咩學程度

前天，訪問了一休，他是戲劇界的大教育家，走遍各大小中學教戲劇，在行內人所共知。

就戲劇教育，他說了一件很有趣的事，就是所有他教過的中學，一定會有一個劇本是講，某某想讀OR做音樂家/畫家/藝術家等，但家人強烈反對下，最後淪為每日報上自殺新聞的主人翁。

OH, SHIT, 我的畢業劇本，不是講這回事嗎﹖(雖然最後沒有自殺。)

大學程度，寫中學生的題材﹖Oh，原來我是如此的一般。

當在正自思量，一休繼續說，這些中學生如何沒有自己，我就繼續很冷靜的做著訪問。

～～完～～

Finally, on air

Here comes the link for my radio drama performance(In English, i can see how disappointed they are after the recording, haha), simple click the following link and choose listern. If u are a bit impatient about not hearing my voice, u are suggested to tune to 8 mins of the track.

Have a good ride.

http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio4/songbirds/20060216.html

編輯部強力推薦

陳建年，正職警察，副職創作音樂，以一把屬於台灣蘭嶼，屬於卑南族人，屬於土地，屬於海洋的聲音，唱出一個奇跡來。我現在才發覺實在太......，算啦，反正非常好聽就是了。

圖左至右︰
左一︰海洋(陳建年的首張專輯，該專輯亦替建年奪得00年金曲獎最佳男歌手獎，打敗王力宏，陶吉吉。)
右一︰大地(零二年出版的第二張專集，延續原住民情懷。)
中間︰東清村三號(最新專輯，集合近年建年為朋友的紀錄片的配樂作品，ps還未上架，謝謝建年相送。)

留意圖中的電話，唱片可是用LP sized的封套包裝的，內有美美的照片。

阿麥書房、Kubrick有售。

Sense of Belongings

今天看完了「行草二」後，跟林懷民老師做了一個小訪問後，有幸跟他們一塊去酒店食東西，認識到雲門的dancer儀君及兩名來自德國的記者，他們都讓我見識了sense of belongings。

儀 君在雲門已十二年了，跟她聊天，你就知道她對雲門的感情有多深。說起去年，狂草被phantom of the opera及berliner狂攻，說起政府給的經費看來很多，其實很少呀，眼眶都禁不住紅了起來，很激動的樣子。特別說到，有大陸人叫他們植根內地，大 陸那麼多地方，不怕生存不到時，她很強調的說，雲門是台灣的，根在台灣時。她眼中那種對台灣土地的深情，真的教人感動，也看到她真的很愛台灣及雲門。這種 對自家藝團及土地的熱愛，抱歉，在香港真的看不到。

另外，德國的記者，當然啦，相對就理智很多(這也關係到我跟她們的對話也很理智呀)， 但令人難忘的是，儘管德國的藝術可能在經濟上不太 productive，甚至要倒貼很多錢，報紙上的arts page也由四、五版，減少至兩版左右，但他們認為情況不會惡化下去，因為他們的藝術是可以代表德國及德國人的。

所以德國人會支持他們的藝術發展，台灣人也很支持雲門，那香港人呢﹖

很多的artist會投訴香港人不會支持自己的藝術，但問題是香港的藝術值不值得支持﹖

值不值你應該有你的想法，重要的是，我想香港人應該多作討論。但我就看得比較負面。

譬如說，當一個舞團百分之九十的舞者都是來自大陸，作品也跟香港沒有什麼關係(or even falsely projected)，那為什麼我們要支持呢﹖

當然，這只是其中一個picture，問題有多面，有空再說。

呢度有真音樂

ArtFest的唱作不停，掂呀，有真音樂呀。
集合香港的Morningloria、台灣的陳建一同日本的曾我部惠一。

morningloria比打頭陣，感覺清新，但如果多少少warm up同交流就仲好。
陳建年，沒話說啦，很土地，很台灣的感覺，特感動的。建年的結他加上女和音、手風琴、口琴等元素，感覺到真誠的交流。
曾我部惠一，哈，他很high，很有energy，得懂和觀眾交流，氣氛一流!!!。


明天18日及後天19日仍有show，推薦大家去看，很正的哦。

我係余家強﹖

估唔到今期，我連豪語錄都撈埋，無論係文體定係設計(不過網上睇唔到)對呢度，都算係革命性的，連一向只埋首砌稿的小姐哥哥都甚感興趣，仲問呢套野係邊度做，想問我借dvd睇下先。但最出奇係老細竟然批，訪問邊個﹖自己睇啦︰

http://www.wenweipo.com/news.phtml?news_id=BH0602120001&loc=any&cat=104BH&no_combo=1

project yourself

Today, i want to talk about how does it feel when working in a small scale media which doesn't have large circulation and good reputation.

