<![CDATA[Woodland]]>

<![CDATA[Woodland]]> http://hi.baidu.com http://hi.baidu.com http://img.baidu.com/img/logo-hi.gif http://hi.baidu.com/silverus zh-cn www.baidu.com 5 <![CDATA[Thunder-bolt]]>

I was bolted. I could never imagine Stephen Fry so frighteningly thin and Auntie Thompson so frighteningly young (and a bit like our junior middle chinese teacher really). It is obvious Hugh Laurie has given every bit of his extra fat to Fry during their corporations in later years by some unknown means and Fry himself has managed to pick much other extra bits himself, again by mysterious means. He was quite an acceptable bugger by look at that time. Play, Alfresco. Bunch of Cambridge fellows and sheilas. (A little sob, if I could venture further in to the sentimental realms...) Good old days... The auntie's complexion has become much, well, bronzier, and Laurie has picked up so many wrinkles really. To think all these people are getting old... And I'm freakin' stumbling to bloody 18, no more than 12 months away... Seethin'... You fckin' get to realize you've encountered many people too late, only in recent years, when I've finally got some sentiment for bloody English; and missed so many good chances just because I was unbelievably smug and ignorant. As is the case of Menhuin. If I had paid attention to him some years earlier, I'd get suicidal before I missed his concert in Beijing, just one, two years before his death. But I was only 8, 9 at the time, right? So the essential prob is the wrong birth time. Karajan died in 1989. Lindgren died in 1995. And countless... Doesn't really make sense. But it is as if you had been born in a blank verse of time, literally. To imagine meself in the Elizabethan time for example, would be unpractical. Anyway the sanitary or hygienic conditions would be disastrous, and most likely I would land in the same place, which means I would be suffering among some freakin' braided people with some shiny foreheads and strange cheekbones, not to mention the brows part. I don't mean so exaggeratingly wrong a time. This one I have, is totally uneventful, if not mention the Olympic thing, this and that. Even if I be content with this Placidness, my birth time and my peers' is just, well, the NICK of time. We were doing some accountant work today. We are now in Senior 3. The lastmost bunch of old textbook users, which means it would be hell if we failed the exam. The last and the next mass will not suffer this. We were doing the Senior Middle entering exam when the Germany World Cup began. And we were in the so called most important summer vacation before Senior 3 when the Olympics broke out. The last mass was free as birds, and the next bunch of noisy students were busy scuffling around doing hell-knows-how-happy voluntary works, and at the same time depriving us of our delicious track and field and basketball hockey tickets. We did not enjoy anything in particular in our free years in which every so-called festival seemed to be tapering both in length and quality. And when these freakin' noisy youngsters came there's this fckin' natinal table tennis team visit, and countless...
    Uneventfulness is not totally against Chinese people's dispositions, right? But an uneventful life with so many trifles and annoyances is really bloody annoying, tiring, making people seething...
    Well, back to what I was saying. Been watching a lot of Rowan Atkinson and accidentally bumped into bulging-eyed Laurie. And fatty Fry (good surname I say). So watched lots of Laurie (and Laurie&Fry). And in order to watch his Doctor House I had to have my ears painfully tortured by Amc Acc. And Ben Miller and The Vicar of Dibley and freakin' lots of English sitcoms. Me Got an abnormal pathological taste of humour nowadays. Find Laurie a really talented fellow. Fry making strange whistle like sounds through his teeth when he speaks EngliSH... As to Atkinson, too hard to cover in one word. Just... weird. 阅读全文
类别：Being Mental 查看评论]]> 2008-09-19 23:45 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/9dabf70176632ed0267fb5c3.html <![CDATA[Waly, Waly, gin Love be bonny]]> hk.youtube.com/watch   不要理会A&A的视频，基本没什么关系，让人掉鸡皮疙瘩……强烈建议不要听美国人改了节奏和唱法流行化了的版本。什么味儿也没有。有很多人录过这首歌，没找着能放这儿的，Izzy、Ian Bostridge、Sarah Brightman应该都比YouTube上的好听。

