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1月25日 在比利时的时候错过了Tori Amos, The Cure, 种种遗憾,终于在上海被Nightwish大大补偿。 实在想谢谢Nightwish,上海体育馆那个破场地,不到2000人的观众,蛮不讲理的保安,价值近乎为零的正版音乐市场,但他们还是不远万里的来了,这不是学雷锋是啥?
也要谢谢暖场的意大利Skylark,明知自己可能不受欢迎,但是在Nightwish磨蹭了一个半多钟头才露面(不知道是不是飞机晚点)的情况下,Skylark卖力的表演还是能稍许缓解大家的焦虑。抛开技术不提,他们的职业精神实在叫人钦佩。
最后也该谢谢全场的观众,想像一下如果预定2个钟头的刘德华演唱会过了1个半小时刘德华还没有出场,只有一个不知名歌手在那里唱歌试图给大家解闷,主办方也没有任何解释,下面的观众会是什么反映。但是NW现场的大部分观众就这么一直等了下去,当然,最终 everything more than paid off.
1月20日
The following weekend proved to be particularly pleasant for Tarja. At Saturday she went hiking and shopping, and of course a Sauna at night, then Sunday a group of her die hard fans stormed into the state TV station as well as the Parliament house, demanding the restore of her as the vocalist of Nightwish. An emergent session was immediately hold at the parliament, after 30 minutes of intensive debating and voting and a coffee break, the decision was made, that Tarja would be the president of Republic of Finland and was given the power to disassemble the parliament, impose the Tax, wage the war, or, receive a formal apology from the band Nighwish. The former president, whose name happened also to be Tarja, addressed shortly after the resignation, saying, "Nothing really changed indeed, we are both women, both called Tarja, and both Finish, the nation is again in good hands."
The very next day president Tarja called for a top level military meeting, during which she asked, "When was the last time we fought a war?"
"In nineteen forties", an office said, "to fight Russian first and then later shortly with German."
"Great, now we are to fight with China."
There was silence, until someone broke it.
"Excuse me, would anyone mind my smoking?"
"Yes, all of us."
Silence again, until somebody else broke it.
"Mrs President, I know as a man in uniform I shall just follow the order, but you see, the idea to go to a war with China, is, shall I say, pretty insane."
Tarja stared at the officer, articulating the words very clearly. "Our forefathers fought with Russia, which was bigger, more powerful, and alcoholic. I can't see a reason why we shall not have a war with China. Unless you care too much about the panda."
Everyone seemed to be conceived.
"That said, shall we start the plan?" asked an air force officer, "My cousin is working with NATO and probably he can help me get some long range stealthy bombers."
"Not necessary." Said Tarja, "We just send them the message, and the message will be broad casted on MTV."
终于看完了号称五卷本的三部曲"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "的前三卷,喜欢得不得了,这系列书简直是胡扯的集大成者。
周末的时候我也胡扯了些,以来向以不在人世的作者致敬,我是你的大fans,二来胡扯确有排解压力提神醒脑之疗效。
一共写了三篇,都放在http://hg2c.blogspot.com/,不出意外的话,应该会持续扯下去。 live space里准备只放两篇。
The Hitchhiker's guide to China
Mad Woman
Paul is sitting in front of the computer, debugging over some code whose logical structure closely resemble a pile of spaghetti in a five dimensional space. Like many other Chinese white collar workers in this city, like Frank, Samuel, Lily, Jinglebell and Ihatecoke, their original Chinese name can only be vaguely reminded by their genetic parents, during public holidays.
He is eager to get things done before Jan 23, a very important day, the day he will be dressed up well, have half day off, and go to a rock concert, performed by the Finish band Nightwish. He already booked the ticket for 480 RMB and have since kept it very secretly. He knows otherwise some woman, more precisely his wife, would be very mad knowing this, as he chooses to spend half night listening to another woman yelling, and worse, he paid for it.
So there is one woman very mad about it, and her name is Tarja. Tarja was the vocalist of Nightwish and only got dismissed last year for arguable reasons, replaced by a Sweden woman whose voice sounds so Within Temptation. She is still mad at the band, because although she hates to tour with the whole band, she hates it even more when the whole band is on tour without her.
She dialed the number of one of the globally most wanted terrorists, and was received by a sweet voice.
"Hello there, this is the office of Mr Unspeakable, To blow off some building, please press the button 1; to assassin some government officials press the button 2; to buy a weapon of mass destruction press the button 3; to order a T-shirt reads "Be terrorized and relax" press the button 4; to talk to Mr Unspeakable in person press the button #.
Tarja pressed the button #.
The same sweet voice sounds again. "Hello there, Mr Unspeakable is on a desert golf game with some very important guys from CIA. I am his 2nd secretary and 101st secret lover, can I take a message?" “Sure," said Tarja, "I am Tarja, just ask him to do me a favor and I will return him with my best hits collection." "That's very sweet." answered the sweet voice merrily, "What can we do for you?" "Mess up a concert, by blowing off the Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai and a couple of hundred nearby buildings. I want a full scale revenge against those who betrayed me, and terrorize all people in Shanghai who has potential not to listen to me." "That's very sweet." said the voice, followed by some sounds of typing, "wait, why in Shanghai, or say, China? Nightwish is going to US in a few months, isn't there a fonder place?" "Can't you see that? I want to make it big, as big as a blockbuster movie. The X'mas season ended one month ago and the Chinese new years is coming in a couple of weeks."
Apparently this reason is very conceiving but the voice doesn't seem to be very conceived. "Okay, but look, to blow off building in China still doesn't sound as a good idea." "Why is that?" "Well, basically there are three reasons. First, those buildings, essensially speaking, are not even as valuable as the explosives to take to blow them up, they will smash themselves someday when their design lifetime, which is very short, expired, so why do we bother? Second, Chinese people, in general, are so cool on these blowing things that they can read those online news over lunch about coal mine blasting taking away the life from a couple of hundred workers and say oh, not again, then keep on watching videos of a short-skirted female dancing, so I will assure you they will choose to forget about it well before the eve of Chinese new year. Third, Mr Unspeakable just recently invested a couple of billion dollars on real properties in Shanghai seeing the potential their prices can shortly catch up with those in Manhaton, so it's definitely not of his interest to do as you suggested."
"So, what else can you do for me?" asked Tarja.
"Nothing." said the voice, "Sayonara." Promptly was the phone hanged off. 1月10日 1.27 虹桥体育馆
新年前终于有了件能让自己开心的事情。
唯一的遗憾是女主唱已经易人,和Tarja相比,现在的Anette 的唱腔高亢有余,浑厚不足,听上去就像另一支Within Temptation。不知道她唱 sleeping sun会是什么感觉。
但是话说回来,如果还是Tarja当班,可能Nightwish压根儿不会来中国,毕竟她被乐队开掉的理由之一就是不肯去市场较小(包括北美,不消说中国)的地方巡演。
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