Once: Falling Slowly

耶誕節的時候我和布先生看了一部愛爾蘭獨立製片的電影 "Once". 這部片是描寫一個以修吸塵器維生,默默無名的愛爾蘭創作歌手, 和以賣玫瑰花維生, 彈的一手好鋼琴女生的故事. 藉由對音樂的喜愛及才華, 他們共同創作一個Demo專輯, 希望藉此拿到唱片合約. 在創作的過程中, 他們共同回首逝去的感情, 也藉由歌曲默默抒發對對方的情感. 整部電影其實就是創作一個音樂專輯的過程. 故事情節以及電影裡穿插的歌曲都相當動人(而且沒有Hollywood那種膚淺結局). 還有, 我後來才知道主題曲"Falling Slowly"得到2007年奧斯卡最佳電影原著歌曲)
前幾天我終於記得上網買電影原聲帶, 雖然已經過了幾個月, 一聽到"Falling Slowly" 眼淚就不停的掉. 我的iPod今天撥這首歌已不下十次, 但每次聽, 我都還是覺得心有揪在一起的感覺. 或許是因為看過電影, 知道歌詞背後的意義, 讓我感觸特別深. 所以, 我想和大家分享這首應該是我最喜歡的歌!!

Brian and I saw an independent movie "Once" on DVD over the holidays. It is about an Irish guitarist/singer/songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners and as a street musician and a immigrant girl who sells flower on the street and plays piano. They get to know each other as the girl helps him to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. They work through their past loves, and reveal their feeling for one another, through their songs. This movie is a making of an album. Very beautiful story and songs.
A few months later, I got soundtrack of this movie and listened to it over and over again. "Falling Slowly", the theme song of this movie, is my favorite and even after listening to it for more than 10 times, I still got emotionally attached. I've never been so "haunted" (in a good way) by a song before, and I think it has a lot to do with how the story ties into this song. I think this song is going to be my all time favorite. I highly recommend it!!! (And we later found out this song won the best original score category in 2007 Academy Award)
by YT

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Falling Slowly--Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová.

I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You'll make it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

I paid the cost too late
Now you're gone

Superbowl XLIII Champion.....Pittsburgh Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!

Pittsburgh Steelers won the 6th Superbowl title!!!! We are so proud of our team. We are the first team in NFL history to win six superbowl titles. Our coach is the youngest to win superbowl. Our defense James Harrison had the longest play (100 yards..the whole football field) in superbowl history. And this is the best superbowl game ever.

(Steelers QB No. 7 Ben Roethlisberger)

Steelers dominated the whole game until the 4th quarter. Cardinals scored two touchdowns in the 4th quarter and took the lead from Steelers (23-20). It was so disappointing...I screamed and shout and burried my head in my terrible towel. I thought that was it.........we're going to lose the game. But our quarterback Ben Roethlisberger did it again like what he had done almost the whole season.....took the team to 4th quarter comeback. We scored a absolutely beautiful touchdown at the sideline/corner of the end zone by Santonio Homles, when there is only 35 seconds or so remained in the game. What a dramatic 4th quarter!! Cardinal only had the lead for less than 3 minutes...and we took it back from them. What a great game. I felt I almost had a heart attak. It's so surreal and unbelievable. Many sport commentators also said this is the greatest superbowl game ever. Here's a bit of video (NFL.com) of the game-winning final drive, starting with the Cardinals' touchdown in the 3rd to last minute.

We are so pround of Steelers. Great owner, great coach and great players. We are Steelers nation. Now Pittsburgh is the "Six-burgh".

We watched the game at AM's place. We wore our Steelers jersey, brought our terrible towels and black and gold pompom to watch the game. We had Thaid food (not very traditional football game food) for dinner and I made a Raspberry-Chocolate Hazelnut tart for dessert. We had a good time watching this great game. Photos are uploaded already.

新年快樂+ Pittsburgh's goin to the Superbowl

對於大概20位有在看我部落格的朋友 非常抱歉沒有依照原定計畫update部落格 (shame)
我也不知道自己在忙什麼 覺得好像有點忙 但是什麼都沒做好的感覺
這個星期三是我postdoc evaluation 因為我才開始一個學期 所以進度也不多
不過接下來這一年我手邊大概有5,6篇paper等著我寫 1個pilot study等著我去做, 3, 4個meeting要去
anyway...現在並不想想太多

農曆新年要到了 祝大家牛年行大運
健康快樂 該嫁(娶)的快嫁(娶) 該生的快生

匹茲堡依舊沒有過年的感覺
台灣同學會似乎成荒廢的狀態已有幾年的時間了
大家好像都是各組小團體 我明天也要跟我的小團體一起吃火鍋(自從布先生說在台灣吃火鍋吃到怕...我今年冬天到現在都還沒吃火鍋)

最近還有一件令人振奮的消息

我們Pittsburgh Steelers(鋼鐵人) 上星期日成功挑戰AFC冠軍
(美式足球有兩個聯盟 AFC 和 NFC, 兩聯盟的冠軍爭Superbowl冠軍)
2/1 晚上六點將要和亞利桑那 Cardinal 爭奪今年美式足球超級盃冠軍
沒想到這才在Pittsburgh這幾年就可以看到Steelers兩次進軍Superbowl(2006年我們拿冠軍喔)
這次Steelers 贏的勝算很高 所以我們很有機會拿下第六個superbowl 冠軍
如果真的是這樣 我們將是美式足球史上第一個拿到六個冠軍的隊伍 Oh Yeah~~~
我們的新教練也會是史上最年輕拿到Superbowl的教練

最近大家都在唱Steeler Superbowl 歌 "....Here we go, Steelers, Here we go, Pittsburgh's goin to the Superbowl...."

整個城市high到不得了 連教授們都在討論球賽 我從Pittsburgh搬去德州的朋友還特地叫我幫他寄幾條 terrible towels下去
Terrible towel是Steelers的招牌...其實就是一條黃黃的毛巾寫著terrible towel. 由來就請大家點這裡去看吧!!

那...就醬吧 下次再寫