开始

被Sakura点了

规则

      被点到的要在自己的博客里写下自己的答案，然后去掉一个你最不喜欢的问题再加上一个你的问题，仍然组成20个问题，传给其他8个人。列出8个需要回答问题的人的名字，还要通知对方"你被点名了"，被点名者不得拒绝回答问题，完成游戏的人将会永远得到大家的祝福。这8个人要在自己的博客里注明是从哪里接到的，并且再传给其他8个人，让游戏继续下去，不得回传。被点到名字的人将会得到大家的祝福，并且所有美好的愿望都会在不久的将来实现。

Q1。你最信服的一句话是什么？
答：车到山前必有路。

Q2。异性的什么是最吸引你的？为什么？
答：身心100%的异性。原因: 如今异性性别是越来越模糊, 尤其是心理性别, 但偶是100%异性恋.

Q3。你最想去的下一个旅游地是哪里？
答：有人一起去就哪里都可以。

Q4。遇到喜欢的人，你是勇敢表白还是默默关注？
答：只是喜欢则不一定表白, 有爱就肯定。

Q5。说出点你名的人的3个优点（不可删除题）
答：高智商, 雄心, 旅行家. 

Q6。 如果有后悔药，但只能用一次，你会用于那件事？

答：上次可以拿到100倍多的后悔药的时候.

Q7。本周想做的一件事。
答：明天的录音.

Q8。你最想变成的卡通人物？为什么？
答：寒羽良, 原因: 无敌男, 嬉笑怒骂皆成文章.

Q9。你对你的近况满意吗？有什么需要改变？
答：(见上篇blog回答)

Q10。你最讨厌的一件事是什么？
答： 党同伐异.

Q11。心烦时一般都做什么？
答：音乐, 影视动漫, 学语言.

Q12。你觉得自己是个迷信的人吗？
答：星区.

Q13。 什么事情是你长这么大以来，觉得最遗憾的？
答： 做浪费时间的事情.

Q14。下辈子你想做男人还是女人？
答：都可以吧, 不过做男人略好些, 毕竟这辈子试过了, 下辈子改进的可能性高些. 当然, 分到俺做女人, 俺也一定努力!

Q15。喜不喜欢雨天？为什么？
答：视时间地点而定, 满地泥巴肯定不喜欢。

Q16。三年内你的目标是什么？
答：跟mm团聚修成正果, 好好工作, 持续修炼.

Q17。你觉得自己开心吗？为什么？
答：很不错. 一切都很好. 

Q18。你理想的生活是什么样的？

答： 参见<groundhog day>, <office space>的结局。

Q19。 你觉得自己70岁的时候生活是什么样子的？

答： 区别不会太大, 还是会信息饥渴, 还会喜欢音乐, 还和小自己XX岁或者老XX岁的人一起玩, 一起放声大笑。

Q20。 你曾经最丑qiu的一件事情是什么？为什么？

答: (参见上篇blog)

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老规矩...点名: 全球国家元首, 全球名流

改掉Q15, 新的如下

Q15: 你撒的最大的一个谎是什么?

同一天被两个人点名, 而且还都是不太好推辞的白云老友....那就按时间顺序了....

先接chichi的

游戏规则解说：

    A. 被点到的要在自己的博客里写下自己的答案，然后可以去掉2个你最不喜欢的问题再加上2个你的更有水平的问题，仍然组成20个问题，至少传给其他4个人，列出至少4个需要回答问题的人的名字，还要通知对方"你被点名了"，被点名者最好不要拒绝回答问题，完成游戏的人将会永远得到大家的祝福。

    B. 被点到的人要在自己的博客里注明是从哪里接到的，并且再传给其他人，让游戏继续下去，不得回传。被点到名字的人将会得到大家的祝福，并且所有美好的愿望都会在不久的将来实现。

先说说淘舟舟同学，点俺名的人：http://xutaotao1981.spaces.live.com

Q&A

1.如何将生活与工作做最好的调配？

瞧这问的, 工作也是生活的一部分吧... 如果说娱乐和工作的调配的话....

比较喜欢适当积攒工作压力, 娱乐时情绪便能一泻千里; 反之亦然.

2.最近最郁闷的事？

最近不郁闷, 咔咔.

3.你最希望从朋友（不包括爱人）那里得到的是什么？

叫我出去玩, 不然自己想不到出去玩的理由...

4.评价一下自己

诚, 合作, 付出, 死心眼, 恋声.

5.如果中了500万，你打算干嘛？有没有打算分我点？

没有说币种啊.... 500万冥币? 中了之后自然就知道该干嘛了.

6.说出点你名的人的3个优点（不可删除题）

热血, 重情谊, 一把天生广播的loli嗓音.

7.什么事情会让你觉得很幸福

爱与被爱, 制造或遭遇杰作.

8.你还有冲动去做浪漫的事情吗？是什么呢？

远程恋爱, 远足, 录音.

9.你对你的近况满意吗？有什么需要改变？

满意中有不满意, 需要更好的时间控制.

10.你最讨厌的一件事是什么？

党同伐异.

11.你最糗的一件事是什么（时间地点怎么发生都要说详细咯）
小学二年级看图说话比赛一句话都说不出来.

12.你最看重一个人的品质是什么？

诚, 感恩, 付出.

13.最想学的一项技能是什么？

无敌的驾驭语言文字的能力. (如果科幻技能不在内的话)

14. 你最喜欢的3部动画片

不要吧, 只能三部啊...<N.H.K.にようこそ>, <ハタラキマン>, <Witch Hunter Robin>

15.怎样的人生才算幸福？

幸福都是相对的. 坚持.

16.列举三件最近你最关注的事情，并说明原因

跟mm相聚 (原因: 本命の彼女).

Project进展 (原因: 本命のProject).

明天的录音 (原因: 可能是最后一次studio录歌)

17.送给你点了名的朋友一句祝福的话吧

连续技!!

18、你什么时候会结婚（未结婚的）？你什么时候想要宝宝（结婚没结婚的都可以回答）？你想买什么车？

在我跟她都觉得合适的时候; 在我跟她都觉得合适的时候; 买我跟她都喜欢的车.

19.你觉得杨二、芙蓉JJ和洪晃哪一个最适合嫁给萨科奇？点解（为什么）？

......

20、你的梦想是什么？

永远有梦想.

