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Ever Fallen In Love?

// May 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Music & Show

这首 Nouvelle Vague 翻唱 Buzzcocks 的1978年的老歌,是在实验室无聊的调光具时听到的。这个翻唱的节奏欢快的很,非常适合随之摇摆起舞。“And if I start a commotion, I run the risk of losing you, and that’s worse”。That’s definitely worse @_^。

Nouvelle Vague – Ever Fallen In Love

Ever Fallen In Love

You spurn my natural emotions
You make me feel like dirt
And I’m hurt
And if I start a commotion
I run the risk of losing you
And that’s worse

Ever fallen in love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
You shouldn’t’ve fallen in love with

I can’t see much of a future
Unless we find out what’s to blame
What a shame (oh what a shame)
And we can’t be together
Until we realize that we are the same

Ever fallen in love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
You shouldn’t’ve fallen in love with

You disturb my natural emotions
You make me feel like dirt
And I’m hurt
And if I start a commotion
I’ll only end up losing you
And that’s worse

Ever fallen in love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
Ever fallen in love
In love with someone
You shouldn’t’ve fallen in love with

La la la la la la…

Arco – All This World

// May 10th, 2007 // 7 Comments » // Music & Show

让我们再来听一首慢歌。这两天都处在憋 thesis proposal 的紧张境地,要每天给老板提交新版本听取意见,下周一就要交给committee们了,然后再周一就要小defense了,咳咳,我现在十分惧怕再以后的正式thesis,搞不定啊。我不是一个特别能安安静静做事的人,而戴上耳机听缓的音乐,不会分散注意力,反而会让我精神更容易集中,比较不受外界干扰。想我大四申请时,无数个漫漫长夜就是这么度过的啊。Arco的音乐也很适合用做戴着耳机写东西的时候听,虽然其实他的词都很并不积极向上。这首 All this world,就很消极,但是有点 negative positive 的感觉,我是觉得副歌挺好听。反正是有助于我好好攒论文。

Arco – All This World

all this world

pale and clear the light of dawn
evening’s laughter long gone
even love a forgotten need

draw the shade and face the day
feel illusion float away
hold the dream and let it free

how many strangers d’you have to meet?
how many old friends d’you have to see?
with how many lovers d’you have to sleep?
to know that you’re alone in all this world

feel the fear and let it pass
hear the questions no-one asks
close your eyes and let them see

how many strangers d’you have to meet?
how many times kneel at your god’s feet?
with how many lovers d’you have to sleep?
to know that you’re alone in all this world

Sparklehorse – Apple Bed

// May 8th, 2007 // No Comments » // Music & Show

让我们来听首慢歌,适合戴着耳机听着发呆。歌词的话,我也搞不太懂到底要说啥。我觉得sparklehorse的歌挺适合戴着耳机写东西的时候听。

Sparklehorse – Apple Bed

Apple Bed

of horses wet
with melted ice
they would not heed
my advice
and burdened limbs
of its weight
to break and rot
a whispered fate

please
doctor, please

a remedy
in a bloody sea
to breach the hive
and smoke the bees
you can be my friend
you can be my dog
you can be my light
you can be my fog

please
doctor, please

the witches will return to their sticky tree knots
i will feel the sun
i will feel the sun
i will feel the sun coming down

i wish i had
a horse’s head
a tiger’s heart
an apple bed

No Conclusion

// April 12th, 2007 // 18 Comments » // Academic, Life, Music & Show

今天搞定了所有签字,交了 thesis proposal 的申请表,现在计划的 proposal date 是5月21号,咳咳,我现在还没开始写proposal哪。标题才刚决定没几天,写了个abstract。虽然写个10几页就行了,可是还是紧张啊。我大概还有两到三周的时间,咳咳,希望不要太懒。晾一下现在定的标题好了:Search for Exotic Superfluid States through Ultracold Fermions -_-。当然最要命的问题是其中要搞的一个理论方向我现在还是不懂啊,啊啊啊。Anyway,反正也就这样了。

这两天在听我最热爱的乐队 Of Montreal 的新EP,有首9分多钟的长歌,挺不错。和其他多数歌词长的歌不一样,它的曲调并不是简单重复,也是在大跳跃的,像是两三首呼应的小歌并在一起似的。其实 Of Montreal 的很多专辑都可以从头到尾连在一起当首大歌听的。反正,我觉得这歌不错。

Of Montreal – No Conclusion

Tonight I feel like I should just destroy myself
Tonight I feel like I should just explode myself
Tonight I feel like I should just destroy myself
Tonight I feel like I should just explode myself

