

There are a total of 45 Vista sounds that Microsoft has spent the last year and a half perfecting, including the dings you hear when you get a new e-mail, receive an error message, or log off your computer. Generally, these are more muted, less jarring variations of the prompts familiar to Windows XP users.

If it seems like overkill to go to all that trouble for a few seconds of sound, consider this: Microsoft estimates that the clips such as the e-mail alert will be played trillions of times in years to come.

That's a lot of opportunity to annoy, offend - or, if the job is done right - please or appease computer users the world over.

One major concern was that the startup sound not grow grating after a time.

"You want a sound that people will love the first time they hear it, but it's a paradox to also say, 'Oh and by the way, we need people to love it the tenth, or the hundredth, or the thousandth time they hear it,' " Ball said.

That's one reason he was glad to have 18 months to choose the clips.

"We had time to live with the music," Ball said.

Still, for all the time Ball has spent on the sounds, he says one measure of success would be if people noticed them very little, if at all.

Ball is the first to admit that the percussive beeps in past Windows versions could be jarring enough to bother nearby workers or interrupt others in a meeting. With the number of intrusive sounds from cell phones, handheld devices and other gadgets only increasing, that's something Ball and his colleagues were keen to avoid with Vista.

"We want you to know they're there, and you would miss them if they were gone, but we would like them to be just barely noticeable, almost like they are part of the environment or part of your wallpaper," he said. "We want them in the background, rather than the foreground."

三尼一铁是坏蛋。
这三尼是尼赫鲁，尼基塔·谢尔盖耶维奇·赫鲁晓夫，J F 肯尼迪和铁托。他们是帝反修的代表。
今天，我也攒出一个三尼一铁
索尼，尼桑，阿玛尼，外加一个铁凝。
大仙曾说过：
1991年，第二届“青年作家创作讨论会”在中日友好交流中心、也就是21世纪饭店举行，我没事儿跟一帮作家、诗人、评论家天天大酒混着。一次坐电梯，电梯里只有我一人，很快进来一人，是铁凝；很快又进来一人，是汪国真。很快我就瞎按了一层，没到地儿就下了，因为铁凝、国真都英气逼人，我深感窒息。出了电梯，我找一犄角就沉思，我得再接再厉，入一把中国作协，争取能成为“铁姐”、“汪哥”那样的名人。

今儿一上网，就看到铁凝当上了作协主席。

梦见我丧心病狂的写了六首歌，歌词都是梨花阿姨的一个人在田纳西。

Touch & Go这家独立唱片公司在上周度过了他的25岁生日。
bedhead，the new year，skull kontrol，slint，gvsb，dirty three，blackheart pocession，blonde redhead.....这些touch and go旗下的乐队陪我度过无数美妙的时光。
作为一个小唱片公司，当家人corey rusk不但具有敏锐的判断力－－总能发现那些极有水准的乐队，而且在公司的运作上也另辟蹊径－－抛弃了小肚鸡肠的提成模式，取而代之的是50-50对半分帐；将当年factory records开创的口头合同形式继承下来，而且一坚持就是25年。

Long Live indie ideaism!

俺们天蝎座的守护星被从政治局常委降格到政治局候补了。

无论是作为演员，还是猴拳掌门，抑或是香港独立音乐干将。黄秋生干得都很精彩。
拜p2p所赐，下到了他95年的专辑《支离疏》。让我想起了6年前，夯一把indie同学。

在抗战胜利日看了这个片子。
其实也就是那么回事儿，大e片一个。
片子里的那个为买自行车去给老船长帮忙的小男孩，长得真像赵光腚！

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that audiogalxie has gone away

香颂，其实就是法语chanson（法语念做：山森。千万别按英语发音念“肠渗”，）的音译。本意是法国世俗歌曲，又因为法国人民爱抒情的特性，后来就被成为恬静淡雅端庄醇厚的法国爱情流行歌曲的代名词。
其实这东西极其好模仿。就好比猴拳似的，只要能抡起来，都挺象回事儿。
想学香颂吗？首先要长一张沧桑的脸，然后再找濮存心同学的唐诗宋词朗诵会的录像带，跟着濮同学，气运喉头下方两寸，慢念“楼～外青山～楼～外楼”，不出半个月，就可以从一个糙老爷们锻造成中国版的leonard cohen。
自打国门打开，大陆的流行音乐工作者就一直找不到北，一会儿一阵风的学r&b，唱得上气接不住下气；一会儿一阵风的来hiphop，练的自己舌头不是舌头嘴不是嘴。其实还是香颂最好，陶冶情操，可以上春晚，可以进大会堂。富于教育意义。试想，要是每天二百多刘欢在电台电视台舞台站台上唱香颂，祖国该是多么的和谐。

其实，别总月亮是外国的圆，我们早就有中国特色的香颂了，走进新时代，春天的故事，三百六十五个祝福，北京的桥。这些都是中国香颂的杰出代表。
哦哈哈

老家伙成精了，唱香颂范儿都那么正

刚才突然那么一琢磨，嚼着徐静蕾可能是想仿richard linklater，走before sunset那个套路。
这俩片子摆一块，得！还真有点对齿。都是俩大话唠从头得啵到尾。只不过梦照是一头扎向形而上，三赛是通俗下里巴人。但利码能分出高下：梦照让人懵，三赛令人爱。

徐静蕾的这部片子真是一个大糟泔。不能否认王朔的才华，不过也得承认现在不是15年前，那种云山雾罩式的oldschool大对白已经很过时了。
王朔语言的魅力在于落实在纸面上，看比听来得舒服。韩童生的话太密，而且彻头彻尾的话剧腔，看起来特累。
糖果枪的曾宇做的ost过于讨巧，起腻。
而且韩童生竟然用realplayer作为mp3的默认程序，真是不可忍。

我痛恨徐静蕾在电影里的眼神。 i hate 'em all!

Syd Barret，这位Pink Floyd乐队早期的灵魂人物，在7月7日逝世。

悲伤是别人以为的, 鸡蛋自己只有坦然

高考已经十年了。

青春往事不堪回首
有空一并挫骨扬灰

德阿大战的时候，蓬皮多和戈耶切亚的灵魂急匆匆的往柏林赶。结果一没留神，蓬皮多的灵魂附体给了阿邦丹切利，戈耶切亚的灵魂附体给了莱曼......

阿根廷被淘汰，我心理多少不太舒服，可以说在前75分钟里，潘帕斯的壮士们主导了比赛的节奏。当时我就在想，如果1：0能坚持到最后，Ayala肯定就是全场最佳了，不光是因为他顶入的那个球，而且他有效的冻结了对方的前锋。这届应该是Ayala的最后一届世界杯了，98年四分之一比赛的最后Ayala被博格砍普打了个穿裆，成就了后者的惊艳绝杀。02年世界杯，因伤未能上阵。而如今，又一次倒在前进的路上。

我觉得阿根廷队是被那首dont cry for me argentina给curse了，就如同国安被那句国安永远争第一所羁绊一样。