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还是老规矩, 不点真人, 咔咔~~, 点名: 全球AV工作者, 全球黑死金属主唱 (我通知你们了, 你们都被点名了, 哈哈哈)

要改的题目：
题目19：你最喜欢自己参与拍摄的三部AV作品? 为什么?
题目5：大伙都是怎么唱死腔黑腔的? 回家跟老婆孩子说话大概什么味儿?

来自last.fm的Female Vocal台,

1) Keren Ann, 以色列/荷兰双国籍独立乐手, 犹太/俄罗斯/荷兰/爪哇四国混血儿,

操吉他/钢琴/单簧管, 并且从事古典合唱作曲.

又是飘逸一族的indie pop.

2) Aqua Bassino, 苏格兰爱丁堡的电爵艺人, bass手, 杀死人的lounge酷氛围.

“袈裟革命”团结华人：“挺华叫阵”当心变味

“袈裟革命”团结华人：“挺华叫阵”当心变味 - 倍可亲（www.backchina.com）

That's to say: be specific about the immediate problem, e.g., "you guys said sth wrong here" (while remaining armed), as opposed to throwing a huge bomb titled IN THE NAME OF CHINA to the offenders as the first reaction.

I personally don't like the term "崛起" or "复兴" as much.

First of all, they imply the memory of humiliation and sanity of revenge, in a much less perceptible way though (whether or not to use an embelishing "和平").  Every culture experiences challenges and keeps evolving; history is essentially a continuous flow whenever we look back even though sometimes there were unexpected anecdotes at the point. To embrace the idea of "revival" is to admit the death or at least decadence in the first place, which is totally uncool; China was never the weakest existence but the only one in the world who adores/fears this idea, especially when there is no apparent national crisis around.

Secondly, as an obvious motivating device, these terms seem to place China to the opposite side of the rest of the world. "崛" means to go over, to surpass, whom? the other ethnic members on this planet. It implicitly symbolizes competetion and ignores collaboration entirely. There are tons of other ways to activate the citizens and residents such as to encourage individual pursuits (and say they become the acknowledgeable national assets eventually).

I'm on the side of China but I really don't think creating enemies by speaking inappropriate political language nation-wise is a sign of the adulthood of a "rising" or "reviving" country; it's such a paradox.

Nah. If all we wanted to express is that we will be doing better. Then just say it, instead of the pretentious and misleading official vocabulary! Why don't we just say "我们中华民族要好好学习, 天天向上!", for example....

Seeking the Canadian identities

Country diversifying rapidly, data show

ELIZABETH THOMPSON, The Gazette

Published: 12 hours ago

The identity of Canadians is diversifying so quickly, at the current rate the majority of the country's residents will be hyphenated Canadians by 2021, a new study by a Montreal researcher predicts.

The way Canadians perceive themselves when asked about their ethnic background is becoming more complex, an analysis of census results by Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies, has found.

While 7 million Canadians listed multiple ancestries in 1986, that figure has steadily risen from census to census. In the latest, done in 2006, the number jumped to 12.9 million, he found.

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"At this rhythm, by 2021, on the basis of the question on ethnicity, the majority of Canadians will by 'hyphenated' - that is to say, they will be reporting more than one ethnic background," Jedwab wrote.

The analysis shows that any attempt by government to strive toward a common identity for all Canadians is "an illusory course," Jedwab added.

"I think public policy has to realize multiculturalism in Canada is a fact and multiple identification in Canada is a fact.

"As much as the government, from a public policy standpoint, wants to strengthen Canadian identity and is concerned with what is perceived to be an insufficient attachment to Canada, there has to be a paradigm shift where people realize Canada is a society where people ... will see themselves in multiple terms.

"People should not see that as a risk for Canadian identity. That is what Canadian identity has become."

According to census data, the highest proportions of Canadians in major urban centres who listed multiple ancestries were in Regina and Saskatoon, where 56.9 and 56.6 per cent of respondents listed more than one ethnic origin. The lowest level of respondents listing multiple ethnic origins was in Quebec City, where 24.5 per cent listed more than one ancestry, followed by Montreal at 26.2 per cent.

Toronto and Vancouver, which have high levels of first-generation immigrants, also reported high levels of single ancestry responses, as 30.2 per cent in Toronto and 37.8 per cent in Vancouver listed multiple ethnic origins.

Jedwab's analysis of the census results shows older respondents tend to define themselves as having a single ancestry as opposed to younger Canadians, who were more likely to list multiple ancestries. He suggested Canada might be at the forefront of an international trend.

"Canada is a post-modern place," he said. "It's where other countries may be as boundaries break down and there is increased mixing and people define themselves in multiple ways."

At the same time, the census results showed a drop of 1.6 million respondents who listed their ethnic background as "Canadian," a phenomenon Jedwab says has puzzled researchers.

Jedwab believes the figures aren't the result of people feeling less Canadian but of a change in the way Statistics Canada posed the question and the environment surrounding the census.

Jedwab said his analysis shows respondents who listed their ethnic background as Canadian appear to have returned to listing their ancestry as British Isles or French.

"I don't think we're any less Canadian. Some people may choose to interpret things that way if they feel hyphenation makes one less Canadian. But I don't think there is any incompatibility between having a feeling of belonging to one's background and being Canadian."

ethompson@thegazette.canwest.com

 

Seeking the Canadian identities

Christina Antipa "Lovesong", random recommendation from Last.fm's "female vocal" tag/channel.

A tribute to the Cure's classic ballad. The one that talks about "however far away, I will always love you" cliche in a memorable pushy tone.

This, is a truly delicate re-interpretation.

Honestly Antipa's voice is by no means a departure from Alternative female vocal formula exemplified by people like Beth Orton or Cranberries, but the arrangement and the production are spakling enough to bring her lazy but focused narratives to the foreground and they are injected into your scull. The subtle vocal chorus, with beating effect, plays the vocal line into a spooky but strangely warm stream that well absorbs the minimum background instruments (literally an acoustic guitar and some electronics maybe)

I think part of the inspiration might go back directly to another the Cure's screamer "lullaby".

For the first time, someone was there for me.

Loud and clear.

It was you!

It's a positive sign though, cuz I feel fully engaged in sth else.

Sth that consumes me whole right now.

The unexpected advent of an emotional summer.

But I'll try to tell my stories bit by bit, make them simple but solid.

