雖然早就說過之後不再買村上的遊記或者雜文、隨筆之類的書,只買小說就好,不過,這次的尋找漩渦貓的方法一出版,還是不爭氣的買了下來,那簡直是比制約還要無力的感覺阿!
正如大家所知道的,這裡的文章,是收錄在"SINRA"(森羅)雜誌的連載,森羅雜誌是一本旅遊雜誌,但是也有許多漂亮的照片以及介紹某些地區的風土民情等等的雜誌。不過目前應該已經停刊了!
連載期間是從1993年夏天到1995年夏天在麻州的Tufts大學授課時的生活剪影。
推算一下,這個時間大概也是村上在寫發條鳥年代記的時間,因此,我們可以想像村上早上寫了一段發條鳥,下午邊聽著爵士樂邊寫著一篇一篇的隨筆,真是太輕鬆啦!村上兄。
封面大部分都是一些動物
的圖片,果然是很有村上
風格的雜誌。
書中大砥也是說說他當時的狀況之類的,很輕鬆的感覺,讀起來沒有壓力,我自己是因為太習慣快速閱讀了,所以也很直接的就讀完整本,不過,如果可以輕輕鬆鬆的,在有花園的咖啡廳,聽著Miles Davis或者更輕鬆的爵士樂,很舒服的慢慢閱讀,也許更適合也不一定。
內容其實沒什麼特別需要提出的,除了一開始那一段村上對於大家對於作家的誤解做了說明,他認為一定要腰馬合一,不,是腰腿第一、文體第二之外,其他都是很生活的小小觀察,因此,只要隨著村上的步調慢慢的走,就可以得到村上的『小確幸』了!
下面就補充一些書中提到的東西好了!
這也是書中提到的村上忍住不買之後又遇到的唱片,不過這張圖片是KADD版,不是村上買到的那張,這張他之前就買了。
這個則是書中所說貓會很仔細看的錄影帶,看這個包裝,相當吸引貓的感覺呢!
這本書中提到了可愛島,也許是去可愛島時想出了東京奇譚集之中哈那雷灣這篇短篇呢!
漩渦貓書中的孝太郎搬到萊辛頓了!雖然沒什麼關係,不過,說不定村上是為了要紀念孝太郎才想出短篇萊辛頓的幽靈也不一定。
這也是村上在書中提到的Shery Crow。
這張專輯叫做Tuesday night music club,是1994年出版的,當年她也靠著這張專輯得到最佳流行女歌手、最佳專輯以及最佳新人等三項大獎,相當了不起,可喜可賀。
下面是其中村上提起的All I Wanna Do的歌詞。
Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is LA!
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, cause
[Chorus]
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on
the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
Chorus
Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty
cars
The sun and the moon but
Chorus
說了這麼多,其實看著這本書,不就是像跟老朋友見面的感覺很像嗎?聊聊一些無關緊要的事情,一種很舒服的感覺,是吧?村上兄?
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恩, 漩渦貓到底要指甚麼呢, 看完有答案嗎, 苦惱中
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