Leap Day! 羅西尼 Rossini 22ø. Petite Messe Solennelle, excerpt 辭世作: 莊嚴小彌撒 the last of his péchés de vieillesse, I864

Gioachino Antonio Rossini ( 29 febbraio 1792- 13 novembre 1868)

笑 忘 書 Bookʂ oƒ laughing and forgetting _ Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat: 銅 面 The copper top ƒrom Everything'ʂ getting older 萬 物 逐 漸 老 去, 2OII

Aidan John Moffat ( 10 Apr. 1973- Falkirk, Scotland)

The bar's busier than it should be on a weekday afternoon as the door swings shut behind me, but I'm the only one wearing a suit. No-one seems to notice my entrance though, I suppose they must be used to mourners in the nearest pub to the crematorium. I don't think I could've coped with the wake, I had to make ...a quick exit to be alone with my memories, I was sick of hearing everyone else's. I buy a pint and sit down.

"See, the trouble with you is that you're top heavy", said the tailor as he measured me up. They don't get asked much for three-piece suits these days, so my choice was limited. I went for all-purpose black, or 'charcoal grey' as he called it. Looks black to me. This is the second time I've worn it, the first was a wedding and there's a christening next week so I might as well get my money's worth. Birth, love and death: the only reasons to get dressed up. I loosen my tie.

Halfway through my pint and a text message from John says he's waiting outside, sooner than I'd expected. I down what's left and step out into the bright afternoon and get in the car. I look up and see the pub's once brilliant copper roof has oxidized over the years and it's now a dull, pastel green. Everything's getting older.

.. It’s “ the funeral you’ve worked your whole life for.”

✚ 文 字 太 多, 生 命 卻 太 短。或 生命是一篇冗長的文字. . Too many words, yet too short the life; or Life is too long a chapter. . The Divine Comedy "The Booklovers" I994

Divina Commedia, an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308- 1321.
神 曲 " 愛 書 人 " from 攜 伴 散 步 P r o m e n a d e , Northern Ireland's Neil Hannon ( 7 Nov. 1970- ) 3rd album, 1994.
This book deals with epiphenomenalism, which has to do with consciousness as a mere accessory of physiological processes whose presence or absence.. makes no difference.. whatever are you doing ?

Aphra Benn: Hello
Cervantes: Donkey
Daniel Defoe: To christen the day!
Samuel Richardson: Hello
Henry Fielding: Tittle-tattle Tittle-tattle..
Lawrence Sterne: Hello
Mary Wolstencraft: Vindicated!
Jane Austen: Here I am!
Sir Walter Scott: We're all doomed!
Leo Tolstoy: Yes!
Honoré de Balzac: Oui..
Edgar Allen Poe: Aaaarrrggghhhh!
Charlotte Brontë: Hello..
Emily Brontë: Hello..
Anne Brontë: Hellooo..?
Nikolai Gogol: Vas chi
Gustav Flaubert: Oui
William Makepeace Thackeray: Call me 'William Makepeace Thackeray'
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The letter 'A'
Herman Melville: Ahoy there!
Charles Dickens: London is so beautiful this time of year..
Anthony Trollope: good-good-good-good evening!
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here come the sleepers..
Mark Twain: I can't even spell 'Mississippi'!
George Eliot: George reads German
Emile Zola: J'accuse
Henry James: Howdy Miss Wharton!
Thomas Hardy: Ooo-arrr!
Joseph Conrad: I'm a bloody boring writer..
Katherine Mansfield: [cough cough]
Edith Wharton: Well hello, Mr James!
DH Lawrence: Never heard of it
EM Forster: Never heard of it!

James Joyce: Hello there!
Virginia Woolf: I'm losing my mind!
Marcel Proust: Je me'en souviens plus
F Scott Fitzgerald: baa bababa baa
Ernest Hemingway: I forgot the..
Hermann Hesse: Oh es ist alle so häßlich
Evelyn Waugh: Whoooaarr!
William Faulkner: Tu connait William Faulkner?
Anaïs Nin: The strand of pearls
Ford Maddox Ford: Any colour, as long as it's black!
Jean-Paul Sartre: Let's go to the dome, Simone!
Simone de Beauvoir: C'est exact present
Albert Camus: The beach.. the beach
Franz Kafka: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!
Thomas Mann: Mam
Graham Greene: Call me 'pinky', lovely
Jack Kerouac: Me car's broken down..
William S Burroughs: Wowwww!

Kingsley Amis: [cough]
Doris Lessing: I hate men!
Vladimir Nabokov: Hello, little girl..
William Golding: Achtung Busby!
JG Ballard: Instrument binnacle
Richard Brautigan: How are you doing?
Milan Kundera: I don't do interviews
Ivy Compton Burnett: Hello...
Paul Theroux: Have a nice day!
Günter Grass: I've found snails!
Gore Vidal: Oh, it makes me mad!
John Updike: Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run..
Kazuro Ishiguro: Ah so, old chap!
Malcolm Bradbury: stroke John Steinbeck, stroke JD Salinger
Iain Banks: Too orangey for crows!
AS Byatt: Nine tenths of the law, you know..
Martin Amis: [burp]
Brett Easton Ellis: Aaaaarrrggghhh!
Umberto Eco: I don't understand this either..
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Mi casa es su casa
Roddy Doyle: ha ha ha!
Salman Rushdie: Names will live forever..

Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own; He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's dead & gone- I want to live today'

Morrissey ( 22 May 1959- ), John Peel ( 30 Aug. 1939– 25 Oct. 2004, heart attack) and Brazilian director Walter Salles' film On The Road, an adaptation of the Jack Kerouac ( 12 Mar. 1922– 21 Oct. 1969 ,internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol.) novel, starring Sam Riley ( Control, 2007) as Sal Paradise & Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty.

Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves, Yet each man does not die. 男人總是毀了他愛的東西, 而他自己沒事。王 爾 德 M a y I897

Once I was young, then I grew up
from the greylight to the bluelight to the daylight,
have I grown up at all?

( I love you I love you I love you)
am I to blame? . . no one's to blame. from catholic album, 2011

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a Oscar Wilde ( 16 Oct. 1854– 30 Nov. 1900 ,meningitis) poem, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897.

◎ 愛無處路上的轉圜 Corners on the Road of Love Leads Nowhere‧給可人兒的死亡出租車. The Postal Service 郵政. The Shins 小腿骨. Broken Bells 碎鈴. Club Smith 史密斯俱樂部. Crocus 番紅花

街角的告示 說今晚 The Smiths 或 Felt 在酒吧開唱
看到當下 心裡上上下下 其實要惦估好幾遍
倒是下班路上 轉角的酒吧說:
Death Cab For Cutie 或 The Shins 有演唱會
就不用顧忌那麼多了。 走進去不必照會心情
他們玩的是音樂 不必看得太認真； 唱歌是這朋友的工作 有幾支代表作 有興趣聽聽； 不想刻意聽 他也不欲藉音樂勉強灌輸什麼 但走近他 當也可以說聲嗨 把音樂當成用聊的

不過時間在今天下班後 這些都是不可能..
說愁的詩人 時間稱了他 早乘鶴做古
原本近距離的朋友隨時間給了知名度紅了 進場排隊還要預約
若下班路上 還能順性晃進酒吧聽到歌
那名字寫上的是 Club Smith 或 Crocus
新名字 有夠吵 但很好
沒有朋友 離舞台最遠的角落
愛的路上他的湮隱 暫時待過片刻 那沒人認得的停留



I Will Follow You into the Dark, from Death Cab For Cutie's 5th album Plans, 2005. _ We Will Become Silhouettes, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard with Jimmy Tamborello as The Postal Service, from their only album Give Up. _ The High Road, The Shins' James Mercer with Brian Burton ( Danger Mouse) as Broken Bells, from their eponymous debut album. _ Simple Song, from The Shins' the 4th, new album Port of Morrow after 5 years, released 20 Mar. 2012.


Young Defeatists, Club Smith's single No Friend of Mine, 2011.
All of You, from Crocus' debut album Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust, 2012 我 們 的 回 憶 讓 我 穿 著 已 死 的 慾 念.

Crocus vernus ( L.) Hill 1765 _ Synonymie: Crocus sativus var. vernus L. 1753

ʃ ɱ i t ɦ . 朱

命 運 底 的 嗜 眠 徒 Undᴇʀ thᴇ Whᴇᴇl oƒ Foʀtunᴇ, thᴇ Slᴇᴇpᴇʀ _ Dan Mangan ƒʀom 'O5

O Fortune, variable
as the moon, always dost thou
wax and wane. ─ O Fortuna. a medieval Latin poem early in the 13th century, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. Set to music by the German composer Carl Orff for openin' and closin' his cantata Carmina Burana, first staged 1937, conductor: Bertil Wetzelsberger.



Dan Mangan ( 28 Apr. 1983- ): 發 作 嗜 眠 人 的 日 誌, 獨 立 界 的 皇 后 們 等 著, 賣 出, 關 於 對 你 有 幫 助 你 其 實 可 以 不 需 任 何 幫 助, 機 器 人. Dan performed his album 'Oh Fortune' as a special performance for his fans at CBC Vancouver, 17 Sep. 2011.

I'm Happier that he's not famous, that way he won't change to fit in. OlimpicChamp3's comment on UTube, 2011.

Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim. 1867, Summer Camellia, 夏 椿, 沙 羅 樹

就 在 那 你 的 進 納 - 救 贖 ɪ [ 一位士兵與他的自我追尋 ] _ Justin Vernon oƒ Bon Iver 2OO5‧A Congratulation on his Grammy Awards oƒ 54th, 2O12.

Right Down There In Your Tributary / Яedemption 1 ( An army man and his self-discovery) from Justin Vernon's first solo album Self Record, 2OO5.

