January 2011
11 posts
Empathy as the Essence of Art
emilywang:
“More and more I believe that great acting is about truly listening to what the other person is saying and then truly answering,” he said. “Once you start doing that, which these three (actors) do magnificently, then it becomes utterly compulsive. You cannot wait to hear what is going to come out of their mouths next.”
- Alan Rickman on directing Strindberg’s Creditors (1889),...
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face...
– Michel de Montaigne (via codylanguages)
Strongest people aren't always the people who win,...
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我的寶貝 Money 在 2011 年 1 月 7 日上午到了天國成為小天使,享年 11 歲又 29 天,算是標準的老鳥了,但外表看起來仍然年輕俊朗。這個 video 是在他 8 歲半時,我為了測試新買的 iPad nano video 功能拍的。當時他正在換毛(鳥類每年都會換一次毛),所以頭禿禿的很像小老頭。這麼多年來很想將他唱歌時的聲音錄下來,因為他從小自編的音樂實在很好笑,並且從小到老只會重複那幾句,相當經典。記得有一年坐計程車送他去鳥醫院做健康檢查時,計程車司機還很委婉地說:「你們這隻鳥唱歌真是…. 挺特別的。」11年了,我們居然沒有留下任何的音檔或影片,人生值得懊悔的事實在是太多。
文鳥的平均壽命大約是 7 年,我們從 1999 年底一起養了才出生沒二週的 Kitty 與 Money(分別是灰文鳥與白文鳥),2006 年 9 月,一向愛自由的 Kitty...
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