"The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly") is thought to be an English or Scottish folk song that has been sung since the 1600s and has seen considerable popularity through to the 21st century. It is related to Child Ballad 204 (Roud number 87), Jamie Douglas songcatched this folk song during his journey to America during , which in turn refers to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine. Cecil SharpWorld War I.
                                                                                     --------Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Is_Wide_(song)

听过几遍之后（配乐很恰如其分），尤其是受了现代翻唱的刺激以后，发生了审美疲劳，注意力转向歌词；
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Is_Wide_(song)#The_Water_is_Wide
这是现在专辑中最常见的歌词...不太好...太没质感，身材五短。（个人意见）

下面是一篇七段歌词；语序变了，细节和情节都比四段式的多；good old days...

The water is wide, I cannot get o'er
Neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

A ship there is and she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I'm in
I know not if I sink or swim

I leaned my back against an oak
Thinking it was a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
So did my love prove false to me

I reached my finger into some soft bush
Thinking the fairest flower to find
I pricked my finger to the bone
And left the fairest flower behind

Oh love be handsome and love be kind
Gay as a jewel when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

Must I go bound while you go free
Must I love a man who doesn't love me
Must I be born with so little art
As to love a man who'll break my heart

When cockle shells turn silver bells
Then will my love come back to me
When roses bloom in winter's gloom
Then will my love return to me

这是我最喜欢的Scottish版本；如果按照它念，再加上点儿Scotts的腔调，就很生动了。借鉴Four Weddings and a Funeral 中在Gareth 葬礼上 Matthew 念的那首诗，W.H. Auden 的Funeral Blues... 我越来越发现Scottish 是表达悲哀情绪最好的口音（个人意见）。可以发现一些发音规律。古典作曲家改编民歌的时候似乎比较喜欢用这个。（没考证过；总之Linden Lea本来是Dialect Poem，被作曲家standardized 了, 怕大家听不懂，不过曲调还是很好听，歌词也不错; 但是Sally Gardens 也被Britten弄得少了很多弯弯绕，不知道他去掉了多少装饰音，少了民歌的味道，结果很严肃...）其他的Wiki上就很全，用不着我翻译了。

Waly, Waly, gin Love be bonny

    O Waly, waly, (a lament - "woe is me") up the bank,
    And waly, waly, doun the brae (hill),
    And waly, waly, yon burn-side (riverside),
    Where I and my Love wont to gae (go)!
    I lean'd my back unto an aik (oak),
    I thocht it was a trustie tree;
    But first it bow'd and syne (soon) it brak (broke)—
    Sae my true love did lichtlie (lightly) me.

    O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie (beautiful),
    A little time while it is new!
    But when 'tis auld (old) it waxeth cauld (cold),
    And fades awa' like morning dew.
    O wherefore should I busk my heid (adorn my head),
    Or wherefore should I kame (comb) my hair?
    For my true Love has me forsook,
    And says he'll never lo'e me mair (more).

    Now Arthur's Seat
    Sall (shall) be my bed (burial place),
    The sheets sall ne'er be 'filed by me;
    Saint Anton's well sall be my drink; （----don't forget, 'd-link')
    Since my true Love has forsaken me.
    Marti'mas wind, when wilt thou blaw (blow),
    And shake the green leaves aff the tree?
    O gentle Death, when wilt thou come?
    For of my life I am wearìe.

    'Tis not the frost, that freezes fell,
    Nor blawing snaw's (snow) inclemencie,
    'Tis not sic cauld (such cold) that makes me cry;
    But my Love's heart grown cauld to me.
    When we cam in by Glasgow toun,
    We were a comely sicht (sight)to see;
    My Love was clad in the black velvèt,
    And I mysel in cramasie (crimson).