肩 並 肩 ‧Shoulder To Shoulder ɓy ▅ 實 驗 部 門 Test Dept. with South Wales Striking Miners Choir ▅ 南威爾斯罷業礦工合音團 ‧I985

.. people's mindsets were better under Margaret Thatcher because she was a figure people could rally against, and the dark times for the working classes under her meant a lot of cultural revolt which led to some fantastic music. Mike Aram wrote on nme.com

Test Dept.'s involvement in the Miners' Strike is recorded in the now deleted 1985 LP, Shoulder to Shoulder, recorded with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir, all profits from which went to support the strike.TD & SWSMC performed throughout the country to raise money and awareness, and on the record they appear both on several separate tracks, and one collaboration, Comrades 夥 伴.

聞 香 天 才 與 寶 貝 的 他 ‧ Mike Hadяeas oƒ Peяfume Genius with His Aяpad Miklos

從 未 有 人 詳 述 , 曙 光 為 何 悲 傷 _ the twilight sad 曙 光 悲 No One Can Ever Know 從 來 沒 人 知 道 2012

no one ever clearly described why in the twilight seemly sad anticipation recurred along abnegation for long.

The Twilight Sad, the forthcoming 3rd studio album No One Can Ever Know, which is scheduled to release on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
( below): The Wrong Car, single 2011. And She Would Darken The Memory, for Bandstand Busking in Northampton Square, 2010. Never Tear Us Apart, a 2011 Christmas present song, INXS cover. Never Tear Us Apart, by INXS, on Donnie Darko soundtrack. Michael Hutchence of INXS,
22 Jan. 1960– 22 Nov. 1997, suicide.


元 宵 Lantern Festival

情 感 樂 章 的 勞 倫 斯 - To Lawrence with Love . 毛 氈 F e l t , Manic Street Preachers 瘋的街頭傳教士, 房地產 Real Estate, 女孩 Girls & Girls Names 女孩名字

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原 創 的 畫 家 by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, bonus track of 2009's Journal for Plague Lovers, Japan edition.
日 照 沐 浴 金 色 光 芒 live by New Jersey's Real Estate, BBC Radio 1 Session 2011.
Lawrence by Christopher Owens of San Francisco's Girls, a Christmas gift to Lawrence Hayward, 2011. _ Lawrence by Scottish group Girls Names, the opening of 2011's Dead to Me.

古怪的花 2oıı_別人都無法給的東西 ı987│曳 痕 The Wake, Wild Nothing 野 沒 什 麼 and Beach Fossils 海 邊 化 石

古 怪 的 古 堡/ 黯 淡 的 嚇 人/ 怒 海/ 塑 膠 花
The Wake EP Something That No One Else Could Bring, their last release on Factory before Sarah Records, 1987, England. In 2011, Gruesome Flowers: A Tribute To The Wake 7" recorded by Wild Nothing and Beach Fossils on US Captured Tracks Records.


The Wake 2nd LP Here Comes Everybody, the Factory Records, 1985.

O Pamela 6:01
Send Them Away 3:37
Sail Through 3:22
Melancholy Man 7:17
World Of Her Own 2:50
Torn Calendar 4:42
All I Asked You To Do 4:14
Here Comes Everybody 6:58

在被思旅淹沒的氣嚥裡 , 我輕觸你時間光幻的手 - ROME Die Æsthetik der Herrschafts- freiheit , a trilogy: 2 o ɪ 2

drowning in the endless thoughts of travelling, asphyxiatedly I lightly touch the hands of yours in time of hypotyposis.

▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅ .Wanderer, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more;
wanderer, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
By walking one makes the road,
and upon glancing behind
one sees the path
that never will be trod again.
Wanderer, there is no road -
Only wakes upon the sea.

Traveller, there is no pathway, there is only traveling itself. Antonio Machado ( 26 julio 1875– 22 febrero 1939). Luigi Nono
( 29 gennaio 1924– 8 maggio 1990)'s motto . ▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅

三女士, 與她的男人_ The Three Ladies and her Man_ oƒ Pisces Lykke Li, Libra Annie Clark ɛ Virgo Florence Welch + Seeker Lover Keeper ɛ You Got the Love. I986

- 悲 傷 是 福 氣

The Lady with her Father Figure 'Sadness Is a Blessing'

The Lady with her to the End of the World Someone 'I Follow Rivers'

From a Lady to a Woman into a Family facing her Spouse 'Cruel'

Ladies constantly wish Men to Understand 'Even Though I'm a Woman'

A Lady With her Master God Materializing her 'What the Water Gave Me' _ Chanel prêt-à-porter printemps/ été 2o12, by karl Lagerfield


You Got the Love, a The Source 1986 single featuring Candi Staton, in 2oo9 Florence and the Machine recorded a cover as her fifth single. _ Christian Dior haute couture printemps/ été 2oo4, the Egyptian show,by John Gallino.Close:Czech model Karolína Kurková