不是一年前发的那个恶搞哦~~ wikiHow真是个好地方啊~~很有爱~

How to Do Harsh Death Metal Vocals

Death metal band Incantation

Are you in awe of the raw vocal stylings of death metal bands? Do you ever want to sing along? Here's how to emulate the guttural lyrics that make extreme metal music distinct.

[edit] Steps

1. Listen to any album using harsh vocal techniques. If you're not already familiar with the genre, browse the links listed below. Buy CDs from bands and singers whose voices you admire. A few notable death metal vocalists are George Fisher & Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse, Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth, Nergal from Behemoth, and Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy.
2. Before you start performing death metal vocals, drink some water, it will help relax your vocal chords. Avoid cold water as it could cause more pain and make your cords feel raw and grated, warm water is a very good idea. Things like honey, or milk, do not actually help. None of that ever touches your vocals cords. Being well hydrated is the best thing you can do.

1. Warm up your voice before recording or performing death metal. "Warming up" can mean anything from singing midtone melodies to delivering your vocal patterns in a clean chest tone. Even humming for five minutes would be more beneficial to you than not warming up your voice at all. When performing live, drink lukewarm water in between songs. Cold water shocks the voice and warm water...well, it doesn't taste that great. Following these simple guidelines will help protect and strengthen your vocal chords. If you don't sing properly, you may not be singing for much longer.
2. Learn how to sing properly. Start with something not that intense, like Black Sabbath, then go to songs with faster and more aggressive singing styles like Slayer or Kataklysm. The most important technique for performing death metal vocals is to be able to control your breathing, establishing a balance between the force used by your diaphragm and vocal cords. Using only the vocal cords will put undue pressure on them and is sure to damage them (minor damage will heal in time). Proper technique is established by using the diaphragm to push air out of your lungs.
3. Try going sssssss quietly and then increase in volume. The feeling in your stomach is your diaphragm. This is what you want to feel when performing death metal vocals.
4. Fill up your lungs with air, then push out some of the air, tightening your throat and moving your tonsils as you do this. Do this all in one motion, but don't push too hard. The resulting sound should hopefully be the type of low grunt that you want to achieve, so work on that.
5. Pick a lyric you want to perform. Always try to pick songs from bands like Slayer, Metallica or other bands who do not use the death grunts as it will be easier to rehearse your grunts. Try singing it normally, then slowly add more "fire" to it, until you can feel your diaphragm really pushing and you're getting that deep sound you're looking for. If you don't succeed in the deep guttural vocals try the raspier approach to these vocals like Mark Hunter of Chimaira. Anyone can achieve this, men as well as women (listen to the current vocalist for Arch Enemy). So long as your vocal range is Alto or lower. Arch Enemy's Vocalist Angela Gossow is an alto, and will say herself, if you are a Soprano, don't even try Death Growls.
6. Practice barking like a dog, not just a bowow, but force it out from the bottom of your belly, really imitating the barking sound. Then extend the barking sound and try it with several words and before you do it take a deep breath and go from your diaphragm. Breathing like a dog, as stupid as it sounds, can also help you open your throat and get a guttural sound to your grunts. Don't do it loudly at the beginning, increase your volume as you get better at it.
7. After you've mastered basic death grunts, move on to bigger things. Make your grunts louder, faster, lower, deeper, or all of the above. It will help add some variety to your vocals.
8. After you've mastered death metal vocals, try to mix things up by learning another vocal style, because even the best death metal vocalists don't use only death grunts in their songs. For example, George Fisher of Cannibal Corpse is known for having high-pitched screams in a few of his songs and Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder has been known for using a mix of death grunts, high-pitched shrieking and screaming. Piq Squeals are also performed by a few Death Metal artists. Also, start headbanging when you're performing the vocals, it will make your presentation seem a lot more intense!
9. After you're done performing death metal vocals, drink some water, it will help relax your vocal chords. Make sure the water is not cold, or it will cause pain and make your throat feel very sore, stick to warm water (not too hot!)

