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5月31日 Good Will HuntingSave everything for myself. Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had a no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president. Sean: Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought about you since. Do you know what occurred to me? Will: No. Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. Will: Why thank you. Sean: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston. Will: Nope. Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right? [Will nods] Sean: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief. 5月30日 P.S. I Love YouYeah, it's a chick flick, but I think it's a freaking great romantic comedy. Make you laugh, make you cry. Starred by Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. 5月28日 27 DressesStarred by Katherine Heigl and James Marsden. I know it's not the greatest movie, but I had a lot of fun watching it. It is the type of movie that you can't give too many thoughts when you're watching. Found an interesting song by Elton John Music by Elton John Lyrics by Bernie Taupin Available on the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Hey kids, shake it loose together The spotlight's hitting something That's been known to change the weather We'll kill the fatted calf tonight So stick around You're gonna hear electric music Solid walls of sound Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet But they're so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh Bennie she's really keen She's got electric boots a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine Bennie and the Jets Hey kids, plug into the faithless Maybe they're blinded But Bennie makes them ageless We shall survive, let us take ourselves along Where we fight our parents out in the streets To find who's right and who's wrong 5月25日 My Man昨夜看了American Gangster。评价就俩字：到位。Denzel Washington和Russell Crowe的演技都太精湛了。 Some quotes: Frank Lucas: The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard-working. Frank Lucas: Either you are somebody, or you ain't nobody. Frank Lucas: I got Harlem. I took care of Harlem, so Harlem's gonna take care of me. Frank Lucas: This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America. 5月24日 City of God经朋友推荐看了City of God。非常经典。Based on a true story. A chronicle of crime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(film) Carl Douglas - Kung-Fu FightingKUNG FU FIGHTING 5月23日 Talking about 好(8)
Quote 好(8) 5月19日 Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe和Dadong去了Guggenheim看了蔡国强的展览：I Want to Believe. 很不好意思的是把感冒传染给了他。 以前误以为蔡国强以gunpowder作画是为了体现confrontation, conflicts, and violence是生命的一部分。今天去了才知道其实他受文革影响很深。用gunpowder作为工具其实是体现老毛子的“不破不立（no destruction, no construction）”的思想。I think it's really creative. Some selected works: The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century
This piece strikes me because of two reasons. First, the Manhattan Project was originated from New York, which is the most apparent meaning of this work. Second, it reminds me of one of E. B. White's great essays -- Here is New York. Written in 1948, it prophetically predicted what had happened in 9/11. The following paragraphs were extensively cited after 9/11. "The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sounds of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest editions." "This race--this race between the destroying planes and the struggling Parliament of Man--it sticks in all our heads. The city at last perfectly illustrates both the universal dilemma and the general solution, this riddle in steel and stone is at once the perfect target and the perfect demonstration of nonviolence, of racial brotherhood, this lofty target scraping the skies and meeting the destroying planes halfway home of all people and all nations, capital of everything, housing the deliberations by which the planes are to be stayed and their errand forestalled." Inopportune: Stage One
Inopportune: Stage One simulates the trajectory of an exploding automobile tumbling through space. Pine Forest and Wolf: Drawing Experiment for Deutsche Guggenheim
Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia
Head On
"The [glass] wall -- first realized to the exact height and thickness of the Berlin Wall -- represents society's tendency to search only for the obvious, missing instead what may not be immediately evident but ultimately more dangerous. In Cai's artistic iconography, wolves possess a ferocity and courageousness similar to tigers and achieve heroism through their collective unity. In this installation, however, their cohesiveness leads to their ultimate downfall. Here, through the emblematic imagery of wolves, Cai intends to address the human fallibility of following any collective ideology too blindly and humankind's fate to repeat mistakes unthinkingly." Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan 5月17日 There Will Be Blood刚看完There Will Be Blood。很深刻的一部电影。电影将人性的丑陋赤裸裸地剥离给我们看。 Daniel Plainview为达到目的不择手段。但他很纯粹。从电影的开始到结尾，Daniel自始至终坚持他的理念。与之相反，Eli Sunday则很伪善。表面上Eli是一个虔诚的基督教徒。实际上，church对Eli来说，和oil对Daniel一样，只不过是用来寻求power的一种手段。在影片的结尾，Eli为了金钱完全放弃了自己的原则和信仰。他和Daniel在本质上没有太大区别。 电影题目中的blood有多重含义。