It's hard. Especially for a guy who have worked in a number one circulation news magazine.
In the past, when people get to know your magazine, either they would feel disguised or they would think it's cool.

Here, people from the outside would usually think the paper have political standpoint and don have good feeling about it and it's reporter too.

luckily i didn't encounter anyone who is rude or impolite or to look down on me just because of the name of my company.

I think the best way to work as a reporter here, is to project yourself with even MORE confidence and don let your interviewee's bad expectation fullfilled. you have to show your own strength and talent, and show them u are the top in the field.

Thanks god, i am doing exceptionally well recently, thanks to my boss who let me do whatever i like and let me seriously build up my connection by allowing me to go to functions which have no instant benefit to the paper.

Luckily

My comment on the legend of white snake has been sent to the ArtFest. I am pleased that the Fest responded me right after and gave me positive feedback.

Luckily, There is still hope.

My view on 白蛇新傳

First The production is far NOT satisfactory. To be fair, the concept is meaningful and sounds promising. However, the main plot is not strong enough to support a 3 hours musical, sub-plot should be introduced where it hasn't. It results in a lot of hard jokes and meaningless plotline used to fill up the plot holes. Also, character building is weak.

Acting is good, music is fine,(though without memorable tune), but the directing is not good enough. It reminds me a lot of trash local movies of the 80's which also contain hard jokes and meaningless plotline and dialogues. (無厘頭 can be really funny and interesting, but this drama is running on the other side.) It tries to contain multi-cultural elements of HK environment, but clearly it lost its way by just being too greedy. As a result, the drama turns out to be chaotic and messy as well

Moreover, the set design is simply terrible(not to mention the Guanyin). I have no idea whether it is because of the budget constraint.

In the second scene of Act 1 when the Guomingtung is matching with the Communist Party to show the unification of the Chinese people, I should say it is nothing but superficial. It tries to demontrate its ambition of being a Les Miserable-typed of musical, but it fails. Obviously, Victor can't convince me when he told me his idea on this scene during the post-performance interview.

I watched the Girl from 1941 and The Border City, but i have to say this one is the worst among the three.

Without doubt , the musical did showcast the artistic talents of HK drama scene, but i don think it can represent HK. After the show, I heard comment from a foreigner who's an art editor of an english magazine. She said she expect the largest local production in HK artfest would be, simply better.

I don't have any expectation on this production prior watching, but i was disappointed after the show.

I urge the ArtFest to seriously evalue this production after the fest. Personally, i think Theatre Ensemble, Prospects Theatre or even W theatre would be a much better choice to represent HK in a relatively large-scaled drama production.

真的感動了

韓片「真的愛你」真的很感動。看完後，再看「白蛇新傳」，對不起，真的被比下去了。

電影除了愛外，想說的其實是溝通。它很聰明地設計了不同角色，來營造缺乏溝通的張力，富心思。雖然少部份，尤其是後段的地方不免煽情，但整體上盡量克制，是相當聰明的一部電影，劇本相當完整、出色。

有趣的是，看後，聽到一位朋友說某朋友狠批此片，其實並不出奇，因為這位朋友是崇尚直接溝通的人，不明白為什麼有些人可以欲語還休，如此可見，這電影在處理溝通失語這個主題上，相當成功呢，哈哈。

WHY

早前，訪問著名藝人W，席間，問及H對W的批評，W語帶無奈，只說因為金錢上的瓜葛，令其反目，並稱H其實是一個十分「dark」的人。
今日，同事Y訪問H的人物稿出街，字裡行間當然沒有提及該宗金錢瓜葛，行文雖未至推崇備至的地步，但形象絕對正面。
那W口中很dark的H在那裡﹖同事Y的採訪是否毫無意義﹖

到頭來，W的說話，我又應否相信﹖