[edit] Tips

• Constantly experiment with what your voice can do!
• Learn to control rasp and phlegm. Rasp = air coming up; phlegm = saliva in your mouth/throat
• Harsh vocals will grow in volume as you gain skill with them and use them correctly.
• Exercise wouldn't hurt. You'll need strong neck muscles to support the pressure that extreme metal vocals put on your neck area.
• Don't use distortion or effects to cover any lack of vocal ability. It sounds bad and it's obvious why you did it.
• To create a more "brutal" sound, you can experiment with saliva in your mouth. It can be trapped between your tongue and throat. It's that "gurgling" you hear in many songs. An open throat is the key. The notes sung and air must come up with ease. One can use their tongue to deflect air being forced up and change tone. The lips are the second method of changing tone. You should never change tone by tightening your throat. There are many techs used in harsh vocals, but keep with a simple growl and scream until you've gained quite the skill within this vocal type.
• Warm up your voice before recording or performing death metal. "Warmimg up" can mean anything from singing midtone melodies to delivering your vocal patterns in a clean chest tone. Even humming for 5 minutes would be more beneficial to you than not warming up your voice at all. When performing live, drink lukewarm water in between songs. Cold water shocks the voice and warm water...well, it doesn't taste that great. Following these simple guidelines will help protect and strengthen your vocal chords.
• A little advice from George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher from Cannibal Corpse. When asked in an interview if his vocals strain his throat, he commented: "Not anymore. That's the funny thing. People ask me like, "Well, how'd you learn to sing like that?" Because I put on the albums and started singing to them. And some people say to me, "But my voice starts to hurt after ten minutes." Well yeah, but eventually my voice got used to it. If you hear me talk now, people think I'm sick but I'm not. They think that I have a cold or I just woke up - this is how I always sound." This is likely the result of poor technique leading to nodules. Your voice should NOT be damaged over time through singing - only bad technique will make this happen.
• Act like you are gargling, but without the water, of course. Practice this until you can hear the gargling noise in the back of your throat.
• A good way to practice your grunts is to say the letters a,e,i,o,n,u. As you get better at your grunts, try doing this faster.
• The "cookie monster" effect cannot be reproduced by straining your voice. That will only damage your vocal chords. You have to push through your abdomen. All of your vocal strength comes from the diaphragm. It also helps if your back is in a fixed position. Don't slouch or leave your spine limp. Inhale and belt out a deep roar by loosening your vocal chords. Your throat has to be relaxed in order for your growl to rumble with intensity. Again, don't force your voice to crack. If it still doesn't crack, then your vocal chords simply weren't made for growling.
• Try moving your tongue while you perform your vocals, but not too much.
• To create even lower harsh vocals, use the inhaling technique. Pinch the incoming air flow a bit farther back in the throat than when "gargling" an outgoing air flow. Moving the base of the tongue back creates a smaller opening and higher pitch; with the tongue forward (even sticking out if you like) the pitch will be lower. This inhaling technique can produce an extreme range of pitch, allowing you to both grunt and squeal like a pig. The incoming airflow will be nowhere near the volume of normal speech. You will need to speak using exaggerated lip movements and the front of the tongue while keeping the back of the tongue muscle in place. While an "inhale vocal tech" may sound "cool", be careful using it. It can (and likely will) damage your vocal cords. The inhale sound can still be created from properly done harsh vocals but requires range needed.
• Don't smoke, and if you insist on drinking, drink in moderation. Smoking may deepen your voice, but it will also reduce your breath support. Delivering death vocals requires a great deal of energy, and drugs of any sort will only emasculate your staying power. Exercise wouldn't hurt. You'll need strong neck muscles to support the pressure that extreme metal vocals put on your neck area.
• Over time you'll learn your range, skills increase and you can try to achieve your favorite sounds.
• Practice normal singing for a month first. This will really strengthen your vocals cords and make it easier on you when you start doing death growls.
  1. Be sure to have variation in your vocals. Monotone growling will sound boring after awhile, no matter how impressive your vocals are.A good vocalist for inspiration is Matthew Chalk, formerly of Psycroptic.
• Drinking a lukewarm liquid may aide in expanding your vocal cords, helping your voice get deeper.
• If you're already good at screaming, picking up death metal vocals should be a piece of cake. Already having skill in death metal singing is also a benefit when learning to scream.
• Switching between screaming vocals and clean like such bands as Reign Of Chaos or Trivium who only have the one singer it is best to focus on breath control more, some bands have 2 singers one for clean vocals and one for the screaming side but if you are singing solo you are best to focus on breath control more than anything before this is attempted as your clean vocals may sound really off. Practice makes perfect.
• With 2 vocalists one doing high and another doing deep in harmony can create a superb sound. Bands such as Despised Icon, Carcass and Nile use this in different ways but all do it to great affect.
• Visualize a column of air rising from your diaphragm, through your chest, and up through your facial mask (the space behind the nose, under the eyes, above the upper teeth.) Keep your larynx down also. This technique will not only help your death metal vocals be strong and present, but is also the correct technique for melodic singing. The only difference between them is that regular voice comes from your vocal chords while death metal vocals come your false vocal chords. (Instead of vibrating your vocal chords, focus your growling sound under your vocal chords, around your collarbone.)
• “Timings a big deal. When someone’s out of time, anybody that hears it is going to know. It just sounds like mush. I’ve seen bands where I know when somebody is off. More so with the vocals and the drums, I can tell that as well because I’ve followed drums my whole life. For timing, it can be hard when you’re banging your head the whole time. We do have a lot of stuff that’s in 4/4, but it’s not simple. You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re doing. I’m still banging my head, but I’m counting the whole time, and then you’ve got people diving around you, and all this stuff going on around you the whole time. It is a challenge. I’m not saying it’s the hardest thing in the world to do, I just get annoyed when it’s made out to be easy, or at least what I’ve heard from people about this DVD."- George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher

GOOD PRACTICE SONGS:

SLOW: - Normal (Vocals): “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath, “Dead Skin Mask” by Slayer, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi, & “The Profit of Doom” by Type O Negative - Death Metal (Vocals): “Death Walking Terror”- Cannibal Corpse, "Festering in the Crypt" by Cannibal Corpse, “I Cum Blood” by Cannibal Corpse

FAST: - Normal: “Aggressive Perfector” by Slayer, “Dittohead” by Slayer, “Jesus Saves” by Slayer, “Necrophobic” by Slayer - Death Metal: “Disposal of the Body” by Cannibal Corpse, “Carnage in the Temple of the Damned” by Deicide, “Post Mortal Ejaculation” by Cannibal Corpse, “The Exorcist” by Possessed, "The Optimist" by Skinless, "4:20" by Six Feet Under, "Stabwound" by Necrophagist, "Egypt, the Red Earth" by Necronomicon

[edit] Warnings

• You can severely damage your voice if you use prolonged bad technique but mild damage will heal in time.
• Don't smoke or drink excessively (Do it in moderation!), if you want to do these vocals! It may provide pain relief at the time but you will pay for it later. Smoking may deepen your voice, but it will also reduce your breath support. Delivering death vocals requires a great deal of energy, and drugs of any sort will only emasculate your staying power. It's hard enough to scream/growl and headbang without any toxins in your system.
• Don't be surprised if you don't sound like your favorite harsh vocalist--it's akin to everyone having a different singing voice.
• Prepare for some raised eyebrows and harsh criticism (Some people don't consider Death Metal singing real singing at all) when showing friends or family your unique style of singing.
• There's a chance that these vocals might mess up your voice a bit and make you sound like you have the flu when you're not singing. This is what happened to George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher from Cannibal Corpse. But the chances aren't too high, because if you notice, many other harsh vocalists, like Chris Barnes, Glen Benton, Nergal and Angela Gossow all have normal talking voices.
• If you go for the extremely low/brutal Chris Barnes-style vocals, the chance is greater that you will damage your voice.
• If you have a throat infection or even a mild cold/the flu (Which includes coughing), give your vocals a rest for a day or two.
• Harsh vocals always come from your gut; never your throat.

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How to Do Harsh Death Metal Vocals - wikiHow

Steve is moving out.

Lola is leaving with Steve.

So effectively, I'd be the only one here.

To be, or not to be... that is the question.

I could take it as a chance to leave for another new territory in Montreal, , , again, , , , but 2-months would be too short for this round; besides, everything about this apartment is really nice and it'd be hard to find such a compromise between the location, rent/utility, space, and tenant capacity. And IT FEELS LIKE HOME HERE.

Since there was a strong motivation for making this aparment my headquarter, the next logical move would be hunting for the other member.

This was my first time,,,,

And absolutely a fun experience, some part was even breath-taking to me.

<Death Note> has been the background melody throughout the process, so I guess my report would be cooked with a little bit spice of that.

