12.06.2008
Red Hot Docs: A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/film_details.asp?id=71&...
Alright, I admit, the title of the film is a bit bizarre (or perhaps it’s the selling point itself?). But this feature length documentary from UK was included in this years’ Sydney Film Festival and was proven to be a very popular one. I know, I was there.
“A Complete History of My Sexual Failures” was also a hit in Sundance, introduced by one of the festival facilitators. I’ve copied the introduction from Sydney Film Festival’s page:
“Dumped by yet another girl after just three weeks, shabby (with no redeeming chic) and hapless thirtysomething Chris Waitt embarks on a mission to determine the 'why' behind his failed love life. Confused by his multitude of ex-girlfriends' decisive lack of interest in being interviewed for his new project, and yearning to reconnect with the only long-term love of his life (who is totally unavailable), he creates a MySpace page to attract new options and soon reveals an embarrassing performance problem. As the quest becomes more urgent, so the slapstick comedy escalates. Documentary-making as personal sex-therapy is hardly a new form, but this riotously funny film is less interested in the darker preoccupations of I Am a Sex Addict or The Good Woman of Bangkok, and more driven by a beguiling hopelessly romantic everydayness. CS”
Sounds interesting? Well yes. It was even more hysterical when you actually watch it. The audience sort of knew what to expect but the extreme length the director/film Chris Waitt went through was unbelievably painfully comically hilarious. We human being must be a very mean species – how we enjoy laughing at people’s misfortune!
Chris Waitt was there at the Beginning of the film to introduce his documentary. When he started speaking we knew he had a wicked sense of humour. Perhaps more like the Monty Python type of humour, or perhaps that’s really the only type of British humour I’ve encountered with. (then you count the Black Adder, Fawlty Towesr, Yes Minister…) Anyway in the end of the film he again presented himself there for audience to ask him questions. By that time we already felt that we’ve known Chris, in person, for many many years, after watching all the humiliating things he had gone through in the film. There was not a lot of questions relating to film/documentary making. People are more interested in the aftermath. The audience just loved this likeable loser, and an accidental filmmaker.
Apparently it took a very experienced editor to work on it from 400 hours of footage to form this documentary. No one in the production team, even the filmmaker himself, was sure about how it would turn out. But in the end it all worked out well. Because as it turned out, “A Complete History of My Sexual Failures” was not just about sex, it was about, as corny as it might sound, finding love.
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03.04.2008
愛情的熱度
越熾熱的越無法維持.
心被燙了. 留下的只是疤痕.
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13.09.2007
不能說的秘密
昨晚看了周杰倫＂不能說的秘密＂．
對我來說， 與其說是看電影， 不如說是為了我的回憶， 因為電影的場景就設在我唯一且短暫的台灣高中生涯． 我在淡江中學只待了短短的一學期，但滿滿都是甜蜜與苦澀屬於青春的回憶．
電影裡學生們奔走的長廊， 畢業典禮的大禮堂， 淡江有名的八角塔，一走進校門內綠蔭遮天的走道，還有英式橄欖球對在綠地上操練的吼叫聲．．．
在校園裡的純純的愛， 那種相信世上最重要的只有你跟我， 其他的人事物只是附屬品， 我們只為對方而活的天真．．．
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY9rAas-FMQ
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06.09.2007
Destiny
http://www.alivenotdead.com/34291/viewspace_27085.html
I listen to it from my iPod every time when I am commuting - on the taxi, on the bus, on the train, on the plane.
There are times I locked myself in the hotel suite, "I've gone to ground", and just counting the minute, second, until the time I can finally return home. Journey's always long. It's long from the moment I've left your side.
And If I am back to you. That's because you are my destiny.
Video:
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22.07.2007
親愛的媽媽
http://www.alivenotdead.com/34291
上個月回久違的台北出差, 短短三個晚上, 媽媽特別帶了些隨身衣物到酒店來陪我住.
其實覺得滿愧疚的, 因為一直沒有時間好好的陪媽媽. 每一次匆促的見到, 總是又為了她沒有好好照顧身體, 聽醫生的話運動諸如此類的事而生氣. 彷彿我們母女互換了位子, 我成了那個碎碎唸的人, 而媽媽卻成了個叛逆的小朋友
老小老小, 有人這麼說, 上了年紀的人越老越像小孩子, 這或許是真的. 不過記憶中的媽媽一直是個會撒嬌會扁嘴非常天真的直性女人. 媽媽單純的世界裡沒有存心使壞的人, 她有著原諒人的能力.
