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today,tuesday,yeah,that's when poor people go to see all the movies.

.as a die-hard fan of transformers,grew up watching nearly every episode

of transformers cartoon,i just couldn't express how happy i was when i first knew it would be in the movie half years ago,since then,i'd been counting down the days,it was like counting the days to my birthday even though i myself don't take it seriously,anyway,i was expecting the best day of this year

when i got there,there were already many people waiting in the queue,from the age and looks,i was pretty sure they were here for

the transformers,you could hear the words"optimus prime,megatron....big brother,wtf",its like when u are in the queue waiting to enter

a rock & roll concert,everyone's so excited and pumped up,chatting loudly and couldn't help shaking their heads like they were listening

to some heavy metal shits.we bought the 2 o clock shrek 3 ,and 4:20 transformers,yeah,pretty tight schedule,and giant popcorn and giant

coke.it's funny when they put large coke on the price board,you don't know how large they are,but when u actually got the coke and

popcorn,they were ridiculously huge,making us look extremely stupid and awkward,but looked around,many biggest loser candidates bought exactly the same combo,so i started to feel even sadder, thinking maybe i would look like them in ten years.shrek is one and half hour,pretty decent picture quality like always,

there's nothing real new and creative as the shrek 2 set the standard too high,sherk 3 sort of failing to entertain people the way sherk 2 did,but still worth

 the ticket,the frog king dying scene is pretty damn funny,later,when i rang justin,he felt exactly the same. after sherk 3,we went to the borders ,book store,to kill some times because it's still half an hour to go,i couldn't remember how many books or mags i bought in borders ,not many,less than ten,but i've been there countless times,normally just browsing around,randomly grab a book and read for several minutes,or take some books to the coffee shop(coffee shop is inside the bookstore,

so people can enjoy the coffee and books without buying the books),and sit there for about 2 hours,more than enough to finish 1 or 2 magazines or 20 pages of a book.30 mins had passed, we were on the way

to a much bigger theatre,around 5 times bigger than the previous one,and already half of the seats were taken when we entered,as we finally sat down the big screen were already starting

to show all the commercials and movie previews.none of those commericials were new,coz they'd been shown on tv before and i never had patient to carefully watch them,and always changed

the channel,but in the theatre,you can't do anything but sit there and pretend you enjoy or at least thinking about the meanings ,purpose of the commercial,and funny enough i sometime

found myself actually  enjoyed the commerials .i think not just me ,but everyone come 20 mins before the actual movie starts even though everyone knows

there will be 20 mins commercials and movie previews and conclusion is :size does matter,people like to watch anything as long as they are shown on a tremendous screen,and if they squeese 5 mins out and put some scientific knowledge,

or IQ quiz tips in it,everyone'd be much more clever and knowledgeable. enough of all the non sense,let's talk about the movie,well, the sound,and picture quality are all

top notch and special effects they used are probably the best ever,but after half hour's fighting scene,you sort of getting numb and sick of all those special effects,i just felt they overdid

it,and wasn't the megatron supposed to be a pistol and cannon,how the hell did he become a jet fighter,i guess the director combined the megatron and red-spider into this new

megatron,not very impressive,and optimus prime stole the thunders,and he looked just incrediblely great,i checked the wikipedia,they used over 10000 pieces to create the model of optimus primal,unbelieveable.

this got me thinking ,why did the director get all the credit when the animation team and technical team did most of the works,let's be honest,the plots of the movie are old and lame, and you can’t do a worse ending than this movie, two lead roles cuddled on the cliff, looks like they’re gonna live together happily ever after when other transformers stood there like idiots, I just can’t remember how many mega-hollywood movies end like this,  "the independent day" is much

better ,and even "terminator series" are better, but thanks to the special effects, and computer generated transformers, this movie will probably go down as one of the greatest movies and maybe a dynasty will start

from here,but director shouldn't get this much credit and praises.

after i walked out the theatre,all i could think about was some of the funny moments in the film,like when the sam's mother questioned his son asking if he is masturb..ting,

and the girl stole the data and went to her friends' house,and she got accused of invading the zen and quiet environment but turned out her friends were dancing with the loudly music.and movie didn't forget to

ridicule an indian guy who's working in the call centre,i think it's not just america,in austrlaia,we get to see lot of comedies making fun of indians on tv,poor indians. well,let me stop here,what is the next must-see movie

,don't know yet,but definitely not harry porter,maybe bourne's identity 3 ....