つつく

Just after I decided to spare any other effort for this birthday thing, J suggested that the lab should do sth for my birthday (....I think that's just a party excuse), so I said yes maybe we can go to 3 Amigos and get my hat!

3 Amigos is this Mexican restaurant near Guy that offers a customer a Mexican hat and a piece of candled cake for free if it happens to be his/her birthday that day; the waiters will be singing the Happy Birthday song to the customer as well.

Out of the blue, the whole party became dominated by an intriguing debate on the relationship/superiority between science and religion. Since the participants are knowledgeable inter-disciplinary grad students, it was pretty exciting. I'm trying to take down some of the witty statements (there were much more):

• It (science) is not hard; it is irreconcilable.
• Unless proved by yourself, science is a religion. If you started your independent move towards what a Nobel-prize winner has accomplished, you'd probably reach a different result. Because we never bothered doing so, we became part of the religion.
• Science-inspired technology didn't change the world as much as social engineering driven by religion.
• Science-omniscience is dismissible because it makes it less of science; assuming the fundamental fallacy of science wouldn't make it any less powerful; quite the opposite, we might find something useful.
• The fact that almost every Canadian/American president includes "God bless us" in their campaign speeches is a strong evidence that North-America is a Christian society; the cross on the Quebec flag is another proof.
• Science and religion are a continuum controlled by a probabilistic threshold.
• We actually think about life, death, and after-life all the time; the reason why we avoid getting hit by a car is an indication that we don't believe the existence of after-life.

Other information

• How to drink tequila: put some salt on your hand and lick it, then get a bite of the lime, finally get a sip of tequila and enjoy the blend taste.
• "Canada" originated from a native American language, meaning "village"; when the colonists first heard of it, they thought it actually referred to a country, hence the modern Canada came into being.
• "Habs" is short for Canadians; in Montreal, you will see a logo 'CH', which stands for Canadian Habs.

Jokes

• While we were still in a long queue, I said, maybe we should go somewhere else and come back next year......suddenly the line moved forward for quite a bit. J said "can you say that again?", I repeated "maybe next year"; the queue stayed the same; "OK, that makes a 50% probability....", said J.

The mastering project for Simon has been suspended for a month due to lots of errands and side pursuits. Now that summer is here, I hope I could meet the promised deadline. Got a couple of ideas implemented, but to make it really sound good, the mixing quality is the bottleneck, which I can't do anything about at this point. Still, there is space to grow and I'm getting better.

as the BGM that you are listening to right now.

You can get it from here as well:

George Michael (kakyo version) - Kissing a Fool

I've set up a rule to sing a song for myself on my birthday since two years ago.

Lyrics:

You are far,
When I could have been your star,
You listened to people,
Who scared you to death, and from my heart,
Strange that you were strong enough,
To even make a start,
But you'll never find
Peace of mind,
Till you listen to your heart,

People,
You can never change the way they feel,
Better let them do just what they will,
For they will,
If you let them,
Steal your heart from you,
People,
Will always make a lover feel a fool,
But you knew I loved you,
We could have shown them all,
We should have seen love through,

Fooled me with the tears in your eyes,
Covered me with kisses and lies,
So goodbye,
But please don't take my heart,

You are far,
I'm never gonna be your star,
I'll pick up the pieces
And mend my heart,
Maybe I'll be strong enough,
I don't know where to start,
But I'll never find
Peace of mind,
While I listen to my heart,

People,
You can never change the way they feel,
Better let them do just what they will,
For they will,
If you let them,
Steal your heart,

And people,
Will always make a lover feel a fool,
But you knew I loved you,
We could have shown them all,

But remember this,
Every other kiss,
That you ever give
Long as we both live
When you need the hand of another man,
One you really can surrender with,
I will wait for you,
Like I always do,
There's something there,
That can't compare with any other,

You are far,
When I could have been your star,
You listened to people,
Who scared you to death, and from my heart,
Strange that I was wrong enough,
To think you'd love me too.
I guess you were kissing a fool,
You must have been kissing a fool.

比起Forrest Gump里面的一盒巧克力而言,
比起中国的"缘"而言,
我更喜欢平行宇宙这个概念, 一个悖论.
多数时候每个生命体/非生命体都在彼此平行的宇宙中运作,
但当这些平行宇宙偶然交叉之后,
对于穿梭的可能, 或拒绝, 或接受,
我们鬼使神差地在时空的路由中迂回,
然后到达另一个此时此地,
或确认, 或茫然, 继续上路,
周而复始.

在以往的生日, 我没有什么动机来码字,
甚至确认那一日的宇宙,
正如在我引以为*的, 连续的记忆中, 没有真正的离别一样.

但最近, 我的记忆在模糊,
为了下次回首还能看见那些穿越平行宇宙的情景,
我决定去用已经无法成立的假设,
去试着在无穷无尽的因果中追踪,
盘点和此时在Montreal的这个宇宙有着千丝万缕的零星事件,
某些遇见这个宇宙, 和错过那些宇宙的瞬间.
类似的blog只做这一次吧.

(1) 录音机, 音乐, 噪音, 唱歌, 运动
如果我爸妈没有在生我前一年买下那个Sony录音机,
如果他们没有一天到晚开着那东西,
如果他们没有把我一天到晚一个人放在家里和那东西一起,
如果他们走之前不把那东西作为唯一的纪念留给独自在国内的我,
我也许无法学会去聆听, 无法学会去静静地守在一处 (一旦离开
便再也听不见), 一心二用地做着手里的事情, 静静地听;
如果那不是一个录音机而是收音机或者CD机,
我不可能把<变形金刚>录下来听到爆, 不可能对声音表演产生狂热,
不可能把声优作为童年的英雄;更不可能在人还没有床高的时候
就惊奇地发现磁带是可以倒着放的, 同一段声音/信息是可以被彻底歪曲的.

如果那潮湿的家里没有那日复一日年复一年的怀疑与暴力,
我也许不会将聆听作为屏蔽噪声的唯一可能,
在我心惊肉跳的听觉中不会有巴洛克的精致和汉语男女声咆哮的同时存在,
更不会在若干年后在熄灯的寝室里遭遇Kronos Quartet
用室内弦乐和录音技术编织的纯噪音的时候,
感到那彻骨冰冷的温暖, 那三分钟从静谧到核爆中唤醒的记忆,
也就不可能对先锋音乐门户大开.