從媽媽身上我看到一生只愛一個人的可能. 從豆蔻年華到今幾十個年頭, 幾年前去世的爸爸始終是媽媽唯一的愛.
我們是她的世界. 她, 我最親愛的媽媽, 也是我的世界.
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02.05.2007
不愛你了
不愛你了
不愛你很久了
應該在一起的理由一個一個地劃叉
不該在一起的理由不斷不斷地增長
開始了解愛原來也是一種自我催眠
可以一拍手便從夢境清醒
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28.04.2007
愛的公式
張小嫻在一本書的序中, 借用了一個英國物理學家的話, 解釋時間的曲解與真實. 時間僅只是人為的測量方式, 並非真實的存在. 存在的, 只是現在.
換句話說, 現在, 便是永遠, 不是嗎?
照著這樣的推論, 當我說"我永遠愛你"的時候, 也不是一個荒謬的謊言了.
因為, 我現在是愛你的. 現在即是永遠. 於是, 我永遠愛你.
如果愛情可以照數學的推論, 因為所以地推斷出來, 那麼我們應該是存活在一個單純簡單絕對的世界裡吧.
然而, 愛情沒有絕對, 沒有公式, 沒有白紙黑字紅字就能批改的形式.
有的只是人心的複雜, 人心的變換, 人心的脆弱及自私.
愛情可以是美好的, 在美好的時候. 但是當我發現已不再愛著昨天還愛著的你呢?
那麼昨天我說"我永遠愛你"的這句話不是一句謊話嗎?
可是當我說的那時卻是那時的現在啊.
那時的現在不就是那時的永遠嗎?
那時的永遠和現在的永遠一樣嗎?
物理學家的世界裡有真愛嗎?
當他嘗試著用公式去向自己所愛的人表達愛意, 也是浪漫的嗎?
曾聽說過數學家可用公式來證明上帝的存在.
Can they also prove the existence of love?
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27.04.2007
戀CLU
The air smells nicer when you are around
Music sounds better when there is your voice accompanying with it
You are within reach
This simple fact is enough to make my day brighter
I am instantly happier than I was
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26.04.2007
與你的開始
離開香港, 飛往東京的航班上, 我吞了顆止暈藥, 戴上耳機, 在輕爵士的音樂聲中, 緩緩不自覺地昏睡了過去.
慌恍中, 我夢到你.
我已經在離開你的路上, 以為不會太掛記你. 我們僅是露水情人而已, 可是我竟然在這時夢見你.
夢裡的你對我說著話, 沒有什麼新的意境, 你只是重新地把我們的對話在夢裡重複一次.
我隱約中醒了過來, 又再昏睡了過去. 四個多小時的飛行中, 你還是在我身邊陪著我, 用不同的方式.
我們的相聚, 短地兩夜一天, 我在你的懷裡纏綿繾綣. 你是我的情人, 我特意選定的, 消磨時間的情人.
一生一次的相聚, 然後各自奔向各自的盡頭, 盡頭之後是沒有影子的. 因為一像拘謹的我, 只想在那個沒有人熟識的城市裡, 小小的冒險一下.
然後, 你出現了.
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寫給舊愛的文字
因為搬家的緣故, 多年前手寫的記事簿一本一本重新出現在我的面前.
從初中開始養成的習慣, 我總是在書包或提包裏擺放著一本記事簿; 年少時是寫詩, 成年後便開始寫著旅行札記和生活感觸. 漸漸地記事簿裡的文字開始被男女情愛而佔據. "總是在戀愛" 是幾個知心好友戲謔我的稱號, 因為愛情對當時尚還青澀的我來說, 愛情是必要的氧氣是美麗的祕密是生命的唯一選擇. 我無法想像沒有高飛狂洩的愛情的日子能如何過. 於是也因為這樣, 我陷入了許多苦戀.
多年之後再讀這些為了舊愛而寫的文字, 還是難免有些心悸. 一是因為現在的生活已經離當時的情緒太遠太遠了, 一是因為當時的情緒居然是如此濃重而不堪承受. 閱讀他人的私密一樣, 然而這是屬於我自己的私密. 我曾深愛的人, 錯愛的人, 錯過的人, 太過的人...
這幾天我會陸續地將這些手記整理出來, 將它們放在部落格上, 如同儀式一般, 告別過去.
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