There’s someone calling my name
But there’s nothing to respond
I lost so much in our collapse
Man, my little hope is gone

The voice said don’t worry friend
The darkness is just a suggestion
Oh don’t worry kid
This darkeness is just a suggestion
Oh don’t worry Kevin

I’m allergic to the world when we’re separated
There’s nothing in my heart that’s worth the beating
Feeling like a styrofoam prop
Ennui is eating
I’m sure we talk and talk
But nothing worth repeating
I feel defeated

Now I’m O.D.ing on your cocksucker blues
You make me uptight
When you just don’t work right
You painted my prison now something’s wrong
And I never ever wanted to write this song

I’m killing myself but it’s not suicide
I’m killing myself
I’m killing myself but it’s not suicide
I’m killing myself
And my friends will never know
Because I’ve never been
Because I’ve never been honest with anyone

Always pulling faces from the unreposessing places of the universal mind
I’m crippled by the world when we’re divided
There’s nothing in my heart that’s worth the clicking
Feeling like a Pamplona bull that’s finished kicking

Although we try to break the loop
It’s always stuck repeating
I feel defeated

Now I’m O.D.ing on your cocksucker blues
You make me uptight
When you just don’t work right
You painted my prison now something’s wrong

And I never ever wanted to write this song
I always thought things would change somehow
And we would start getting along
But it’s hopeless

And i never ever wanted to write this song
I always thought things would change somehow
And we would start getting along
But it’s hopeless

Everything is average nowadays

// March 28th, 2007 // 13 Comments » // Life, Music & Show

春季学期开始了,一个可怕的学期。有老板的课要上(不敢不上啊),有助教要当(还好是半学分的助教),有门计算方法的课想旁听(我想选可是老板不建议选啊),而且,还有 thesis proposal 要完成要小答辩(到现在我都还不清楚我论文到底做啥),当然还有实验室的活儿要干(老板回来后的实验室生活真tmd紧凑)。这事情一多,dartmouth一年四个学期的弊端就出来了,这每个学期也就两个月多一点点点,一般来说选个两三门课就很忙了,说是还有一个学期来完成proposal,实际上也就不到两个月了,5月底前啥都得干完。要死了。虽然我很想赶快搞完一切,能早毕业最好,现在看是希望不大了,咳咳,要命啊,痛苦啊,啊,啊,啊。不过整体来说这学期我们实验室的人都会很忙,俩师兄要夏天毕业,现在要写论文和面试,老板要除了平常事务这学期还要带两门课,何况俩学生毕业也够他忙的,所以上学期末我问他选课多了会不会忙不过来时,他回我 “next term is going to be very hectic for all of us, so you may want to join the boat!” 不过有一点好的是,虽然我仍然担心夏天后变成老板唯一一个学生之后的可怜日子,但没那么怕了,好像。另外因为师兄在找工作做,给我们看了一个学校提供的典型package,才知道原来当教授除了工资还不错,福利更是很好,最赚的是以后子女上大学的学费学校是给出的,在本校上全免,外校上学校给出一半或三分之二,这可是一大笔钱啊。像dartmouth现在一年单学费要4万美刀,一个孩子读完大学光学费就20多万美刀,如果再多几个孩子的话。。。看来当教授熬过前几年能拿到tenure的话确实挺爽的说。不过,我毕业后大概还是会坚决离开学术界的,yoyo。

转换话题。Kaiser Chiefs 是我挺热爱的英国摇滚小乐队,最近刚出了新专辑 Yours Truly, Angry Mob。虽然还有几首歌不错,但我觉得坚决没有第一张 Employment 好听。咳咳,反正他们自己也都唱了,everything is average nowadays.

Kaiser Chiefs – Everything is average nowadays

Everything is average nowadays

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Everything is average nowadays
Everything is average nowadays
Everyone would do it if they can
And everything is going down the pan
And everyone is following the craze
And everything is average

Now you say it’s getting better
But I don’t really see the signs
Said it is too different
You thought it would be suicide

Not much to believe in
Left up on a shelf
So get your coats we’re leaving
We’ll just do something else

Ohhhh Everything is average nowadays
Everything is average nowadays
And everything is of no consequence
Cos everyone is sitting on the fence
And everything will always stay the same
Cos everything is average

Now you said you didn’t mean it
You threw away the book of rules
You thought that we should read it
I wouldn’t even know how to

Not much to believe in
Left up on the shelf
So get your coats we’re leaving
We’ll just do something else

All I need is a ball and a wall
Or a sledge and a hill in heavy weather
All I need is a ball and a wall
A sledge and a hill in heavy weather

Oh oh oh oh etc.