如果我老爸没有狂热地要我唱60首军歌,
如果老师没有发现我会唱这些大人玩意,
就开始在公众场合胡乱使用我,
我就不知道我会唱歌;
如果我没有在听录音中学会模仿,
如果我没有听到Beyond, 如果没有在初识Beyond之后几周
就得知黄家驹的死讯, 我不会有材料去不分昼夜地放声歌唱.

如果没有录音机, 没有音乐,
如果家里没有那么多图文并茂的书,
如果家里人没有告诉我有人来幼儿园教小提琴,
如果我知道那东西会让我每天失去N小时的玩耍,
如果我知道即使再努力, 我的耳朵依然会痛恨我的手艺,
如果没有幼年的体弱, 如果当时青霉素不是用苯甲醇稀释,
如果因此没有那屁股里的硬块, 如果没有因此遭遇年年体育不及格而成为笑柄,
如果没有这些, 我也许不会容忍三尺见方的小屋成为我的整个暑假,
别无选择, 我会走出屋子, 我会和现在一样地去玩, 去步行,
去踢球, 也许会学会打架, 我会和小朋友更亲近.

如果没有音乐, 我也找不回运动的快乐,
如果没有爱上suede的<wild ones>,
我不会在瑜家山的山路上重新开始我脑海中幻想为野生动物般的奔跑,
如果没有那么多运动旋律在耳塞里沸腾, 如果没有那关于<动物世界>的配乐联想,
我也无法沐浴在声音中, 视觉中, 去感受野生动物在自然界奔跑的畅快.

(2) 家庭, 学校, 朋友
如果我不在家门口上小学, 上中学,
如果不是我爷爷亲自带我去报名, 如果老师一开始不知道我是谁,
如果我不那么傻乎乎地坐着不动一声不吭眼睛瞪着老师,
如果我不那么对老师言听计从,
如果家长不那么把我一再卷入大人的圈子,
我不会被称为好学生,
不会被无缘无故地表扬,
不会被指定成班长,
不会一根筋地执行老师的一切指示.

如果父母没有离开中国,
我也许不会那么早知道还有离开中国去到外面的可能,
如果父母离开中国的那一年没有把我放到那个人的身边,
如果他没有启蒙我流行音乐,
我也许不会在80年代末的小学窥见古典乐之外的音响空间,
不会在那时知道齐秦, the police, James Last, 米高积逊.....
如果那个人不是那么的高智商, 不是那么的叛逆,
不是那么的悲哀, 不是那么的神经质,
如果他没有对我拳脚过后痛哭流涕恳求保密,
我也许不会那么地厌恶沉默, 惧怕冷淡, 渴望热情.

如果二年级第一次看图说话比赛我并没有一句话都说不出来,
我没有夹着尾巴灰溜溜地逃出教室,
我也就不会甚嚣尘上地迷上讲故事, 听/观后感, BBS, 和blog.

如果初中没有和猴子和丁丁同桌, 没有因为<人间失格>而
和猴子冒着生命危险在早自习畅快交流, 我的好学生
形象就不会崩溃地那么早, 就不会享受到真实的校园生活
的无上快乐.

如果没有高三和四人组的纠葛, 对友情的执着挽救,
如果没有为了做那张磁带音乐选集而宁愿忍受一个礼拜来回反带搜索的痛苦,
我就不会养成做音乐推荐和选集的习惯,
就不会体验到MIR和自动化的至关重要.

如果没有遇到李骥,
就不会体会到什么是远大.

如果没有去华工, 如果留在武大,
我会无法告别高中的灰色轨迹, 无法重新开始,
如果没有华工的课业强度和军事规章,
我也不会在工科的极度枯燥和理性中毁灭而重生,
不会强迫把自己从感性至上改造成部分理性的动物,
不会实现从无法理解C语言赋值符号到无法自拔地陷入编程的快感,
不会从濒临文青的音乐审美方式迁徙入信号到符号的自下而上,
不会体会到从自然科学角度去看待音乐的乐趣,
如果没有华工混乱变态的评分制度,
如果没有付出和获得的一再不成比例,
我也不会看淡外界评价而回归自我评估,
不会一步步再次逼近所爱.

(3) 摇滚乐, 友情, 恋情
如果14岁的夏天zuazua没有借给我U2的磁带,
如果那盘磁带不是<Achtung Baby>,
我可能没法对摇滚一见钟情, 里面几首经典就
不可能占据那个夏天浴室吼歌的主打曲目.

如果没有猴子给我推荐的<Music Heaven>和<日之韵>,
如果没有在第二天就买下当时全套12期,
我就不可能多快好省地投入摇滚和90年代另类音乐的大本营,
就不可能体验到和当时国内主流声音迥异的诸多宝物,
Depeche Mode, the Doors, Pink Floyd, the Cure, Tears for Fears
Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Radiohead, Suede, Cocteau Twins, X-Japan...

如果没有在热闹无比的华工白云黄鹤BBS的Rock版扎根,
如果没有遇到幻雨, 就不会在极短时间内收到如今社会化网络式的音乐信息爆炸,
如果没有在前p2p时代不惜重金找幻雨刻盘, 在夜里被Love Spirals Downwards,
Anouar Brehem等人征服,
就不会成为黑浪潮和ECM乃至欧陆先锋爵士的忠实粉丝.
如果matatoro没有读大五, 没有住在对门寝室,
我就不会对录音和音频技术产生起码的关注,
还会继续在符号层面无视音符肌理下的波动,
没有亲历matatoro辞去工作全脱产零基础自己倒腾音乐的宗教狂热,
就不会诞生对自己无所作为的耻辱感.

如果没有在Rock版认识slur, rulala, syy, fogbath, aerosmith, kert, jetty这些
网上和尘世中都有血有肉的好友,
没有他们组成的Rock版二代目阵容的百分百自由平等行动第一童趣盎然,
如果没有对比在珞珈山水Rock版迥异的纯文青气氛,
就不会体验到音乐和审美只是手段, 而不是目的;
如果没有非典, 如果没有非典期间从真人到主id的归隐田园,
如果没有决定要走出otaku的帷幕去到那版聚的前线,
如果没有为了版聚顺利成行的kakyo的再生, 就不会有那晚的畅快淋漓,
就不会有那天深夜回到家中开机作曲的冲动, 就不会诞生那个填上申请
McGill Music Tech材料checklist最后空白的小拼图.