除了它的本义，它至少还暗指oil和Christ's blood for salvation。 Some memorable quotes: Eli Sunday: Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston! Plainview: I'd be happy to work with you. Eli Sunday: You would? Yes, yes, of course. Wonderful. Plainview: But there is one condition for this work. Eli Sunday: Alright. Plainview: I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet... I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet... and that God is a superstition. Eli Sunday: ...but that's a lie... it's a lie, I cannot say it. [long pause] Eli Sunday: When can we begin to drill? Plainview: Right away. Eli Sunday: How long will it take to bring in the well? Plainview: Should be very quick. Eli Sunday: I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus plus the five that is owed with interest. Plainview: That's only fair. Eli Sunday: I am a false prophet and God is a superstition. If that's what you believe, then I will say it. Plainview: Say it like you mean it. Eli Sunday: Daniel... Plainview: Say it like it's your sermon. Eli Sunday: This is foolish. [long pause] Eli Sunday: I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! [pause] Eli Sunday: Is that fine? Plainview: Those areas have been drilled. Eli Sunday: What? Plainview: Those areas have been drilled. Eli Sunday: ...no they haven't... Plainview: It's called drainage. I own everything around it... so I get everything underneath it. Eli Sunday: But there are no derricks there. This is the Bandy tract. Do you understand? Plainview: Do you? I drink your water, Eli. I drink it up. Everyday. I drink the blood of lamb from Bandy's tract. Eli Sunday: Oh, Daniel, please... I'm in desperate times. I need a friend... I feel the walls closing in. I've sinned! I need help! I'm a sinner! I've let the Devil grab hold of me in ways I never imagined! I'm so full of sin. Plainview: The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he? Eli Sunday: Oh yes he does! Yes he does! Oh! He's completely failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy and this! I must have this! I've invested... my investments have... Oh, Daniel, I won't bother you, but I... If I could grab the Lord's hands for help I would, but he does these things all the time, these mysteries that he presents and while we wait, while we wait... wait for his word... Plainview: You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. You see, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool. Eli Sunday: Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this to me. Plainview: I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground, and you know what the funny thing is? Listen... listen... listen... I paid him ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now. A prosperous little business. Three wells producing. Five thousand dollars a week. [Eli cries] Plainview: Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli. Eli Sunday: No... Plainview: You slithered out of your mother's filth. Eli Sunday: No. Plainview: They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose. Eli Sunday: If you would just take this lease, Daniel... Plainview: Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake! [sucking sound] Plainview: I drink it up! Eli Sunday: Don't bully me, Daniel! [Daniel roars and throws Eli across the room] Plainview: Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen! 5月14日 Talking about 目前为止捐款途径汇总
今天发现有些朋友不知道捐款途径，转个东东来。 Quote 目前为止捐款途径汇总 5月8日 Charlie Wilson's WarWatched it last night. A very nice movie. Starred by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Don't want to comment on politics or take a stance on either side. Just resonated with Charlie's way of doing business - just get the job done. The movie is based on a true story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_%28Texas_politician%29. 5月4日 All I Want Is You - Juno soundtrackAll I Want Is You By Barry Louis Polisar If i was a flower growing wild and free If i was a flower growing wild and free All i want is you, will you be my bride If you were a river in the mountains tall, All i want is you, will you be my bride If you were a wink, i’d be a nod All i want is you, will you be my bride If you were the wood, i’d be the fire. All i want is you, will you be my bride
5月2日 Wokai.org最近在帮忙做一个non-profit organization（http://www.wokai.org/cn/index.html）。简单来说，这个组织是做fund-raising，然后把钱给国内提供小额信贷的机构，然后再由这些机构贷款给中国贫困农民。各位同学，各位父老乡亲，大家有钱出钱，有力出力，有主意的出主意。现在很需要人帮我们做marketing，word-of-mouth就行。想帮忙的请与我联系。在此谢谢各位了（鞠躬）。 问：小额信贷是什么？ 答：小额信贷为不能从商业金融机构中得到贷款的贫穷个人提供的金融服务。小额信贷能使穷人通过小额信贷来改变自己的生活，并取代了穷人对金融暂时需求的依赖性和不稳定性。小额信贷事业发展至此，我们有理由相信这是长期扶贫事业中最有效的方法。 问：小额信贷机构（MFI）是什么？ 答：小额信贷机构是一种提供金融服务的非政府组织,这种组织为穷人提供借贷、吸储、培训、技术支持等服务。我开的中国小额信贷伙伴机构为解决中国的贫穷问题贡献着自己力量。 问：我开的小额信贷伙伴机构的主要职责是什么？ 答：我们的小额信贷伙伴机构负责通过其小额信贷操作来管理当地的贷款。对当地情况的了解、工作经历、机构成功操作经验等都是我们小额信贷伙伴机构在为穷人 提供贷款的实际工作中保持成功的法宝。我们与通过我们评估的小额信贷机构合作，并成功地为最贫穷的人口提供帮助与支持。 问：贷款是免息的吗？ 答：不，我开的小额信贷伙伴机构需要收取8-20%的贷款利息，将他们提供的小额信用贷款服务与高额的支出相匹配。这些支出中包括培训与技术支持的服务、监测的开支等。 问：我开如何挑选小额信贷伙伴机构？ 答：小额信贷伙伴机构必须同时满足如下条件： 1、最低95%的还款率。 2、提供技术与支持服务。 3、大部分是女性借款者。 4、透明的管理机制。 5、机构扩展的能力与愿望。 当我开挑选出满足我开基本条件的小额信贷机构后，便会开展对当地机构的访问。期间，我开将就当地小额信贷机构的管理框架、财务状况、贷款审批程序以及方法进行评估。 |
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