    But had I wist (known), before I kist (a coffin = died),
    That love had been sae ill to win,
    I had lock'd my heart in a case o' gowd (gold),
    And pinn'd it wi' a siller (silver) pin.
    And O! if my young babe were born,:
    And set upon the nurse's knee;
    And I mysel were dead and gane,
    And the green grass growing over me! 阅读全文
类别：托遗响于悲风... 查看评论]]> 2008-08-12 17:15 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/7cd1a016f74be71e962b4349.html <![CDATA[Chilly Briton and Chilly Teuton]]> Britons are just the funniest people...or at least that's what top businessmen said in a survey about European humour.

Some 34 percent of respondents to the latest UPS Europe Business Monitor said the British have the sharpest wit, while only three percent backed German claims for the accolade.

Even in Germany, only one in ten executives said their countrymencracked them up-- compared with 47 percent who sided with Britain, the survey showed.

The poll of 1,450 executives in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain showed that most nationalities liked their local humour best. German, French and Dutch bosses were the exceptions.

Some 66 percent of Spanish backed their own wit, followed by 59 percent of British, and 58 percent of Italians.

Second-placed overall in the laughter probe was Italy with 18 percent of votes, followed by Spain with 15 percent.

Only one in four French respondents considered their home country to be the funniest, while 34 percent of them favoured Britain and 16 percent Belgium. None voted for Germany.

Germany also struggled to pick up points away from home -- apart from three percent of British votes, and one percent apiece from the Netherlands and Italy, the country drew a blank.

Executives also voted on humour levels in Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, with the latter pair barelyraising a smirkoutside of Germany. 阅读全文
类别：chat&chatter 查看评论]]> 2008-04-27 12:02 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/b09877087e423035e8248853.html <![CDATA[Please, Mister Postman----突然觉得这个挺好听]]>

Not just the tune. Their voices are interesting. And never ever do you ignore
Paul and George standing together, singing in a falsetto background hum like
a pair of asses(kidding), and John shouting as if he really DID have a girlfriend
or rather a postman there. All the mouthy work, mind you.(You know what?
McCartney had his Bunny teeth; George Harrison always able to show all his front
row teeth; and John Lennon perpetually incapable of making both (lip) ends meet.
Consequently his upper teeth were always doing the substitutional work...)
Ringo Starr kept tossing his head... tossing... and tossing. (That's why I didn' mention
HIS teeth. His head is the only object we can LO. Anyway, you know about his brows.)
That's what made them live concert, and incidentally
their albums popular, you mark my word. Anyway, four fine lovely jolters---- if I am tired
of 'Rock 'n Roll'.

Karen Carpenter's is fine as well. All I was thinking about then was genetic effects.

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类别：托遗响于悲风... 查看评论]]> 2008-04-25 23:26 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/56478736963452340b55a9d0.html <![CDATA[Newton's Optics]]>
download
www.namipan.com/my/my.php
and a place to visit
libraries/rare/modernity/newton.html

和我的不是一个版本。同集有Principia Mathematica。

也不是。

一只觉得这张画得很好看。不知道是画家捣鬼还是真实形象，岁月是如此的不饶人……
老年“专横”时期脸也“横”了些。

也一直觉得这个神态极像魏佳；弄得她很气恼…… 阅读全文
类别：Optically Insane 查看评论]]> 2008-03-21 19:13 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/689479f7431e4e26730eec6d.html <![CDATA[On Why Britain Has Had Few Worldly-Famous Composers]]>