如果不是遭遇那个弥天大谎,
我也不会来到Montreal, 不会来到Music Tech这个无敌的地方,
不会遇到来自世界各地贯通科学艺术的无敌的同学们.

(4) 重在掺和, 重在坚持
如果高一时英语老师叫我进来给班上女生唱歌时我没有溜掉,
我可能会更早体会到自己的声音和他人的互动;
如果我没有义无反顾地参加大学校园歌手赛, 这个感动会继续推迟,
我不会知道即便是若干年后bbs上素未谋面的好友其实也早已因为当时
的歌声而知道自己的存在;

如果我没有在申请出国前期的迷茫中, 那个雨天的星期天下午去参加那个
千载难逢的英国大学招生咨询武汉见面会,
如果我只是去排挤破天花板的Bristol, Edinburgh那几个学校的长队,
如果我没有受音乐指引鬼使神差去到那个无人问津只有一老头光杆司令的
Leeds Music College柜台前,
如果不是那个姓Johnson的老头小聊两句就喜不自胜地要我去申请这个
名不见经传却产出了Badly Drawn Boy的小学校,
我根本就不知道这辈子还有可能去到音乐系.

如果没有加入Music Tech, 如果像其它的MT中退,
我可能还只是一个对声音背后的工艺努力普遍无知,
对艺人和他们的辛苦产出随意出言,
放纵个人情绪左右对音乐感知的普通音乐吸毒者.

如果我来了音乐系却只在MT这边闭门造车,
如果我没有去Sound Recording那边去插队,
就不会认识强大的producer朋友们,
就不会有更多的接触纯粹声音的机会,
就不会有重新通过感性通道来操作声音的动力,
就不会有对Music Tech的侧目审视.

如果我忙于正事, 逃避内心的热情, 不继续参加蒙城的歌手赛,
就不会认识那么多可爱的朋友/同好,
如果没有因为种种原因而失去唱完所有想唱的歌的机会,
我就不会更加珍惜唱最喜欢歌曲的机会,
就不会继续雕琢声音表演.

如果我因为现实原因放弃对日本文化的跟踪,
就不会结识那么多印象/影响深刻的日本朋友,
就不会受到他们的善良和工匠气质的强烈感染,
就无法再度确认people are people而放弃
中国人习惯性的一概而论,
我对日本的理解恐怕永远只是ACG, jpop, jdrama.

如果我接受了这边部分人的蛊惑,
默认了他们嫡传的中国大陆那种中老年生存文化的自鸣得意和对他人个人选择的指手画脚党同伐异,
我会失去作为自己这个个体来到Canada的意义和追求,
我将不复存在.

如果我没有坚持在这个blog上涂鸦,
就不会有持续锻炼汉语/英语表达的螺旋上升的可能.

* * *

其实, 完全可以再写另一个版本, 来试试看如果制止了自己穿越这些宇宙或者穿越了其它的宇宙, 事情将会如何.....
然而, 幸或不幸, 假设都没有成立.
希望我岁岁都能跨越一列平行宇宙, 生活技术上成熟的同时, 永远珍惜白羊金牛座的7岁情怀,
我给自己的目标,
没有时间限制.

说我更新太快, 仔细想了想, 确实.

现在更新的主要动力也就是英语写作. 鸡毛蒜皮也好统统变强迫症.

但刚才仔细想想, 其实已经很久没什么实质进步了(可恶啊!!).

首先, 依然无法在短时间内完成零错误(不提地道不地道)的文章, 甚至长时间也不行, 每篇都要修改2+次(当然也包括"地道化"处理), 我这人又比较变态, 想起来就去修改, 不管几年前完成的, 想起来有bug就会去debug. 如果写了这么久还做不到零错误的话, 我需要仔细考虑方法问题. 我想大概还是要追溯到倒行逆施的"法笔口"学习顺序吧. 正确的写作应该是口语的书面化, 因此, 写作误差的本质是口语误差. 当然写作系统论会说写作是一个递归流程.

其次, 缺乏短平快的基本素质, 修改的主要功夫都是在剪刀, 剪得一地猫毛. 什么时候一句话能够实现最大压缩比就成功了; 写的时候无时间观念, 我很想要自己5分钟写完什么也不改, 做不到. 我可能有点不适合写blog, 太较真了.

最后, 内容单调, 顺笔滑, 这是电力问题了, 静下来全力充电固然好, 但比起终日无语而言, 写blog还是舒服一点, 虽然强迫症令该过程不太轻松. 

话说自己内心的某一维还是有点位于<るろうに剣心>濑田宗次郎和<EVA>明日香之间的方向

不管怎么说, 不要做无用功, 没有进步的话就释放时间吧. 不会停止就无法向前.

生日前严禁更新.

可怜的妈妈，就凭你是法国人，你居然遭到了愤怒的中国朋友的侮辱……

2008-04-09 20:38:48

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    这几天因为部分游行者阻挠了奥运火炬在巴黎传递，很多网友就对“法国人”发表了很多评论，但遗憾的是大多数人心潮澎湃地使用一些很难听的词汇来概括整个民族……

    我很喜欢听别人的意见和看法，支持人的发言权，但我是一个和平主义者，不喜欢暴力，不管是行为上还是语言上的暴力。因此，我不喜欢这些采取“极端的手法”来强迫别人接受自己观点的法国游行者。同样，我也不希望看到一些“极端的词语”来形容一个民族。

    我多么希望孔子的“中庸之道”能辐射人类啊！！

可怜的妈妈，就凭你是法国人，你居然遭到了愤怒的中国朋友的侮辱……-朱利安 - 新浪BLOG

1) Recently a few non-Mandarin speakers have thrived on blogging in Mandarin. Julien is among the top-level bloggers.

Some other recommendations (* = inactive, # = bilingual)

23區24小時--東京碎片

在北京找不着北 (*)

のほほん村村長日記 《青蛙渡大海》(#)

2) There are other foreign bloggers who wrote about their lives in China or Chinese culture in their mother tongues as well.

Some recommendations:

Sinosplice: Life

ISpyShanghai

ばつきち的華流日記 (华流 @_@, ridiculously thorough Chinese pop culture notes, even including comments on events like recent 武汉长江六桥)

ちまきスタイル (Chinese literature explained in Japanese, amazing work on 《红楼梦》)

3) More serious Mandarin literature studies

Paper Republic (including English translations of chapters of contemporary Chinese novels)

4) More on China Blog List.