前几天看了一个澳洲当地的音乐搬奖晚会，本来不准备看的，主要原因一是我一直认为澳洲没有很好的
的音乐，JB-HIFI里面大多数都是美国，英国的东西。后来听说JOHM MAYER 要来，一下兴趣就来了，这个年轻人
被很多人称为eric clapton以后，最有希望将blues音乐，特别blue吉他音乐在主流pop市场延续下去的人，因为很多
大师级的人物都已经到了只有在小酒巴演出维持生计的地步了。我也是上次回国，在街上闲逛的时候买了一张DVD，当时也没指望什么,因为
纯熟是便宜，在澳洲这边到处都是他的东西，只是价格要翻10倍不止，不知道从什么时候开始，就有了是主流就不感冒的毛病，其实
这是满大的一个误区，起码john mayer 就是一个例子，他是个天才，他23岁写出的第一张专辑，就得了几项grammy，我当时是第一次听
就迷上了，也满震撼，一个这么年轻的孩子可以写成这样的音乐，而且他具有职业音乐人的技术可以在现场玩出很多即兴，使现场
的版本听起来更加过瘾。这次来澳洲，主要目的其实不是为了什么搬奖晚会，因为他的第三张专机刚出，正在全球做专机宣传的巡演，
这次随便参加一个搬奖。这次搬奖更象国内地方台做的演出，所谓的名人除了一些歌手因为，都是台里面的一些主持人，主要是
搞笑的主持人为主，其中ROVE算最有名的了，他被安排和john mayer一起出场，本来想开开玩笑，结果谁知还被john mayer捉弄了，
rove问john，“你写的your body is wonderland是大家都熟知的歌曲，你认为我的身体是wonderland么“，rove是个男的， 说实话，这是我听过的最恶心的几个不搞笑的笑话之一了，后来上myspace看了看，发现很多澳洲人也这样认为，看来rove这次是毁大了，结果JOHN还让他雪上加霜， 他反驳说” 我写的另外一首歌更适合你，’gravity“ 呵呵，我当时差点笑岔气了，因为rove本人个子不高，和john站在一起矮了不止一个头，rove后来也只能苦笑。 这次搬奖，其中半数的奖象都被一个叫wolfmother的乐队得了，乐队没有bass，一个键盘手更象是磕了药的混混，主唱兼吉他手，声音没有话说，有点模仿whitesnake，就是吉他，从头到尾就两三个和旋，拿着一把gibson满场飞，还玩出几个高难度的动作，音乐基本上没什么旋律，现场的灯光配合的还满好的，感觉比较火爆，结束了还模仿一些老牌金属的乐队一样，在台上砸东西，只是一点派头没有，看起来还是象一群磕药的人。
john mayer作为演出佳宾，为一个当地的歌手做了旋律吉他的伴奏，这也成了整场演出唯一真正意义上的吉他solo，可能音乐风格的原因，
john mayer演出的时候，全场的灯都黑了，只有他在聚光灯下，用黑色，掉了漆的fender弹了的一段水银泄底般的blues,这也和刚才那个拿崭新gibson的wolfmother 的吉他手产生了鲜明的对比，而且，相信他旁边那位澳洲的歌手也知道谁才是主角了，后来john mayer的论坛上面也有不少人对那个澳洲的歌手表示同情，谁要他和john mayer一起登场。
另外一个鲜明的对比是，当john mayer结束solo以后，他只是面无表情的看着偌大的体育场，和数万台下的观众，也许他知道这不是他要征服的地方，可能他的心还是在blues上，还是在小酒吧里，和那些真正懂他音乐的人，而他在eric clapton，bb king的演唱会上，他谦逊的
在后台看着自己的偶像演出，和他自己在blues酒吧演出结束后，他也会十分谦逊的答谢台下不多的观众，表现的十分humble。他自己的第三张专机，用他自己的话说，是他写给一直支持的广大歌迷的，并不是自己真正追求的东西，不过不可否认的是，
，其中还是加入了大量的blues元素，和他前两张专机比的话。 他说等他做完了宣传以后， 然后他会消失一段时间，去做自己的音乐，和自己的blues 乐队，john mayer trio，
谁知道呢，希望他真能象很多人预言那样，把blues音乐重新搬回主流市场。

www.myspace.com/johnmayer(有他新专机几首歌的试听）

john mayer blog 的一篇文章,写的还满有意思.

 

I've been thinking about something lately.

Imagine this:

You're on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They're a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before. "Flight attendants take your seats now", you hear, the pilot's voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you've just been hit with a football. That's what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.

Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying. For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you're remarkably fixed on one vision - your parents. They're sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that's that.

Several long minutes go by. Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down - hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall - you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you've just been granted life in overtime.

Here's the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven't spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can't you be bothered with anymore? What's the new you like?

Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now

BUSH "翻唱" U2 的sunday bloody  sunday

 

如果有人没有听过这首U2的经典反战歌曲

这里是他们一个早期的版本,非常cool

 

 

 

G3 12月要过来, 不知为什么更人说的时候都喜欢说成3G, 昨天去买票,心想早上9点开始卖票,加之这里的人感觉上也不会很疯狂,下午一点种去买的时候还琢磨着这次一定可以买个前面的位置. 哪里知道,下面所有的位置都买完了， 只有楼上10排以后的了,昏死. 怎么办呢,低估了民众的积极性. 不过票到手了,要是完一天估计只有上ebay买黄牛票的下场了,这次还是vai 和joe,加上梦剧院的吉他手john　petrucci,和在日本东京的那个阵容是一样的,应该会比较爽. 不过心中的G3 :ＡＮＤＹ　ＴＩＭＭＯＮＳ　，　ＥＲＩＣ　ＪＯＨＮＳＯＮ　，　ＶＩＮＮＩＥ　ＭＯＯＲＥ

这个夏天值得期待了，１１月的yngwie　malmsteen，　１２月的Ｇ３　．

anyone into the discovery or documentary TV show , recommend you a nice TV show " top gear" , the series are produced by BBC . the show is about the the cars that are top of the line , unlike other tv show , it has the most exciting music you can hear ,and High definition quality picture , you just won't be believe someone really put that much effort in just one episode of the show. if you take any part of the show ,and compare with the nomal TV ads , it owns them all  . sometime i just sit there you , watch them  on YOUTUBE for several hours.  just after that , you still have to face all the assignments , essays . you  can't enjoy yourself too much , :)  FOR FRIENDS IN AUSTRALIA , every monday night , starts at 7:30 , show runs about 1 hour , on SBS

 

 

from gao xiao song