       This is a question which has long bewildered and somewhat provoked me to feel unfair. The main countries all over Europe have had, if not baskets of, at least packages of great musicians, recorded in text books, played in halls. The few Britain has are 'dubious', some of whom (like Handel) imported from Germany, Purcell (British opera composer) having had a quite 'unhonourable' death at a young age,being drunk and shut out of his house and was 'sniffled' off the earth's surface; Britten being a gay (as some may retort). As a comfort to this exaggeration, there have now appeared a lot of composers, especially conductors and music theorists, in Britain. But on all accounts Composing is different from performing, preserving, or merely giving your opinion.But there's this strange history, still, to ponder about, despite the fact that I've made no study.
       Countries on the European continent had relatively more convenient ways to travel and communicate. Take Bach for example, the form of his keyboard dancing music learnt from Italy, (a lot of them from) France, his own Germany, Spain and of course England and Scotland and Ireland(why haven't I seen Wales), even (as far as) Poland (and ...). All these was made a fusion in Germany and developed. In the 'Netherlands times' before Baroque when polyphony met its prosperity, and times before that, the so-called 'music centre' of Europe shifted between Germany and France and some other countries, pushing forward each of them. Britain, being segregated by a strait, was enjoying, take things of its own, ballads, rhymes accompanied by lutes (upon this point I am not sure). This distance may also have prevented great progress in instruments, as instrument and their technique, I believe, have great impact on music forms. And perhaps there was the matter of domestic security which diverted her attention from this silently developing art, which deprived Britain of the certain social base.
      After Henry Eighth and Elizabeth First, England became a Protestant nation. I suppose there existed less need of religious music and that magnificence in Protestantism, which were required on the continent in other branches of Christianity.(Of Germany, shall we say Luther is different from England's Anglican church? Always feels more 'sombre'-if that is the word-to me, Anglican. ) Normally saying, religious music is a great element in music developing.
       The following point may be less convincing. Every nation has its temperament. While continental ones were/are hot-blooded or romantic, Britain, especially England, had a more mild one, or neutral, which can be seen in its politics. And as the culture inclined to the fondness of legends, stories,the required music was somewhat of the same kind.
       I'll just pause here. For if I've been talking nonsense, I mustn't mislead anyone any more.

PS: What a wonderful thing a violin-cat is!

For the like of these, Go to
Thanks to                             www.scottwatersdesign.com/2homepage.html 阅读全文
类别：托遗响于悲风... 查看评论]]> 2008-02-16 11:24 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/83832982e66357a60df4d2f4.html <![CDATA[Toccata & Fugue in d minor(moll)--Comparison]]> 这个是Karl Richter；有人说Best organist of our time; 两人像是大号梅纽因后边站着小号菲舍尔.迪斯考。
www.youtube.com/watch

这个是一（澳大利亚）不太知名人士：
www.youtube.com/watch

    管风琴不太一样，（教堂大小录音条件也不一样，）所以音效不太一样；两人弹法儿更不一样：Karl Richter 指法有点像绣花儿，而且一丝不苟，事必躬亲，调风箱的时候眼睛老早就离开了谱子，澳大利亚人有点粗犷，扭动很多，别的我说不出来；两人速度不一样，Richter节奏不紧不慢，Aussie偏快（有人说too slow?）。所以总的来说我更喜欢前者,尤其是音色，更有宗教音乐的和谐。Sydney Town Hall里边管风琴键盘前的气氛还是不错的。
    演奏管风琴的过程很有意思，但是不太明白那么多音栓怎么用得过来（音栓调具体音高，现在也可模仿各种乐器）；4排键盘和脚下踏板让我这个比较无知的人联想起四蹄动物走动时协调的问题。阅读全文
类别：托遗响于悲风... 查看评论]]> 2008-02-12 13:15 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/d3a8313434364e4a251f149c.html <![CDATA['Hasn't it suddenly turned chilly?'--'Eigentlich shon.']]>     据英国《每日邮报》2月3日报道，这项调查由英国一家电视台发起，专门调查国人对常识的掌握程度，没想到结果令人大跌眼镜。在接受调查的3000人中，竟有23%
的人认为温斯顿.丘吉尔首相是虚构的；同样，在克里米亚战争中举世闻名的弗洛伦斯.南丁格尔护士也被近1/4的人认为根本就不存在(付p也不知道，找到战友了……)。另外，还有一部分人认为印度圣雄甘地、滑铁卢战役英雄惠灵顿公爵、埃及艳后克莱奥佩特拉也都是电影或小说中虚构出来的人物。
    此外，还有1/3（所以我越发怀疑这缺德电视台找的都什么人）的接受调查者认为，英国著名小说家查尔斯.狄更斯本身就是一个小说人物，而并不是《大卫.科波菲尔》、《雾都孤儿》等作品的作者。
    然而，与此形成鲜明对比的事，柯南.道尔笔下的大侦探福尔摩斯却被多达58%的受访者认为确有其人（这在某种程度上还可以理解）；电影《消失的战线》中的飞行员以及三个火枪手也被认为是真实存在的（电影的力量……）。（想起来威尔斯的War of the World改编成广播剧播放之后引起了巨大恐慌——外星人入侵啦！……）