I'm looking for a new roommate and right now I have a handful of applicants, way above my expected quantity and quality. I think this is the benefit from giving up the sole reliance on the Chinese community. It's small here anyway. Consider sampling from the 50,000 Chinese in Montreal as opposed to the 1000000.... in North America (I got applicants from Southern U.S.), it's simple as that.

My previous housing bumps were probably the consequences of my exclusive focus on rent and expense, and more implicit cultural preference (Chinese). History is inevitable/irreversible. That's fine. Costs are more than financial. Money is meant to be earned, not saved. But people are politically expensive. Lessons to learn.

Now the new project is, how to design a smart interview and communication framework to nail down one of these boys and girls.

A few possible concerns

1. Financial: Long term lease?
2. Gender: whatever I can get.
3. Sexuality: straight-male please; lesbian is ok.
4. Occupation: student? salary-man?
5. Personality: outgoing? enigma? quiet? funny? responsible? careless?
6. Cleaning: shared responsibility.
7. Schedule: workaholic? otaku?
8. Cooking: enjoy cooking? ok about me cooking?
9. Political: conservative/liberal? racist? international figure?
10. Social: enjoy conversation? party animal? frequent home-stay of gf/bf?
11. Musical and Cultural: no strong preference on music/anime/movie/TVs? narrowly defined interests? animosity towards Chinese or Japanese culture? (Because I'll play stuff...not deafeningly loud though)
    
12. Misc: pets? devices/accessories?

Any other tips? anything too trivial above? Priority list?

Please leave your opinion, thx!

上松範康 has brought to 奈々ちゃん's recent albums the trend of arrangement extravagancy. Full of lush techno booms and synth orchestra with serious mixing and mastering, they still sounded pretentious, probably due to the lack of energy contrast. 奈々ちゃん's vocal performance, however, remains the strongest component in even the songs of the weakest composition. "Secret Ambition" is a strange recent song. The composition/arrangement dynamics seemed to be more carefully crafted, but they still jitter at some passage transitions if you know what I mean. Somehow I fell for 奈々ちゃん's voice again. With vocal subtlety, she "secretly" conveyed pain/melancholy in her powerful high-register performance, especially the line "僕は知ってるから". It somehow interplays with the old song "Cherish" from 2004's <Alive and Kicking>, ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE. They are pasted below.

"Secret Ambition"

"Cherish"

至于爱情婚姻悲剧之事，则全是因为受了后40回续书的误导，原作本不是如此的。续书将宝钗、凤姐、史老太君写得极坏，这也是个极大的误导。以前我以为这只是一部单纯的续书，即为了弥补没有后面部分而作的纯文人性质的续书，那么即使有这么多缺点，也应该是好坏掺半的。但实际上这根本是一场政治阴谋，才觉续书是“百恶而无一善”。这后40回并非高鹗自发去续的，而是乾隆与和珅商议过后决定做一个伪书来替代掉原来的作品，借以迷惑世人。周老说《四库全书》经常耍这样的手段，篡改过的书不计其数。其用心如何大家也应该猜得到。此外续书中还有一大堆极其不合情理的剧情和说教，读来令人生厌，甚至于前80回中亦有改动之处，我想“反封建”用在这极合适，要反就得反这种封建，反这种极恶心的对于皇帝的称颂，以及鸳鸯作烈女，贾政宝玉磕头的封建。这所反的皆是续书文字的封建，因为正是封建皇帝让改的文字，这反的正得其所。如果是真正有德的帝王，何需要使这样卑鄙的手段？他不这么做人们也对他肃然起敬，所谓“敬”，是发自内心的，而“畏”，则是放在外面的。

随笔42---关于《红楼梦》的正言-innershade - 新浪BLOG

Another example of gray area and "the truth is out there". Sometimes it gets scary when you face (parse) your history in a critical way. I was exactly the kind of students who follow the rules by the elders. On the bright side, I spared much conflict (for a while); on the dark side, I volunteered to throw away the chances for creative thinking. Many of my high-mark essays were nothing but shows put on to the evaluators. I still remember the disgusting made-up weekly journals as homework assignments, in which you lied about the moral lessons you learned from your adolescent days (come on!). Well, if I bore in mind that I was simply playing their games, I wouldn't feel so embarrassed, but there were times when I seriously took them as MY games and laughed at the cheaters.... Now that I think of it, many of the "cheaters" are the ones who refused to lie, at least to themselves. I was the ignorant kind and worse, I learned to ignore my own freedom to decide.

I owe my home-run to rock music, to the hobby of listening to the sound beyond language, beyond tradition (both musical and cultural). People will always make you feel like a fool so that they can look better, here I mean the same kind of teachers and elders I met on my listening trip. It's easy to get lost in the maze of semantics, especially when you are already a guy that respect rules and the authorities. But once you learn to listen to the same thing multiple times, eventually you'll hear sth beneath that only makes sense to you and the layers show up. Then you'll penetrate the walls built by those essay architects. I am still amazed by the same gang of music-otaku people who talk like FQ throughout their lives, the most famous stereotype being "this is not what a lot of (lazy / brainless) people around the world have been doing for the last 20 years, this is totally new stuff!!!" 10 years ago I thought it was cool to be capable of firing text bullets to the enemy like that only after listening to a piece of music. Now they are still doing it, but I realized that the "enemy" (hence the bullets) never existed.  Language is such a disability for analyzing creations and creators, and, the multi-facet and slightly time-variant truth in your mind.

The more you learn, the less possible for you to draw a clear-cut conclusion, and hence the fewer surprises in life, and fewer chances for practicing your emotions and guts. When everything in the macro scope turns out to be in their gray areas, you can no longer love or hate doubtlessly, and have to think twice when you happen to let it out easily. That's why things like Fight Club could come true.

An example, when asked about what kind of music I like, I used to answer with "I love a lot of different types of music, they are blah blah blah", now it would just sound like teenage girls if I did that. In turn, at present I have no clue how to give a proper answer to that question, the filler answer would be "I don't know, why don't you talk about yours?", and then he/she would easily say "oh, I love a lot of different types of music, they are BLAH BLAH BLAH"; then I got highlighted entries where I can cut in. I may say "recently I've been listening to..." though, but since the world is saturated with names, that won't help communicate either, unless I give more specific descriptions or even play it out loud. With MIR visualization and more funky UI, it may improve.

Well, the positive ad will be like "let's bring it out of the gray and show some true color!"