2. 在德国民众中德国电视享有极好的声誉。第一频道是一个公共性的广播电视台，它在傍晚较早的时候在区域性的基础上进行播报；第二频道，ZDF是欧洲最大的广播电视公司。此外，还有12个地区性的节目构成的第三频道。商业性的台站并不试图与上面提到的节目质量很高的公共性台站竞争，但是他们也拥有很大的观众群。收视率是高悬在好电视头顶上的达摩克里斯剑（为什么听起来这么像Democracy?）：观众越多，来自广告的收入也就越高，就是这么简单（显然是德国人写的）。广告节目在各公共性电视台中只在傍晚稍早的时候才允许播放。在商业频道播放的一部90分钟的电影往往会持续整整两个小时。--------这对自来水厂而言是个问题--------因为每当开始播放广告就有很多人涌进卫生间，造成的后果就是水管中的压力明显下降。……

3.“史上最奇异的10大巧合”里黑色幽默式的血腥最少的三个：
（1）2001年6月，英国斯塔夫斯市10岁小女孩劳拉.布克斯顿将名字和家庭地址写在了一个小标签上，系在一只氢气球上放飞。氢气球飞越了140英里，落到了一户居民家里，难以置信的是，这家也有一个叫做劳拉.布克斯顿的女孩，而且正好10岁。
（2）自杀一跃----当捷克首都布拉格的家庭妇女维拉.捷马克发现她的丈夫对他不忠后，他想到了自杀，他从三楼跳了下去，正好落在了一名刚刚从公寓地下走过的男人身上，冲撞力砸死了这个人，而维拉只受了点轻伤。————这个人正是她已经变心的丈夫……
（3）1990年，澳大利亚人Todd在球场中看足球决赛，一激动的观众将一本邮局印刷的黄页撕成碎纸，并将碎纸漫天洒向空中。一张碎片飘到了Todd膝盖上，他捡起来一看，发现这张碎纸上写着他的名字、地址和电话号码。阅读全文
类别：默认分类查看评论]]> 2008-02-05 21:56 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/d2b4e2451eada63b87947385.html <![CDATA[Guess who again----Found great pleasure in this]]> Answer available there.

An image of Meryl Tolkien flashes before the eyes...

Features grown smaller, it seems...

Ja, I think that big-head little thing might be Ronald. In South Africa.

School pals of King Edward, two of whom died in WW1.

Linguistic? Kidding.

... ... ...

Ja, Edith.

This looks fairer.

Aye, the disadvantage of having a not-so-imaginative dad, that I don't know what to write now.

How to make this pose?
注：托爷爷比儿子们还腼腆……

Me favourite one. Dad looks like Charles, if you know which I mean. Kid should
be Christopher.

Tree.

Und Tree.

Technical flaw.

Hilly Belly, if that's not offensive.

Beauteous tomb.

Looks 'safer', though a little exaggerating, perhaps.

Thanks to --
www.merrybrandybuck.com
www.geocities.com/sociedad_tolkien_peruana
Wikipedia
Planet-tolkien
and others
esp the Tolkiens 阅读全文
类别：tolkien & arda 查看评论]]> 2008-02-03 12:22 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/81e683de26f3e05095ee375c.html <![CDATA[又捡到一张好玩儿的……！]]>

焊工爸和主妇妈还是没少下功夫的……
类别：Infantile Me 查看评论]]> 2008-02-01 11:24 http://hi.baidu.com/silverus/blog/item/49beb93db45b5cc39e3d6234.html